By Wilson                                             H.B. No. 1312
       74R5602 SMH-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to financial assistance for certain intercollegiate
    1-3  athletes.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Chapter 56, Education Code, is amended by adding
    1-6  Subchapter K to read as follows:
    1-7          SUBCHAPTER K.  TEXAS INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETE GRANTS
    1-8        Sec. 56.181.  DEFINITION.  In this subchapter, "program"
    1-9  means the Texas Intercollegiate Athlete Grant Program at an
   1-10  institution of higher education.
   1-11        Sec. 56.182.  PROGRAM ESTABLISHMENT.  The governing board of
   1-12  an institution of higher education may establish a Texas
   1-13  Intercollegiate Athlete Grant Program to provide grants to students
   1-14  enrolled at the institution.
   1-15        Sec. 56.183.  PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION.  (a)  The program must:
   1-16              (1)  provide a grant to a student in an amount
   1-17  determined by the governing board of the institution of higher
   1-18  education establishing the program not to exceed $200 a month for
   1-19  the period for which the grant is made; and
   1-20              (2)  be administered by the institution's financial aid
   1-21  office.
   1-22        (b)  The governing board may adopt rules providing
   1-23  application procedures for a grant under this subchapter.
   1-24        Sec. 56.184.  PROGRAM FUNDING.  (a)  The governing board of
    2-1  the institution of higher education establishing a program may set
    2-2  aside each academic year not less than five percent or more than 10
    2-3  percent of the institution's total receipts from athletic
    2-4  activities to be used only for grants awarded to students under
    2-5  this subchapter.
    2-6        (b)  A grant provided under this subchapter to a student may
    2-7  not be considered in determining whether the student is entitled to
    2-8  other athletic scholarship aid, including aid for tuition, fees,
    2-9  room, board, or books.
   2-10        Sec. 56.185.  ELIGIBILITY.  To be eligible to receive a grant
   2-11  under this subchapter, a student must be:
   2-12              (1)  enrolled in an institution of higher education;
   2-13  and
   2-14              (2)  a recipient of an athletic scholarship during the
   2-15  period for which the grant is to be awarded.
   2-16        Sec. 56.186.  LIMITATIONS ON GRANTS.  A grant awarded under
   2-17  this subchapter terminates if the student awarded the grant:
   2-18              (1)  becomes ineligible to receive the grant;
   2-19              (2)  becomes ineligible to receive the student's
   2-20  athletic scholarship; or
   2-21              (3)  ceases to participate in appropriate, scheduled
   2-22  athletic activities of the institution of higher education awarding
   2-23  the grant.
   2-24        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-25  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-26  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-27  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    3-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    3-2  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    3-3  passage, and it is so enacted.