Bill Text: TX HB2999 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 2999 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to a fixed tuition rate program for certain students who transfer to a state university after completing an associate degree program.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB2999 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB2999-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 2999




	AN ACT
	relating to a fixed tuition rate program for certain students who
	transfer to a state university after completing an associate degree
	program.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 54.016 to read as follows:
	Sec. 54.016. FIXED TUITION RATE PROGRAM FOR CERTAIN
	TRANSFER STUDENTS AT GENERAL ACADEMIC TEACHING INSTITUTIONS. (a)
	In this section:
	(1) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher
	Education Coordinating Board.
	(2) "General academic teaching institution" has the
	meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
	(3) "Lower-division institution of higher education"
	means a public junior college, public state college, or public
	technical institute.
	(b) A general academic teaching institution may develop a
	fixed tuition rate program for qualified students who agree to
	transfer to the institution within 12 months after successfully
	earning an associate degree at a lower-division institution of
	higher education. Under a program developed under this section, a
	general academic teaching institution must:
	(1) guarantee to a participating student enrolled in
	an associate degree program at a lower-division institution of
	higher education, on successful completion of the associate degree
	program, transfer admission to the general academic teaching
	institution within the period prescribed above; and
	(2) notwithstanding any other provision of this
	chapter, charge tuition to a participating student for any semester
	or other academic term during a period of at least 24 months
	following the student's initial enrollment in the institution at
	the same rate the general academic teaching institution would have
	charged to the student during the later of:
	(A) the fall semester of the student's freshman
	year at another institution of higher education had the student
	entered the general academic teaching institution as a freshman
	student; or
	(B) the fall semester of the second academic year
	preceding the academic year of the student's initial enrollment in
	the general academic teaching institution.
	(c) A general academic teaching institution that develops a
	fixed tuition rate program under this section shall prescribe
	eligibility requirements for participation in the program and
	notify applicants for transfer admission from lower-division
	institutions of higher education regarding the program.
	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, 2011.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 2999 was passed by the House on May 3,
	2011, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 1, 1 present, not
	voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
	No. 2999 on May 25, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0,
	2 present, not voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House

	I certify that H.B. No. 2999 was passed by the Senate, with
	amendments, on May 24, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
	0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: __________________
	Date

	__________________
	Governor