Bill Text: TX HB437 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to career and technical education and workforce development grant programs.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB437 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB437-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to career and technical education and workforce development grant programs.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB437 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB437-Comm_Sub.html
83R398 JRJ-F | ||
By: J. Davis of Harris, Reynolds | H.B. No. 437 |
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relating to career and technical education programs. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 134.004, Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 134.004. JOBS AND EDUCATION FOR TEXANS (JET) GRANT | ||
PROGRAM. (a) The comptroller shall establish and administer the | ||
Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) Grant Program to provide grants | ||
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in the manner prescribed by the advisory board. The comptroller | ||
shall award the grants on the advice and recommendations of the | ||
advisory board. | ||
(b) Grants may be awarded under this chapter from the Jobs | ||
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development of new career and technical education programs at | ||
public junior colleges and public technical institutes that meet | ||
the requirements of Section 134.006[ |
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SECTION 2. (a) Sections 134.001(1), 134.005, and 134.007, | ||
Education Code, are repealed. | ||
(b) Subchapter O, Chapter 403, Government Code, is | ||
repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. A person receiving a scholarship or other | ||
financial assistance under Chapter 134, Education Code, or | ||
Subchapter O, Chapter 403, Government Code, before the effective | ||
date of this Act for the 2013-2014 academic year may continue to | ||
receive a scholarship or other financial assistance under that law | ||
as applicable to the person immediately before the effective date, | ||
until the person is no longer eligible for the scholarship or other | ||
assistance under Chapter 134, Education Code, or Subchapter O, | ||
Chapter 403, Government Code, as the applicable law exists on | ||
January 1, 2013, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |