Bill Text: TX SB683 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 683

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to service requirements of certain current or former members of the Texas National Guard, the Texas Air National Guard, or a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States for tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-03 - Referred to Vet Affairs [SB683 Detail]

Download: Texas-2025-SB683-Introduced.html

	89R4195 AND-F

	By: Hughes	S.B. No. 683



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to service requirements of certain current or former
	members of the Texas National Guard, the Texas Air National Guard,
	or a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States for
	tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher
	education.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 54.341(a), Education Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	(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; and
	(5) all persons not otherwise described by Subdivision
	(4) who were honorably discharged from a reserve component of the
	armed forces of the United States, the Texas National Guard, or the
	Texas Air National Guard after serving for a continuous period of at
	least 20 years in the applicable military service.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.