Bill Text: TX HB102 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to early registration for students in military-related programs at public institutions of higher education.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 70-26)
Status: (Passed) 2025-06-20 - Effective on 9/1/25 [HB102 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HB102-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 102 | ||
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| relating to early registration for students in military-related | ||
| programs at public institutions of higher education. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.9835 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.9835. EARLY REGISTRATION FOR STUDENTS IN | ||
| MILITARY-RELATED PROGRAMS. (a) In this section, "institution of | ||
| higher education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
| (b) If an institution of higher education provides early | ||
| registration for courses or programs for any group of students, the | ||
| institution shall provide early registration for those courses or | ||
| programs for students who are: | ||
| (1) enrolled and in good standing in a Reserve | ||
| Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program; | ||
| (2) members in good standing in a corps of cadets, | ||
| including a corps of cadets at a senior military college; or | ||
| (3) enrolled and in good standing in a maritime | ||
| academy. | ||
| (c) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in | ||
| consultation with institutions of higher education, shall adopt | ||
| rules as necessary to implement and administer this section. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 51.9835, Education Code, as added by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with registration for a course or | ||
| program for the 2026 spring semester. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 102 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 15, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 102 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 20, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
