1-1     By:  Lindsay                                           S.B. No. 993
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1999; March 10, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Education; April 16, 1999,
 1-4     reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0;
 1-5     April 16, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the ability of children of disabled firemen and peace
 1-9     officers to use an exemption from tuition and fees charged by a
1-10     public institution of higher education at successive institutions.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Subsection (e), Section 54.204, Education Code,
1-13     is repealed.
1-14           SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies
1-15     beginning with the 1999 fall semester.
1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.
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