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CSHB 1170 (committee printing) is amended by adding new 
SECTION 1 to the bill to read as follows and renumbering subsequent 
SECTIONS of the bill accordingly:
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter F, Chapter 51, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 51.3041 to read as follows:
	Sec. 51.3041.  AWARD OF COURSE CREDIT FOR MILITARY TRAINING.  
(a)  In this section, "institution of higher education" has the 
meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
	(b)  An institution of higher education shall consider, in 
determining whether to award to a student course credit toward a 
degree offered by the institution for the student's completion of 
certain military training:
		(1)  any official military record presented to the 
institution by the student that:
			(A)  describes the substance of the training 
completed by the student; and
			(B)  verifies the student's successful completion 
of that training; and
		(2)  whether the substance of that training satisfies 
the purpose of the course for which the student seeks credit as 
described in the institution's course catalog.
	(c)  This section applies to a student who has completed 
certain military training and is admitted to the institution, 
including a student who is readmitted under Section 51.9242.