By Jones of Dallas H.B. No. 3089 75R7597 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to financial aid policies for the support of a student 1-3 with a disability or chronic illness. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 56, Education Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 56.004 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 56.004. STUDENT LOANS FOR STUDENT WITH DISABILITY OR 1-8 CHRONIC ILLNESS. (a) An institution of higher education or other 1-9 agency of this state that administers federally insured student 1-10 loans may not adopt or enforce a policy that prevents a student 1-11 with a disability or chronic illness from receiving the maximum 1-12 amount of loan funds for which the student is eligible under 1-13 federal law to the extent the student requires the loan amount to 1-14 cover tuition and fees, other costs associated with attending the 1-15 institution, reasonable living expenses, and medical or personal 1-16 care expenses incurred in connection with treatment of the 1-17 student's disability or illness. 1-18 (b) This section does not prohibit the institution from 1-19 enforcing a policy limiting the maximum amount of loan funds that 1-20 other students at the institution may receive if federal law 1-21 permits the institution to establish that policy. 1-22 (c) For purposes of this section, a student has a disability 1-23 if the student has a disability for purposes of the Americans with 1-24 Disabilities Act (42 U.S.C. Section 12101 et seq.). 2-1 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-7 passage, and it is so enacted.