** REVISION **
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
COMMITTEE:
Higher Education
TIME & DATE:
9:30 AM, Tuesday, April 01, 2008
PLACE:
JHR 120
CHAIR:
Rep. Geanie Morrison
 
The committee will meet to consider the following:
 
Interim Charge #1:
 
Evaluate the cost and feasibility of requiring students who attend
institutions of higher education to be covered by a health benefit plan.
Evaluate whether institutions should have the authority to offer tuition
waivers or insurance coverage to graduate students and fellows.
 
Interim Charge #4:
 
Research alternative methodologies for funding developmental education, and
evaluate whether or not appropriating a portion of these funds directly to
the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board could help improve
developmental education results.
 
Interim Charge #5:
 
Examine state and local policies that relate to the marketing and sale of
college textbooks.
 
Invited testimony only.