By Bailey H.B. No. 528
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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.
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 amending Subsection (g) and adding Subsection (h) to read as
1-7 follows:
1-8 (g) In this section, "public junior college" and "public
1-9 technical institute" have [has] the meanings [meaning] assigned by
1-10 Section 61.003 of this code.
1-11 (h) The governing board of a junior college district may
1-12 waive the foreign student tuition prescribed by this chapter for a
1-13 student who is a resident of the United Mexican States, who
1-14 registers for lower division courses at a public junior college
1-15 operated by the district, and who demonstrates a financial need
1-16 after the financial resources of the foreign student and the
1-17 student's family are considered. A foreign student for whom the
1-18 junior college district waives the foreign student tuition under
1-19 this subsection shall pay tuition at the rate charged Texas
1-20 residents who reside outside the junior college district. The
1-21 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall adopt rules
1-22 governing the determination of financial need of students under
1-23 this subsection.
1-24 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect immediately if it
2-1 receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each
2-2 house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.
2-3 If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate
2-4 effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
2-5 (b) The change in law made by this Act applies beginning
2-6 with tuition charged for the 2001 fall semester.