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By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1321
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the payment of funds in support of the Early High
1-2 School Graduation Scholarship Program.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 56.207(a), Education Code, as added by
1-5 Chapter 260, Acts of the 74th Legislature, 1995, is amended to read
1-6 as follows:
1-7 (a) [On receipt of a report from an eligible institution of
1-8 higher education under Section 56.206(c), the coordinating board
1-9 shall distribute to the institution the amount of the state tuition
1-10 credit applied by the institution.]
1-11 [(b)] At least once a year the coordinating board shall
1-12 submit a report to the commissioner of education that includes:
1-13 (1) the name of each student who used state tuition
1-14 credit under this subchapter during the period covered by the
1-15 report;
1-16 (2) the school district from which each student
1-17 graduated from high school; and
1-18 (3) the amount of the state tuition credit used by
1-19 each student during the period covered by the report.
1-20 (b) [(c)] On receipt of the report from the coordinating
1-21 board under Subsection (a) [(b)], the commissioner shall transfer
1-22 to the coordinating board, from funds appropriated for the
1-23 Foundation School Program, an amount sufficient to pay each
2-1 institution of higher education eligible under Section 56.206(c) to
2-2 receive reimbursement for the state tuition credit applied by the
2-3 institution [reimburse the coordinating board for amounts disbursed
2-4 in payment of state tuition credits] during the period covered by
2-5 the report.
2-6 (c) On receipt of the funds provided under Subsection (b) of
2-7 this section, the coordinating board shall distribute the funds to
2-8 each eligible institution.
2-9 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-10 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.