Bill Text: TX SB1123 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to conditions on the receipt of tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for adopted students formerly in foster or other residential care.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [SB1123 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1123-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to conditions on the receipt of tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for adopted students formerly in foster or other residential care.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-12 - Effective immediately [SB1123 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-SB1123-Comm_Sub.html
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 1123 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 28, 2017; March 7, 2017, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; | ||
April 12, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, | ||
Nays 0; April 12, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to conditions on the receipt of tuition and fee exemptions | ||
at public institutions of higher education for adopted students | ||
formerly in foster or other residential care. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 54.2001(g), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(g) This section does not apply to: | ||
(1) the waiver provided by Section 54.216 or any other | ||
reduction in tuition provided to a high school student for | ||
enrollment in a dual credit course or other course for which the | ||
student may earn joint high school and college credit; | ||
(2) the exemption provided by Section | ||
54.341(a-2)(1)(A), (B), (C), or (D) or (b)(1)(A), (B), (C), or (D); | ||
(3) the exemption provided by Section 54.342, [ |
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54.366, or 54.367; or | ||
(4) any provision of this code that authorizes or | ||
requires the payment of tuition or fees at the rates provided for | ||
residents of this state by a person who is not a resident of this | ||
state for purposes of Subchapter B. | ||
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, 2017. | ||
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