Bill Text: TX HB1262 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-30 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB1262 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB1262-Comm_Sub.html
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By: Clardy | H.B. No. 1262 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1262: | |||
By: Zerwas | C.S.H.B. No. 1262 |
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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 | ||
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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 [ |
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(1) employed [ |
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certificate or an 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. |