Bill Text: TX HB726 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a fixed tuition rate provided by general academic teaching institutions and public lower-division institutions of higher education to certain undergraduate students.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-18 - Referred to Higher Education [HB726 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB726-Introduced.html
| 83R2231 KSD-D | ||
| By: Alvarado | H.B. No. 726 | |
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| relating to a fixed tuition rate provided by general academic | ||
| teaching institutions and public lower-division institutions of | ||
| higher education to certain undergraduate students. | ||
| 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 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 54.017. FIXED TUITION RATE FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS. | ||
| (a) In this section: | ||
| (1) "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher | ||
| Education Coordinating Board. | ||
| (2) "General academic teaching institution," "public | ||
| junior college," "public state college," and "public technical | ||
| institute" have the meanings 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) Except as otherwise provided by this section, in a | ||
| semester or other academic term, the governing board of a general | ||
| academic teaching institution or lower-division institution of | ||
| higher education may not charge tuition to an undergraduate student | ||
| under Section 54.0513, or under any other law granting the | ||
| institution discretion to set the tuition rate, at a rate that | ||
| exceeds the rate the institution charged to the student during the | ||
| first semester or other academic term that the student enrolled at | ||
| the institution if the student is currently and at all times while | ||
| enrolled at the institution has been a resident of this state for | ||
| purposes of Subchapter B or was otherwise entitled to pay tuition at | ||
| the rate provided for residents of this state. | ||
| (c) For a student enrolled at a general academic teaching | ||
| institution other than a public state college, Subsection (b) does | ||
| not apply to the student after: | ||
| (1) the fourth anniversary of the date the student | ||
| first enrolls at any public institution of higher education, | ||
| regardless of whether the student transfers among any public or | ||
| private institutions of higher education after the initial | ||
| enrollment, if the student is enrolled in a degree program of four | ||
| years or less; or | ||
| (2) the fifth anniversary of the date the student | ||
| first enrolls at any public institution of higher education, | ||
| regardless of whether the student transfers among any public or | ||
| private institutions of higher education after the initial | ||
| enrollment, if the student is enrolled in a degree program of more | ||
| than four years. | ||
| (d) For a student enrolled at a lower-division institution | ||
| of higher education, Subsection (b) does not apply to the student | ||
| after the second anniversary of the date the student first enrolls | ||
| at any lower-division institution of higher education, regardless | ||
| of whether the student transfers among any public or private | ||
| institutions of higher education after the initial enrollment. | ||
| (e) Each general academic teaching institution or | ||
| lower-division institution of higher education shall notify each | ||
| entering undergraduate student, including each undergraduate | ||
| student who transfers to the institution, of the eligibility | ||
| requirements for a fixed tuition rate under this section. | ||
| (f) In consultation with the general academic teaching | ||
| institutions and lower-division institutions of higher education, | ||
| the coordinating board shall adopt any rules the coordinating board | ||
| considers appropriate for the administration of this section. | ||
| (g) This section does not apply to a student who enters a | ||
| general academic teaching institution or lower-division | ||
| institution of higher education for the first time before the 2013 | ||
| fall semester. This subsection expires January 1, 2019. | ||
| 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, 2013. | ||
