Amend HB 2504 by adding the following appropriately numbered 
SECTION to the bill and renumbering subsequent SECTIONS of the bill 
as appropriate:
	SECTION ____.  Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 61.0777 to read as follows:
	Sec. 61.0777.  UNIFORM STANDARDS FOR PUBLICATION OF COST OF 
ATTENDANCE INFORMATION.  (a)  The board shall prescribe uniform 
standards intended to ensure that information regarding the cost of 
attendance at institutions of higher education and at private or 
independent institutions of higher education approved under 
Subchapter F to receive tuition equalization grant funds is 
available to the public in a manner that is consumer-friendly and 
readily understandable to prospective students and their families.  
In developing the standards, the board shall examine common and 
recommended practices regarding the publication of such 
information and shall solicit recommendations and comments from 
institutions of higher education and affected private or 
independent institutions of higher education.
	(b)  The uniform standards must:                                        
		(1)  address all of the elements that constitute the 
total cost of attendance, including tuition and fees, room and 
board costs, book and supply costs, transportation costs, and other 
personal expenses; and
		(2)  prescribe model language to be used to describe 
each element of the cost of attendance.
	(c)  Each institution of higher education and each private or 
independent institution of higher education approved under 
Subchapter F to receive tuition equalization grant funds that 
offers an undergraduate degree or certificate program shall:
		(1)  prominently display on the institution's Internet 
website in accordance with the uniform standards prescribed under 
this section information regarding the cost of attendance at the 
institution by a full-time entering first-year student; and
		(2)  conform to the uniform standards in any electronic 
or printed materials intended to provide to prospective 
undergraduate students information regarding the cost of 
attendance at the institution.
	(d)  Each institution of higher education shall consider the 
uniform standards prescribed under this section when providing 
information to the public or to prospective students regarding the 
cost of attendance at the institution by nonresident students, 
graduate students, or students enrolled in professional programs.
	(e)  The board shall prescribe requirements for an 
institution of higher education to provide on the institution's 
Internet website consumer-friendly and readily understandable 
information regarding student financial aid opportunities.  The 
required information must be provided in connection with the 
information displayed under Subsection (c)(1) and must include a 
link to the primary federal student financial aid Internet website 
intended to assist persons applying for student financial aid.
	(f)  The board shall provide on the board's Internet website 
a program or similar tool that will compute for a person accessing 
the website the estimated net cost of attendance for a full-time 
entering first-year student attending an institution described by 
Subsection (c).  The board shall require each of those institutions 
to provide the board with the information the board requires to 
administer this subsection.
	(g)  The board shall prescribe the initial standards and 
requirements under this section not later than January 1, 2010.  
Institutions of higher education shall comply with the standards 
and requirements not later than April l, 2010.  This subsection 
expires January 1, 2011.
	(h)  The board shall encourage private or independent 
institutions of higher education approved under Subchapter F to 
participate in the tuition equalization grant program, to the 
greatest extent practicable, to prominently display the 
information described by Subsections (a) and (b) on their Internet 
websites in accordance with the standards established under those 
subsections, and to conform to those standards in electronic and 
printed materials intended to provide to prospective undergraduate 
students information regarding the cost of attendance at the 
institutions.  The board shall also encourage those institutions to 
include on their Internet websites a link to the primary federal 
student financial aid Internet website intended to assist persons 
applying for student financial aid.
	(i)  The board shall make the program or tool described by 
Subsection (f) available to private or independent institutions of 
higher education described by Subsection (h), and those 
institutions shall make that program or tool, or another program or 
tool that complies with the requirements for the net price 
calculator required under Section 132(h)(3), Higher Education Act 
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. Section 1015a) available on their Internet 
websites not later than the date by which the institutions are 
required by Section 132(h)(3) to make the net price calculator 
publicly available on their Internet websites.