By: Ratliff, Zaffirini S.B. No. 961
97S0682/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to state formula funding to an institution of higher
1-2 education and tuition costs for certain resident doctoral students.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 54.066, Education Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 54.066. TUITION RATES FOR CERTAIN DOCTORAL STUDENTS.
1-7 The governing board of an institution of higher education may
1-8 charge a resident doctoral student who has more semester credit
1-9 hours of doctoral work than allowed for purposes of state funding
1-10 for the current state fiscal biennium under Section 61.059(l)
1-11 tuition at the rate charged nonresident doctoral students.
1-12 SECTION 2. Subsection (l), Section 61.059, Education Code,
1-13 is amended to read as follows:
1-14 (l) The board may not include in any formula under this
1-15 section funding based on the number of doctoral students who have a
1-16 total of 100 [131] or more semester credit hours of doctoral work
1-17 at an institution of higher education.
1-18 SECTION 3. (a) The change in law made by Section 1 of this
1-19 Act applies beginning with the 1997 fall semester. For the
1-20 1997-1998 and 1998-1999 academic years, the number of semester
1-21 credit hours in excess of which Section 54.066, Education Code, as
1-22 amended by this Act, allows an institution to charge tuition at the
1-23 nonresident rate is 131 semester credit hours.
2-1 (b) Subsection (l), Section 61.059, Education Code, as
2-2 amended by this Act, applies only to formulas established under
2-3 Section 61.059, Education Code, for fiscal years that begin on or
2-4 after September 1, 1999.
2-5 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11 passage, and it is so enacted.