Bill Text: TX HB3790 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the provision of scholarships by private or independent institutions of higher education under the Joint Admission Medical Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3790 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3790-Comm_Sub.html
88R24097 JRJ-D | |||
By: Wilson | H.B. No. 3790 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3790: | |||
By: Clardy | C.S.H.B. No. 3790 |
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relating to the provision of scholarships by private or independent | ||
institutions of higher education under the Joint Admission Medical | ||
Program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 51.831, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 51.831. COUNCIL AGREEMENT WITH PRIVATE OR INDEPENDENT | ||
INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION. Each private or independent | ||
institution of higher education must enter into an agreement with | ||
the council under which the institution agrees to: | ||
(1) provide academic counseling to a participating | ||
student or program alternate enrolled at the institution; | ||
(2) as soon as practicable, implement or expand | ||
appropriate degree programs as necessary to provide participating | ||
students with sufficient preparation for enrollment in | ||
participating medical schools; | ||
(3) select a faculty director or an academic or health | ||
professions advisor to assist in implementing the program at the | ||
institution and in implementing or expanding the institution's | ||
degree programs as necessary under Subdivision (2); and | ||
(4) provide, in addition to any other scholarship | ||
money awarded to the student, a scholarship to a participating | ||
student in the amount required for a participating student | ||
attending a general academic teaching institution, except that | ||
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the amount of tuition and fees that the student is charged. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies to the | ||
provision of scholarships pursuant to an agreement under Section | ||
51.831, Education Code, as amended by this Act, beginning with the | ||
2023-2024 academic year. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |