81R2171 JRJ-D
By: Corte H.B. No. 38
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to providing resident tuition at public institutions of
higher education for certain military veterans and their
dependents.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 54.058(i), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(i) A former member of the Armed Forces of the United States
or the former member's spouse or dependent child is entitled to pay
the tuition fees and other fees or charges provided for Texas
residents for any term or semester at a state institution of higher
education that begins before the first anniversary of the member's
separation from the Armed Forces if the former member[:
[(1)] has retired or been honorably discharged from the
Armed Forces[; and
[(2) has complied with the requirements of Subsection
(d)].
SECTION 2. Section 54.058(i), Education Code, as amended by
this Act, applies beginning with tuition and other fees charged for
the first term or semester that begins after the effective date of
this Act, but not earlier than the 2009 fall semester. Tuition and
other fees charged for an academic period before that term or
semester are covered by the law in effect immediately before the
effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in
effect for that purpose.
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.