By: Zaffirini  S.B. No. 1113
         (In the Senate - Filed March 5, 2013; March 12, 2013, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
  April 2, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 2, 2013,
  sent to printer.)
 
  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1113 By:  Zaffirini
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to matching private grants given to enhance additional
  research activities at institutions of higher education.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsections (a) and (b), Section 62.123,
  Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (a)  An eligible institution that receives gifts or
  endowments from private sources in a state fiscal year for the
  purpose of enhancing research activities at the institution,
  including a gift or endowment for endowed chairs, professorships,
  facilities, equipment, program costs, [or] graduate stipends or
  fellowships, or undergraduate research, is entitled to receive, out
  of funds appropriated for the purposes of the program for that
  fiscal year, a matching grant in an amount determined according to
  the following rates:
               (1)  50 percent of the amount of the gifts and
  endowments, if the total amount of gifts and endowments is $100,000
  or more but not more than $999,999;
               (2)  75 percent of the amount of the gifts and
  endowments, if the total amount of gifts and endowments is $1
  million or more but not more than $1,999,999; or
               (3)  100 percent of the amount of the gifts and
  endowments, if the total amount of gifts and endowments is $2
  million or more.
         (b)  An eligible institution is not entitled to matching
  funds under the program for:
               (1)  a gift that has been pledged but has not been
  received by the institution;
               (2)  a gift for undergraduate scholarships or financial
  aid grants; or
               (3)  any portion of gifts or endowments received by the
  institution from a single source in a state fiscal year in excess of
  $10 million.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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