HBA-PDH H.B. 393 76(R) BILL ANALYSIS Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 393 By: Hupp Higher Education 2/15/1999 Introduced BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Currently, a person must take the Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP) test before taking any college credit classes. H.B. 393 exempts military personnel and their dependents from the TASP test requirement to a certain extent by allowing military personnel and their dependents to take up to nine hours of college credit classes before they have to take the TASP test. RULEMAKING AUTHORITY It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or institution. SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS SECTION 1. Amends Section 51.306 (r), Education Code, to include in the list of persons exempt from taking the Texas Academic Skills Program test a student who is a member or a dependent of a member of the United States armed forces and has accumulated fewer than 10 college-level credit hours at an institution of higher education in this state. SECTION 2. Makes application of this Act prospective to the fall semester of 1999. SECTION 3. Emergency clause. Effective date: upon passage.