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Senate Bill 1231 |
Senate Author: Zaffirini |
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Effective: 6-16-07 |
House Sponsor: Morrison |
Senate Bill 1231 amends the Education Code to limit the number of courses that an undergraduate student may drop without incurring an academic penalty while remaining enrolled at a public college or university. The bill prohibits a public college or university governing board from allowing an undergraduate student to drop more than six courses, including courses dropped at another college or university by a transfer student, and it authorizes the board to adopt a policy setting a lower limit. The bill requires the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to adopt rules under which a college or university must permit a student to drop more than six courses or more than the number permitted to be dropped under a policy adopted by a particular college or university if the student shows good cause for dropping more than the maximum number otherwise permitted. The bill also expands provisions for refunding tuition and fees to a student who withdraws from school to include procedures for determining the percentage of the tuition and fees to be refunded to a student who withdraws during a summer session term of five weeks or less and to allow a college or university to credit a portion of the amount to be refunded toward the payment of any outstanding tuition and mandatory fees that the student may owe.