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House Bill 2806 |
House Author: Morrison |
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Effective: 9-1-05 |
Senate Sponsor: West, Royce |
House Bill 2806 amends the Education Code to update various provisions regulating career schools and colleges. The bill makes provisions previously applicable to an individual class or course, including school refund policies, applicable to an entire program. Refunds of tuition and fees are based on the period of enrollment computed on the basis of course time, rather than clock hours, remaining in a program. The bill prohibits a career school or college from maintaining, advertising, soliciting for, or conducting any program until it receives a certificate of approval from the Texas Workforce Commission. The bill provides that a career school or college that is eligible to participate in federal financial aid programs is not required to take attendance and sets out the ways in which the school is to document a student's participation. The bill also requires the commission, when refunding tuition and fees to a student who was attending a career school or college that closed, to consider the availability of other schools or colleges at which the student may complete the student's training, regardless of whether such institutions are career schools or colleges, and to attempt to arrange for students of the closed school or college to attend another school or college before proceeding with its refund policy.