1-1  By:  Culberson, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)      H.B. No. 699
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 1995;
    1-3  April 19, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Finance; May 16, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 16, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Brown
    1-7  Amend Section 1 of H.B. 699 as follows:
    1-8        1)  On line 18, delete the word "solely" after the word
    1-9  "extinguished"
   1-10        2)  On line 20, after the word "purposes.", add "A person is
   1-11  not eligible for the exemption if the person is in default on a
   1-12  loan made or guaranteed for educational purposes by the State of
   1-13  Texas."
   1-14                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-15                                AN ACT
   1-16  relating to the eligibility of certain military veterans and other
   1-17  persons with military-related service and survivors of certain
   1-18  military veterans to an exemption from tuition, fees, and charges
   1-19  at a public institution of higher education if the person is in
   1-20  default of an educational loan made under a federal program.
   1-21        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-22        SECTION 1.  Section 54.203(d), Education Code, is amended to
   1-23  read as follows:
   1-24        (d)  The exemption from fees provided for in Subsection (a)
   1-25  of this section does not apply to a person if at the time of his
   1-26  registration he is eligible for educational benefits under federal
   1-27  legislation in effect at the time of his registration.  A person is
   1-28  covered by the exemptions if his right to benefits under federal
   1-29  legislation is extinguished at the time of his registration, except
   1-30  that a person is not eligible for an exemption from fees under this
   1-31  section if the person's right to benefits under federal legislation
   1-32  is extinguished solely because the person is in default of
   1-33  repayment of a loan made to the person under a federal program to
   1-34  provide or guarantee loans for educational purposes.
   1-35        SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies to
   1-36  tuition, fees, and charges beginning with the fall 1995 semester.
   1-37        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-38  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-39  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-40  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-41  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-42  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-43  passage, and it is so enacted.
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