CHAPTER NUMBER: 58
File Code: Higher Education
- Sponsored By:
-
Delegates Hixson, Bozman, Healey, Heller, and Madaleno
- Entitled:
-
Higher Education -
Tuition
Affordability Act of 2006
Prohibiting in the 2006-2007 academic year an increase in the tuition
that may be charged a resident undergraduate student at specified
public senior higher education institutions in Maryland; limiting, in
the 2006-2007 academic year, an increase in tuition to a maximum of
4.8% at St. Mary's College of Maryland; establishing a Commission to
Develop the Maryland Model for Funding Higher Education; requiring the
Commission to make recommendations relating to funding for the State's
Historically Black Institutions; etc.
House Action
- 2/10
- First Reading Appropriations
- 2/22
- Hearing 3/7 at 1:00 p.m.
- 3/25
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Appropriations
- 3/22
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- 3/24
- Third Reading Passed (138-0)
- 3/28
- House Concur - Senate Amendments
- Third Reading Passed (134-0)
- Passed Enrolled
Senate Action
- 3/25
- First Reading Budget and Taxation
- 3/29
- Favorable with Amendments Report by Budget and Taxation
- 3/28
- Favorable with Amendments Report Adopted
- Second Reading Passed with Amendments
- Motion two readings same day Const/Rule 24 (Senator Hogan) Adopted
- Third Reading Passed with Amendments (47-0)
Action after passage in House and Senate
- 4/8
- Became Law without Governor's signature per Maryland Constitution - Chapter 58
Sponsored by:
- Delegate Sheila E. Hixson, District 20
- Delegate K. Bennett Bozman, District 38B
- Delegate Anne Healey, District 22
- Delegate Henry B. Heller, District 19
- Delegate Richard S. Madaleno, Jr., District 18
Bill indexed under the following Subjects:
- COMMITTEES AND COMMISSIONS -see also- POLITICAL COMMITTEES
- HIGHER EDUCATION -see also- COMM COLLEGES; MED SCHOOLS; etc.
- MINORITIES -see also- WOMEN
- REPORTS
- STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES
- STUDENTS
- SUNSET
- TUITION
Bill affects the following Statute:
- Education
- (
15-106.5
)
- Bill Text (Displayed in PDF Format):
First Reading,
Third Reading, Enrolled
- Fiscal Note (Displayed in PDF Format):
Available
- Amendments (Displayed in WordPerfect 8 Format):
House
- Number: 594865/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 25, 2006 at:
11:14 a.m. Status: Adopted
Senate
- Number: 469134/01 (PDF) Offered on: March 29, 2006 at:
5:32 p.m. Status: Adopted
- Roll Call Votes (Legislative dates are shown):
House
- March 24, 2006: Third Reading Passed (138-0)
- March 28, 2006: Third Reading Passed (134-0)
Senate
- March 28, 2006: Third Reading Passed (47-0)