Bill Text: TX HB3733 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a tuition and fee reimbursement program for certain adopted children enrolled in career schools or colleges.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-29 - Left pending in committee [HB3733 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB3733-Introduced.html
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| By: Burkett | H.B. No. 3733 | |
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| relating to the establishment of a tuition and fee reimbursement | ||
| program for certain adopted children enrolled in career schools or | ||
| colleges. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 132, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 132.025 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 132.025. TUITION AND FEE REIMBURSEMENT FOR CERTAIN | ||
| ADOPTED STUDENTS FORMERLY IN FOSTER OR OTHER RESIDENTIAL CARE. (a) | ||
| In this section, "institution of higher education" has the meaning | ||
| assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
| (b) Using funds appropriated for that purpose, the | ||
| commission, in coordination with the Texas Higher Education | ||
| Coordinating Board, by rule shall establish a program under which | ||
| the commission may reimburse a student for the payment of tuition | ||
| and fees to a career school or college if the student would be | ||
| eligible for an exemption from the payment of tuition and fees to an | ||
| institution of higher education under Section 54.367. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with tuition and fees | ||
| charged by a career school or college for the 2015-2016 academic | ||
| year. | ||
| 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, 2015. | ||
