Bill Text: TX HB4065 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to fees charged to certain military personnel for taking an assessment instrument under the Texas Success Initiative.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-03 - Referred to Higher Education [HB4065 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB4065-Introduced.html
| By: Lozano | H.B. No. 4065 | |
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| relating to fees charged to certain military personnel for taking | ||
| an assessment instrument under the Texas Success Initiative. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 51.3062, Education Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (r-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (r-1) If a student described by Subsection (r)(4), (5), or | ||
| (6) elects to take an assessment instrument under this section, the | ||
| institution of higher education that administers the instrument to | ||
| the student may not charge the student any fee for taking the | ||
| instrument. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 51.3062(r-1), Education Code, as added | ||
| by this Act, applies beginning with the assessment of entering | ||
| undergraduate students at public institutions of higher education | ||
| for the 2017 fall semester. The assessment of an entering | ||
| undergraduate student for an academic term before that semester is | ||
| covered by the law in effect before the effective date of this Act, | ||
| and that 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, 2017. | ||
