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H.B. No. 1697
AN ACT
relating to the use of gifts to fund technology workforce
development grants and to the evaluation of the technology
workforce development grant program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 51.856(b), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) For a state fiscal biennium, the amount appropriated
from the undedicated portion of the general revenue fund under
Subsection (a) may not be less than the sum of:
(1) the amount of money deposited to the credit of the
account during that biennium under Section 51.855; [and]
(2) the market value of any in-kind contributions
accepted by the consortium during that biennium under Section
51.855, as determined by the comptroller based on information
provided to the comptroller by the consortium and verified by the
coordinating board; and
(3) the amount or value, as appropriate, of any gift,
grant, or donation that the coordinating board determines was:
(A) received by an eligible computer science
institution, eligible engineering institution, or eligible private
or independent engineering institution during that biennium for the
purposes for which grants are awarded under Section 51.857(a); and
(B) received from a source other than a
participant in the consortium.
SECTION 2. Sections 51.860(a) and (c), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) To evaluate the effectiveness of the grant program under
this subchapter, the coordinating board shall appoint an evaluation
[advisory] committee consisting of:
(1) higher education representatives; and
(2) experts in the fields of engineering and computer
science.
(c) The grant program evaluation committee is not subject to
Chapter 2110, Government Code.
SECTION 3. (a) The change in law made by this Act to Section
51.856(b), Education Code, applies only to an appropriation made
for a period that occurs on or after the effective date of this Act.
(b) On the effective date of this Act, the members of the
advisory committee established by Section 51.860, Education Code,
serving on that date become members of the evaluation committee
established by Section 51.860, Education Code, as amended by this
Act.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1697 was passed by the House on April
14, 2005, by a non-record vote.
______________________________
Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 1697 was passed by the Senate on May
24, 2005, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
______________________________
Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
_____________________
Governor