1-1 By: Naishtat, Kitchen (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 2279
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 23, 2001;
1-3 April 24, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Education; May 10, 2001, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 10, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the exemption from the payment of higher education
1-9 tuition and fees for certain recipients of Temporary Assistance for
1-10 Needy Families benefits.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 54.212, Education Code, is amended to read
1-13 as follows:
1-14 Sec. 54.212. ONE-YEAR EXEMPTION FOR CERTAIN TANF [AFDC]
1-15 STUDENTS. A student is exempt from the payment of tuition and fees
1-16 authorized by this chapter for the first academic year in which the
1-17 student enrolls at an institution of higher education if the
1-18 student:
1-19 (1) graduated from a public high school in this state;
1-20 (2) successfully completed the attendance requirements
1-21 under Section 21.032;
1-22 (3) during the student's last year of public high
1-23 school in this state, was a dependent child receiving financial
1-24 assistance under Chapter 31, Human Resources Code, for not less
1-25 than six months;
1-26 (4) is younger than 22 years of age on the date of
1-27 enrollment;
1-28 (5) enrolls at the institution as an undergraduate
1-29 student not later than the second [first] anniversary of the date
1-30 of graduation from a public high school in this state;
1-31 (6) has met the entrance examination requirements of
1-32 the institution before the date of enrollment; and
1-33 (7) is classified as a resident under Subchapter B.
1-34 SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies
1-35 beginning with tuition and fees charged for the 2001 fall semester.
1-36 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-37 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-38 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-39 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-40 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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