Bill Text: TX HB114 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to providing public high school students information regarding the availability of college credit awarded for military experience, education, and training obtained during military service.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2019-05-16 - Effective immediately [HB114 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB114-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 114 | ||
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| relating to providing public high school students information | ||
| regarding the availability of college credit awarded for military | ||
| experience, education, and training obtained during military | ||
| service. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 33.007, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-2) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (b) During the first school year a student is enrolled in a | ||
| high school or at the high school level in an open-enrollment | ||
| charter school, and again during each year of a student's | ||
| enrollment in high school or at the high school level, a school | ||
| counselor shall provide information about postsecondary education | ||
| to the student and the student's parent or guardian. The | ||
| information must include information regarding: | ||
| (1) the importance of postsecondary education; | ||
| (2) the advantages of earning an endorsement and a | ||
| performance acknowledgment and completing the distinguished level | ||
| of achievement under the foundation high school program under | ||
| Section 28.025; | ||
| (3) the disadvantages of taking courses to prepare for | ||
| a high school equivalency examination relative to the benefits of | ||
| taking courses leading to a high school diploma; | ||
| (4) financial aid eligibility; | ||
| (5) instruction on how to apply for federal financial | ||
| aid; | ||
| (6) the center for financial aid information | ||
| established under Section 61.0776; | ||
| (7) the automatic admission of certain students to | ||
| general academic teaching institutions as provided by Section | ||
| 51.803; | ||
| (8) the eligibility and academic performance | ||
| requirements for the TEXAS Grant as provided by Subchapter M, | ||
| Chapter 56; | ||
| (9) the availability of programs in the district under | ||
| which a student may earn college credit, including advanced | ||
| placement programs, dual credit programs, joint high school and | ||
| college credit programs, and international baccalaureate programs; | ||
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| (10) the availability of education and training | ||
| vouchers and tuition and fee waivers to attend an institution of | ||
| higher education as provided by Section 54.366 for a student who is | ||
| or was previously in the conservatorship of the Department of | ||
| Family and Protective Services; and | ||
| (11) the availability of college credit awarded by | ||
| institutions of higher education to veterans and military | ||
| servicemembers for military experience, education, and training | ||
| obtained during military service as described by the informational | ||
| materials developed under Section 302.0031(h), Labor Code. | ||
| (b-2) Information provided under Subsection (b)(11) must | ||
| explain to any student who is enlisted or intends to enlist in the | ||
| armed forces of the United States the informational materials | ||
| developed under Section 302.0031(h), Labor Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 302.0031, Labor Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: | ||
| (h) For purposes of Section 33.007(b)(11), Education Code, | ||
| the commission, in cooperation with the Texas Higher Education | ||
| Coordinating Board, shall develop and annually make available to | ||
| each school district and each open-enrollment charter school that | ||
| offers a high school program informational materials regarding the | ||
| availability of college credit awarded by institutions of higher | ||
| education to veterans and military servicemembers for military | ||
| experience, education, and training obtained during military | ||
| service, including information regarding the program under this | ||
| section. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 33.007, Education Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with the 2020-2021 school year. | ||
| SECTION 4. Not later than September 1, 2020, the Texas | ||
| Workforce Commission, in cooperation with the Texas Higher | ||
| Education Coordinating Board, shall develop and make available to | ||
| each school district and each open-enrollment charter school that | ||
| offers a high school program the informational materials required | ||
| under Section 302.0031(h), Labor Code, as added by this Act. | ||
| SECTION 5. 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, 2019. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 114 was passed by the House on April | ||
| 9, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 1, 1 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 114 was passed by the Senate on May 3, | ||
| 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
