Bill Text: TX HB1933 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to authorizing a public institution of higher education to include certain textbook costs in the institution's charge for tuition or required fees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1933 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1933-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to authorizing a public institution of higher education to include certain textbook costs in the institution's charge for tuition or required fees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB1933 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1933-Introduced.html
86R4713 KJE-F | ||
By: Howard | H.B. No. 1933 |
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relating to authorizing a public institution of higher education to | ||
include certain textbook costs in the institution's charge for | ||
tuition or required fees. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 54, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 54.019 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 54.019. INCLUSION OF CERTAIN TEXTBOOK COSTS IN TUITION | ||
OR FEES CHARGE. (a) The governing board of an institution of | ||
higher education may establish in accordance with this section a | ||
textbook affordability program under which the institution may | ||
include the cost of any textbooks or other materials required for a | ||
course in the tuition or required fees charged by the institution | ||
for the course. The institution may establish the program only if, | ||
in accordance with 34 C.F.R. Section 668.164(c)(2), the | ||
institution: | ||
(1) enters into an agreement with a book publisher or | ||
other entity to make those textbooks or materials available to | ||
students at below competitive market rates; | ||
(2) provides students a means of obtaining those | ||
textbooks or materials not later than the seventh day of the | ||
semester or other term in which the textbooks or materials are | ||
required; and | ||
(3) adopts a policy under which a student may opt out | ||
of having the cost of those textbooks or materials included in the | ||
tuition or required fees charged to the student. | ||
(b) The cost of textbooks or other materials included in an | ||
institution of higher education's charge for tuition or required | ||
fees under Subsection (a) is not subject to a limitation placed on | ||
the amount of a fee under this chapter or any other provision of | ||
this code. | ||
(c) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may adopt | ||
rules for the administration of a textbook affordability program | ||
established under this section. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies | ||
beginning with the 2019 fall semester. | ||
SECTION 3. 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, 2019. |