By:  Lucio                                            S.B. No. 1771

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the option to pay tuition by installment for junior

 1-2     colleges.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Texas Education Code, Title 3, Higher Education,

 1-5     Subtitle A.  Higher Education in General, Chapter 54, Tuition and

 1-6     Fees, Subchapter A, General Provisions, Section 54.007 Option to

 1-7     Pay Tuition by Installment Subsection (a), is hereby amended to

 1-8     read as follows:

 1-9           (a)  The governing board of each institution of higher

1-10     education [other than a junior college] shall provide for the

1-11     payment of tuition and fees during the fall and spring semesters

1-12     through the following alternatives:

1-13                 (1)  full payment of tuition and fees in advance of the

1-14     beginning of the semester; or

1-15                 (2)  one-half payment of tuition and fees in advance of

1-16     the beginning of the semester, one-quarter payment prior to the

1-17     start of the sixth class week, and the final one-quarter payment

1-18     before the beginning of the eleventh class week.

1-19           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-1     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-2     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

 2-3     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

 2-4     passage, and it is so enacted.