81R23543 JRJ-F
By: Howard of Travis H.B. No. 3276
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3276:
By: Howard of Travis C.S.H.B. No. 3276
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the determination of student priority in awarding TEXAS
grants.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 56.303, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsections (e) and (e-1) to
read as follows:
(d) In determining who should receive a TEXAS grant, the
coordinating board [and the eligible institutions] shall give
highest priority to awarding TEXAS grants to students who
demonstrate the greatest financial need.
(e) In determining who should receive a TEXAS grant, each
eligible institution shall give highest priority to awarding TEXAS
grants to students who:
(1) demonstrate the greatest financial need; and
(2) beginning with grants awarded for the 2012-2013
academic year, meet, exceed, or receive an exemption from the
standards developed for assessment instruments designed to assess a
student's readiness to perform freshman-level academic coursework
under Section 51.3062.
(e-1) For the 2012-2013 academic year and for grants awarded
for the 2013-2014 academic year before September 30, 2013, each
eligible institution shall give priority under Subsection (e)(2) to
a student who meets, exceeds, or is exempt from the current
standards developed under Section 51.3062 or from the standards
developed under Section 51.3062 as they existed on January 1, 2009.
This subsection expires December 1, 2013.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2009.