HLS 16RS-1997 ORIGINAL
2016 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 989
BY REPRESENTATIVE SHADOIN
HIGHER EDUCATION: Provides relative to tuition and fees applicable to nonresident
students
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 17:3351(A)(5)(b)(i), relative to nonresident tuition and fees at
3 public postsecondary education institutions; to remove limitations on the tuition and
4 fee amounts; and to provide for related matters.
5Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
6 Section 1. R.S. 17:3351(A)(5)(b)(i) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as
7follows:
8 ยง3351. General powers, duties, and functions of postsecondary education
9 management boards
10 A. Subject only to the powers of the Board of Regents specifically
11 enumerated in Article VIII, Section 5 of the Constitution of Louisiana, and as
12 otherwise provided by law, each postsecondary system management board as a body
13 corporate shall have authority to exercise power necessary to supervise and manage
14 the day-to-day operations of institutions of postsecondary education under its
15 control, including but not limited to the following:
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17 (5)
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19 (b)(i)(aa) In accordance with Article VII, Section 2.1 of the Constitution of
20 Louisiana, each management board also shall have authority to establish tuition and
21 mandatory attendance fee amounts applicable to nonresident students at an
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HB NO. 989
1 institution under its supervision and management that at least equal the average
2 amount of annual tuition and mandatory attendance fees for the ensuing fiscal year
3 applicable to nonresident students, at institutions in states comprising the Southern
4 Regional Education Board, excluding Louisiana, which are in the same category as
5 established by the Southern Regional Education Board. Such amounts shall be based
6 on the latest available information that is obtainable by the Board of Regents from
7 the regional education board.
8 (bb) Notwithstanding the provisions of Subitem (aa) of this Item, the Board
9 of Supervisors of Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College and
10 the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System may reduce tuition
11 and mandatory attendance fee amounts applicable to nonresident undergraduate
12 students at historically black colleges and universities under the supervision and
13 management of the respective board to an amount not less than the average amount
14 of annual tuition and mandatory attendance fees applicable to resident undergraduate
15 students at the same institution. This authority includes the authority to impose
16 proportional amounts for part-time students and for summer and intersession terms.
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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)]
HB 989 Original 2016 Regular Session Shadoin
Abstract: Removes a requirement that out-of-state tuition and fees at public colleges and
universities be at least equal to amounts charged at peer institutions in the Southern
Regional Education Bd. (SREB).
Present law authorizes the management boards of the public postsecondary education
systems to establish tuition and mandatory attendance fee amounts applicable to nonresident
students at their respective institutions. Proposed law retains present law.
Present law requires that tuition and fee amounts for nonresident students be at least equal
to the average amount of annual tuition and mandatory attendance fees for nonresident
students at peer institutions in states comprising the SREB, excluding La. Present law
provides an exception to this requirement for historically black colleges and universities.
Proposed law removes the requirement and the exception.
(Amends R.S. 17:3351(A)(5)(b)(i))
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