By Coleman H.B. No. 2467
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to tuition and fees at public institutions of higher
1-3 education.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 54.051(i), Chapter 54, Education Code, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (i) Tuition for a resident student registered at a law
1-8 school is $75 (<$60>) per semester credit hour. Tuition for a
1-9 nonresident student registered at a law school is $200 (<$150>) per
1-10 semester credit hour.
1-11 SECTION 2. Section 54.008, Education Code, is amended by
1-12 amending subsection (a) adding subsections (e) and (f) to read as
1-13 follows:
1-14 (a) The tuition rates provided by Subchapter B of this
1-15 chapter are minimum rates. Except for optometry programs, the
1-16 (<The>) governing board of each institution of higher education shall
1-17 set tuition for graduate programs for that institution at a rate
1-18 that is at least equal to that prescribed by Subchapter B of this
1-19 chapter, but that is not more than twice the rate prescribed by
1-20 this chapter. Between the maximum and minimum rates, the board may
1-21 set the differential tuition among programs offered by an
1-22 institution of higher education.
1-23 (e) The governing board of an institution of higher
2-1 education shall set tuition for optometry programs at a rate that
2-2 is at least equal to that prescribed in subchapter B of this
2-3 chapter, but that is not more than triple the rate prescribed by
2-4 this chapter.
2-5 (f) For the purposes of this Section, undergraduate pharmacy
2-6 programs may be considered graduate programs.
2-7 SECTION 3. Section 54.0512(b), Education Code, is amended by
2-8 adding subdivisions (7), (8), (9) and (10) to read as follows:
2-9 (7) for the 1997-1998 academic year, $34 per semester
2-10 credit hour.
2-11 (8) for the 1998-1999 academic year, $36 per semester
2-12 credit hour.
2-13 (9) for the 1999-2000 academic year, $38 per semester
2-14 credit hour.
2-15 (10) for the 2000-2001 academic year, $40 per semester
2-16 credit hour.
2-17 SECTION 4. Section 54.064(a) is amended to read as follows:
2-18 (a) A student who holds a competitive academic scholarship
2-19 of at least (<$200>) ($500 for the academic year or summer for which
2-20 the student is enrolled and who is either a nonresident or a
2-21 citizen of a country other than the United States of America is
2-22 entitled to pay the fees and charges required of Texas residents
2-23 without regard to the length of time the student has resided in
2-24 Texas. The student must compete with other students, including
2-25 Texas residents, for the academic scholarship and the scholarship
3-1 must be awarded by a scholarship committee officially recognized by
3-2 the administration and be approved by the Texas Higher Education
3-3 Coordinating Board under criteria developed by the board.
3-4 SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect for the academic year
3-5 commencing in the Fall, 1995.
3-6 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
3-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-12 passage, and it is so enacted.