1-1     By:  Maxey, Kitchen, Brown of Brazos                  H.B. No. 1467
 1-2          (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos)
 1-3           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 26, 2001;
 1-4     March 27, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-5     Education; April 27, 2001, reported favorably by the following
 1-6     vote:  Yeas 8, Nays 0; April 27, 2001, sent to printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the amount of tuition that a public junior college may
1-10     set aside for Texas Public Education Grants.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 56.033(a), Education Code, is amended to
1-13     read as follows:
1-14           (a)  The governing board [boards] of each institution
1-15     [institutions] of higher education, including [and] the Texas State
1-16     Technical College System, shall cause to be set aside:
1-17                 (1)  [for the 1991-1992 academic year, not less than
1-18     nine percent nor more than 15 percent out of each resident
1-19     student's tuition charge under Section 54.051 of this code as
1-20     provided by the General Appropriations Act for the applicable
1-21     academic year;]
1-22                 [(2)  for the 1992-1993 academic year and each
1-23     subsequent academic year,] not less than 15 percent nor more than
1-24     20 percent out of each resident student's tuition charge under
1-25     Section 54.051 [of this code] as provided by the General
1-26     Appropriations Act for the applicable academic year[; in specifying
1-27     the percentage to be set aside for the 1991-1992 and 1992-1993
1-28     academic years, the legislature shall consider the recommendations
1-29     of the Select Committee on Higher Education established by H.C.R.
1-30     No. 105, Acts of the 69th Legislature, Regular Session, 1985];
1-31                 (2) [(3)]  three percent out of each nonresident
1-32     student's tuition charge under Section 54.051 [of this code];
1-33                 (3)  not less than [(4)]  six percent nor more than 20
1-34     percent out of each resident student's hourly tuition charge, and
1-35     $1.50 out of each nonresident student's hourly tuition charge, for
1-36     academic courses at a public community or [and] junior college
1-37     [colleges]; and
1-38                 (4)  not less than [(5)]  six percent nor more than 20
1-39     percent of hourly tuition charges for vocational-technical courses
1-40     at a public community or [and] junior college [colleges].
1-41           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect immediately if it
1-42     receives a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each
1-43     house, as provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.
1-44     If this Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate
1-45     effect, this Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
1-46           (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies beginning
1-47     with the 2001 fall semester.
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