Texas Disability Law - Education: Higher

Texas Law

Establishes tests and minimum passing standards for enrollment in public institutions of higher education and requires provision of developmental education for individuals who do not pass.
Provides tuition exemptions exemptions at public institutions of higher education for students who are blind or deaf.
Provides tuition and fee exemptions at public institutions for the following:
- Children of persons who acquire disabilities in the line of duty as firemen, peace officers, game wardens or employees of correctional institutions.
- Children of certain military personnel who are totally disabled
- Children of certain volunteer peace officers who are killed or disabled in the line of duty.
- Individuals who acquire disabilities in the line of duty as a peace officer.
Requires a college textbook publisher to provide a public college or university an electronic copy of a textbook as requested by students who are blind or have dyslexia.
Allows students of public institutions of higher education to count credit received in an American Sign Language course toward satisfaction of a foreign language requirement of that institution.
Allows a person's teaching obligation under a Teach for Texas Alternative Certification Assistance Program to be cancelled if the recipient acquires a permanent disability and is no longer able to teach.