Bill Text: TX HB2396 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to eliminating requirements that certain public institutions of higher education set aside portions of tuition for student loan repayment programs for certain physicians and state attorneys.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-20 - Effective immediately [HB2396 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2396-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 2396 |
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relating to eliminating requirements that certain public | ||
institutions of higher education set aside portions of tuition for | ||
student loan repayment programs for certain physicians and state | ||
attorneys. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.5391(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) The physician education loan repayment program account | ||
is an account in the general revenue fund. The account is composed | ||
of: | ||
(1) gifts and grants contributed to the account; | ||
(2) earnings on the principal of the account; and | ||
(3) other amounts deposited to the credit of the | ||
account, including: | ||
(A) money deposited under Section [ |
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61.5392; | ||
(B) legislative appropriations; and | ||
(C) money deposited under Section 155.2415, Tax | ||
Code. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 61.9730 and 61.9732, Education Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 61.9730. TOTAL AMOUNT OF REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE. The | ||
total amount of repayment assistance distributed by the board under | ||
this subchapter may not exceed the total amount available for the | ||
program under Section 61.9732 [ |
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Sec. 61.9732. LIMITATIONS ON FUNDING. The loan repayment | ||
program under this subchapter may be funded only from: | ||
(1) gifts, grants, and donations accepted by the | ||
board; [ |
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(2) legislative appropriations for the program; and | ||
(3) money budgeted for the program by the office of the | ||
attorney general from appropriations made to that office [ |
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SECTION 3. The following provisions of the Education Code | ||
are repealed: | ||
(1) Section 61.539; and | ||
(2) Section 61.9731. | ||
SECTION 4. (a) The change in law made by this Act applies | ||
beginning with tuition charged for the 2015 fall semester. | ||
(b) Tuition charged for any semester or other academic term | ||
before the 2015 fall semester is covered by the applicable law as it | ||
existed 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, 2015. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 2396 was passed by the House on May 6, | ||
2015, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 2396 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 1. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |