Bill Text: TX SB1727 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed


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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-09 - Referred to Higher Education [SB1727 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-SB1727-Engrossed.html
 
 
  By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1727
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
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 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.
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