1-1  By:  Hunter of Taylor, Naishtat                       H.B. No. 3119
    1-2       (Senate Sponsor - Patterson)
    1-3        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
    1-4  May 18, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
    1-5  May 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 8,
    1-6  Nays 0; May 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-8                                AN ACT
    1-9  relating to the exemption from dues, fees, and charges provided to
   1-10  a veteran or dependent of a veteran enrolled at a public
   1-11  institution of higher education.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Section 54.203(d), Education Code, is amended to
   1-14  read as follows:
   1-15        (d)  The exemption from fees provided for in Subsection (a)
   1-16  of this section does not apply to a person if at the time of his
   1-17  registration he is eligible for educational benefits under federal
   1-18  legislation in effect at the time of his registration if the value
   1-19  of those benefits is equal to or exceeds the value of the
   1-20  exemption, except that the person must first utilize the federal
   1-21  benefit for which he is eligible and the combined amount of the
   1-22  federal benefit plus the amount of this waiver shall not exceed the
   1-23  maximum value of the waiver.  A person is covered by the exemptions
   1-24  if his right to benefits under federal legislation is extinguished
   1-25  at the time of his registration.
   1-26        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-27  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-28  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-29  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-30  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-31  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-32  passage, and it is so enacted.
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