83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 29, Chapter 1129 Page: 1 of 5
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CHAPTER 1129
H.B. No. 29
1 AN ACT
2 relating to requiring certain general academic teaching
3 institutions to offer a fixed tuition price plan to undergraduate
4 students.
5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
6 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 54, Education Code, is
7 amended by adding Section 54.017 to read as follows:
8 Sec. 54.017. FIXED TUITION PRICE PLAN FOR UNDERGRADUATE
9 STUDENTS AT CERTAIN GENERAL ACADEMIC TEACHING INSTITUTIONS. (a)
10 In this section, "general academic teaching institution" and
11 "public state college" have the meanings assigned by Section
12 61.003.
13 (b) This section applies only to a general academic teaching
14 institution other than a public state college.
15 (c) The governing board of an institution to which this
16 section applies shall offer entering undergraduate students,
17 including undergraduate students who transfer to the institution,
18 the opportunity to participate in a fixed tuition price plan under
19 which the institution agrees not to increase tuition charges per
20 semester credit hour for a participating student for at least the
21 first 12 consecutive semesters that occur after the date of the
22 student's initial enrollment at any public or private institution
23 of higher education, regardless of whether the student enrolls at
24 any institution in those semesters, and subject to any restrictions
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Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. 83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 29, Chapter 1129, legislative document, June 14, 2013; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth437940/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.