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1	1	H.B. No. 269
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4	4	AN ACT
5	5	relating to course credit for certain students at a public
6	6	institution of higher education.
7	7	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
8	8	SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
9	9	amended by adding Section 51.3042 to read as follows:
10	10	Sec. 51.3042. AWARD OF COURSE CREDIT FOR MILITARY SERVICE.
11	11	(a) In this section, "institution of higher education" has the
12	12	meaning assigned by Section 61.003.
13	13	(b) An institution of higher education shall award to an
14	14	undergraduate student who is admitted to the institution, including
15	15	a student who is readmitted under Section 51.9242, course credit
16	16	for all physical education courses required by the institution for
17	17	an undergraduate degree and for additional semester credit hours,
18	18	not to exceed 12, that may be applied to satisfy any elective course
19	19	requirements for the student's degree program for courses outside
20	20	the student's major or minor if the student:
21	21	(1) graduated from a public or private high school
22	22	accredited by a generally recognized accrediting organization or
23	23	from a high school operated by the United States Department of
24	24	Defense; and
25	25	(2) is an honorably discharged former member of the
26	26	armed forces of the United States who:
27	27	(A) completed at least two years of service in
28	28	the armed forces; or
29	29	(B) was discharged because of a disability.
30	30	(c) This section does not prohibit an institution of higher
31	31	education from awarding additional course credit for a student's
32	32	military service as the institution considers appropriate.
33	33	(d) An institution of higher education may adopt rules
34	34	requiring reasonable proof from a student of the fact and duration
35	35	of the student's military service and of the student's military
36	36	discharge status.
37	37	SECTION 2. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is
38	38	amended by adding Section 51.9112 to read as follows:
39	39	Sec. 51.9112. RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS (ROTC)
40	40	PROGRAM: FEES AND COURSE CREDIT. (a) The Texas Higher Education
41	41	Coordinating Board, in consultation with institutions of higher
42	42	education, shall determine a standard fee for a course offered
43	43	through a Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program that
44	44	takes into account the average statewide cost per student to an
45	45	institution of higher education in providing the program, not
46	46	including any reimbursement or other amounts the institution
47	47	receives from the applicable military service or other source for
48	48	offering the course. Except as provided by Subsection (b), the
49	49	governing board of each institution of higher education may not
50	50	charge a student enrolled in an ROTC course any amount for the
51	51	course in excess of the fee as determined by the coordinating board
52	52	under this subsection.
53	53	(b) If the governing board of an institution of higher
54	54	education offers course credit toward a student's degree for a
55	55	course in which the student enrolls for the purposes of an ROTC
56	56	program, the governing board may charge the student tuition for
57	57	that course as otherwise provided by Chapter 54 after subtracting
58	58	any reimbursement or other amount the institution receives from the
59	59	applicable military service or other source for offering the
60	60	course.
61	61	(c) To the extent it will not adversely affect the
62	62	accreditation status of an institution of higher education with the
63	63	appropriate accrediting agency, the governing board of the
64	64	institution shall count courses in which a student enrolls for the
65	65	purposes of an ROTC program, including courses for which the
66	66	student does not receive course credit toward the student's degree,
67	67	in determining whether the student is enrolled as a full-time
68	68	student.
69	69	SECTION 3. Section 51.3042, Education Code, as added by
70	70	this Act, applies to a student attending an institution of higher
71	71	education, without regard to whether the student was admitted to
72	72	the institution before the effective date of this Act.
73	73	SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
74	74	a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
75	75	provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
76	76	Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
77	77	Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
78	78	______________________________ ______________________________
79	79	President of the Senate Speaker of the House
80	80	I certify that H.B. No. 269 was passed by the House on May 12,
81	81	2009, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 0, 1 present, not
82	82	voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
83	83	H.B. No. 269 on May 29, 2009, and requested the appointment of a
84	84	conference committee to consider the differences between the two
85	85	houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
86	86	on H.B. No. 269 on May 31, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 139,
87	87	Nays 0, 1 present, not voting.
88	88	______________________________
89	89	Chief Clerk of the House
90	90	I certify that H.B. No. 269 was passed by the Senate, with
91	91	amendments, on May 26, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
92	92	1; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
93	93	committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
94	94	that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
95	95	269 on May 31, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1.
96	96	______________________________
97	97	Secretary of the Senate
98	98	APPROVED: __________________
99	99	Date
100	100	__________________
101	101	Governor