By Ogden S.B. No. 474 75R1595 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the payment of resident tuition and fees at state 1-3 institutions of higher education by children and spouses of certain 1-4 military personnel. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 54.058, Education Code, is amended by 1-7 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows: 1-8 (d) A spouse or child of a member of the Armed Forces of the 1-9 United States is entitled to pay the tuition fees and other fees or 1-10 charges provided for Texas residents for a term or semester at a 1-11 state institution of higher education if the member: 1-12 (1) at least one year preceding the first day of the 1-13 term or semester executed a document with the applicable military 1-14 service that is in effect on the first day of the term or semester 1-15 and that: 1-16 (A) indicates that the member's permanent 1-17 residence address is in Texas; and 1-18 (B) designates Texas as the member's place of 1-19 legal residence for income tax purposes; 1-20 (2) has been registered to vote in Texas for the year 1-21 preceding the first day of the term or semester; and 1-22 (3) satisfies at least one of the following 1-23 requirements: 1-24 (A) for the year preceding the first day of the 2-1 term or semester has owned real property in Texas and in that time 2-2 has not been delinquent in the payment of any taxes on the 2-3 property; 2-4 (B) has had an automobile registered in Texas 2-5 for the year preceding the first day of the term or semester; or 2-6 (C) at least one year preceding the first day of 2-7 the term or semester executed a will that has not been revoked or 2-8 superseded indicating that the member is a resident of this state 2-9 and deposited the will with the county clerk of the county of the 2-10 member's residence under Section 71, Texas Probate Code. 2-11 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies 2-12 beginning with the fall term or semester in 1997. 2-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-19 passage, and it is so enacted.