Sec. 132.157. PENALTY FOR SMALL PROPRIETARY SCHOOL. (a) If a career school or college fails to timely comply with the requirements of Section 132.064, in addition to any other penalties authorized by law, the commission may assess a penalty in an amount not greater than two times the amount that the school or college would have paid in fees and other charges if the school or college had complied with the requirements of Section 132.064 or may assess a penalty in the amount of the tuition or fee charge to any students whose tuition or fees were contracted to be funded by a prepaid federal or state source.

(b) If the commission finds that the career school or college acted intentionally, the commission may, in addition to any other remedy available under law, assess a penalty against the owner in an amount not greater than four times the amount of the fees and charges that the school or college should have paid or four times the amount of the student tuition that was contracted to be funded from a prepaid federal or state source.

(c) The failure to notify the commission within four months after the career school's or college's earnings exceed that of a small career school or college gives rise to a rebuttable presumption of intent for purposes of assessment of a penalty.

(d) The failure to notify the commission within 10 days after a career school or college has enrolled a student whose tuition or fees are paid in whole or in part from a prepaid federal or state source gives rise to a rebuttable presumption of intent for purposes of assessment of a penalty.

(e) A penalty under this section shall be assessed in accordance with the procedures stated in Section 132.152.

Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 1010, Sec. 6, eff. Aug. 30, 1993. Redesignated from Education Code Sec. 32.65 and amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 2, eff. May 30, 1995; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 364, Sec. 2.26, eff. Sept. 1, 2003; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 817, Sec. 8.40, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.