By Hupp H.B. No. 393
76R2943 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to exempting certain military personnel and their
1-3 dependents from certain requirements of the Texas Academic Skills
1-4 Program.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 51.306(r), Education Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (r) This section does not apply to:
1-9 (1) a student who accumulated three or more
1-10 college-level semester credit hours prior to the 1989 fall
1-11 semester;
1-12 (2) a student located outside this state who enrolls
1-13 in a course offered outside this state by an institution of higher
1-14 education;
1-15 (3) a deaf student;
1-16 (4) a student who has graduated with a baccalaureate
1-17 degree from an institution of higher education, an accredited
1-18 private or independent institution of higher education, or an
1-19 accredited out-of-state institution of higher education;
1-20 (5) a student enrolled in a certificate program at a
1-21 community or technical college of one year or less; [or]
1-22 (6) a student who is a citizen of a country other than
1-23 the United States and is not seeking a degree; or
1-24 (7) a student who is a member of the United States
2-1 armed forces or a dependent of a member of the United States armed
2-2 forces and who has accumulated fewer than 10 college-level semester
2-3 credit hours at an institution of higher education in this state.
2-4 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
2-5 beginning with the fall semester of 1999.
2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-11 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-12 passage, and it is so enacted.