1-1     By:  Delisi (Senate Sponsor - Fraser)                 H.B. No. 2394

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1997;

 1-3     April 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Education; May 15, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:

 1-5     Yeas 8, Nays 0; May 15, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to course fees charged for certain courses at public

 1-9     institutions of higher education.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 54.203, Education Code, is amended by

1-12     adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:

1-13           (g)  The exemptions provided by Subsections (a) and (b) do

1-14     not apply to a course fee or laboratory fee charged by an

1-15     institution of higher education to cover the special costs

1-16     associated with a particular course in:

1-17                 (1)  truck driving; or

1-18                 (2)  aircraft flight training.

1-19           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with fees charged by

1-20     an institution of higher education for the 1997 fall semester.

1-21           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-25     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-26     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-27     passage, and it is so enacted.

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