BILL ANALYSIS H.B. 2448 By: Turner, Sylvester Higher Education Committee Report (Unamended) BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties note that, in some instances, students are required to pay out-of-district tuition and fees to attend a junior college that is within their taxing district due to the way junior college district lines are drawn and that their only alternative is to attend a junior college that is farther away, but within their district. This issue is starker in areas known as super neighborhoods, where district boundary lines can result in a student on one side of a street paying higher tuition and fees than neighbors on the other side of the street. H.B. 2448 seeks to address this issue by allowing residents of a super neighborhood who live outside the district lines of a public junior college, but within the taxing district, to pay tuition and fees at the rate applicable to a student residing inside the district. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. ANALYSIS H.B. 2448 amends the Education Code to require the governing board of a public junior college district to allow a person who resides outside the district and in the taxing district of a contiguous public junior college district to pay tuition and fees at the rate applicable to a student who resides in the district for enrollment at a campus located within an area in which the person resides that is designated as a super neighborhood by a municipality with a population greater than two million. EFFECTIVE DATE On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2013.
BILL ANALYSIS
# BILL ANALYSIS
H.B. 2448
By: Turner, Sylvester
Higher Education
Committee Report (Unamended)
H.B. 2448
By: Turner, Sylvester
Higher Education
Committee Report (Unamended)
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interested parties note that, in some instances, students are required to pay out-of-district tuition and fees to attend a junior college that is within their taxing district due to the way junior college district lines are drawn and that their only alternative is to attend a junior college that is farther away, but within their district. This issue is starker in areas known as super neighborhoods, where district boundary lines can result in a student on one side of a street paying higher tuition and fees than neighbors on the other side of the street. H.B. 2448 seeks to address this issue by allowing residents of a super neighborhood who live outside the district lines of a public junior college, but within the taxing district, to pay tuition and fees at the rate applicable to a student residing inside the district.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS H.B. 2448 amends the Education Code to require the governing board of a public junior college district to allow a person who resides outside the district and in the taxing district of a contiguous public junior college district to pay tuition and fees at the rate applicable to a student who resides in the district for enrollment at a campus located within an area in which the person resides that is designated as a super neighborhood by a municipality with a population greater than two million.
EFFECTIVE DATE On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2013.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE
Interested parties note that, in some instances, students are required to pay out-of-district tuition and fees to attend a junior college that is within their taxing district due to the way junior college district lines are drawn and that their only alternative is to attend a junior college that is farther away, but within their district. This issue is starker in areas known as super neighborhoods, where district boundary lines can result in a student on one side of a street paying higher tuition and fees than neighbors on the other side of the street.
H.B. 2448 seeks to address this issue by allowing residents of a super neighborhood who live outside the district lines of a public junior college, but within the taxing district, to pay tuition and fees at the rate applicable to a student residing inside the district.
RULEMAKING AUTHORITY
It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution.
ANALYSIS
H.B. 2448 amends the Education Code to require the governing board of a public junior college district to allow a person who resides outside the district and in the taxing district of a contiguous public junior college district to pay tuition and fees at the rate applicable to a student who resides in the district for enrollment at a campus located within an area in which the person resides that is designated as a super neighborhood by a municipality with a population greater than two million.
EFFECTIVE DATE
On passage, or, if the bill does not receive the necessary vote, September 1, 2013.