1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a program that allows institutions of higher education
1-3 in Texas to match a scholarship offered to Texas students by
1-4 out-of-state institutions.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is
1-7 amended by adding Section 61.086 to read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 61.086. MATCHING SCHOLARSHIPS TO RETAIN STUDENTS IN
1-9 TEXAS. (a) The board shall adopt rules that allow a public or
1-10 private or independent institution of higher education to use any
1-11 funds appropriated to the institution or that the institution may
1-12 use for the award of scholarships or grants to match, in whole or
1-13 in part, any nonathletic scholarship or grant offer, including an
1-14 offer of the payment of tuition, fees, room and board, or a
1-15 stipend, received by a graduate of a Texas public or private high
1-16 school from an out-of-state institution of higher education. The
1-17 rules shall provide for verifying that an out-of-state institution
1-18 has made a nonathletic scholarship or grant offer to a student and
1-19 the amount of the offer. The board may adopt any other rule
1-20 necessary to implement this section.
1-21 (b) In adopting rules under this section, the board may not
1-22 require an institution to match a scholarship or grant offer.
1-23 (c) Each public or private or independent institution of
1-24 higher education shall report to the board all scholarships or
2-1 grants offered by out-of-state institutions for which the reporting
2-2 institution offered a matching scholarship or grant under this
2-3 section and all scholarships or grants offered or awarded by the
2-4 reporting institution under this section and the methods used to
2-5 encourage Texas high school graduates to attend that institution.
2-6 The report shall include the race or ethnicity and gender of each
2-7 person to whom that institution offered or awarded a scholarship or
2-8 grant, the high school from which the person graduated, the
2-9 out-of-state institution that offered the scholarship or grant, and
2-10 the value and type of each scholarship or grant.
2-11 SECTION 2. (a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating
2-12 Board shall adopt rules relating to matching scholarships as
2-13 provided by Section 61.086, Education Code, as added by this Act,
2-14 not later than September 1, 1999.
2-15 (b) Not later than December 31, 2000, the Texas Higher
2-16 Education Coordinating Board shall report on the initial
2-17 implementation of this Act. The report shall include a description
2-18 of the students to whom scholarships were offered and awarded as
2-19 reported to the coordinating board by each institution covered by
2-20 Section 61.086, Education Code, as added by this Act. The report
2-21 shall also include a description of the methods used by each
2-22 institution to encourage Texas high school graduates to attend
2-23 Texas institutions of higher education. The coordinating board
2-24 shall deliver the report to the presiding officer of the standing
2-25 committee on higher education in each house of the legislature.
2-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
3-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
3-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
3-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
3-5 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2867 was passed by the House on April
21, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.
No. 2867 on May 20, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 143, Nays 1,
1 present, not voting.
_______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2867 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 18, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays
0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor