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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to tuition rates and formula funding for certain |
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nonresident students enrolled at Texas A&M University--Texarkana. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Sections 54.060(a) and (f), Education Code, are |
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amended to read as follows: |
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(a) The nonresident tuition fee prescribed by this chapter |
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does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident of |
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Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, or Oklahoma and who registers in |
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Texas A&M University--Texarkana [a public upper-level institution
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of higher education], Lamar State College--Orange, Lamar State |
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College--Port Arthur, a Texas public junior college, or a public |
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technical institute, if the institution [that] is situated in a |
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county immediately adjacent to the state in which the nonresident |
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student resides. The nonresident tuition fee prescribed by this |
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chapter does not apply to a nonresident student who is a resident of |
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New Mexico or Oklahoma and who registers in a public technical |
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institute that is situated in a county that is within 100 miles of |
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the state in which the nonresident student resides and who is |
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admitted for the purpose of utilizing available instructional |
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facilities. The nonresident student described in this subsection |
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shall pay an amount equivalent to the amount charged a Texas student |
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registered at a similar school in the state in which the nonresident |
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student resides. [For purposes of this subsection, "public
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upper-level institution of higher education" means an institution
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of higher education that offers only junior-level and senior-level
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courses or only junior-level, senior-level, and graduate-level
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courses.] |
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(f) The payment of resident tuition at Texas A&M |
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University--Texarkana, Lamar State College--Orange, Lamar State |
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College--Port Arthur, or a public technical institute as authorized |
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by Subsection (a) or at an institution of higher education as |
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authorized by Subsection (g) does not affect the constitutionally |
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dedicated funding to which institutions of higher education are |
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entitled under Article VII, Section 17, of the Texas Constitution. |
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SECTION 2. Section 61.059, Education Code, is amended by |
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adding Subsection (n) to read as follows: |
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(n) In the formula applicable to Texas A&M |
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University--Texarkana for funding instruction and operations, the |
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board shall include any semester credit hours taught through |
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distance education to students enrolled at that university who |
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reside in another state and: |
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(1) as permitted by Section 54.060(a), pay tuition at |
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the rate charged to residents of this state; and |
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(2) reside in a county in the other state that is |
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contiguous to the county in which the university is located. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |