85R6005 KSD-D By: Seliger S.B. No. 18 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to eliminating provisions requiring public institutions of higher education to set aside portions of designated tuition for student financial assistance. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 56, Education Code, is repealed. SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply beginning with tuition charged for the 2018 spring semester. Tuition charged for any semester or other academic term before the 2018 spring semester is covered by the applicable law as it existed before the effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.