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Amend HB 261 (Senate committee printing) as follows:                         
	(1)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, in the introductory language, 
immediately before "adding Subsection (j)" (page 1, at the 
beginning of line 13), insert "amending Subsections (c), (f), and 
(g) and".
	(2)  In SECTION 1 of the bill, immediately before proposed 
Subsection (j), Section 54.058, Education Code (page 1, between 
lines 13 and 14), insert the following:
	(c)  The [As long as they reside continuously in Texas, the] 
spouse or child [and children] of a member of the Armed Forces of 
the United States who has been assigned to duty elsewhere 
immediately following assignment to duty in Texas is [are] entitled 
to pay the tuition fees and other fees or charges provided for Texas 
residents as long as the spouse or child resides continuously in 
Texas.
	(f)  The spouse or child [and children] of a member of the 
Armed Forces of the United States who dies or is killed is [are] 
entitled to pay the resident tuition fee if the spouse or child 
becomes a resident [wife and children become residents] of Texas 
within 60 days of the date of death.
	(g)  If a member of the Armed Forces of the United States is 
stationed outside Texas and the member's [his] spouse or child 
establishes [and children establish] residence in Texas by residing 
in Texas and by filing with the Texas institution of higher 
education at which the spouse or child plans [they plan] to register 
a letter of intent to establish residence in Texas, the institution 
of higher education shall permit the spouse or child [and children] 
to pay the tuition, fees, and other charges provided for Texas 
residents without regard to length of time that the spouse or child 
has [they have] resided in Texas [the state].
	(3)  In SECTION 2 of the bill, immediately before "Section 
54.058(j)" (page 1, line 29), insert "(a)".
	(4)  At the end of SECTION 2 of the bill (page 1, between 
lines 37 and 38), insert the following:
	"(b)  The changes in law made by this Act to Subsections (c), 
(f), and (g), Section 54.058, Education Code, apply beginning with 
tuition charged for the 2003 fall semester."