1-1 By: Haywood S.B. No. 128
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed December 12, 1996; January 14, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
1-4 February 24, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 12, Nays 0;
1-6 February 24, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 128 By: Truan
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to tuition and fees charged to military personnel enrolled
1-10 in certain courses at Midwestern State University.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Subsection (h), Section 54.058, Education Code,
1-13 is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (h) The governing board of Midwestern State University may
1-15 set the resident and nonresident tuition rates for United States
1-16 military [Air Force] personnel [stationed outside the State of
1-17 Texas who are] enrolled in the bachelor of science or master of
1-18 science degree program in radiological sciences at Midwestern State
1-19 University at the rates the governing board considers appropriate,
1-20 notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, and may
1-21 exempt those military personnel from all or part of required fees
1-22 and charges while enrolled in one of those programs. The total
1-23 amount of tuition and required fees charged to a resident member of
1-24 the armed forces under this subsection may not be less than the
1-25 total amount of tuition and required fees charged to other resident
1-26 students in the same program. United States military personnel
1-27 enrolled in one of those programs by instructional
1-28 telecommunication are [will be] entitled to pay tuition fees and
1-29 other fees or charges provided by the board for United States
1-30 military personnel residing in Texas [residents] if they began the
1-31 program while stationed at a military [an Air Force] base or other
1-32 installation in Texas as a member of the United States Armed
1-33 Forces. In this subsection, "instructional telecommunication"
1-34 means instruction delivered primarily by telecommunication
1-35 technology, including open-channel television, cable television,
1-36 closed-circuit television, low power television, communication
1-37 and/or direct broadcast satellite, satellite master antenna system,
1-38 microwave, videotape, videodisc, computer software, computer
1-39 networks, and telephone lines.
1-40 SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with fees and charges
1-41 imposed for the 1997 fall semester.
1-42 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-47 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-48 passage, and it is so enacted.
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