SB1835 • 2025

Relating to the maximum number of nonresident scholarship students permitted to pay resident tuition and fees at certain public institutions of higher education.

Education

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Sparks
Last action: 2025-05-21
Official status: 05/21/2025 H Committee report sent to Calendars
Effective date: Not listed

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Relating to the maximum number of nonresident scholarship students permitted to pay resident tuition and fees at certain public institutions of higher education.

What This Bill Does

Relating to the maximum number of nonresident scholarship students permitted to pay resident tuition and fees at certain public institutions of higher education.

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Bill History

2025-05-21 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report sent to Calendars
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Comte report filed with Committee Coordinator
2025-05-20 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report distributed
2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in formal meeting
2025-05-19 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably w/o amendment(s)
2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-05-14 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Higher Education
2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online
Read 3rd time
2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online
Passed
2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online
Reported engrossed
2025-05-13 Texas Legislature Online
Received from the Senate
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Rules suspended-Regular order of business
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Vote recorded in Journal
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Read 2nd time
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Amendment(s) offered. FA1 Schwertner
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Amended
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Passed to engrossment as amended
2025-05-12 Texas Legislature Online
Record vote
2025-05-09 Texas Legislature Online
Placed on intent calendar
2025-05-08 Texas Legislature Online
Committee report printed and distributed
2025-05-07 Texas Legislature Online
Reported favorably as substituted
2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-05-06 Texas Legislature Online
Vote taken in committee
2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online
Scheduled for public hearing on . . .
2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online
Considered in public hearing
2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online
Testimony taken in committee
2025-04-22 Texas Legislature Online
Left pending in committee
2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online
Read first time
2025-03-13 Texas Legislature Online
Referred to Education K-16
2025-03-03 Texas Legislature Online
Received by the Secretary of the Senate
2025-03-03 Texas Legislature Online
Filed

Official Summary Text

Relating to the maximum number of nonresident scholarship students permitted to pay resident tuition and fees at certain public institutions of higher education.

Current Bill Text

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89(R) SB 1835 - House Committee Report version - Bill Text

By: Sparks

S.B. No. 1835

(Smithee)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the maximum number of nonresident scholarship students

permitted to pay resident tuition and fees at certain public

institutions of higher education.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 54.213, Education Code, is amended by

adding Subsections (a-1) and (c) and amending Subsection (b) to

read as follows:

(a-1)

This section applies only to a nonresident student

who:

(1)

is a United States citizen or lawful permanent

resident of the United States;

(2)

holds a valid United States nonimmigrant visa

issued by the federal government; or

(3)

is otherwise lawfully present in the United

States.

(b) The total number of students at an institution paying

resident tuition under this section for a particular semester may

not exceed
:

(1)
five percent of the total number of students

registered at the institution for the same semester of the

preceding academic year
if the institution is not an institution to

which Subdivision (2) applies; or

(2)

20 percent of the total number of students

registered at the institution for the same semester of the

preceding academic year if as determined by Texas Higher Education

Coordinating Board rule:

(A)

the institution is located in a local

workforce development area that is experiencing a population growth

rate less than the statewide average according to the most recent

federal decennial census; and

(B)

the most recent space usage efficiency report

prepared by the coordinating board indicates the institution has

sufficient capacity to support the nonresident students
.

(c)

The coordinating board shall adopt rules as necessary to

implement this section.

SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section

54.213, Education Code, applies beginning with the 2025-2026

academic year.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives

a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as

provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this

Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this

Act takes effect September 1, 2025.