March 22, 2017      4:56 PM
Senate takes up limiting university tuition increases
U of H’s Khator said “These measures, there’s nothing wrong, we can tweak some of them to make them better for sure, and the flexibility is good…the trouble will come when we try to set specific targets.”
The
debate over college tuition regulation returned to the Texas Senate Wednesday
when the Higher Education Committee met to discuss a handful of bills
dealing with limiting tuition increases.
The
five proposals go about limiting increases in several ways. Senate
Bill 250 by Charles Schwertner, R- Georgetown, would freeze tuition rates
for a year. After that increases would be capped to inflation rates. Senate
Bill 442 by Jose Rodriguez,
D-El Paso, freezes an institution’s tuition at the 2017-2018 academic year
level and requires, leaving it up to the legislature to permit increases.
Senate
Bill by Sen. Judith Zaffirini,
D-Laredo, would prohibit institutions from increasing tuition “except to make
up any difference between core operational costs and state formula funding
appropriations.”
By Eleanor Dearman
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