Resolution urges regents to limit tuition increases
Monday, June 1, 2009
Ralph K.M. Haurwitz
The Texas House unanimously approved a resolution today that calls on the governing boards of the state’s 35 public universities to limit increases in tuition and mandatory fees to 3.95 percent or $280 a year, whichever is greater.
The resolution now goes to the Senate. The measure, House Concurrent Resolution 288, is nonbinding, meaning that boards of regents would not be required to comply with it.
“We hope this sends a strong message to higher education to be very prudent and careful with tuition,” said the sponsor, Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas.
Legislation that would have required regents to limit tuition increases passed the Senate but died in the House.
The resolution urges regents to impose the annual cap of 3.95 percent or $280 for the 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years. In the 2013-14 academic year, charges would be limited to an increase of 3.95 percent or the average of two inflation indexes.
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