Bill Text: TX SB1734 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed
Bill Title: Relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education for certain Texas military veterans.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-24 - Placed on General State Calendar [SB1734 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1734-Engrossed.html
By: Van de Putte, Hinojosa | S.B. No. 1734 |
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relating to tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of | ||
higher education for certain Texas military veterans. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 54.203, Education Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsection (a-3) to read as follows: | ||
(a-3) Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(4), a person who meets | ||
the requirements of Subsection (a)(4), other than the requirement | ||
that the person must have served on active military duty for more | ||
than the stated number of days, is entitled to the exemption | ||
provided by Subsection (a)(4) regardless of the length of the | ||
member's active military duty if the person was a member of the | ||
Texas National Guard or the Texas Air National Guard who was | ||
assigned to a theater of combat operation with the armed forces of | ||
the United States. | ||
SECTION 2. Subsection (a-3), Section 54.203, Education | ||
Code, as added by this Act, applies beginning with tuition and fees | ||
at a public institution of higher education for the 2011 fall | ||
semester. Tuition and fees for a term or semester before the 2011 | ||
fall semester are covered by the law in effect immediately before | ||
the effective date of this Act, and the former 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, 2011. |