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2022 SESSION
SB 159 Higher educational institutions, public; debt collection, transcripts and degrees.
Introduced by: Ghazala F. Hashmi | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Public institutions of higher education; debt collection; transcripts and degrees. Prohibits public institutions of higher education from (i) refusing to provide a transcript or degree for a current or former student on the grounds that the student owes a debt; (ii) conditioning the provision of a transcript or degree for a current or former student on the payment of a debt, other than a fee charged to provide the transcript or degree; (iii) charging a higher fee to a current or former student for obtaining a transcript or degree, or providing less favorable treatment of a transcript or degree request because a current or former student owes a debt; or (iv) using transcript or degree issuance as a tool for debt collection.
FULL TEXT
- 01/10/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102612D pdf | impact statement
- 01/27/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22104995D-S1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
- House committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
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HISTORY
- 01/10/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22102612D
- 01/10/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 01/21/22 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Higher Education
- 01/27/22 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with substitute (9-Y 4-N)
- 01/27/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22104995D-S1
- 01/28/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/22 Senate: Read second time
- 01/31/22 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 01/31/22 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 22104995D-S1
- 01/31/22 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB159S1
- 02/01/22 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (25-Y 15-N)
- 02/21/22 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/21/22 House: Read first time
- 02/21/22 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/28/22 House: Reported from Education with amendment(s) (16-Y 6-N)
- 02/28/22 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 03/01/22 House: Assigned App. sub: Higher Education
- 03/08/22 House: Left in Appropriations