Bill Text: TX SB1323 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to requiring certain students awarded dual credit by a public institution of higher education to complete and submit a financial aid application for higher education costs.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2019-05-22 - Returned to Local & Consent Calendars Comm. [SB1323 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB1323-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Taylor, et al. | S.B. No. 1323 | |
| (Davis of Harris) | ||
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| relating to requiring certain students awarded dual credit by a | ||
| public institution of higher education to complete and submit a | ||
| financial aid application for higher education costs. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter Z, Chapter 51, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 51.9681 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 51.9681. FINANCIAL AID APPLICATION REQUIRED FOR DUAL | ||
| CREDIT STUDENTS. (a) In this section, "institution of higher | ||
| education" has the meaning assigned by Section 61.003. | ||
| (b) Each student who earns a cumulative total of 15 or more | ||
| semester credit hours at an institution of higher education for | ||
| dual credit coursework successfully completed by the student before | ||
| the student's last semester or term in 12th grade must complete and | ||
| submit a free application for federal student aid (FAFSA) or, if | ||
| applicable, a Texas application for state financial aid (TASFA) not | ||
| later than the later of: | ||
| (1) six months after the last day of the semester or | ||
| term in which the student earns that cumulative total; or | ||
| (2) January 15 of the school year in which the student | ||
| is enrolled in 12th grade. | ||
| (c) A student is not required to comply with Subsection (b) | ||
| if: | ||
| (1) the student's parent or other person standing in | ||
| parental relation submits a signed form indicating that the parent | ||
| or other person authorizes the student to decline to complete and | ||
| submit the financial aid application; or | ||
| (2) the student signs and submits the form described | ||
| by Subdivision (1) on the student's own behalf if the student is 18 | ||
| years of age or older or the student's disabilities of minority have | ||
| been removed for general purposes under Chapter 31, Family Code. | ||
| (d) Each institution of higher education shall ensure that | ||
| each student to whom the institution awards the cumulative total of | ||
| semester credit hours described by Subsection (b) completes and | ||
| submits the financial aid application as required by that | ||
| subsection or submits a signed form to the institution under | ||
| Subsection (c). | ||
| (e) Each institution of higher education shall adopt a form | ||
| to be used for purposes of Subsection (c). | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act applies beginning with the 2019-2020 | ||
| academic year. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2019. | ||
