Bill Text: TX SB851 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
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-Enrolled.html
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. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 851 passed the Senate on | ||
March 24, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 851 passed the House on | ||
May 23, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, Nays 0, one | ||
present not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
Approved: | ||
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Date | ||
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Governor |