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          AN ACT
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        relating to tuition for certain students residing outside of a  | 
      
      
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        junior college district. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 130.0032, Education Code, is amended by  | 
      
      
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        adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (b-1)  The governing board of a public junior college  | 
      
      
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        district that includes at least six campuses shall allow a person  | 
      
      
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        who resides outside the district and in the taxing district of a  | 
      
      
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        contiguous public junior college district to pay tuition and fees  | 
      
      
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        at the rate applicable to a student who resides in the district for  | 
      
      
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        enrollment at a campus located within an area in which the person  | 
      
      
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        resides that, as of January 1, 2013, is designated as a super  | 
      
      
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        neighborhood by a municipality with a population greater than two  | 
      
      
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        million. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  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, 2013. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 2448 was passed by the House on May 2,  | 
      
      
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        2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 1, 2 present, not  | 
      
      
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        voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.  | 
      
      
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        No. 2448 on May 23, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 146, Nays 1,  | 
      
      
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        2 present, not voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 2448 was passed by the Senate, with  | 
      
      
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        amendments, on May 21, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays  | 
      
      
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        0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate    | 
      
      
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        APPROVED: __________________ | 
      
      
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                      Governor        |