S.B. No. 1304
AN ACT
relating to notice to students of a public institution of higher
education of the required use of a portion of a student's tuition
payments to provide student financial aid.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 56, Education Code, is
amended by adding Section 56.014 to read as follows:
Sec. 56.014. NOTICE TO STUDENTS REGARDING TUITION SET ASIDE
FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. (a) An institution of higher education
that is required by this subchapter to set aside a portion of a
student's tuition payments to provide financial assistance for
students enrolled in the institution shall provide to each student
of the institution who pays tuition from which a portion is required
to be set aside for that purpose a notice regarding the specific
amount that is required to be set aside by the institution.
(b) The institution shall provide the notice required by
Subsection (a) to the student in a prominently printed statement
that appears on or is included with:
(1) the student's tuition bill or billing statement,
if the institution provides the student with a printed bill or
billing statement for the payment of the student's tuition; or
(2) the student's tuition receipt, if the institution
provides the student with a printed receipt evidencing the payment
of the student's tuition.
(c) If for any semester or other academic term the
institution does not provide the student with a printed tuition
bill, tuition billing statement, or tuition receipt, the
institution shall include the notice required by Subsection (a) for
that semester or other term in a statement prominently displayed in
an e-mail sent to the student. The notice may be included in any
other e-mail sent to the student in connection with the student's
tuition charges for that semester or other term.
(d) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board by rule
shall prescribe minimum standards for the manner, form, and content
of the notice required by this section.
SECTION 2. (a) Section 56.014, Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies beginning with tuition charged for the 2010
spring semester.
(b) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall
adopt the rules required by Section 56.014, Education Code, as
added by this Act, as soon as practicable after the effective date
of this Act. For that purpose, the coordinating board may adopt the
initial rules in the manner provided by law for emergency rules.
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.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1304 passed the Senate on
May 12, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1; and that the
Senate concurred in House amendment on May 30, 2009, by the
following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1304 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 27, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 148,
Nays 0, one present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor