Bill Text: TX HB928 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to tuition and fee bills or billing statements provided to students by public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HB928 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB928-Introduced.html
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By: Cain | H.B. No. 928 |
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relating to tuition and fee bills or billing statements provided to | ||
students by public institutions of higher education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 54.015, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 54.015. BILLING AND NOTIFICATION FOR TUITION AND FEES. | ||
(a) An institution of higher education shall provide to each | ||
student enrolled at the institution for a semester or term a tuition | ||
and fee bill or other billing statement for that semester or term. | ||
The bill or statement must: | ||
(1) state the total amount of all tuition and fees | ||
charged to the student for the semester or term; and | ||
(2) include an itemized list of: | ||
(A) the tuition and each fee charged to the | ||
student by the institution for each course in which the student is | ||
enrolled for that semester or term; and | ||
(B) each other fee charged to the student by the | ||
institution for that semester or term. | ||
(b) For billing and catalogue purposes, each governing | ||
board shall accumulate all the tuition that it charges under this | ||
chapter into one tuition charge. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies | ||
beginning with the 2025 fall semester. | ||
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, 2025. |