SRC-MSY S.B. 1366 78(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 1366
78R3004 KKA-DBy: Bivins
Education
3/27/2003
As Filed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 

Current Texas law allows students who graduate from an accredited high
school within 36 months to be eligible for a $1000 Early High School
Graduation Scholarship.  As proposed, S.B. 1366 amends the requirements to
require a student to graduate early with a recommended or advanced diploma
in order to be eligible for the early graduation scholarship. 

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 56.203, Education Code, by providing that a
person must have successfully completed the recommended or advanced high
school program established under Section 28.025, rather than requirements
for a public high school diploma, in a certain time period in order to be
eligible for the Early High School Graduation Scholarship program. 

SECTION 2.  Provides that Section 56.203, Education Code, as amended by
this Act, applies only to a person who enters grade nine during or after
the 2003-2004 school year.  Provides that a person who enters grade nine
before that time is governed by the law as it existed previously.  

SECTION 3.  Effective date:  September 1, 2003.