Bill Text: TX HB2705 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 2705 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for certain Texas military veterans.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-16 - Referred to Higher Education [HB2705 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB2705-Introduced.html

	82R10878 KSD-D

	By: Zedler	H.B. No. 2705



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of
	higher education for certain Texas military veterans.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 54.203, Education Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (a-3) to read as follows:
	(a-3) Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(4), a person who meets
	the requirements of Subsection (a)(4), other than the requirement
	that the person must have served on active military duty for more
	than the stated number of days, is entitled to the exemption
	provided by Subsection (a)(4) regardless of the length of the
	member's active military duty if the person was a member of the
	Texas National Guard or the Texas Air National Guard who was
	assigned to a theater of combat operation with the armed forces of
	the United States.
	SECTION 2. Section 54.203(a-3), Education Code, as added by
	this Act, applies beginning with tuition and fees at a public
	institution of higher education for the 2011 fall semester.
	Tuition and fees for a term or semester before the 2011 fall
	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 3. 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, 2011.