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Texas State Rep. Larry Phillips
Posted: 12/14/2012 Views: 1796 Impressions: 14298
Categories: Government: City, Government: State, Politics
Posted: 12/14/2012 Views: 1796 Impressions: 14298
Categories: Government: City, Government: State, Politics
Texas legislators were able to begin pre-filing bills on Monday, November 12th. As of this writing, 423 bills had been filed. In recent sessions, there have been over 5000 bills in total filed by the House and Senate. This week, I will talk about a few of the bills that have been pre-filed.
House Bill (HB) 29 would require public universities in Texas to offer entering undergraduate students, including a student who transfers to the institution, the opportunity to participate in a fixed tuition rate plan. Under this bill, a fixed tuition rate plan would fix the tuition rate for four years at the rate set by the institution for that initial academic year. A public university would not have to offer a fixed tuition rate to a student that has already been awarded a baccalaureate degree by the institution. However, a student who previously completed a baccalaureate degree program would be eligible for a fixed tuition rate if the student enrolls as an entering undergraduate in another undergraduate degree program. If this bill were to pass, it would apply only to those undergraduates entering college on or after the fall semester of 2013. House Bill 49 would require that high school seniors take a course on the United States Constitution as part of the social studies curriculum. This bill would apply to students entering the 9th grade during the 2012-2014 academic school year.
Last session, there were over 10 bills relating to texting and driving, although none of them were passed in to law. So far this year, there have been 7 bills filed pertaining to texting while driving: House Bill 27, HB 41, HB 63, HB 69, HB 108, Senate Bill 28, and SB 105.
For more information on these bills, or to review all of the legislation that has been filed, please visit the website www.capitol.state.tx.us. You can contact my office by writing to P.O. Box 2910, Austin, TX 78768-2910 or by emailing me at larry.phillips@house.state.tx.us. My district office phone number is (903) 891-7297.
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