By:  Haywood                                           S.B. No. 128

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to tuition and fees charged to military personnel enrolled

 1-2     in certain courses at Midwestern State University.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (h), Section 54.058, Education Code,

 1-5     is amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (h)  The governing board of Midwestern State University may

 1-7     set the resident and nonresident tuition rates for United States

 1-8     military [Air Force] personnel [stationed outside the State of

 1-9     Texas who are] enrolled in the bachelor of science or master of

1-10     science degree program in radiological sciences at Midwestern State

1-11     University at the rates the governing board considers appropriate,

1-12     notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, and may

1-13     exempt those military personnel from all or part of required fees

1-14     and charges while enrolled in one of those programs.  The total

1-15     amount of tuition and required fees charged to a resident member of

1-16     the armed forces under this subsection may not be less than the

1-17     total amount of tuition and required fees charged to other resident

1-18     students in the same program. United States military personnel

1-19     enrolled in one of those programs by instructional

1-20     telecommunication are [will be] entitled to pay tuition fees and

1-21     other fees or charges provided by the board for United States

1-22     military personnel residing in Texas [residents] if they began the

1-23     program while stationed at a military [an Air Force] base or other

 2-1     installation in Texas as a member of the United States Armed

 2-2     Forces.  In this subsection, "instructional telecommunication"

 2-3     means instruction delivered primarily by telecommunication

 2-4     technology, including open-channel television, cable television,

 2-5     closed-circuit television, low power television, communication

 2-6     and/or direct broadcast satellite, satellite master antenna system,

 2-7     microwave, videotape, videodisc, computer software, computer

 2-8     networks, and telephone lines.

 2-9           SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with fees and charges

2-10     imposed for the 1997 fall semester.

2-11           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

2-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

2-17     passage, and it is so enacted.