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	Amend Floor Amendment No. 1 (floor substitute) by 
Representative Branch to CSSB 175, by inserting into the amendment 
the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering 
subsequent SECTIONS of the amendment accordingly:
	SECTION ____.  Subchapter A, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 54.016 to read as follows:
	Sec. 54.016.  FIXED TUITION RATE PLAN FOR UNDERGRADUATE 
STUDENTS AUTOMATICALLY ADMITTED TO GENERAL ACADEMIC TEACHING 
INSTITUTIONS.  (a)  In this section:
		(1)  "Coordinating board" means the Texas Higher 
Education Coordinating Board.
		(2)  "General academic teaching institution has the 
meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
	(b)  The governing board of a general academic teaching 
institution shall provide a fixed tuition rate plan to eligible 
undergraduate students as provided by this section.
	(c)  Under a fixed tuition rate plan under this section, a 
general academic teaching institution may not charge, in a semester 
or other academic term, an eligible student tuition under Section 
54.0513 or under any other law granting the institution discretion 
to set the tuition rate, at a rate that exceeds the rate the 
institution charged to the student during the first semester or 
other academic term that the student enrolled at the institution.
	(d)  A student enrolled at a general academic teaching 
institution is eligible to pay tuition under a fixed tuition rate 
plan provided under this section only if the student:
		(1)  was, as determined by the institution, admitted to 
the institution under Section 51.803(a) or (a-1);
		(2)  has completed at least one semester or other 
academic term at the institution; and
		(3)  is currently, and at all times while enrolled at 
the institution has been, a resident of this state for purposes of 
Subchapter B or was otherwise entitled to pay tuition at the rate 
provided for residents of this state.
	(e)  A student enrolled at a general academic teaching 
institution is not eligible to pay tuition under a fixed tuition 
rate plan offered under this section after:
		(1)  the fourth anniversary of the date the student 
first enrolls at any public institution of higher education, 
regardless of whether the student transfers among any public or 
private institutions of higher education after the initial 
enrollment, if the student is enrolled in a degree program of four 
years or less; or
		(2)  the fifth anniversary of the date the student 
first enrolls at any public institution of higher education, 
regardless of whether the student transfers among any public or 
private institutions of higher education after the initial 
enrollment, if the student is enrolled in a degree program of more 
than four years.
	(f)  Each general academic teaching institution shall notify 
each entering undergraduate student of the eligibility 
requirements for a fixed tuition rate plan under this section.
	(g)  In consultation with the general academic teaching 
institutions, the coordinating board shall adopt any rules the 
coordinating board considers appropriate for the administration of 
this section.
	(h)  This section does not apply to a student who enters a 
general academic teaching institution for the first time before the 
2010 fall semester.  This subsection expires January 1, 2016.