HBA-PDH H.B. 393 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisH.B. 393
By: Hupp
Higher Education
2/15/1999
Introduced



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Currently, a person must take the Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP) test
before taking any college credit classes.  H.B. 393 exempts military
personnel and their dependents from the TASP test requirement to a certain
extent by allowing military personnel and their dependents to take up to
nine hours of college credit classes before they have to take the TASP
test. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 51.306 (r), Education Code, to include in the
list of persons exempt from taking the Texas Academic Skills Program test a
student who is a member or a dependent of a member of the United States
armed forces and has accumulated fewer than 10 college-level credit hours
at an institution of higher education in this state.  

SECTION 2.  Makes application of this Act prospective to the fall semester
of 1999. 

SECTION 3.  Emergency clause.
            Effective date: upon passage.