Bill Text: TX HB81 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the eligibility of children and other dependents of certain military personnel or veterans for tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions of higher education.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-05 - Referred to Higher Education [HB81 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB81-Introduced.html
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By: Pickett | H.B. No. 81 |
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relating to the eligibility of children and other dependents of | ||
certain military personnel or veterans for tuition and fee | ||
exemptions at public institutions of higher education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 54.341(k) and (m), Education Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(k) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board by rule | ||
shall prescribe procedures to allow: | ||
(1) a person who becomes eligible for an exemption | ||
provided by Subsection (a) to waive the person's right to any unused | ||
portion of the maximum number of cumulative credit hours for which | ||
the person could receive the exemption and assign the exemption for | ||
the unused portion of those credit hours to a child of the person; | ||
and | ||
(2) following the death of a person who becomes | ||
eligible for an exemption provided by Subsection (a), the | ||
assignment of the exemption for the unused portion of the credit | ||
hours to a child of the person, to be made by the person's spouse, by | ||
the personal representative, as defined by Section 3, Texas Probate | ||
Code, of the person, or by the conservator, guardian, custodian, or | ||
other legally designated caretaker of the child, if the child does | ||
not otherwise qualify for an exemption under Subsection (b). | ||
(m) For purposes of this section, a person is the child of | ||
another person if [ |
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(1) the person is the stepchild or the biological or | ||
adopted child of the other person; or | ||
(2) the other person claimed the person as a dependent | ||
on a federal income tax return filed for the preceding year or will | ||
claim the person as a dependent on a federal income tax return for | ||
the current year. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 54.341(n), Education Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. The change in law made by this Act applies | ||
beginning with tuition and fees for the 2013 fall semester. Tuition | ||
and fees for a term or semester before the 2013 fall 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 4. 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, 2013. |