Texas 2009 - 81st Regular

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1	1	81R14522 KSD-D
2	2	By: Branch H.B. No. 4222
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5	5	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
6	6	AN ACT
7	7	relating to limitations on increases in designated tuition charged
8	8	by general academic teaching institutions and a biennial report to
9	9	the legislature regarding the operational costs of those
10	10	institutions.
11	11	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
12	12	SECTION 1. Section 54.0513, Education Code, is amended by
13	13	adding Subsections (g), (g-1), (g-2), (h), (i), (j), and (k) to read
14	14	as follows:
15	15	(g) Except as provided by Subsection (j), the amount of
16	16	tuition the governing board of a general academic teaching
17	17	institution charges under this section to a student for an academic
18	18	year may not exceed the total amount of tuition that the governing
19	19	board would have charged under this section to a similarly situated
20	20	student in the preceding academic year by more than the greater of:
21	21	(1) 3.95 percent; or
22	22	(2) $280.
23	23	(g-1) Notwithstanding Subsection (g), for the 2010-2011
24	24	academic year, the amount of tuition the governing board of a
25	25	general academic teaching institution charges under this section to
26	26	a student may not exceed the total amount of tuition that the
27	27	governing board would have charged under this section to a
28	28	similarly situated student in the 2008-2009 academic year by more
29	29	than the greater of:
30	30	(1) 3.95 percent; or
31	31	(2) $280.
32	32	(g-2) Subsection (j) applies to Subsection (g-1) in the same
33	33	manner as Subsection (j) applies to Subsection (g). This
34	34	subsection and Subsection (g-1) expire September 1, 2011.
35	35	(h) For purposes of Subsection (g), students are similarly
36	36	situated if they share the same residency status, degree program,
37	37	course load, course level, tuition exemption status, and other
38	38	circumstances affecting the tuition charged to a student.
39	39	(i) Subsection (g) does not ensure that the designated
40	40	tuition charged to an individual student will not increase by more
41	41	than the limitation prescribed by that subsection based on a change
42	42	in the student's residency status, degree program, course load,
43	43	course level, tuition exemption status, or other circumstance
44	44	affecting the amount of tuition charged to the student.
45	45	(j) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall
46	46	adopt rules authorizing a general academic teaching institution to
47	47	increase the amount of designated tuition charged to students by
48	48	more than the limitation prescribed by Subsection (g) in the event
49	49	of an emergency, as defined by the coordinating board for purposes
50	50	of this subsection.
51	51	(k) In this section, "general academic teaching
52	52	institution" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
53	53	SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
54	54	amended by adding Section 51.973 to read as follows:
55	55	Sec. 51.973. BIENNIAL REPORT BY LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
56	56	REGARDING UNIVERSITY CORE OPERATIONAL COSTS. Not later than
57	57	December 1 of each even-numbered year, the Legislative Budget Board
58	58	shall submit to the senate finance committee, the house
59	59	appropriations committee, and the standing committee of each house
60	60	with primary jurisdiction over higher education, for consideration
61	61	by the members of those committees in determining the amount of
62	62	general revenue appropriations to general academic teaching
63	63	institutions and tuition rates at those institutions, a report that
64	64	includes:
65	65	(1) each general academic teaching institution's
66	66	actual core operational costs for the current state fiscal biennium
67	67	according to the institution's most recent annual financial
68	68	reports; and
69	69	(2) the Legislative Budget Board's estimate of the
70	70	core operational costs for the next state fiscal biennium for each
71	71	general academic teaching institution, based on a methodology that:
72	72	(A) projects for each year of the next biennium:
73	73	(i) changes in student enrollment for each
74	74	institution; and
75	75	(ii) a rate of inflation; and
76	76	(B) uses data from each institution's annual
77	77	financial report regarding costs for instruction, academic
78	78	support, institutional support, operations and maintenance of
79	79	physical plants, and student services.
80	80	SECTION 3. Section 54.0513, Education Code, as amended by
81	81	this Act, applies beginning with tuition charged by a general
82	82	academic teaching institution for the 2010-2011 academic year.
83	83	Tuition charged by a general academic teaching institution in an
84	84	academic year before that academic year is covered by the law in
85	85	effect before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is
86	86	continued in effect for that purpose.
87	87	SECTION 4. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
88	88	shall adopt the rules required by Section 54.0513(j), Education
89	89	Code, as added by this Act, as soon as practicable after this Act
90	90	takes effect.
91	91	SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
92	92	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
93	93	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
94	94	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
95	95	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.