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H.B. No. 1621
AN ACT
relating to use of certain fees and tuition charged by public junior
colleges and to the waiver of a portion of the tuition and fees for a
student enrolled in a course for joint high school-junior college
credit.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 130.008(b) and (c), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(b) The junior college may waive all or part of the tuition
and fees [fee] for a high school student enrolled in a course for
which the student may receive joint credit under this section.
(c) The contact hours attributable to the enrollment of a
high school student in a course offered for joint high school and
junior college credit under this section shall be included in the
contact hours used to determine the junior college's proportionate
share of the state money appropriated and distributed to public
junior colleges under Sections 130.003 and 130.0031, even if the
junior college waives all or part of the tuition or fees [fee] for
the student under Subsection (b).
SECTION 2. Section 130.123(e), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(e) In addition to the revenues, fees, and other resources
authorized to be pledged to the payment of bonds issued hereunder,
each board further shall be authorized to pledge irrevocably to
such payment, out of the tuition charges required or permitted by
law to be imposed at its institution or institutions, an amount not
exceeding 25 percent of the tuition charges collected [$15] from
each enrolled student for each [regular] semester or [and $7.50
from each enrolled student for each summer] term, and each board
also shall be authorized to pledge to such payment all or any part
of any grant, donation, or income received or to be received from
the United States government or any other public or private source,
whether pursuant to an agreement or otherwise.
SECTION 3. Section 56.033(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) The governing board of each institution of higher
education, including the Texas State Technical College System,
shall cause to be set aside:
(1) not less than 15 percent nor more than 20 percent
out of each resident student's tuition charge under Section 54.051
as provided by the General Appropriations Act for the applicable
academic year;
(2) three percent out of each nonresident student's
tuition charge under Section 54.051;
(3) not less than six percent nor more than 20 percent
out of each resident student's hourly tuition charge exclusive of
out-of-district charges, and $1.50 out of each nonresident
student's hourly tuition charge, for academic courses at a public
community or junior college; and
(4) not less than six percent nor more than 20 percent
of hourly tuition charges exclusive of out-of-district charges for
vocational-technical courses at a public community or junior
college.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1621 was passed by the House on May 5,
2003, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 1621 on May 30, 2003, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0,
2 present, not voting.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1621 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 28, 2003, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
__________________
Governor