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. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor