SRC-TAG H.B. 3209 78(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   H.B. 3209
78R12387 JSA-FBy: Heflin (Ratliff)
Education
5/22/2003
Engrossed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

The 76th Legislature created the Toward Excellence, Access and Success
(TEXAS) Grant program to encourage high school students to take college
preparatory courses and to give qualifying students in Texas the
opportunity to obtain a higher education.  Some students attending private
colleges and universities also receive Tuition Equalization Grants (TEG)
to help them pay the higher tuition prices of private university tuition.
Currently, a student attending a private university who qualifies for both
a TEG and TEXAS Grant is allowed to receive only a portion of the TEG for
which that student is eligible.  H.B. 3209 authorizes a qualifying student
to receive both a TEXAS Grant and a TEG in an academic year not to exceed
tuition and fees charged to the student. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to
a state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 56.307(h), Education Code, to prohibit  the
total amount of grants that a student may receive an academic year under
this subchapter and under Section 61.221 from exceeding the total amount
of tuition and required fees charged to the student for the academic
periods for which one or more the grants were awarded.  Deletes text
prohibiting the total amount of grants from exceeding the maximum amount
authorized under Section 61.227. 

SECTION 2.  Provides that the change in law made by this Act applies
beginning with the 2003-2004 academic year. 

SECTION 3.  Effective date: upon passage or September 1, 2003.