By Chavez                                             H.B. No. 3201
         76R5903 JSA-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the tuition charged certain foreign students attending
 1-3     a public junior college in a county bordering a foreign nation.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 54.060, Education Code, is amended by
 1-6     adding Subsection (i) to read as follows:
 1-7           (i)  The governing board of a junior college district that
 1-8     operates a public junior college in a county that borders the
 1-9     United Mexican States may waive the foreign student tuition
1-10     prescribed by this chapter for a student who is a resident of the
1-11     United Mexican States, who registers for lower division courses at
1-12     that public junior college, and who demonstrates a financial need
1-13     after the financial resources of the foreign student and the
1-14     student's family are considered.  The foreign student described in
1-15     this subsection shall pay tuition at the rate charged Texas
1-16     residents who reside outside the junior college district.  The
1-17     coordinating board shall adopt rules governing the determination of
1-18     financial need of students under this subsection.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-20     beginning with tuition charged for the 1999 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.