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Senate Bill 43 |
Senate Author: Zaffirini et al. |
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Effective: 5-19-09 |
House Sponsor: Gonzalez Toureilles |
Senate Bill 43 amends the Education Code to remove the condition that a student have been in foster care or other residential care in order to qualify for tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education on the basis of having been under the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services. The bill expands this exemption to include an exemption from tuition and fees charged by a public institution of higher education for a dual credit course or other course for which a high school student may earn joint high school and college credit and extends the exemption to a student who was under the department's conservatorship during an academic term in which the student was enrolled in such a course. The bill extends the deadline, from a student's 21st birthday to a student's 25th birthday, by which an eligible student must enroll in an institution of higher education as an undergraduate to be exempt from payment of tuition and fees and removes certain qualifying deadlines that such a student was required to meet to receive the tuition exemption. The bill makes its provisions applicable beginning with tuition and other fees charged for the 2010 spring semester.