By Rangel H.B. No. 3356
75R9427 CAG-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the payment of funds to support the Early High School
1-3 Graduation Scholarship Program.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 56.207, Education Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 56.207. PAYMENT OF TUITION CREDIT. (a) [On receipt of
1-8 a report from an eligible institution of higher education under
1-9 Section 56.206(c), the coordinating board shall distribute to the
1-10 institution the amount of the state tuition credit applied by the
1-11 institution.]
1-12 [(b)] At least once each year the coordinating board shall
1-13 submit a report to the commissioner of education that includes:
1-14 (1) the name of each student who used state tuition
1-15 credit under this subchapter during the period covered by the
1-16 report;
1-17 (2) the school district from which each student
1-18 graduated from high school; and
1-19 (3) the amount of the state tuition credit used by
1-20 each student during the period covered by the report.
1-21 (b) [(c)] On receipt of a report from the coordinating board
1-22 under Subsection (a) [(b)], the commissioner shall transfer to the
1-23 coordinating board, from funds appropriated for the Foundation
1-24 School Program, an amount sufficient to pay each eligible
2-1 institution of higher education the amount of state tuition credit
2-2 applied by the institution [reimburse the coordinating board for
2-3 amounts disbursed in payment of state tuition credits] during the
2-4 period covered by the report.
2-5 (c) The coordinating board shall distribute the appropriate
2-6 amount of funds to each eligible institution when the board
2-7 receives the funds under Subsection (b).
2-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.