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	Amend SB 175, on third reading, by adding the following 
appropriately numbered SECTION to the bill and renumbering 
subsequent SECTIONS of the bill appropriately:
	SECTION ____.  Subchapter A, Chapter 54, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 54.016 to read as follows:
	Sec. 54.016.  LIMITATION ON TUITION INCREASES 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)  This subsection applies only to a student admitted 
automatically to an institution of higher education under Section 
51.803.
	(c)  Beginning with the second academic year in which a 
student to whom this section applies is enrolled in a general 
academic teaching institution, the governing board of the 
institution may not charge the student for that academic year 
tuition under Section 54.0513 or under any other law granting the 
institution discretion to set the tuition rate, in an amount that 
exceeds the amount that the institution would have charged to a 
similarly situated student in the preceding academic year, as that 
amount is adjusted for the current academic year for inflation as 
provided by Subsection (f).
	(d)  For purposes of this section, students are similarly 
situated if they share the same residency status, degree program, 
course load, course level, tuition exemption status, and other 
circumstances affecting the total academic costs charged to the 
student.
	(e)  This section does not ensure that the tuition charged to 
an individual student will not increase by more than the limitation 
prescribed by Subsection (c) based on a change in the student's 
residency status, degree program, course load, course level, 
tuition exemption status, or other circumstance affecting the total 
academic costs charged to the student.
	(f)  Not later than March 1 of each year, the Texas Higher 
Education Coordinating Board by rule shall determine the inflation 
rate to be used for purposes of Subsection (c) for the next academic 
year and shall certify that rate to the governing board of each 
institution of higher education.  For purposes of Subsection (c), 
the inflation rate is the percentage increase, if any, as expressed 
in decimal form rounded to the nearest thousandth, in the consumer 
price index, as defined by Section 341.201, Finance Code, for the 
preceding calendar year as compared to the consumer price index for 
the year preceding that year.
	(g)  This section does not apply to a student who enters a 
general academic teaching institution for the first time before the 
2010 fall semester.