H.B. No. 2448
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 that includes at least six campuses 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, as of January 1, 2013, 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.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2448 was passed by the House on May 2,
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 1, 2 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 2448 on May 23, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 1,
2 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2448 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 21, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor