Bill Text: TX SB902 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of the Texas Leadership Scholars Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-17 - Referred to Higher Education [SB902 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB902-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of the Texas Leadership Scholars Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-04-17 - Referred to Higher Education [SB902 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB902-Introduced.html
| By: West | S.B. No. 902 | |
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| relating to the establishment of the Texas Leadership Scholars | ||
| Program to serve as a merit-based scholarship and leadership | ||
| opportunity for high-achieving, emerging leaders with financial | ||
| need. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 61, Education Code, is amended by adding | ||
| Subchapter N to read as follows: | ||
| SUBCHAPTER N. TEXAS LEADERSHIP SCHOLARS PROGRAM | ||
| Sec. 61.751. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "program" | ||
| means the Texas Leadership Scholars Program established under this | ||
| subchapter. | ||
| Sec. 61.752. INITIATIVE: ESTABLISHMENT; ADMINISTRATION; | ||
| PURPOSE. | ||
| (a) The Texas Leadership Scholars Program is established. | ||
| (b) The board shall establish and administer, using funds | ||
| appropriated or otherwise available for the purpose, scholarships | ||
| for high-achieving, low-income students, and academic achievement | ||
| support and leadership development for student awarded program | ||
| scholarships. | ||
| (c) To qualify for a scholarship under this section, a | ||
| student must: | ||
| (1) be eligible for automatic admission in a general | ||
| academic teaching institution pursuant to Section 51.803 or be | ||
| nominated by their school district and have achieved another | ||
| academic distinction recognized by the Board; and | ||
| (2) be considered economically disadvantaged as | ||
| determined by board rule; and | ||
| (3) maintain a minimum overall grade point average at | ||
| a general academic teaching institution as determined by board | ||
| rule. | ||
| (d) The board may enter into agreements with general | ||
| academic teaching institutions or other agencies of higher | ||
| education to provide students in the program with research-based | ||
| support to make satisfactory academic progress, graduate on-time | ||
| and engage in leadership development opportunities, including but | ||
| not limited to program cohort learning communities, mentoring, | ||
| research and internship opportunities, networking with state | ||
| government, business, and civic leaders, and statewide cohort | ||
| learning institutes or seminars. | ||
| Sec. 61.753. GRANTS, GIFTS, AND DONATIONS. The board may | ||
| solicit, accept, and spend grants, gifts, and donations from any | ||
| public or private source for the purposes of this subchapter. | ||
| Sec. 61.754. RULES. The board shall adopt rules for the | ||
| administration of this subchapter, including rules providing for | ||
| the determination of scholarship amount, student scholarship | ||
| eligibility, satisfactory academic progress criteria, and program | ||
| administration. | ||
| SECTION 2. (a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating | ||
| Board shall adopt rules to administer Subchapter N, Chapter 61, | ||
| Education Code, as added by this Act, as soon as practicable after | ||
| the effective date of this Act. | ||
| 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, 2023. | ||
