HBA-LJP H.B. 1467 77(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 1467
By: Maxey
Higher Education
2/25/2001
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Although tuition at community and junior colleges is generally less
expensive than at universities, many people would be unable to attend a
community or junior college without financial assistance.  The Texas Public
Educational Grants Program is a campus-based program that helps provide
financial aid to lower income students who attend community and junior
colleges.  Under current law, the governing boards of junior or community
colleges are required to set aside six percent of a resident student's
hourly tuition charges for academic and vocational-technical courses for
the Texas Public Educational Grants Program. House Bill 1467 allows the
governing board of a junior or community college to raise the maximum
percentage set aside for the Texas Public Educational Grants Program. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

ANALYSIS

House Bill 1467 amends the Education Code to raise from six percent to not
less than six percent and not more than twenty percent the maximum
percentage that a governing board of a junior or community college is
required to set aside for the Texas Public Educational Grants Program out
of each resident student's hourly tuition charges for academic and
vocational-technical courses. 

EFFECTIVE DATE

On passage, or if the Act does not receive the necessary vote, the Act
takes effect September 1, 2001. The Act applies beginning with the fall
semester 2001.