1-1     By:  Barrientos                                       S.B. No. 1321

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 18, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Finance; April 28, 1997,

 1-4     reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 13, Nays 0; April 28, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1321                   By:  Truan

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the payment of funds to support the Early High School

 1-9     Graduation Scholarship program.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 56.207, Education Code, is amended to

1-12     read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 56.207.  PAYMENT OF TUITION CREDIT.  (a)  [On receipt of

1-14     a report from an eligible institution of higher education under

1-15     Section 56.206(c), the coordinating board shall distribute to the

1-16     institution the amount of the state tuition credit applied by the

1-17     institution.]

1-18           [(b)]  At least once each year the coordinating board shall

1-19     submit a report to the commissioner of education that includes:

1-20                 (1)  the name of each student who used state tuition

1-21     credit under this subchapter during the period covered by the

1-22     report;

1-23                 (2)  the school district from which each student

1-24     graduated from high school; and

1-25                 (3)  the amount of the state tuition credit used by

1-26     each student during the period covered by the report.

1-27           (b) [(c)]  On receipt of a report from the coordinating board

1-28     under Subsection (a) [(b)], the commissioner shall transfer to the

1-29     coordinating board, from funds appropriated for the Foundation

1-30     School Program, an amount sufficient to pay each eligible

1-31     institution of higher education the amount of state tuition credit

1-32     applied by the institution [reimburse the coordinating board for

1-33     amounts disbursed in payment of state tuition credits] during the

1-34     period covered by the report.

1-35           (c)  The coordinating board shall distribute the appropriate

1-36     amount of funds to each eligible institution when the board

1-37     receives the funds under Subsection (b).

1-38           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-39           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-40     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-41     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-42     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-43     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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