I spoke with Sen. Beason at length last Friday. I told him that I oppose HB747 which places limits on contracts that will be honored to those purchased before Dec. 31, 1995. I said that all PACT contracts should be honored. I asked him to vote against the bill if it should make it to the Senate for a vote. We talked for some time about the bill Sen. Beason has sponsored, SB601. This bill has provisions to establish some funding for the PACT by (1) repealing the 50 mi. radius non-resident in-state rate and (2) increasing tuition for out of state students. Sen. Beason proposes a "stablization fund" into which increased funds from each of these actions would be deposited to fund the PACT. He also includes other provisions for funding. I asked him point blank if he supports SB581 which has had the most activity in the Senate. He has resvervations about the lack of specifics for where the funding will come from for this bill. He suggested that he would support an ammendment to this bill which would include the provisions he has proposed for funding. I asked him if there were time left in this session to get any bill passed. He did not think so. He gave me a similar answer as the one I received from Rep. McClendon last week when I asked him that question. He said there is funding in the PACT to cover tuition until this can be addressed in the next regular session. There seems to be a pattern of no sense of urgency with our Rep. and Sen. to get some legislation in place for the PACT for this session. This is troubling.