Bill Text: TX SB646 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to formula funding for certain nonresident students enrolled at Lamar State College--Orange.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-18 - Effective immediately [SB646 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-SB646-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Nichols S.B. No. 646
(In the Senate - Filed January 27, 2023; February 17, 2023,
read first time and referred to Subcommittee on Higher Education;
April 6, 2023, reported favorably from Committee on Education by
the following vote: Yeas 12, Nays 0; April 6, 2023, sent to
printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to formula funding for certain nonresident students
enrolled at Lamar State College--Orange.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 61.059, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (n-1) to read as follows:
(n-1) In the formula applicable to Lamar State
College--Orange for funding instruction and administration, the
board shall include any contact hours taught through distance
education to students enrolled at that college who reside in
another state and:
(1) as permitted by Section 54.231(a), pay tuition at
the rate charged to residents of this state; and
(2) reside in a county or parish in the other state
that is contiguous to the county in which the college is located.
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, 2023.
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