1-1 By: Fraser S.B. No. 608
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 18, 1999; February 22, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Education;
1-4 March 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; March 11, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to exempting certain military personnel from the
1-9 requirements of the Texas Academic Skills Program.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (r), Section 51.306, Education Code,
1-12 is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (r) This section does not apply to:
1-14 (1) a student who accumulated three or more
1-15 college-level semester credit hours prior to the 1989 fall
1-16 semester;
1-17 (2) a student located outside this state who enrolls
1-18 in a course offered outside this state by an institution of higher
1-19 education;
1-20 (3) a deaf student;
1-21 (4) a student who has graduated with a baccalaureate
1-22 degree from an institution of higher education, an accredited
1-23 private or independent institution of higher education, or an
1-24 accredited out-of-state institution of higher education;
1-25 (5) a student enrolled in a certificate program at a
1-26 community or technical college of one year or less; or
1-27 (6) a student who is [a citizen of a country other
1-28 than the United States and is] not seeking a degree and who:
1-29 (A) is a citizen of a country other than the
1-30 United States; or
1-31 (B) is serving on active duty as a member of the
1-32 United States armed forces.
1-33 SECTION 2. Subsection (g), Section 51.3061, Education Code,
1-34 is amended to read as follows:
1-35 (g) This section does not apply to a student who:
1-36 (1) is enrolled in a certificate program of one year
1-37 or less; or
1-38 (2) is serving on active duty as a member of the
1-39 United States armed forces and is not seeking a degree.
1-40 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act takes effect
1-41 beginning with the 1999 fall semester.
1-42 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-47 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-48 passage, and it is so enacted.
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