By Shapleigh                                           S.B. No. 733
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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 in a county bordering Mexico.
 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     adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
 1-7           (h)  The governing board of a junior college district that
 1-8     operates a public junior college in a county that borders the
 1-9     United Mexican States may waive the foreign student tuition
1-10     prescribed by this chapter for a student who is a resident of the
1-11     United Mexican States, who registers for lower division courses at
1-12     that public junior college, and who demonstrates a financial need
1-13     after the financial resources of the foreign student and the
1-14     student's family are considered.  A foreign student for whom the
1-15     junior college district waives the foreign student tuition under
1-16     this subsection shall pay tuition at the rate charged Texas
1-17     residents who reside outside the junior college district.  The
1-18     Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall adopt rules
1-19     governing the determination of financial need of students under
1-20     this subsection.
1-21           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect immediately.
1-22           (b)  The change in law made by this Act applies beginning
1-23     with tuition charged for the 2001 fall semester.