Bill Text: TX SB18 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to public institutions of higher education setting aside portions of designated tuition for student financial assistance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-17 - Left pending in committee [SB18 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB18-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to public institutions of higher education setting aside portions of designated tuition for student financial assistance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-17 - Left pending in committee [SB18 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB18-Comm_Sub.html
By: Seliger, et al. | S.B. No. 18 | |
(In the Senate - Filed January 19, 2017; January 24, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; | ||
February 22, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 4, Nays 2, 1 present not voting; February 22, 2017, sent to | ||
printer.) | ||
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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repealed.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. | ||
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