Bill Text: TX HB759 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of a tuition and fee payment program for certain adopted children enrolled in career schools or colleges.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-28 - Referred to Higher Education [HB759 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB759-Introduced.html
| 85R3531 SRS-D | ||
| By: Burkett | H.B. No. 759 | |
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| relating to the establishment of a tuition and fee payment 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 132.026 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 132.026. 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 in accordance with | ||
| Subsection (c) 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. | ||
| (c) The reimbursement paid to a student under this section | ||
| must be paid not later than the seventh day after the date the | ||
| commission receives notification and verification of a tuition and | ||
| fee payment made by or on behalf of the student. The rules adopted | ||
| under this section must prescribe the form and manner of that | ||
| notification and verification. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with tuition and fees | ||
| charged by a career school or college for the 2017-2018 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, 2017. | ||
