SECOND REGULAR SESSION
HOUSE BILL NO. 1424
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES SMITH AND KREIDER (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 10, 2002, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To amend chapter 173, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to tuition increases at public institutions of higher education.
Section A. Chapter 173, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 173.930, to read as follows:
173.930. All public institutions of higher education shall be prohibited from increasing tuition, fees, and surcharges
after the opening date of any school year. For no school year shall a public institution of higher education increase
tuition, fees, and surcharges in a percentage increase larger than is listed for the previous year in the consumer
price index for all urban consumers for the United States, or its successor publications, as defined and officially
reported by the United States department of labor, or its successor agency. Any public institution of higher
education that violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to a twenty-five percent reduction in such
institution's annual appropriation for the next fiscal year.
Missouri House of Representatives