By Rangel H.B. No. 3473 75R4079 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to scholarships, grants, and other financial aid to and 1-3 recruitment of students at institutions of higher education. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. The legislature reaffirms and ratifies the 1-6 validity and enforceability of all laws enacted by the legislature 1-7 that authorize an institution of higher education or other state 1-8 agency or officer granting student loans, grants, scholarships, or 1-9 other financial aid to students of institutions of higher education 1-10 to give due consideration to the race or ethnicity of applicants. 1-11 Without compromising or negating the effect of the original 1-12 enactment of those laws, it is the intent of the legislature that 1-13 this section have the same force and effect as a reenactment of the 1-14 statutes so reaffirmed and ratified. This section applies to: 1-15 (1) Section 54.212, Education Code, as added by 1-16 Chapter 451, Acts of the 74th Legislature, Regular Session, 1995 1-17 (tuition exemption for Texas National Guard/ROTC students); 1-18 (2) Subchapter F, Chapter 56, Education Code (Texas 1-19 educational opportunity grant program); 1-20 (3) Subchapter I, Chapter 56, Education Code (Texas 1-21 Department of Transportation conditional grant program); 1-22 (4) Subchapter J, Chapter 56, Education Code (minority 1-23 doctoral incentive program); 1-24 (5) Subchapter L, Chapter 61, Education Code 2-1 (financial aid for nursing students and loan repayment program for 2-2 nurses); and 2-3 (6) Subchapter N, Chapter 61, Education Code 2-4 (scholarships for fifth-year accounting students). 2-5 SECTION 2. The legislature reaffirms and ratifies the 2-6 validity and enforceability of the following laws enacted by the 2-7 legislature that authorize the recruitment of or funding for the 2-8 recruitment of students into degree programs at institutions of 2-9 higher education with due consideration of the race or ethnicity of 2-10 the persons being recruited. Without compromising or negating the 2-11 effect of the original enactment of these statutes, it is the 2-12 intent of the legislature that this section have the same force and 2-13 effect as a reenactment of the statutes so reaffirmed and ratified. 2-14 This section applies to: 2-15 (1) Subchapter M, Chapter 51, Education Code 2-16 (engineering and science recruitment fund); 2-17 (2) Subchapter Q, Chapter 51, Education Code (medical 2-18 and health care professions recruitment fund); 2-19 (3) Section 61.0591, Education Code (incentive and 2-20 special initiative funding); and 2-21 (4) Section 61.076, Education Code (cooperation 2-22 between state agencies of education). 2-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 3-1 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 3-2 passage, and it is so enacted.