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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