Bill Text: TX SB1531 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to providing information to entering undergraduate students at certain general academic teaching institutions to promote timely graduation.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB1531 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1531-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to providing information to entering undergraduate students at certain general academic teaching institutions to promote timely graduation.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB1531 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-SB1531-Comm_Sub.html
By: Seliger | S.B. No. 1531 | |
(In the Senate - Filed March 8, 2013; March 19, 2013, read | ||
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; | ||
April 18, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 18, 2013, | ||
sent to printer.) | ||
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1531 | By: Seliger |
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relating to providing information to entering undergraduate | ||
students at certain general academic teaching institutions to | ||
promote timely graduation. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 51.9195 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 51.9195. INFORMATION FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS | ||
REGARDING BENEFITS OF TIMELY GRADUATION. (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) An institution to which this section applies shall | ||
provide to each first-time entering undergraduate student, | ||
including each undergraduate student who transfers to the | ||
institution, information in electronic or paper format that | ||
includes, based on a reasonable projection by the institution using | ||
the most recently available data: | ||
(1) a comparison of the average total amounts of | ||
tuition and fees paid by a full-time student who graduates from the | ||
institution in the following number of academic years: | ||
(A) four years; | ||
(B) five years; and | ||
(C) six years; and | ||
(2) an estimate of the average earnings lost by a | ||
recent graduate of the institution as a result of graduating after | ||
five or six years instead of four years. | ||
(d) An institution to which this section applies shall | ||
include with the information provided to a student under Subsection | ||
(c): | ||
(1) a list of actions that the student can take to | ||
facilitate graduating from the institution in a timely manner; and | ||
(2) contact information for available academic, | ||
career, and other related support services at the institution to | ||
assist the student in that effort. | ||
(e) An institution to which this section applies may satisfy | ||
the requirements of Subsections (c)(1) and (2) with regard to a | ||
student by providing the student with information that is more | ||
specific than the information described by those subdivisions. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 51.9195, Education Code, as added by | ||
this Act, applies beginning with undergraduate students who | ||
initially enroll in a general academic teaching institution for the | ||
2014 fall semester. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
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