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 | |
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| 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. | ||
