81R5190 JRJ-D
By: Veasey H.B. No. 1502
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to tuition exemptions at public institutions of higher
education for dependents of certain military personnel deployed in
combat zones.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 54.058, Education Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (k) to read as follows:
(k) An institution of higher education shall exempt from the
payment of tuition a dependent child, including a stepchild, of a
member of the Armed Forces of the United States for a semester or
other academic term during which the member of the armed forces is
deployed to combat or a combat support posting in a foreign country.
SECTION 2. Section 54.058(k), Education Code, as added by
this Act, applies beginning with tuition charged by a public
institution of higher education for the 2009-2010 academic year.
SECTION 3. 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 September 1, 2009.