81R7603 JSA-D
By: Patrick, Dan S.B. No. 1304
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to eliminating the set-aside of a portion of designated
tuition for student financial assistance at public institutions of
higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 56, Education Code, is
repealed.
SECTION 2. Section 56.465(a), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) The governing board of each institution of higher
education shall cause to be set aside five percent of the amount of
the tuition charged to a resident undergraduate student at the
institution under Section 54.0513 in excess of $46 per semester
credit hour. [The amount of a student's tuition set aside under
this subsection is considered a part of the amount required to be
set aside from that tuition under Section 56.011.]
SECTION 3. (a) The repeal of Subchapter B, Chapter 56,
Education Code, by this Act applies beginning with tuition charged
for the 2009 fall semester.
(b) The repeal of Subchapter B, Chapter 56, Education Code,
by this Act does not affect the application of that subchapter to
tuition set aside for purposes of that subchapter for any semester
or other academic term before the 2009 fall semester, and the former
law is continued in effect until the tuition set aside before the
2009 fall semester has been used as prescribed by that subchapter.
SECTION 4. 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.