Bill Text: TX HB226 | 2021 | 87th Legislature 2nd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to education benefits at public institutions of higher education for certain survivors of public servants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-08-25 - Filed [HB226 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB226-Introduced.html
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| By: Jetton | H.B. No. 226 | |
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| relating to education benefits at public institutions of higher | ||
| education for certain survivors of public servants. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as Caleb Rule's Law. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 54.354(a), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (a) A person is eligible to receive education benefits under | ||
| this section if the person is one of the following eligible | ||
| survivors of an individual listed under Section 615.003, Government | ||
| Code: | ||
| (1) a surviving spouse; or | ||
| (2) a surviving [ |
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| (A) on the date of the listed individual's death | ||
| is younger than 25 years of age; and | ||
| (B) if the child is not a biological or adopted | ||
| child of the listed individual, was claimed as a dependent on the | ||
| individual's federal income tax return for the year preceding the | ||
| year of the individual's death [ |
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| SECTION 3. Section 54.354(a), Education Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act, applies beginning with costs charged for the spring 2022 | ||
| semester. Costs charged for an academic period before that semester | ||
| are covered by the law in effect immediately before the effective | ||
| date of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| 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 on the 91st day after the last day of the | ||
| legislative session. | ||
