Summary

Utah SB 162 (Open States or Utah Legislature) modifies provisions related to charging partial tuition for concurrent enrollment courses.

Legislative Analysis

UT SB 162 makes several changes to the guidelines for charging partial tuition for concurrent enrollment courses, where students can earn college credits while still in high school. The bill makes the following changes:

• Removes a provision allowing the waiver of partial tuition when a student elects not to receive higher education credit;
• Allows an institution of higher education to charge a student partial tuition for technology-intensive concurrent enrollment courses and gateway career and technology education courses; and
• Eliminates a provision allowing a student to pay a reduced partial tuition rate for each subsequent concurrent enrollment course the student takes after the student pays the partial tuition for the first concurrent enrollment course.

This legislation may result in increased costs for some students taking concurrent enrollment courses. For instance, for a technology-intensive concurrent enrollment course for which the student receives college credit, the higher education institution offering the course may charge partial tuition of up to $30 per credit hour.

SB 162 is intended to make the existing legislation, enacted the previous year, less administratively burdensome, according to recommendations from the Utah System of Higher Education.

Legislative History

Detailed Vote History: Legiscan |  Open States

Approved by Governor Gary Herbert on 3/22/2013