Bill Text: TX HB66 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Relating to determining eligibility for a Texas Armed Services Scholarship and to the appointment by certain elected officials of students to receive that scholarship.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-29 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [HB66 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB66-Comm_Sub.html

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By: Guillen, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini) H.B. No. 66
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2017;
May 16, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Higher
Education; May 17, 2017, reported adversely, with favorable
Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0;
May 17, 2017, sent to printer.)
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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 66 By: Buckingham

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to determining eligibility for a Texas Armed Services
Scholarship and to the appointment by certain elected officials of
students to receive that scholarship.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 61.9772, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
follows:
(c) For a student to continue to receive a scholarship
awarded under this subchapter, the student must maintain
satisfactory academic progress as determined by the board
[institution in which the student is enrolled].
(d) If the board determines that a student appointed under
Subsection (b) to receive an initial scholarship under this
subchapter has failed to maintain eligibility or otherwise meet the
requirements to continue receiving the scholarship, beginning with
the academic year following the determination, the elected official
who appointed the student may appoint another eligible student
under this subchapter to receive any available funds designated for
the student who no longer meets the requirements for the
scholarship.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2018.
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