Bill Text: TX HB3577 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to eligibility requirements for the Texas Educational Opportunity Grant.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-17 - Effective immediately [HB3577 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3577-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3577 |
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relating to eligibility requirements for the Texas Educational | ||
Opportunity Grant. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 56.404(e), Education Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(e) A person may not receive a grant under this subchapter | ||
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for the same semester or other term, regardless of whether the | ||
person is otherwise eligible for both grants during that semester | ||
or term. A person who but for this subsection would be awarded both | ||
a grant under this subchapter and a TEXAS grant for the same | ||
semester or other term is entitled to receive only the grant of the | ||
greater amount. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act relating to | ||
the eligibility of a student for a Texas Educational Opportunity | ||
Grant applies beginning with grants awarded for the 2011-2012 | ||
academic year. Grants awarded for an academic year before the | ||
2011-2012 academic year are governed 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 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, 2011. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3577 was passed by the House on April | ||
21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not | ||
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to | ||
H.B. No. 3577 on May 23, 2011, and requested the appointment of a | ||
conference committee to consider the differences between the two | ||
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report | ||
on H.B. No. 3577 on May 27, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142, | ||
Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3577 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference | ||
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and | ||
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No. | ||
3577 on May 28, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0 | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |