1-1 By: Truan S.B. No. 1042
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 1997; March 11, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 24, 1997,
1-4 reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 11, Nays 0;
1-5 April 24, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to college student exchange programs with other nations.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 54.060, Education Code,
1-11 is amended to read as follows:
1-12 (c) The coordinating board by rule shall establish a program
1-13 with the United Mexican States and with Canada for the exchange of
1-14 students and shall establish programs with other nations for the
1-15 exchange of students to the extent practicable. The foreign
1-16 student tuition fee prescribed in this chapter does not apply to a
1-17 foreign student participating in an [the] exchange program
1-18 established under this section.
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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