Bill Text: TX SB779 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the use of scholarship money awarded by the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy to certain fifth-year accounting students.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-01 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB779 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB779-Introduced.html
| 88R7078 DIO-D | ||
| By: Perry | S.B. No. 779 | |
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| relating to the use of scholarship money awarded by the Texas State | ||
| Board of Public Accountancy to certain fifth-year accounting | ||
| students. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 901.656(a), Occupations Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (a) The board shall determine the maximum amount of any | ||
| scholarship awarded under this subchapter. The scholarship may be | ||
| spent by the recipient on the expenses for tuition, fees, books, | ||
| supplies, and living expenses incurred by the student in connection | ||
| with the student's fifth year of an accounting program and for | ||
| review courses to prepare the recipient for uniform CPA | ||
| examinations described by Section 901.301. Scholarships shall be | ||
| made available to eligible students attending: | ||
| (1) any institution of higher education; or | ||
| (2) any nonprofit independent institution approved by | ||
| the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board under Section 61.222, | ||
| Education Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
