Bill Text: TX HB3708 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to measures regarding high school completion and enrollment in higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - See remarks for effective date [HB3708 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3708-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to measures regarding high school completion and enrollment in higher education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - See remarks for effective date [HB3708 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3708-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Hochberg | H.B. No. 3708 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3708: | |||
By: Hochberg | C.S.H.B. No. 3708 |
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relating to the Early High School Graduation Scholarship program | ||
and to the funding of certain exemptions from tuition and fees at | ||
public institutions of higher education from savings attributable | ||
to the program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 54.213(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
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under Section 54.214 gifts, grants, and donations made to the | ||
agency for that purpose. The commissioner of education shall | ||
transfer those funds to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
Board to distribute to institutions of higher education that | ||
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SECTION 2. Section 56.204, Education Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (a-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(a) In a total amount not to exceed the amount of funds | ||
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tuition and mandatory fees, as applicable, at a public or private | ||
institution of higher education in this state, the commissioner of | ||
education shall award to eligible persons credits in the following | ||
amounts: | ||
(1) $2,000 to apply toward tuition and mandatory fees | ||
if the person successfully completed the recommended or advanced | ||
high school program established under Section 28.025 and graduated | ||
from high school on or after September 1, 2005, in 36 consecutive | ||
months or less and an additional $1,000 to apply toward tuition and | ||
mandatory fees if the person graduated with at least 15 hours of | ||
college credit; | ||
(2) $500 to apply toward tuition and mandatory fees if | ||
the person successfully completed the recommended or advanced high | ||
school program established under Section 28.025 and graduated from | ||
high school on or after September 1, 2005, in more than 36 | ||
consecutive months but not more than 41 consecutive months and an | ||
additional $1,000 to apply toward tuition and mandatory fees if the | ||
person graduated with at least 30 hours of college credit; | ||
(3) $1,000 to apply toward tuition and mandatory fees | ||
if the person successfully completed the recommended or advanced | ||
high school program established under Section 28.025 and graduated | ||
from high school on or after September 1, 2005, in more than 41 | ||
consecutive months but not more than 45 consecutive months with at | ||
least 30 hours of college credit; or | ||
(4) $1,000 to apply only toward tuition if the person | ||
graduated before September 1, 2005, after successfully completing | ||
the requirements for a high school diploma in not more than 36 | ||
consecutive months. | ||
(a-1) The commissioner of education by rule shall establish | ||
the procedure to allocate awards under this section in the event | ||
that the amount of funds appropriated in a state fiscal year for the | ||
Early High School Graduation Scholarship program is insufficient to | ||
allow the commissioner to award credits to all students eligible to | ||
be awarded a state credit in that fiscal year. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 56.207(b), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(b) On receipt of a report from the coordinating board under | ||
Subsection (a), the commissioner of education shall transfer to the | ||
coordinating board, from funds appropriated for the purpose of the | ||
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higher education the amount of state credit for tuition or tuition | ||
and mandatory fees, as applicable, that is applied by the | ||
institution during the period covered by the report. | ||
SECTION 4. Sections 56.202(b) and 56.208, Education Code, | ||
are repealed. | ||
SECTION 5. As soon as practicable after this Act takes | ||
effect, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall revise | ||
rules adopted under Section 56.209(a), Education Code, as necessary | ||
to conform to changes made by this Act to Subchapter K, Chapter 56, | ||
Education Code. For that purpose, the coordinating board may adopt | ||
the revisions to those rules in the manner provided by law for | ||
emergency rules. This section expires September 1, 2012. | ||
SECTION 6. The changes in law made by this Act apply | ||
beginning with the 2011-2012 academic year, but do not affect any | ||
state credit awarded under Subchapter K, Chapter 56, Education | ||
Code, before the effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 7. 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, 2011. |