Bill Text: TX HB4666 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to tuition and fee exemptions for certain military personnel and their dependents.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-01 - Left pending in committee [HB4666 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB4666-Introduced.html
| By: Dean | H.B. No. 4666 | |
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| relating to tuition and fee exemptions for certain military | ||
| personnel and their dependents. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 54.341, Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 54.341. VETERANS AND OTHER MILITARY PERSONNEL; | ||
| DEPENDENTS. (a) The governing board of each institution of higher | ||
| education shall exempt the following persons from the payment of | ||
| tuition, dues, fees, and other required charges, including fees for | ||
| correspondence courses but excluding general deposit fees, student | ||
| services fees, and any fees or charges for lodging, board, or | ||
| clothing, provided the person seeking the exemption currently | ||
| resides in this state and entered the service at a location in this | ||
| state, declared this state as the person's home of record in the | ||
| manner provided by the applicable military or other service, or | ||
| would have been determined to be a resident of this state for | ||
| purposes of Subchapter B at the time the person entered the service: | ||
| (1) all nurses and honorably discharged members of the | ||
| armed forces of the United States who served during the | ||
| Spanish-American War or during World War I; | ||
| (2) all nurses, members of the Women's Army Auxiliary | ||
| Corps, members of the Women's Auxiliary Volunteer Emergency | ||
| Service, and all honorably discharged members of the armed forces | ||
| of the United States who served during World War II except those who | ||
| were discharged from service because they were over the age of 38 or | ||
| because of a personal request on the part of the person that the | ||
| person be discharged from service; | ||
| (3) all honorably discharged men and women of the | ||
| armed forces of the United States who served during the national | ||
| emergency which began on June 27, 1950, and which is referred to as | ||
| the Korean War; and | ||
| (4) all persons who were honorably discharged from the | ||
| armed forces of the United States after serving on active military | ||
| duty, excluding training, for more than 180 days and who served a | ||
| portion of their active duty during: | ||
| (A) the Cold War which began on the date of the | ||
| termination of the national emergency cited in Subdivision (3); | ||
| (B) the Vietnam era which began on December 21, | ||
| 1961, and ended on May 7, 1975; | ||
| (C) the Grenada and Lebanon era which began on | ||
| August 24, 1982, and ended on July 31, 1984; | ||
| (D) the Panama era which began on December 20, | ||
| 1989, and ended on January 21, 1990; | ||
| (E) the Persian Gulf War which began on August 2, | ||
| 1990, and ends on the date thereafter prescribed by Presidential | ||
| proclamation or September 1, 1997, whichever occurs first; | ||
| (F) the national emergency by reason of certain | ||
| terrorist attacks that began on September 11, 2001; or | ||
| (G) any future national emergency declared in | ||
| accordance with federal law. | ||
| 5. All persons who were honorably discharged from the | ||
| Armed Forces Reserve Components, or Texas National Guard, having | ||
| served a minimum of 20 years and who otherwise do not qualify under | ||
| Subsection 4 of this Act. | ||
| SECTION 2. 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, 2023. | ||
