Bill Text: TX SB49 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

Texas Senate Bill 49 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to the appointment by certain elected officials of students to receive a Texas Armed Services Scholarship.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-09 - Effective on 9/1/17 [SB49 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB49-Introduced.html

	85R2872 MM-D

	By: Zaffirini	S.B. No. 49



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the appointment by certain elected officials of
	students to receive a Texas Armed Services Scholarship.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 61.9772(b), Education Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(b) In each year, the governor and the lieutenant governor
	may each appoint two students and each state senator and each state
	representative may appoint one student to receive an initial
	scholarship under this subchapter. If a student appointed under
	this subsection to receive a scholarship fails to maintain
	eligibility or otherwise meet the requirements to continue
	receiving the scholarship, the elected official who appointed the
	student may appoint another student eligible under this subchapter
	to receive any available funds designated for the student
	originally appointed.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.