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By Hinojosa H.B. No. 2747
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the option to pay tuition by installment for junior
1-3 colleges.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Texas Education Code, Title 3, Higher Education,
1-6 Subtitle A. Higher Education in General, Chapter 54 Tuition and
1-7 Fees, Subchapter A, General Provisions, Section 54.007 Option to
1-8 Pay Tuition by Installment Subsection (a), is hereby amended to
1-9 read as follows:
1-10 (a) The governing board of each institution of higher
1-11 education [other than a junior college] shall provide for the
1-12 payment of tuition and fees during the fall and spring semesters
1-13 through the following alternatives:
1-14 (1) full payment of tuition and fees in advance of the
1-15 beginning of the semester; or
1-16 (2) one-half payment of tuition and fees in advance of
1-17 the beginning of the semester, one-quarter payment prior to the
1-18 start of the sixth class week, and the final one-quarter payment
1-19 before the beginning of the eleventh class week.
1-20 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-2 passage, and it is so enacted.