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        |  | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | 
      
        |  | AN ACT | 
      
        |  | relating to the payment of tuition for public high school students | 
      
        |  | who participate in college credit programs. | 
      
        |  | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
        |  | SECTION 1.  Section 28.009(a-2), Education Code, is amended | 
      
        |  | to read as follows: | 
      
        |  | (a-2)  A school district is not required to pay a student's | 
      
        |  | tuition or other associated costs for taking a course under this | 
      
        |  | section.  This subsection expires September 1, 2015 [ 2013]. | 
      
        |  | SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | 
      
        |  | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | 
      
        |  | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this | 
      
        |  | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | 
      
        |  | Act takes effect August 31, 2013. |