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1	1	81R35693 KSD-F
2	2	By: Zaffirini, et al. S.B. No. 1443
3	3	Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1443:
4	4	By: Branch C.S.S.B. No. 1443
5	5
6	6
7	7	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
8	8	AN ACT
9	9	relating to the academic costs charged to resident undergraduate
10	10	students by general academic teaching institutions and to certain
11	11	reports regarding certain costs of those institutions.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
14	14	amended by adding Section 54.016 to read as follows:
15	15	Sec. 54.016. LIMITATION ON INCREASE IN TOTAL ACADEMIC COSTS
16	16	CHARGED TO RESIDENT UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS. (a) In this section:
17	17	(1) "General academic teaching institution" has the
18	18	meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
19	19	(2) "Core operational costs" means those costs as
20	20	estimated by the Legislative Budget Board under Section 51.973.
21	21	(3) "Total academic costs":
22	22	(A) includes:
23	23	(i) tuition for which the rates are
24	24	prescribed by this chapter;
25	25	(ii) tuition charged by a general academic
26	26	teaching institution under Section 54.0513 or another law
27	27	authorizing a general academic teaching institution to establish
28	28	tuition rates;
29	29	(iii) mandatory academic fees; and
30	30	(iv) any other academic-related general
31	31	fees and college course fees, including fees for laboratories,
32	32	field trips, access to Internet or multimedia service, equipment
33	33	replacement, and instructional technology; and
34	34	(B) does not include optional fees charged to a
35	35	student for voluntary services or a fee approved by students of the
36	36	institution in a referendum held at the institution for that
37	37	purpose.
38	38	(b) This subsection applies to total academic costs charged
39	39	to students for the 2010-2011, 2011-2012, and 2012-2013 academic
40	40	years by a general academic teaching institution. In an academic
41	41	year to which this subsection applies, the total academic costs
42	42	charged by a general academic teaching institution to an
43	43	undergraduate student who is a resident of this state may not exceed
44	44	the total academic costs that the institution would have charged to
45	45	a similarly situated student in the preceding academic year by more
46	46	than the greater of:
47	47	(1) 3.95 percent; or
48	48	(2) $280.
49	49	(c) For purposes of this section, students are similarly
50	50	situated if they share the same residency status, degree program,
51	51	course load, course level, tuition exemption status, and other
52	52	circumstances affecting the total academic costs charged to the
53	53	student.
54	54	(d) This section does not ensure that the total academic
55	55	costs charged to an individual student will not increase by more
56	56	than the limitation prescribed by Subsection (b) based on a change
57	57	in the student's residency status, degree program, course load,
58	58	course level, tuition exemption status, or other circumstance
59	59	affecting the total academic costs charged to the student.
60	60	(e) This section expires September 1, 2013.
61	61	SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
62	62	amended by adding Section 51.973 to read as follows:
63	63	Sec. 51.973. BIENNIAL REPORT BY LEGISLATIVE BUDGET BOARD
64	64	REGARDING CERTAIN UNIVERSITY COSTS. (a) Not later than September
65	65	1 of each even-numbered year, the Legislative Budget Board shall
66	66	submit to the Senate Finance Committee, the House Appropriations
67	67	Committee, and the standing committee of each house with primary
68	68	jurisdiction over higher education:
69	69	(1) for consideration by the members of those
70	70	committees in determining the amount of general revenue
71	71	appropriations to general academic teaching institutions and
72	72	tuition rates at those institutions, the Legislative Budget Board's
73	73	estimate of the core operational costs for the next state fiscal
74	74	biennium for each general academic teaching institution, based on a
75	75	methodology that:
76	76	(A) projects for each year of the next biennium:
77	77	(i) changes in student enrollment for each
78	78	institution; and
79	79	(ii) a rate of inflation; and
80	80	(B) uses data from each institution's annual
81	81	financial report regarding costs for instruction, academic
82	82	support, institutional support, operations and maintenance of
83	83	physical plants, and student services; and
84	84	(2) a certified list of all general academic teaching
85	85	institutions ranked according to the amount of total academic costs
86	86	charged per student in the academic years covered by the current
87	87	state fiscal biennium.
88	88	(b) Beginning in 2013, the Legislative Budget Board shall
89	89	submit with its estimate under Subsection (a)(1) a comparison of
90	90	each institution's actual core operational costs for the preceding
91	91	state fiscal biennium to the board's previous estimate of the
92	92	institution's core operational costs for that biennium.
93	93	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
94	94	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
95	95	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
96	96	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
97	97	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.