81R5600 JRJ-D
By: Shapleigh S.B. No. 1269
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to setting aside for TEXAS grant funding tuition paid by
students at campuses maintained by public institutions of higher
education outside the United States.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 56.310, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
(d) The governing board of an institution of higher
education that maintains a campus outside the United States shall
cause to be set aside five percent of the amount of the tuition
charged to a student enrolled at the campus for the purposes of this
subchapter. The amount of a student's tuition set aside under this
subsection is in addition to an amount that may otherwise be
required by law to be set aside from that tuition to provide funds
for student financial aid.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
beginning with tuition charged by a public institution of higher
education for the 2009-2010 academic year. Tuition charged by a
public institution of higher education for an academic year before
that academic year is covered by the law in effect before the
effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2009.