Texas Education Code - Section 54.014. Tuition For Repeated Or Excessive Undergraduate Hours
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§ 54.014. TUITION FOR REPEATED OR EXCESSIVE UNDERGRADUATE
HOURS. (a) An institution of higher education may charge a
resident undergraduate student tuition at a higher rate than the
rate charged to other resident undergraduate students, not to
exceed the rate charged to nonresident undergraduate students, if
before the semester or other academic session begins the student
has previously attempted a number of semester credit hours for
courses taken at any institution of higher education while
classified as a resident student for tuition purposes that exceeds
by at least 30 hours the number of semester credit hours required
for completion of the degree program in which the student is
enrolled. For purposes of this subsection, an undergraduate
student who is not enrolled in a degree program is considered to be
enrolled in a degree program or programs requiring a minimum of 120
semester credit hours, including minors and double majors, and for
completion of any certificate or other special program in which the
student is also enrolled, including a program with a study-abroad
component. An institution of higher education that charges
students tuition at a higher rate under this subsection may adopt a
policy under which the institution exempts from the payment of that
higher rate a student that is subject to the payment of the higher
rate solely as a result of hardship as determined by the institution
under the policy.
(b) Semester credit hours or other credit listed in Section
61.0595(d) is not counted in determining the number of semester
credit hours previously attempted by a student for purposes of
Subsection (a).
(c) Subsection (a) applies only to the tuition charged to a
student who initially enrolled as an undergraduate student in an
institution of higher education during or after the 1999 fall
semester, except that the institution of higher education may not
require a student who initially enrolls as an undergraduate student
in an institution of higher education before the 2006 fall semester
to pay higher tuition as permitted by Subsection (a) until the
number of semester credit hours previously attempted by the student
as described by that subsection exceeds the number of semester
credit hours required for the student's degree program by at least
45 hours.
(d) In its appropriations to institutions of higher
education, the legislature shall compute the local funds available
to each institution as if the tuition collected under Subsections
(a) and (f) were not collected.
(e) Each institution of higher education shall inform each
new undergraduate student enrolling at the institution in writing
of the limitation provided by this section on the number of hours or
type of courses that a Texas resident is entitled to complete while
paying tuition at the rate provided for Texas residents.
(f) An institution of higher education may charge a resident
undergraduate student tuition at a higher rate than the rate
charged to other resident undergraduate students, not to exceed the
rate charged to nonresident undergraduate students, for any course
in which the student enrolls that is the same as or substantively
identical to a course for which the student previously completed.
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall adopt a rule
that exempts a resident undergraduate student from this subsection
if the student enrolls in a course that is the same as or
substantially similar to a course that the student previously
completed, solely as a result of a hardship or other good cause.
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1073, § 1.08, eff. Aug. 1,
1997. Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 6, § 2, eff. April 8,
1999. Renumbered from V.T.C.A., Education Code § 54.068 by Acts
2005, 79th Leg., ch. 888, § 8, eff. Sept. 1, 2005. Amended by
Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 1230, § 3, eff. June 18, 2005.
Section: 54.0071 54.008 54.009 54.010 54.011 54.012 54.013 54.014 54.015 54.0501 54.051 54.0512 54.0513 54.0515 54.0516
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