80R306 JRJ-D
 
  By: Strama, Gonzalez Toureilles H.B. No. 544
 
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to reduced tuition and fees for certain junior college
district students who reside outside of the district.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Section 130.0032(c), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
       (c)  The governing board of a public junior college district
may allow a person who resides outside the district to pay tuition
and fees at a rate less than the rate applicable to other persons
residing outside the district, but not less than the rate
applicable to a student who resides in the district, if the person:
             (1)  resides within the service area of the district;
and
             (2)  [does not reside in an independent school district
that meets the criteria of the coordinating board for the
establishment of a junior college district under Section 130.013;
and
             [(3)]  demonstrates financial need in accordance with
rules adopted by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board.
       SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies
beginning with tuition and fees for the 2007 fall semester.  Tuition
and fees for a term or semester before the 2007 fall semester are
covered by the law in effect immediately before the effective date
of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that
purpose.
       SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2007.