Bill Text: TX SB34 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the maximum number of semester credit hours allowed for and funding sources used to supplement a TEXAS grant.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-17 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB34 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB34-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Zaffirini | S.B. No. 34 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2018; February 1, 2019, | ||
| read first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education; | ||
| March 25, 2019, reported adversely, with favorable Committee | ||
| Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; March 25, 2019, | ||
| sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 34 | By: Taylor | |
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| relating to the maximum number of semester credit hours allowed for | ||
| and funding sources used to supplement a TEXAS grant. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter M, Chapter 56, Education Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 56.3051 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 56.3051. MAXIMUM NUMBER OF SEMESTER CREDIT HOURS. A | ||
| person may not receive a TEXAS grant for more than the greater of: | ||
| (1) 135 semester credit hours or the equivalent; or | ||
| (2) 15 semester credit hours, or the equivalent, in | ||
| addition to the number of credit hours needed to complete the | ||
| student's degree program. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 56.307(j), Education Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| (j) A public institution of higher education shall use other | ||
| available sources of financial aid, other than a loan or work study, | ||
| to cover any difference in the amount of a TEXAS grant awarded to | ||
| the student and the actual amount of tuition and required fees at | ||
| the institution if the difference results from: | ||
| (1) a reduction in the amount of a TEXAS grant under | ||
| Subsection (i-1); or | ||
| (2) a deficiency in the amount of the grant as | ||
| established under Subsection (a) or (e), as applicable, to cover | ||
| the full amount of tuition and required fees charged to the student | ||
| by the institution. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 56.304(d), Education Code, is repealed. | ||
| SECTION 4. The changes in law made by this Act apply | ||
| beginning with initial or subsequent TEXAS grants awarded for the | ||
| 2021 fall semester. Initial or subsequent TEXAS grants awarded for | ||
| a semester or term before the 2021 fall semester are governed by the | ||
| applicable law in effect immediately before the effective date of | ||
| this Act, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 5. 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, 2019. | ||
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