Bill Text: TX HB2815 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the Texas Armed Services Scholarship Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-17 - Referred to Vet Affairs & Border Security [HB2815 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2815-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the Texas Armed Services Scholarship Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-05-17 - Referred to Vet Affairs & Border Security [HB2815 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB2815-Introduced.html
87R10428 CXP-D | ||
By: Turner of Tarrant | H.B. No. 2815 |
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relating to eligibility for the Texas Armed Services Scholarship | ||
Program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 61.9773(a), Education Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) To receive a scholarship under this subchapter, a | ||
student must enter into an agreement with the board as provided by | ||
this section. The agreement must require the student to: | ||
(1) complete: | ||
(A) one year of ROTC training for each year that | ||
the student receives the scholarship, up to a maximum requirement | ||
of four years of ROTC training; or | ||
(B) [ |
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commissioning program such as the United States Marine Corps | ||
Platoon Leaders Class; | ||
(2) graduate not later than six years after the date | ||
the student first enrolls in a public or private institution of | ||
higher education in this state; | ||
(3) after graduation, enter into: | ||
(A) a four-year commitment to be a member of the | ||
Texas Army National Guard, Texas Air National Guard, Texas State | ||
Guard, United States Coast Guard, or United States Merchant Marine; | ||
or | ||
(B) a contract to serve as a commissioned officer | ||
in any branch of the armed services of the United States; | ||
(4) meet the physical examination requirements and all | ||
other prescreening requirements of the Texas Army National Guard, | ||
Texas Air National Guard, Texas State Guard, United States Coast | ||
Guard, or United States Merchant Marine or the branch of the armed | ||
services with which the student enters into a contract; and | ||
(5) agree to repay the scholarship if the student: | ||
(A) fails to maintain satisfactory academic | ||
progress; | ||
(B) withdraws from the scholarship program; or | ||
(C) fails to fulfill a commitment or contract | ||
described by Subdivision (3). | ||
SECTION 2. Section 61.9773(a), Education Code, as amended | ||
by this Act, applies beginning with a Texas Armed Services | ||
Scholarship awarded for the 2021-2022 academic year. A Texas Armed | ||
Services Scholarship awarded for an academic year before that | ||
academic year is governed by the law in effect when the scholarship | ||
was awarded, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board | ||
shall adopt rules for the administration of Section 61.9773(a), | ||
Education Code, as amended by this Act, as soon as practicable after | ||
this Act takes effect. | ||
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, 2021. |