By: Zaffirini, et al. S.B. No. 49
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the appointment by certain elected officials of
  students to receive a Texas Armed Services Scholarship.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 61.9772(b), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  In each year, the governor and the lieutenant governor
  may each appoint two students and two alternates and each state
  senator and each state representative may appoint one student and
  one alternate to receive an initial scholarship under this
  subchapter.  If a student appointed under this subsection to
  receive a scholarship fails to initially meet eligibility or
  otherwise meet the requirements to initially receive the
  scholarship, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board must
  notify the alternate on file of their nomination.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.