1-1 By: Dunnam, Rangel, Farabee (Senate Sponsor - West) H.B. No. 2867 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 22, 1999; 1-3 April 26, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Education; May 7, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; 1-6 May 7, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 2867 By: West 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to a program that allows institutions of higher education 1-11 in Texas to match a scholarship offered to Texas students by 1-12 out-of-state institutions. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 61, Education Code, is 1-15 amended by adding Section 61.086 to read as follows: 1-16 Sec. 61.086. MATCHING SCHOLARSHIPS TO RETAIN STUDENTS IN 1-17 TEXAS. (a) The board shall adopt rules that allow a public or 1-18 private or independent institution of higher education to use any 1-19 funds appropriated to the institution or that the institution may 1-20 use for the award of scholarships or grants to match, in whole or 1-21 in part, any nonathletic scholarship or grant offer, including an 1-22 offer of the payment of tuition, fees, room and board, or a 1-23 stipend, received by a graduate of a Texas public or private high 1-24 school from an out-of-state institution of higher education. The 1-25 rules shall provide for verifying that an out-of-state institution 1-26 has made a nonathletic scholarship or grant offer to a student and 1-27 the amount of the offer. The board may adopt any other rule 1-28 necessary to implement this section. 1-29 (b) In adopting rules under this section, the board may not 1-30 require an institution to match a scholarship or grant offer. 1-31 SECTION 2. (a) The Texas Higher Education Coordinating 1-32 Board shall adopt rules relating to matching scholarships as 1-33 provided by Section 61.086, Education Code, as added by this Act, 1-34 not later than September 1, 1999. 1-35 (b) Not later than December 31, 2000, the Texas Higher 1-36 Education Coordinating Board shall report on the initial 1-37 implementation of this Act. The report shall include a description 1-38 of the number of Texas high school students who leave the state to 1-39 attend out-of-state institutions of higher education and a 1-40 description of any method used to retain Texas students at Texas 1-41 institutions of higher education. The coordinating board shall 1-42 deliver the report to the presiding officer of the standing 1-43 committee on higher education in each house of the legislature. 1-44 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-45 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-46 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-47 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-48 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-49 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-50 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-51 * * * * *