Bill Text: TX SB370 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the determination of student priority in awarding TEXAS grants.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-09 - Referred to Higher Education [SB370 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-SB370-Introduced.html
| 87R136 MM-D | ||
| By: Powell | S.B. No. 370 | |
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| relating to the determination of student priority in awarding TEXAS | ||
| grants. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Sections 56.303(d-1) and (f), Education Code, | ||
| are amended to read as follows: | ||
| (d-1) In allocating among eligible institutions money | ||
| available for initial TEXAS grants for an academic year, the | ||
| coordinating board shall ensure that each of those institutions' | ||
| proportional share of the total amount of money for initial grants | ||
| that is allocated to eligible institutions under this section for | ||
| that year does not, as a result of the number of students who | ||
| establish eligibility at the institution for an initial grant | ||
| awarded under the highest priority as described by Subsection (f) | ||
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| proportional share of the total amount of money for initial grants | ||
| that is allocated to those institutions under this section for the | ||
| preceding academic year. | ||
| (f) Beginning with TEXAS grants awarded for the 2013-2014 | ||
| academic year, in determining who should receive an initial TEXAS | ||
| grant, each eligible institution, in addition to giving priority as | ||
| provided by Subsection (e), shall give highest priority equally to | ||
| students who meet the eligibility criteria described by Sections | ||
| 56.3041(a)(2)(A) and (C) [ |
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| available in excess of the amount required to award an initial TEXAS | ||
| grant to all students meeting those criteria, an eligible | ||
| institution shall make awards to other students who meet the | ||
| eligibility criteria described by Section 56.304(a)(2)(A), | ||
| provided that the institution continues to give priority to | ||
| students as provided by Subsection (e). | ||
| SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply | ||
| beginning with initial TEXAS grants awarded for the 2022 fall | ||
| semester. Initial TEXAS grants awarded for a semester or term | ||
| before the 2022 fall semester are governed by the applicable law in | ||
| effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| 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, 2021. | ||
