By Wentworth S.B. No. 1092
75R7664 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to exempting the children of disabled firemen and peace
1-3 officers from the payment of tuition and fees at state-supported
1-4 institutions of higher education.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 54.204(e), Education Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (e) A person entitled to an exemption under [the provisions
1-9 of] this section may use the exemption at any institution of higher
1-10 education. A person may not receive an exemption under this
1-11 section for more than four semesters at a public junior college[:]
1-12 [(1) only at the public senior college or university
1-13 which he first attends under the provisions of this section; or]
1-14 [(2) only at the public junior college which he first
1-15 attends, and upon successful completion of four consecutive
1-16 semesters at the public junior college he may continue to use the
1-17 exemption for four consecutive semesters only at the public senior
1-18 college or university which he subsequently first attends].
1-19 SECTION 2. This Act applies to tuition and fees beginning
1-20 with the 1997 fall semester.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.