Higher Education - The Key to Tomorrow
A college education is required for individuals - and our nation - to succeed in the new global economy. No qualified student should be denied the opportunity to receive a college education due to financial need or tuition rates that are out of control.
Requires high schools to notify a student and the student's family if he or she is eligible to enter a Texas college or university under the Top 10% law.
Under current law, children of deceased or disabled firefighters are exempt from paying tuition and fees at colleges and universities. HB 741 expands the law to include all children of disabled or deceased law enforcement officers.
Reduces the cost of college textbooks by changing the way colleges and universities sell, package, and offer textbooks to students.
Expands access to TEXAS grants for community college students transferring to a university.
Eliminates tuition deregulation and restores legislative authority to control tuition rates for all Texas college and universities at formula levels that were in place in 2003.
ALSO SEE: Taxes & Budget Policy
Re-opens the doors for the Texas Tomorrow Fund so Texas families can lock in current tuition rates, making it more affordable for them to send their children to college.
Increases the availability of tuition and fee exemptions available to the dependents of our brave soldiers.
Prohibits the marketing of allegedly "pre-approved" credit cards to students at college campuses.
Exempts college textbooks for university and college courses from the sales tax at the start of the fall and spring semester.
ALSO SEE: Taxes & Budget Policy
From pre-kindergarten to college, educational opportunity makes democracy work by providing the next generation with the skills needed to work together to make their world better.