Purpose:
Establishment of reduced or resident tuition rates for students
residing in counties adjacent to Texas or in states within 100 miles of
respective U. T. System component institutions
Date Approved:
August
10, 1995 and November 9, 1995
Background:
House
Bill 1836, passed by the 74th Texas Legislature and codified as Texas
Education Code Section 54.060(f), included a provision that governing
boards may agree to allow certain nonresident students to pay tuition at the
resident tuition rate effective September 1995. A student who resides in a county or parish of Arkansas,
Louisiana, New Mexico, or Oklahoma that is adjacent to Texas is eligible for
such a tuition concession provided the adjoining state allows a Texas resident
of a county adjoining that state enrolled at a public institution in that state
to pay the tuition rate charged for residents of that state.
The
74th Texas Legislature also passed House Bill 1792 (codified as Texas
Education Code Section 54.061) which included a provision that the
Coordinating Board may set a nonresident tuition rate that is lower than the
regular nonresident tuition rate based on a written request from the governing
board of a general academic teaching institution located not more than 100
miles from the boundary of Texas with another state.
As
a result, the Board authorized the following:
RESIDENT TUITION RATES FOR STUDENTS RESIDING
IN COUNTIES IN NEW MEXICO ADJACENT TO TEXAS
The University of Texas at El Paso was authorized to establish resident tuition rates for students residing in counties in New Mexico that are adjacent to Texas effective with the Fall Semester 1995.
REduced TUITION RATES FOR STUDENTS RESIDING IN
states within 100 miles of U. T. System component institutions
The Board authorized The University of Texas at Dallas, The University of Texas of the Permian Basin, and The University of Texas at Tyler, respectively, to charge, effective with the Spring Semester 1996, a reduced tuition rate equal to the statutory rate for Texas residents, plus $30 per semester credit hour, for citizens of states within 100 miles of each institution as indicated below:
Institution State(s) within
100 Miles
U. T. Dallas Oklahoma
U. T. Permian Basin New Mexico
U. T. Tyler Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma
Last reviewed September 2000