83R7430 JRJ-D
By: Turner of Harris H.B. No. 2448
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to tuition for certain students residing outside of a
junior college district.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 130.0032, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (b-1) to read as follows:
(b-1) The governing board of a public junior college
district shall allow a person who resides outside the district and
in the taxing district of a contiguous public junior college
district to pay tuition and fees at the rate applicable to a student
who resides in the district for enrollment at a campus located
within an area in which the person resides that is designated as a
super neighborhood by a municipality with a population greater than
two million.
SECTION 2. 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, 2013.