By Hupp                                                H.B. No. 393
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                                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.