By Rangel H.B. No. 3708
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to tuition rates for resident students at general academic
1-3 teaching institutions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 54.0512, Education Code, is amended by
1-6 amending Subsections (b) and (h) to read as follows:
1-7 (b) Tuition for a resident student at a general academic
1-8 teaching institution is the greater of $120 for each semester or
1-9 12-week summer session and $60 for each six-week summer term or:
1-10 (1) [for the 1994-1995 academic year, $28 per semester
1-11 credit hour;]
1-12 [(2) for the 1995-1996 academic year, $30 per semester
1-13 credit hour;]
1-14 [(3) for the 1996-1997 academic year, $32 per semester
1-15 credit hour;]
1-16 [(4) for the 1997-1998 academic year, $34 per semester
1-17 credit hour;]
1-18 [(5)] for the 1998-1999 academic year, $36 per
1-19 semester credit hour;
1-20 (2) [(6)] for the 1999-2000 academic year, $38 per
1-21 semester credit hour; [and]
2-1 (3) [(7)] for the 2000-2001 academic year, $40 per
2-2 semester credit hour;
2-3 (4) for the 2001-2002 academic year, $42 per semester
2-4 credit hour;
2-5 (5) for the 2002-2003 academic year, $44 per semester
2-6 credit hour;
2-7 (6) for the 2003-2004 academic year, $46 per semester
2-8 credit hour;
2-9 (7) for the 2004-2005 academic year, $48 per semester
2-10 credit hour; and
2-11 (8) for the 2005-2006 academic year, $50 per semester
2-12 credit hour.
2-13 (h) Tuition for academic years not specifically covered by
2-14 this section is at the rates provided by Section 54.051 of this
2-15 code. This section expires January 1, 2007 [2002].
2-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-21 and that this Act takes effect and be in force from and after its
2-22 passage, and it is so enacted.