78R19140 JSA-D

Suspending limitations on conference committee

jurisdiction, H.B. No. 3015







By:  Shapiro                                          S.R. No. 1034


R E S O L U T I O N
	BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the State of Texas, 78th 
Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, That Senate Rule 12.03 be 
suspended in part as provided by Senate Rule 12.08 to enable the 
conference committee appointed to resolve the differences on House 
Bill 3015, relating to the tuition and fees charged to students of 
institutions of higher education, to financial assistance funded by 
tuition, and to reports of availability and access by institutions 
of higher education, to consider and take action on the following 
matter:
	Senate Rules 12.03(1) and (4) are suspended to permit the 
conference committee to include the following text to the bill:
	SECTION 2.  Sections 54.0513(a) and (b), Education Code, are 
amended to read as follows:
	(a)  [The building use fee previously authorized in Section 
55.16 of this code is redesignated as tuition.
	[(b)]  In addition to amounts that a governing board of an 
institution of higher education is authorized to charge as tuition 
under the other provisions of this chapter, the governing board, 
under the terms the governing board considers appropriate, may [is 
authorized to] charge any student an amount designated as tuition 
that the governing board considers necessary for the effective 
operation of the institution [in an academic year an amount not to 
exceed the amount charged under Sections 54.051 or 54.0512, as 
applicable, in that academic year].
	Explanation:  The change is necessary to permit public 
institutions of higher education to charge tuition at appropriate 
rates.