Amend SB 743 as follows:
      (1)  Add the following new appropriately numbered SECTIONS:
      SECTION ____. Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 54.069 to read as follows:
      Sec. 54.069.  FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS. A foreign service
officer employed by the United States Department of State and
enrolled in an institution of higher education is entitled to pay
the tuition and fees at the rates provided for Texas residents if
the person is assigned to an office of the department of state that
is located in a foreign nation that borders on this state.
      SECTION ____. Section 56.053(a), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
      (a)  The governing board of each institution shall adopt
rules providing for the terms of the loan, subject to the
following:
            (1)  the loan must be repaid over a period not to
exceed 90 days for a loan made for a regular semester or long
summer session or over a proportionately shorter period for loans
made for a six-week summer session;
            (2)  the loan must be evidenced by a promissory note
that bears interest at a rate of not more than five percent per
year; and
            (3)  the maximum loan amount per student may not be
greater <less> than an amount equal to the tuition and required
fees for the courses in which the student is actually enrolling.
      (2)  Strike SECTION 2 of the bill and substitute the
following appropriately numbered SECTION:
      SECTION ____. (a)  The change in law made by this Act to
Section 54.060, Education Code, applies beginning with tuition
charged for the 2001 fall semester.
      (b)  Section 54.069, Education Code, as added by this Act,
applies beginning with tuition charged for the 2001 fall semester.
      (c)  The change in law made by this Act to Section 56.053,
Education Code, applies to each emergency student loan made under
Subchapter D, Chapter 56, Education Code, on or after the effective
date of this Act.