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Senate Bill 1066 |
Senate Author: Zaffirini et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-15 |
House Sponsor: Clardy |
Under current law, to maintain eligibility to participate in the Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (T-STEM) Challenge Scholarship program, certain public institutions of higher education must demonstrate to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board that at least 70 percent of the institution's T-STEM Challenge Scholarship graduates are employed by a business in a STEM field or are enrolled in upper-division courses leading to a bachelor's degree in a STEM field within three months after graduation, beginning with the second year following implementation of a T-STEM Challenge Scholarship program.
Senate Bill 1066 amends the Education Code to revise the eligibility requirements to instead require that such public institutions of higher education demonstrate to the coordinating board that at least 70 percent of the institution's T-STEM Challenge Scholarship recipients are employed or enrolled in courses leading to a certificate, associate, or bachelor's degree in a STEM field within 12 months of receipt of a scholarship, beginning with the third year following implementation of a T-STEM Challenge Scholarship program.