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         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.