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Senate Bill 44 |
Senate Author: Zaffirini |
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Effective: 6-19-09 |
House Sponsor: Branch |
Senate Bill 44 amends the Education Code to expand the advanced research program to include the encouragement and support of basic research in the specified fields conducted by university students as well as by faculty members. The bill requires guidelines and procedures developed by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for the program to require that, as a condition of receiving an award for a project under the program, an eligible institution must use a portion of the award to support, in connection with the project for which the award is made, basic research conducted by graduate or undergraduate students if the institution is a medical and dental unit or by undergraduate students if the institution is any other institution of higher education.