By Lucio S.B. No. 743
77R4500 KEL-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the tuition charged to certain foreign students for
1-3 graduate public health courses offered by general academic teaching
1-4 institutions located in border counties.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 54.060, Education Code, is amended by
1-7 amending Subsections (b)-(g) and adding Subsection (h) to read as
1-8 follows:
1-9 (b) The foreign student tuition fee prescribed in this
1-10 chapter does not apply to a foreign student who is a resident of a
1-11 nation situated adjacent to Texas, who demonstrates financial need
1-12 as provided by Subsection (c), and who registers:
1-13 (1) at a [in any] general academic teaching
1-14 institution, as defined in Section 61.003(3) in a county
1-15 immediately adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student
1-16 resides;
1-17 (2) at a [of this code, or] component of the Texas
1-18 State Technical College System located in a county immediately
1-19 adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student resides;
1-20 (3) [or who registers] for lower division courses at a
1-21 community or junior college having a partnership agreement pursuant
1-22 to Subchapter N, Chapter 51, [of this code,] with an upper-level
1-23 university, if [and] both institutions are located in the county
1-24 immediately adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student
2-1 resides;
2-2 (4) at[, or who registers in] Texas A&M
2-3 University--Kingsville or Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi; or
2-4 (5) for courses that are part of a degree program in
2-5 public health offered by a medical and dental unit, as defined by
2-6 Section 61.003, at an institution, branch campus, center, or other
2-7 location in a county immediately adjacent to the nation in which
2-8 the foreign student resides[, and, except as provided by this
2-9 subsection, who demonstrates a financial need after the financial
2-10 resources of the foreign student and the student's family are
2-11 considered].
2-12 (c) The foreign student described in Subsection (b) [this
2-13 subsection] shall pay tuition equal to that charged Texas residents
2-14 under Sections 54.051 and 54.0512 [of this code]. The coordinating
2-15 board shall adopt rules governing the determination of financial
2-16 need of students under Subsection (b) [this subsection] and rules
2-17 governing a pilot project to be established at general academic
2-18 teaching institutions and at components of the Texas State
2-19 Technical College System in counties that are not immediately
2-20 adjacent to the nation in which the foreign student resides.
2-21 (d) [(c)] The coordinating board by rule shall establish a
2-22 program with the United Mexican States and with Canada for the
2-23 exchange of students and shall establish programs with other
2-24 nations for the exchange of students to the extent practicable. The
2-25 foreign student tuition fee prescribed in this chapter does not
2-26 apply to a foreign student participating in an exchange program
2-27 established under this section.
3-1 (e) [(d)] The coordinating board shall adopt rules to
3-2 determine the number of students who may participate in the
3-3 programs provided by Subsections (b), [and] (c), and (d) [of this
3-4 section] and the students who may transfer from any general
3-5 academic teaching institution or component of the Texas State
3-6 Technical College System in a county immediately adjacent to the
3-7 nation in which the foreign student resides to attend another
3-8 general academic teaching institution or component of the Texas
3-9 State Technical College System to complete a degree, certificate,
3-10 or diploma or attend graduate school.
3-11 (f) [(e)] The payment of resident tuition at Lamar State
3-12 College--Orange, Lamar State College--Port Arthur, or a public
3-13 technical institute as authorized by Subsection (a) [of this
3-14 section] or at an institution of higher education as authorized by
3-15 Subsection (g) [(f)] does not affect the constitutionally dedicated
3-16 funding to which institutions of higher education are entitled
3-17 under Article VII, Section 17, of the Texas Constitution.
3-18 (g) [(f)] The nonresident tuition fee prescribed by this
3-19 chapter does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident
3-20 of a county or parish of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, or
3-21 Oklahoma that is adjacent to this state and who registers in an
3-22 institution of higher education, as defined by Section 61.003, the
3-23 governing board of which has agreed to admit the student at the
3-24 resident tuition fee prescribed by this chapter. The state in
3-25 which the student resides must allow a resident of a county of this
3-26 state that is adjacent to that state to register in a public
3-27 institution of higher education in that state at the tuition fee
4-1 charged residents of that state. The student shall pay tuition
4-2 equal to that charged residents of this state at the institution.
4-3 (h) [(g)] In this section, "public technical institute" has
4-4 the meaning assigned by Section 61.003 [of this code].
4-5 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
4-6 beginning with tuition charged for the 2001 fall semester.
4-7 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
4-8 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
4-9 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
4-10 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
4-11 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.