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House Bill 120 |
House Author: Brown, Fred |
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Effective: 6-15-07 |
Senate Sponsor: Shapiro |
House Bill 120 amends the Education Code to allow the governing boards of The University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, and Texas Tech University to set a reduced tuition rate for a course offered in the evening, on the weekend, or at other off-peak hours when classroom facilities at those campuses would be underused, that is not less than 75 percent of the rate that otherwise would apply to that course. The bill requires the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to include in its funding formulas sufficient funding to cover an institution's revenue loss resulting from the reduced tuition rates and allows the board to provide an incentive for such rate reductions.
These provisions apply contingent on an appropriation by the state for the fiscal biennium ending August 31, 2009, to cover the tuition revenue loss.