Sec. 51.909. EXPULSION OF CERTAIN FOREIGN STUDENTS. (a) The governing board of a public institution of higher education may expel from that institution any student who is a citizen of a country other than the United States attending the institution under a nonimmigrant visa issued by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and who is finally convicted of an offense under Section 28.03, 28.04, 42.02, 42.03, or 42.05, Penal Code, or under Section 4.30 of this code.

(b) In this section, a person is finally convicted if the conviction has not been reversed on appeal and all appeals, if any, have been exhausted.

Added by Acts 1979, 66th Leg., p. 1258, ch. 595, Sec. 1, eff. June 13, 1979. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 14.29, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.