#TXLEGE: Mary Gonzalez adopts Top YCT Priority

"I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh."
Galatians 5:16

This session keeps getting curiouser and curiouser:

TX students graduate with over $30,000 in debt due to rising tuition. In 2003, the Texas Legislature let colleges & universities start setting tuition - since then, tuition has doubled. HB 132 returns responsibility to the legislature for ensuring affordable higher ed #txlege pic.twitter.com/UxIaRsuKIP

— Mary Gonzalez (@RepMaryGonzalez) January 16, 2019

Followed by this:

We're excited to see @RepMaryGonzalez file HB 132 to end tuition deregulation, one of our top legislative priorities for the session. #txlege https://t.co/2lGuzXQCKs

— Young Conservatives of Texas (@yct) January 16, 2019

Gonzalez's bill would repeal the horrifically misnamed so-called tuition 'deregulation' scheme the legislature passed in 2003.  Gonzalez would freeze tuition at the rate of this coming fall semester.  After that, tuition increases would require an affirmative act of the legislature.

Repealing so-called tuition "deregulation" has been a priority of this website for at least five years.  Just last week, we identified it as an important forward looking reform.  So yeah

Bottom Line: This was not something we expected, but we'll take it.