By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 2244
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the eligibility of employees of certain businesses or
organizations established as part of the state's economic
development program and of dependents of those employees to pay
resident tuition at public institutions of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 54.066, Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 54.066. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND DIVERSIFICATION.
(a) A person who registers at an institution of higher education
without having established resident status in this state under
Section 54.052 is entitled to pay tuition and required fees at the
rate provided for residents of this state if:
(1) the person or, as determined by coordinating board
rule, an adult member of the person's family who resides in the
person's household and is a primary caretaker of the person
establishes by the institution's enrollment date a residence in
this state as a result of the person's or caretaker's employment by
a business or organization that, not earlier than five years before
the enrollment date, became established in this state as part of the
program of state economic development and diversification
authorized by the law of this state; and
(2) the person files with that institution of higher
education a letter of intent to establish residency in this state.
(b) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in
consultation with the Texas Economic Development and Tourism
Office, shall establish procedures to determine:
(1) whether a business or organization meets the
requirements of this section; and
(2) the date on which the business or organization
became established in this state as part of the program of state
economic development and diversification.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
54.066, Education Code, applies beginning with tuition and required
fees for the fall 2010 semester. Tuition and fees for a semester or
other academic term before that 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 January 1, 2010.