By Lindsay                                             S.B. No. 993
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the ability of children of disabled firemen and peace
 1-3     officers to use an exemption from tuition and fees charged by a
 1-4     public institution of higher education at successive institutions.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 54.204(e), Education Code, is repealed.
 1-7           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies
 1-8     beginning with the 1999 fall semester.
 1-9           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-14     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-15     passage, and it is so enacted.