Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By: Lucio S.B. No. 1056 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to foreign student tuition fees. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 54.060(b), Texas Education Code, is 1-4 amended to read as follows: 1-5 Sec. 54.060. Resident of Bordering State or Nation or 1-6 Participant in Student Exchange Program: Tuition. (b) The 1-7 foreign student tuition fee prescribed in this chapter does not 1-8 apply to a foreign student who is a resident of a nation situated 1-9 adjacent to Texas, who registers in any general academic teaching 1-10 institution, as defined in Section 61.003(3) of this code, in a 1-11 county immediately adjacent to the nation in which the foreign 1-12 student resides or who registers for lower division courses at a 1-13 community or junior college having a partnership agreement pursuant 1-14 to Subchapter N of Chapter 51 of this code with an upper-level 1-15 university and both institutions are located in the county 1-16 immediately adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student 1-17 resides or who registers in Texas A&M University--Kingsville, and, 1-18 except as provided by this subsection, who demonstrates a financial 1-19 need after the financial resources of the foreign student and the 1-20 student's family are considered. The foreign student described in 1-21 this section shall pay tuition equal to that charged Texas 1-22 residents under Sections 54.051 and 54.0512 of this code. Citizens 1-23 of a nation situated adjacent to Texas and attending graduate 2-1 school at Texas public universities shall pay resident tuition. 2-2 The coordinating board shall adopt rules governing the 2-3 determination of financial need of students under this subsection 2-4 and rules governing a pilot project to be established at general 2-5 academic teaching institutions in counties that are not immediately 2-6 adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student resides. 2-7 SECTION 2. The change in law made by the Act to Section 2-8 54.060(b), Education Code, apply beginning with the fall semester. 2-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-15 passage, and it is so enacted.