Bill Text: TX HB459 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 459 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to temporary limitations on the total amount of tuition charged to a student by a four-year public institution of higher education.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-17 - Referred to Higher Education [HB459 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB459-Introduced.html

	82R3724 KSD-D

	By: White	H.B. No. 459



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to temporary limitations on the total amount of tuition
	charged to a student by a four-year public institution of higher
	education.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
	amended by adding Section 54.0514 to read as follows:
	Sec. 54.0514. TEMPORARY LIMITATION ON TOTAL AMOUNT OF
	TUITION. (a) In this section:
	(1) "General academic teaching institution" has the
	meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
	(2) "Tuition" includes:
	(A) tuition for which the rates are prescribed by
	this chapter; and
	(B) tuition charged by an institution of higher
	education under Section 54.0513 or another law authorizing an
	institution to establish tuition rates.
	(b) Notwithstanding Section 54.0513 or another law
	authorizing an institution of higher education to establish tuition
	rates, the total amount of tuition charged by a general academic
	teaching institution to a student for the 2011-2012 or 2012-2013
	academic year may not exceed the total amount of tuition that the
	institution would have charged under this chapter to a similarly
	situated student for the 2010-2011 academic year.
	(c) For purposes of this section, students are similarly
	situated if they share the same residency status, degree program,
	course load, course level, tuition exemption status, and other
	circumstances affecting the tuition charged to the student.
	(d) This section does not ensure that the total amount of
	tuition charged to an individual student does not increase based on
	a change in the student's residency status, degree program, course
	load, course level, tuition exemption status, or other circumstance
	affecting the tuition charged to the student.
	(e) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board may adopt
	rules as necessary to administer this section.
	(f) This section expires August 31, 2013.
	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.