By: Hughes  S.B. No. 1193
         (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2021; March 18, 2021, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
  April 29, 2021, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 29, 2021,
  sent to printer.)
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  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1193 By:  Springer
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to providing information to undergraduate students
  regarding certain fixed or flat tuition rates provided by certain
  institutions of higher education.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 54.016, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
         (d)  A general academic teaching institution that offers a
  fixed tuition rate program under this section shall provide
  information explaining the effect of the program on the calculation
  of a student's cost per credit hour, including the institution's
  current fixed tuition rate, and clearly describing the amount of
  tuition a student would pay for varying course loads covered by the
  program:
               (1)  to each transferring undergraduate student, at the
  time the student is offered the opportunity to participate in the
  institution's fixed tuition rate program;
               (2)  for a student enrolled in the institution's fixed
  tuition rate program, in materials or correspondence provided to
  the student each time the student registers for a semester or other
  term and in each tuition billing statement;
               (3)  on the institution's Internet website; and
               (4)  in any financial aid information provided to
  students.
         SECTION 2.  Section 54.017, Education Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
         (h)  An institution to which this section applies shall
  provide information explaining the effect of the fixed tuition
  price plan on the calculation of a student's cost per credit hour,
  including the institution's current fixed tuition rate, and clearly
  describing the amount of tuition a student would pay for varying
  course loads covered by the plan:
               (1)  to each entering undergraduate student, at the
  time the student is offered the opportunity to participate in the
  institution's fixed tuition price plan;
               (2)  for a student enrolled in the institution's fixed
  tuition price plan, in materials or correspondence provided to the
  student each time the student registers for a semester or other term
  and in each tuition billing statement;
               (3)  on the institution's Internet website; and
               (4)  in any financial aid information provided to
  students.
         SECTION 3.  Subchapter A, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
  amended by adding Section 54.018 to read as follows:
         Sec. 54.018.  FLAT-RATE TUITION PLAN. (a) In this section,
  "institution of higher education" has the meaning assigned by
  Section 61.003.
         (b)  An institution of higher education that offers a
  flat-rate tuition plan under which the institution charges a
  student for a specified number of credit hours regardless of the
  number of credit hours in which the student enrolls shall provide
  information explaining the effect of the flat-rate tuition plan on
  the calculation of a student's cost per credit hour, including the
  institution's current flat rate of tuition, and clearly describing
  the amount of tuition a student would pay for varying course loads
  covered by the plan:
               (1)  to each entering undergraduate student;
               (2)  in materials or correspondence provided to the
  student each time the student registers for a semester or other term
  and in each tuition billing statement;
               (3)  on the institution's Internet website; and
               (4)  in any financial aid information provided to
  students.
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.
 
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