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House Bill 269 |
House Author: Lucio III et al. |
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Effective: 6-19-09 |
Senate Sponsor: Van de Putte |
House Bill 269 amends the Education Code to require an institution of higher education to award an undergraduate student course credit for all required physical education courses and for up to 12 additional semester credit hours that may be applied to satisfy any elective course requirements for the student's degree program for courses outside the student's major or minor if the student graduated from a public or private high school accredited by a generally recognized accrediting organization or from a high school operated by the United States Department of Defense and is an honorably discharged former member of the armed forces of the United States who completed at least two years of service in the armed services or was discharged because of a disability. An institution of higher education may award additional course credit for a student's military service as the institution considers appropriate.
House Bill 269 requires the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, in consultation with institutions of higher education, to determine a standard fee for a course offered through a Reserve Officers' Training Corps program. The bill provides for the tuition charged for and the crediting toward a degree of a course in which the student enrolls for the purposes of an ROTC program.