By Hupp H.B. No. 439
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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:
2-1 (A) is a member of the United States armed
2-2 forces or a dependent of a member of the United States armed
2-3 forces; and
2-4 (B) has accumulated fewer than 10 college-level
2-5 semester credit hours at a public or private or independent
2-6 institution of higher education.
2-7 SECTION 2. Section 51.3061(g), Education Code, is amended to
2-8 read as follows:
2-9 (g) This section does not apply to a student who:
2-10 (1) is enrolled in a certificate program of one year
2-11 or less; or
2-12 (2) is a member of the United States armed forces or a
2-13 dependent of a member of the United States armed forces and has
2-14 accumulated fewer than 10 college-level semester credit hours at a
2-15 public or private or independent institution of higher education.
2-16 SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies
2-17 beginning with the 2001 fall semester.
2-18 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
2-19 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
2-20 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
2-21 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
2-22 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.