Enrolled Bill Summary

House Bill 3524 amends the Education Code to allow The University of Texas System board of regents to establish a flat rate tuition pilot project at The University of Texas at Austin, involving not more than two colleges or degree programs designated by the board, under which the university would charge all undergraduate students in the college or degree program the same amount of tuition. The board would be prohibited from charging a full-time student in the pilot project more than the average tuition paid by a student outside the project who is enrolled at the university for 14 semester credit hours. The bill requires the board to evaluate the effect of flat rate tuition charged under the pilot project on the number of semester credit hours taken each semester by students in the project.