Bill Text: TX HB2483 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a maximum tuition rate under a fixed tuition price plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-25 - Left pending in committee [HB2483 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2483-Introduced.html
By: Zerwas | H.B. No. 2483 |
|
||
|
||
relating to a maximum tuition rate under a fixed tuition price plan. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 54, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 54.017(h), to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 54.017. FIXED TUITION PRICE PLAN FOR UNDERGRADUATE | ||
STUDENTS AT CERTAIN GENERAL ACADEMIC TEACHING INSTITUTIONS. (a) | ||
In this section, "general academic teaching institution" and | ||
"public state college" have the meanings assigned by Section | ||
61.003. | ||
(b) This section applies only to a general academic teaching | ||
institution other than a public state college. | ||
(c) The governing board of an institution to which this | ||
section applies shall offer entering undergraduate students, | ||
including undergraduate students who transfer to the institution, | ||
the opportunity to participate in a fixed tuition price plan under | ||
which the institution agrees not to increase tuition charges per | ||
semester credit hour for a participating student for at least the | ||
first 12 consecutive semesters that occur after the date of the | ||
student's initial enrollment at any public or private institution | ||
of higher education, regardless of whether the student enrolls at | ||
any institution in those semesters, and subject to any restrictions | ||
or qualifications adopted by the governing board. For purposes of | ||
this section, one or more summer terms occurring in the same summer | ||
is considered a semester. | ||
(d) Unless the institution does not offer other tuition | ||
payment options, an institution to which this section applies may | ||
require an entering undergraduate student to accept or reject | ||
participation in the fixed tuition price plan offered under this | ||
section before the date of the student's initial enrollment at the | ||
institution. | ||
(e) This section does not require an institution to which | ||
this section applies to offer a variable tuition price plan or other | ||
tuition payment options to undergraduate students enrolled in the | ||
institution. | ||
(f) Fees charged by an institution to a student | ||
participating in a fixed tuition price plan under this section may | ||
not exceed the fees charged by the institution to a similarly | ||
situated student who elects not to participate in the plan, if the | ||
institution offers other tuition payment options. For purposes of | ||
this subsection, students are similarly situated if they share the | ||
same residency status, degree program, course load, course level, | ||
and other circumstances affecting the fees charged to the students. | ||
(g) This section does not apply to the tuition charged by an | ||
institution to which this section applies to a student who enters | ||
the institution for the first time before the 2014 fall semester. | ||
(h) The fixed tuition price plan under subsection (c) of an | ||
institution not offering other tuition payment options may include | ||
a maximum tuition rate. Notwithstanding subsection (c), the | ||
institution’s tuition charges may vary between semesters during | ||
the period covered by the fixed tuition price plan, but the | ||
institution’s tuition charges may not exceed the established | ||
maximum tuition rate. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |