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Regular Session, 2010
HOUSE BILL NO. 937
BY REPRESENTATIVE FANNIN
STUDENT/TUITION: Relative to tuition and mandatory fee amounts charged at public
colleges and universities, provides for a credit for certain amounts paid by a student
to the Board of Parole for his parole supervision
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 17:3351(E), relative to tuition and mandatory fee amounts at public colleges2
and universities; to provide relative to the powers and duties of public postsecondary3
education management boards; to require the adoption and implementation of certain4
policies and procedures by such boards relative to the payment of tuition and5
mandatory fee amounts by certain students; to provide timelines and guidelines for6
such policies and procedures; to provide effectiveness; to provide limitations; to7
provide an effective date; and to provide for related matters.8
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:9
Section 1. R.S. 17:3351(E) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 10
ยง3351. General powers, duties, and functions of college and university boards11
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E. In addition to any other powers and duties authorized by this Section, each13
board, by not later than October 1, 2010, shall adopt and implement policies and14
procedures requiring, beginning with the next enrollment period, that each institution15
under the board's supervision and management apply a credit against the tuition and16
mandatory attendance fees charged a student enrolled at the institution for amounts17
paid by the student or on behalf of the student to the state Board of Parole to defray18
the cost of his parole supervision as provided by R.S. 15:574.4(H)(4)(o). Such a19 HLS 10RS-1324 ORIGINAL
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credit shall be for amounts paid to the state Board of Parole after July 1, 2010, and1
no such payments shall be eligible for a credit as provided by this Subsection more2
than one time.3
Section 2. This Act shall become effective upon signature by the governor or, if not4
signed by the governor, upon expiration of the time for bills to become law without signature5
by the governor, as provided by Article III, Section 18 of the Constitution of Louisiana. If6
vetoed by the governor and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become7
effective on the day following such approval.8
DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
Fannin HB No. 937
Abstract: Provides that a student attending a public college or university shall receive a
tuition and mandatory fee amount credit for certain payments made by the student
or on the student's behalf to the Board of Parole for his parole supervision.
Proposed law provides that each public postsecondary education management board, by not
later than Oct. 1, 2010, shall adopt and implement policies and procedures requiring,
beginning with the next enrollment period, that each institution under the board's supervision
and management apply a credit against the tuition and mandatory attendance fees charged
a student enrolled at the institution for amounts paid by the student or on the student's behalf
to the Board of Parole to defray the cost of his parole supervision as provided by R.S.
15:574.4(H)(4)(o). Specifies that such a credit shall be for amounts paid to the Board of
Parole after July 1, 2010.
Effective upon signature of governor or lapse of time for gubernatorial action.
(Adds R.S. 17:3351(E))