By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1808
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the international education fee at The University of
1-2 Texas at Austin.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 54.5131(a) is amended to read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 54.5131. INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION FEE; THE UNIVERSITY OF
1-6 TEXAS AT AUSTIN. (a) The board of regents of The University of
1-7 Texas System may charge and collect from students registered at the
1-8 institution a fee of [$1] $4.00 for any semester or summer session.
1-9 The fee may be used only for funding an international education
1-10 [financial aid fund] program to be used to assist students
1-11 participating in international student exchange or study programs.
1-12 SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Section
1-13 54.5131, Education Code, apply beginning with the fall semester,
1-14 1997.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.