Bill Text: TX HB1004 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an electronic system adopted and maintained by public institutions of higher education to employ a person to track the academic progress of military veterans or their family members receiving student financial assistance.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-05-09 - Referred to Higher Education [HB1004 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1004-Introduced.html
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| By: Gonzales | H.B. No. 1004 | |
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| relating to an electronic system adopted and maintained by public | ||
| institutions of higher education to employ a person to track the | ||
| academic progress of military veterans or their family members | ||
| receiving student financial assistance. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. The heading to Section 56.006, Education Code, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 56.006. FACILITATING [ |
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| ACADEMIC PROGRESS. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 56.006, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (a) Each institution of higher education shall ensure that | ||
| one or more persons employed by the institution is trained: | ||
| (1) in understanding state and federal student | ||
| financial assistance programs available to military veterans or | ||
| their family members, especially programs specifically applicable | ||
| to military veterans or their family members; [ |
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| (2) in assisting military veterans and eligible family | ||
| members in understanding and obtaining the benefits available under | ||
| those programs; and | ||
| (3) in tracking, through the electronic auditing | ||
| system as described by Subsection (a-1), the academic progress of | ||
| military veterans or family members of veterans receiving student | ||
| financial assistance, in verifying the information provided by the | ||
| system, and in providing guidance in understanding and using the | ||
| information. | ||
| (a-1) Each institution of higher education shall adopt and | ||
| maintain an electronic auditing system to verify the enrollment and | ||
| completion of courses that count toward the degree plan of military | ||
| veterans or family members of veterans receiving student financial | ||
| assistance. The electronic auditing system must, through the | ||
| institution's Internet website, allow a student described by this | ||
| subsection to track the student's progress towards completing the | ||
| student's degree plan. | ||
| SECTION 3. Each public institution of higher education in | ||
| this state shall implement the electronic auditing system as | ||
| required by Section 56.006, Education Code, as amended by this Act, | ||
| beginning with the 2014 fall semester. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
