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.