Bill Text: TX SB1531 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to formula funding for excess undergraduate credit hours at public institutions of higher education and to the tuition rate that may be charged for those credit hours.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/21 [SB1531 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB1531-Enrolled.html
S.B. No. 1531 |
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relating to formula funding for excess undergraduate credit hours | ||
at public institutions of higher education and to the tuition rate | ||
that may be charged for those credit hours. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 54.014, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (a-1) and (a-2) to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(a) An institution of higher education may charge a resident | ||
undergraduate student tuition at a higher rate than the rate | ||
charged to other resident undergraduate students, not to exceed the | ||
rate charged to nonresident undergraduate students, if before the | ||
semester or other academic session begins the student has | ||
previously attempted a number of semester credit hours for courses | ||
taken at any institution of higher education while classified as a | ||
resident student for tuition purposes that exceeds [ |
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of the degree program in which the student is enrolled by at least: | ||
(1) for an associate degree program, 15 hours; or | ||
(2) for a baccalaureate degree program, 30 hours. | ||
(a-1) For purposes of Subsection (a) [ |
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undergraduate student who is not enrolled in a degree program is | ||
considered to be enrolled in a baccalaureate degree program [ |
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(a-2) An institution of higher education that charges | ||
students tuition at a higher rate under Subsection (a) [ |
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from the payment of that higher rate a student that is subject to | ||
the payment of the higher rate solely as a result of hardship as | ||
determined by the institution under the policy. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 61.0595(a) and (b), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) In the formulas established under Section 61.059, the | ||
board may not include funding for semester credit hours earned by a | ||
resident undergraduate student who before the semester or other | ||
academic session begins has previously attempted a number of | ||
semester credit hours for courses taken at any institution of | ||
higher education while classified as a resident student for tuition | ||
purposes that exceeds [ |
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credit hours required for completion of the degree program or | ||
programs in which the student is enrolled, including minors and | ||
double majors, and for completion of any certificate or other | ||
special program in which the student is also enrolled, including a | ||
program with a study-abroad component, by at least: | ||
(1) for an associate degree program, 15 hours; or | ||
(2) for a baccalaureate degree program, 30 hours. | ||
(b) For purposes of Subsection (a), an undergraduate | ||
student who is not enrolled in a degree program is considered to be | ||
enrolled in a baccalaureate degree program [ |
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SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
54.014, Education Code, applies beginning with tuition charged to | ||
students enrolling for the first time in an associate degree | ||
program at a public institution of higher education for the 2023 | ||
fall semester. Tuition charged to a student who first enrolled in | ||
an associate degree program at a public institution of higher | ||
education before the 2023 fall semester is governed by the law in | ||
effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act to Section | ||
61.0595, Education Code, applies beginning with funding | ||
recommendations made under Section 61.059, Education Code, for the | ||
state fiscal biennium beginning September 1, 2023, for semester | ||
credit hours earned by students initially enrolling in an associate | ||
degree program at a public institution of higher education for the | ||
2023 fall semester or a subsequent semester or term. Funding | ||
recommendations for semester credit hours earned by a student who | ||
initially enrolled in an associate degree program at a public | ||
institution of higher education before the 2023 fall semester are | ||
governed by the law in effect immediately before the effective date | ||
of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1531 passed the Senate on | ||
April 19, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that | ||
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 28, 2021, by the | ||
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1531 passed the House, with | ||
amendment, on May 25, 2021, by the following vote: Yeas 73, | ||
Nays 72, one present not voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |