Bill Text: TX SB851 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Engrossed
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Bill Title: Relating to a uniform deadline for student financial assistance for public institutions of higher education other than public junior colleges.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SB851 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB851-Engrossed.html
Bill Title: Relating to a uniform deadline for student financial assistance for public institutions of higher education other than public junior colleges.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [SB851 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB851-Engrossed.html
| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 851 | |
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| relating to a uniform deadline for student financial assistance for | ||
| public institutions of higher education other than public junior | ||
| colleges. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 56, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 56.007 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 56.007. PRIORITY DEADLINE FOR STUDENT FINANCIAL | ||
| ASSISTANCE. (a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board by | ||
| rule shall provide for a uniform priority application deadline for | ||
| applications for financial assistance for an academic year. | ||
| (b) The priority deadline may not serve as a determination | ||
| of eligibility for state financial assistance, but otherwise | ||
| eligible applicants who apply on or before the deadline shall be | ||
| given priority consideration for available state financial | ||
| assistance before other applicants. | ||
| (c) The coordinating board shall consult with financial aid | ||
| personnel at institutions of higher education in adopting rules | ||
| providing for the deadline required under this section. | ||
| (d) This section only applies to a general academic teaching | ||
| institution as defined by Section 61.003. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by Section 56.007, | ||
| Education Code, as added by this Act, applies beginning with | ||
| student financial assistance awarded for the 2013-2014 academic | ||
| year. State student financial assistance awarded for an academic | ||
| period before that academic year is covered by the 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 January 1, 2013. | ||
