By Coleman H.B. No. 2467
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to tuition rates and tuition-funded grants at public
1-3 institutions of higher education.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 54.008, Education Code, is amended by
1-6 amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsections (e), (f), and (g) to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (a) The tuition rates provided by Subchapter B of this
1-9 chapter are minimum rates. Except as provided by Subsection (e),
1-10 the <The> governing board of each institution of higher education
1-11 shall set tuition for graduate programs for that institution at a
1-12 rate that is at least equal to that prescribed by Subchapter B of
1-13 this chapter, but that is not more than twice the rate prescribed
1-14 by Subchapter B of this chapter. Between the maximum and minimum
1-15 rates, the board may set the differential tuition among programs
1-16 offered by an institution of higher education.
1-17 (e) The governing board of an institution of higher
1-18 education shall set tuition for an optometry program at the
1-19 institution at a rate that is at least equal to the rate prescribed
1-20 by Subchapter B of this chapter but not more than three times the
1-21 rate prescribed by Subchapter B of this chapter.
1-22 (f) The governing board of an institution of higher
1-23 education shall set tuition for a pharmacy program at the
2-1 institution at a rate that is at least equal to the rate prescribed
2-2 by Subchapter B of this chapter but not more than twice the rate
2-3 prescribed by Subchapter B of this chapter.
2-4 (g) The legislature in an appropriations act shall account
2-5 for the increase in revenue attributable to the annual statutory
2-6 tuition increases prescribed by Section 54.0512(b) in a way that
2-7 does not reduce the general revenue appropriation to that
2-8 institution.
2-9 SECTION 2. Section 54.051(i), Education Code, is amended to
2-10 read as follows:
2-11 (i) Tuition for a resident student registered at a law
2-12 school is $75 <$60> per semester credit hour. Tuition for a
2-13 nonresident student registered at a law school is $200 <$150> per
2-14 semester credit hour.
2-15 SECTION 3. Section 54.0512(b), Education Code, is amended to
2-16 read as follows:
2-17 (b) Tuition for a resident student at a general academic
2-18 teaching institution is the greater of $100 for each semester or
2-19 12-week summer session and $50 for each six-week summer term or:
2-20 (1) <for the 1991-1992 academic year, $20 per semester
2-21 credit hour;>
2-22 <(2) for the 1992-1993 academic year, $24 per semester
2-23 credit hour;>
2-24 <(3) for the 1993-1994 academic year, $26 per semester
2-25 credit hour;>
3-1 <(4)> for the 1994-1995 academic year, $28 per
3-2 semester credit hour;
3-3 (2) <(5)> for the 1995-1996 academic year, $30 per
3-4 semester credit hour; <and>
3-5 (3) <(6)> for the 1996-1997 academic year, $32 per
3-6 semester credit hour;
3-7 (4) for the 1997-1998 academic year, $34 per semester
3-8 credit hour;
3-9 (5) for the 1998-1999 academic year, $36 per semester
3-10 credit hour;
3-11 (6) for the 1999-2000 academic year, $38 per semester
3-12 credit hour; and
3-13 (7) for the 2000-2001 academic year, $40 per semester
3-14 credit hour.
3-15 SECTION 4. Section 56.033(a), Education Code, is amended to
3-16 read as follows:
3-17 (a) The governing boards of institutions of higher education
3-18 and the Texas State Technical College System shall cause to be set
3-19 aside:
3-20 (1) 30 <for the 1991-1992 academic year, not less than
3-21 nine percent nor more than 15 percent out of each resident
3-22 student's tuition charge under Section 54.051 of this code as
3-23 provided by the General Appropriations Act for the applicable
3-24 academic year;>
3-25 <(2) for the 1992-1993 academic year and each
4-1 subsequent academic year, not less than 15 percent nor more than
4-2 20> percent out of each resident student's tuition charge under
4-3 Section 54.051 of this code <as provided by the General
4-4 Appropriations Act for the applicable academic year; in specifying
4-5 the percentage to be set aside for the 1991-1992 and 1992-1993
4-6 academic years, the legislature shall consider the recommendations
4-7 of the Select Committee on Higher Education established by H.C.R.
4-8 No. 105, Acts of the 69th Legislature, Regular Session, 1985>;
4-9 (2) 10 <(3) three> percent out of each nonresident
4-10 student's tuition charge under Section 54.051 of this code;
4-11 (3) 15 <(4) six> percent out of each resident
4-12 student's hourly tuition charge, and $5 <$1.50> out of each
4-13 nonresident student's hourly tuition charge, for academic courses
4-14 at public community and junior colleges; and
4-15 (4) 15 <(5) six> percent of hourly tuition charges
4-16 for vocational-technical courses at public community and junior
4-17 colleges.
4-18 SECTION 5. (a) Sections 1 and 2 of this Act apply beginning
4-19 with tuition charged for the fall semester of 1995.
4-20 (b) The change in law made by this Act to Section 54.064,
4-21 Education Code, applies beginning with tuition charged for the fall
4-22 semester of 1995, except that a student awarded a scholarship
4-23 before September 1, 1995, for a semester or term of the 1995-1996
4-24 academic year that would have made the student eligible to pay
4-25 resident tuition under Section 54.064 as that section existed on
5-1 January 1, 1995, is covered by Section 54.064 as that section
5-2 existed on January 1, 1995, for each semester or term of the
5-3 1995-1996 academic year for which the student receives the
5-4 scholarship.
5-5 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
5-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
5-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
5-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
5-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
5-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
5-11 passage, and it is so enacted.