| 1 | 1 | | S.B. No. 847 |
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| 4 | 4 | | AN ACT |
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| 5 | 5 | | relating to applicability of fee exemptions for military personnel |
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| 6 | 6 | | and their children to certain course fees charged by public |
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| 7 | 7 | | technical institutes and public state colleges. |
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| 8 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Subsection (g), Section 54.203, Education Code, |
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| 10 | 10 | | is amended to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | (g) The governing board of a public junior college, public |
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| 12 | 12 | | technical institute, or public state college, as those terms are |
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| 13 | 13 | | defined by Section 61.003, [district] may establish a fee for |
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| 14 | 14 | | extraordinary costs associated with a specific course or program |
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| 15 | 15 | | and may provide that the exemptions provided by Subsections (a) and |
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| 16 | 16 | | (b) do not apply to this fee. |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 2. Section 54.203, Education Code, as amended by |
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| 18 | 18 | | this Act, applies beginning with fees charged for the 2009 fall |
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| 19 | 19 | | semester. Fees charged for an academic period before that semester |
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| 20 | 20 | | are covered by the law in effect immediately before the effective |
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| 21 | 21 | | date of this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that |
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| 22 | 22 | | purpose. |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 24 | 24 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 25 | 25 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 26 | 26 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 27 | 27 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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| 28 | 28 | | ______________________________ ______________________________ |
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| 29 | 29 | | President of the Senate Speaker of the House |
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| 30 | 30 | | I hereby certify that S.B. No. 847 passed the Senate on |
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| 31 | 31 | | March 31, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. |
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| 32 | 32 | | ______________________________ |
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| 33 | 33 | | Secretary of the Senate |
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| 34 | 34 | | I hereby certify that S.B. No. 847 passed the House on |
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| 35 | 35 | | May 20, 2009, by the following vote: Yeas 139, Nays 0, one |
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| 36 | 36 | | present not voting. |
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| 37 | 37 | | ______________________________ |
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| 38 | 38 | | Chief Clerk of the House |
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| 39 | 39 | | Approved: |
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| 40 | 40 | | ______________________________ |
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| 41 | 41 | | Date |
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| 42 | 42 | | ______________________________ |
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| 43 | 43 | | Governor |
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