By Wilson H.B. No. 1445 76R6280 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to financial assistance for certain intercollegiate 1-3 athletes. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 56, Education Code, is amended by adding 1-6 Subchapter M to read as follows: 1-7 SUBCHAPTER M. TEXAS INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETE GRANTS 1-8 Sec. 56.251. DEFINITION. In this subchapter, "program" 1-9 means the Texas Intercollegiate Athlete Grant Program at an 1-10 institution of higher education. 1-11 Sec. 56.252. PROGRAM ESTABLISHMENT. (a) The governing 1-12 board of an institution of higher education may establish a Texas 1-13 Intercollegiate Athlete Grant Program to provide grants to students 1-14 enrolled at the institution. The institution's financial aid 1-15 office shall administer the program. 1-16 (b) The governing board may adopt rules providing 1-17 application procedures for a grant under this subchapter. 1-18 Sec. 56.253. GRANTS. The program must provide a grant to a 1-19 qualified student in an amount determined by the governing board of 1-20 the institution establishing the program not to exceed $200 a month 1-21 for the period for which the grant is made. 1-22 Sec. 56.254. PROGRAM FUNDING. (a) The governing board of 1-23 the institution establishing a program shall set aside each 1-24 academic year not less than five percent or more than 10 percent of 2-1 the institution's total receipts from athletic activities to be 2-2 used only for grants awarded to students under this subchapter. 2-3 (b) A grant provided under this subchapter to a student may 2-4 not be considered in determining whether the student is entitled to 2-5 other athletic scholarship aid, including aid for tuition, fees, 2-6 room, board, or books. 2-7 Sec. 56.255. ELIGIBILITY. To be eligible to receive a grant 2-8 under this subchapter, a student must: 2-9 (1) be enrolled in the institution awarding the grant; 2-10 and 2-11 (2) be a recipient of an athletic scholarship awarded 2-12 by the institution during the period for which the grant is to be 2-13 awarded. 2-14 Sec. 56.256. LIMITATIONS ON GRANTS. A grant awarded under 2-15 this subchapter terminates if the student awarded the grant: 2-16 (1) becomes ineligible to receive the grant; 2-17 (2) becomes ineligible to receive the student's 2-18 athletic scholarship; or 2-19 (3) ceases to participate in appropriate, scheduled 2-20 athletic activities of the institution awarding the grant. 2-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-27 passage, and it is so enacted.