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Amend Floor Amendment No. 5 to SB 175 as follows:
(1) By striking the proposed Sec. 56.485(a), and
substituting to read as follows:
Sec. 56.485. AMOUNT OF SCHOLARSHIP;
LIMITATION. (a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (c),
the amount of a scholarship for each semester or other academic term
in which an eligible student is enrolled at an institution of higher
education is the amount not to exceed the student's tuition. The
board shall issue to each eligible student a certificate indicating
the amount of the scholarship awarded to the student.
(2) By striking Section 56.485(c) and substituting the
following:
(c) The legislature shall account in the General
Appropriations Act for the exemptions authorized by Subsection
56.485(a) in a way that provides a corresponding increase in the
general revenue funds appropriated to the institution.
(3) In Sec. 56.489, subsection (a)(2) after "performance"
and before "." inserting the following:
or any other cause deemed acceptable by the coordinating board