Bill Text: TX SB1066 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to continuing eligibility requirements for institutions of higher education to participate in the Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (T-STEM) Challenge Scholarship Program.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2015-05-15 - Effective on 9/1/15 [SB1066 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-SB1066-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 1066

AN ACT
relating to continuing eligibility requirements for institutions
of higher education to participate in the Texas Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (T-STEM) Challenge
Scholarship Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 61.9794(b), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) To maintain eligibility, each year beginning with the
third [second] year following implementation of a scholarship
program under this subchapter, an institution must demonstrate to
the board that at least 70 percent of the institution's T-STEM
Challenge Scholarship recipients [graduates], within twelve
[three] months of receipt of a scholarship [after graduation], are:
(1) employed [by a business in a Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) field]; or
(2) enrolled in [upper-division] courses leading to a
certificate, associate, or baccalaureate degree in a Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) field.
SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
shall award scholarships under Subchapter GG, Chapter 61, Education
Code, as amended by this Act, beginning with the 2015-2016 academic
year.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1066 passed the Senate on
April 1, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1066 passed the House on
April 30, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 129, Nays 10, one
present not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor