By:  Fraser                                            S.B. No. 608
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to exempting certain military personnel from the
 1-2     requirements of the Texas Academic Skills Program.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (r), Section 51.306, Education Code,
 1-5     is amended to read as follows:
 1-6           (r)  This section does not apply to:
 1-7                 (1)  a student who accumulated three or more
 1-8     college-level semester credit hours prior to the 1989 fall
 1-9     semester;
1-10                 (2)  a student located outside this state who enrolls
1-11     in a course offered  outside this state by an institution of higher
1-12     education;
1-13                 (3)  a deaf student;
1-14                 (4)  a student who has graduated with a baccalaureate
1-15     degree from an institution of higher education, an accredited
1-16     private or independent institution of higher education, or an
1-17     accredited out-of-state institution of higher education;
1-18                 (5)  a student enrolled in a certificate program at a
1-19     community or technical college of one year or less; or
1-20                 (6)  a student who is [a citizen of a country other
1-21     than the United  States and is] not seeking a degree and who:
1-22                       (A)  is a citizen of a country other than the
1-23     United States; or
1-24                       (B)  is serving on active duty as a member of the
 2-1     United States armed forces.
 2-2           SECTION 2.  Subsection (g), Section 51.3061, Education Code,
 2-3     is amended to read as follows:
 2-4           (g)  This section does not apply to a student who:
 2-5                 (1)  is enrolled in a certificate program of one year
 2-6     or less; or
 2-7                 (2)  is serving on active duty as a member of the
 2-8     United States armed forces and is not seeking a degree.
 2-9           SECTION 3.  The change in law made by this Act takes effect
2-10     beginning with the 1999 fall semester.
2-11           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-12     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-16     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-17     passage, and it is so enacted.