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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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AN ACT
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relating to applicability of fee exemptions for military personnel |
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and their children to certain course fees charged by public |
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technical institutes and public state colleges. |
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BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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SECTION 1. Subsection (g), Section 54.203, Education Code, |
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is amended to read as follows: |
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(g) The governing board of a public junior college, public |
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technical institute, or public state college, as those terms are |
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defined by Section 61.003, [district] may establish a fee for |
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extraordinary costs associated with a specific course or program |
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and may provide that the exemptions provided by Subsections (a) and |
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(b) do not apply to this fee. |
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SECTION 2. Section 54.203, Education Code, as amended by |
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this Act, applies beginning with fees charged for the 2009 fall |
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semester. Fees charged for an academic period before that semester |
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are covered by the law in effect immediately before the effective |
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date of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that |
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purpose. |
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SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |