Bill Text: TX SB34 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the maximum number of semester credit hours allowed for and funding sources used to supplement a TEXAS grant.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-17 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB34 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB34-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the maximum number of semester credit hours allowed for and funding sources used to supplement a TEXAS grant.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-17 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB34 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB34-Introduced.html
86R2212 MM-D | ||
By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 34 |
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relating to the maximum number of semester credit hours allowed for | ||
and funding sources used to supplement a TEXAS grant. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter M, Chapter 56, Education Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 56.3051 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 56.3051. MAXIMUM NUMBER OF SEMESTER CREDIT HOURS. A | ||
person may not receive a TEXAS grant for more than the lesser of: | ||
(1) 135 semester credit hours or the equivalent; or | ||
(2) 15 semester credit hours, or the equivalent, in | ||
addition to the number of credit hours needed to complete the | ||
student's degree program. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 56.307(j), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(j) A public institution of higher education shall use other | ||
available sources of financial aid, other than a loan or work study, | ||
to cover any difference in the amount of a TEXAS grant awarded to | ||
the student and the actual amount of tuition and required fees at | ||
the institution if the difference results from: | ||
(1) a reduction in the amount of a TEXAS grant under | ||
Subsection (i-1); or | ||
(2) a deficiency in the amount of the grant as | ||
established under Subsection (a) or (e), as applicable, to cover | ||
the full amount of tuition and required fees charged to the student | ||
by the institution. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 56.304(d), Education Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply | ||
beginning with initial or subsequent TEXAS grants awarded for the | ||
2019 fall semester. Initial or subsequent TEXAS grants awarded for | ||
a semester or term before the 2019 fall semester are governed by the | ||
applicable law in effect immediately before the effective date of | ||
this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 5. 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, 2019. |