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Texas Education Code - EDUC § 56.053. Terms

Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) The governing board of each institution shall adopt rules providing for the terms of the loan, subject to the following:

(1) the loan must be repaid over a period not to exceed 90 days for a loan made for a regular semester or long summer session or over a proportionately shorter period for loans made for a six-week summer session;

(2) the loan must be evidenced by a written or electronic agreement providing for one of the following:

(A) interest on the loan at a rate of not more than five percent per year;  or

(B) an origination fee of not more than 1.25 percent of the amount of the loan;  and

(3) the loan amount per student may not exceed an amount equal to the tuition, mandatory fees, and cost of textbooks for the courses in which the student is actually enrolling.

(b) The loan program must provide for making loans to students whose tuition is paid on a basis other than semester credit hours, and must provide loan terms analogous to the terms for students paying tuition on the basis of semester credit hours.

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