By: Armbrister S.B. No. 1080
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to tuition and fees at public institutions of higher
1-2 education.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 54.051(i), Chapter 54, Education Code, is
1-5 amended to read as follows:
1-6 (i) Tuition for a resident student registered at a law
1-7 school is $75 <$60> per semester credit hour. Tuition for a
1-8 nonresident student registered at a law school is $200 <$150> per
1-9 semester credit hour.
1-10 SECTION 2. Section 54.008, Education Code, is amended by
1-11 amending Subsection (a) adding Subsections (e) and (f) to read as
1-12 follows:
1-13 (a) The tuition rates provided by Subchapter B of this
1-14 chapter are minimum rates. Except for optometry programs, the
1-15 <The> governing board of each institution of higher education shall
1-16 set tuition for graduate programs for that institution at a rate
1-17 that is at least equal to that prescribed by Subchapter B of this
1-18 chapter, but that is not more than twice the rate prescribed by
1-19 this chapter. Between the maximum and minimum rates, the board may
1-20 set the differential tuition among programs offered by an
1-21 institution of higher education.
1-22 (e) The governing board of an institution of higher
1-23 education shall set tuition for optometry programs at a rate that
2-1 is at least equal to that prescribed in Subchapter B of this
2-2 chapter, but that is not more than triple the rate prescribed by
2-3 this chapter.
2-4 (f) For the purposes of this Section, undergraduate pharmacy
2-5 programs may be considered graduate programs.
2-6 SECTION 3. Section 54.0512(b), Education Code, is amended by
2-7 adding Subdivisions (7), (8), (9) and (10) to read as follows:
2-8 (7) for the 1997-1998 academic year, $34 per semester
2-9 credit hour.
2-10 (8) for the 1998-1999 academic year, $36 per semester
2-11 credit hour.
2-12 (9) for the 1999-2000 academic year, $38 per semester
2-13 credit hour.
2-14 (10) for the 2000-2001 academic year, $40 per semester
2-15 credit hour.
2-16 SECTION 4. Section 54.064(a) is amended to read as follows:
2-17 (a) A student who holds a competitive academic scholarship
2-18 of at least $500 <$200> for the academic year or summer for which
2-19 the student is enrolled and who is either a nonresident or a
2-20 citizen of a country other than the United States of America is
2-21 entitled to pay the fees and charges required of Texas residents
2-22 without regard to the length of time the student has resided in
2-23 Texas. The student must compete with other students, including
2-24 Texas residents, for the academic scholarship and the scholarship
2-25 must be awarded by a scholarship committee officially recognized by
3-1 the administration and be approved by the Texas Higher Education
3-2 Coordinating Board under criteria developed by the board.
3-3 SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect for the academic year
3-4 commencing in the Fall, 1995.
3-5 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
3-6 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-7 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-8 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-9 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-10 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-11 passage, and it is so enacted.