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House Bill 994 |
House Author: Gonzales et al. |
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Effective: 6-18-05 |
Senate Sponsor: West, Royce |
House Bill 994 amends the Education Code to allow public junior college district governing boards and the board of regents of the Texas State Technical College System to charge a student a higher rate of tuition than they otherwise would charge for a course if the student has previously enrolled two or more times in the same course or a course of substantially the same content and level and if the student's enrollment in that course is not included in the contact hours used to determine the junior college's or technical institute's level of state funding. The bill provides that the authority to charge a higher rate of tuition for a course being repeated does not apply to a non-degree-credit developmental course, and it prohibits the tuition charged for a repeated course from exceeding the full cost of instruction for the course with respect to that student.