By Hawley                                              H.B. No. 234
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to exempting members of the armed forces from the Texas
 1-3     Academic Skills Program.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 51.306(r), Education Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (r)  This section does not apply to:
 1-8                 (1)  a student who accumulated three or more
 1-9     college-level semester credit hours prior to the 1989 fall
1-10     semester;
1-11                 (2)  a student located outside this state who enrolls
1-12     in a course offered outside this state by an institution of higher
1-13     education;
1-14                 (3)  a deaf student;
1-15                 (4)  a student who has graduated with a baccalaureate
1-16     degree from an institution of higher education, an accredited
1-17     private or independent institution of higher education, or an
1-18     accredited out-of-state institution of higher education;
1-19                 (5)  a student enrolled in a certificate program at a
1-20     community or technical college of one year or less; [or]
1-21                 (6)  a student who is a citizen of a country other than
1-22     the United States and is not seeking a degree; or
1-23                 (7)  a student who is serving on active duty as a
1-24     member of the armed forces of the United States.
 2-1           SECTION 2.  Section 51.3061(g), Education Code, is amended to
 2-2     read as follows:
 2-3           (g)  This section does not apply to a student who is:
 2-4                 (1)  enrolled in a certificate program of one year or
 2-5     less; or
 2-6                 (2)  serving on active duty as a member of the armed
 2-7     forces of the United States.
 2-8           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately and applies
 2-9     beginning with the 2001 fall semester.