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1	1	82R13595 KEL-D
2	2	By: Branch, Howard of Travis, Hunter, Aycock, H.B. No. 10
3	3	Villarreal, et al.
4	4	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 10:
5	5	By: Howard of Travis C.S.H.B. No. 10
6	6
7	7
8	8	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
9	9	AN ACT
10	10	relating to eligibility for a TEXAS grant and to administration of
11	11	the TEXAS grant program.
12	12	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
13	13	SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the TEXAS Grant
14	14	College Readiness Reform Act.
15	15	SECTION 2. Section 56.303, Education Code, is amended by
16	16	amending Subsection (d) and adding Subsections (d-1), (e), and (f)
17	17	to read as follows:
18	18	(d) From money appropriated by the legislature for the
19	19	purposes of this subchapter, the coordinating board annually shall
20	20	determine the allocation of money available for TEXAS grants among
21	21	general academic teaching institutions and other eligible
22	22	institutions and shall distribute the money accordingly.
23	23	(d-1) In allocating among general academic teaching
24	24	institutions money available for initial TEXAS grants for an
25	25	academic year, the coordinating board shall ensure that each of
26	26	those institutions' percentage share of the total amount of money
27	27	for initial grants that is allocated to general academic teaching
28	28	institutions under this subsection for that year does not, as a
29	29	result of the number of students who establish eligibility at the
30	30	institution for an initial grant under Section 56.3041(2)(A),
31	31	change from the institution's percentage share of the total amount
32	32	of money for initial grants that is allocated to those institutions
33	33	under this subsection for the preceding academic year.
34	34	(e) In determining who should receive a TEXAS grant, the
35	35	coordinating board and the eligible institutions shall give
36	36	[highest] priority to awarding TEXAS grants to students who
37	37	demonstrate the greatest financial need.
38	38	(f) Beginning with TEXAS grants awarded for the 2013-2014
39	39	academic year, in determining who should receive an initial TEXAS
40	40	grant, each general academic teaching institution, in addition to
41	41	giving priority as provided by Subsection (e), shall give highest
42	42	priority to students who meet the eligibility criteria described by
43	43	Section 56.3041(2)(A). If there is money available in excess of the
44	44	amount required to award an initial TEXAS grant to all students
45	45	meeting those criteria, a general academic teaching institution
46	46	shall make awards to other students who meet the eligibility
47	47	criteria described by Section 56.304(a)(2)(A), provided that the
48	48	institution continues to give priority to students as provided by
49	49	Subsection (e).
50	50	SECTION 3. Section 56.304(h), Education Code, is amended to
51	51	read as follows:
52	52	(h) The coordinating board shall adopt rules to allow a
53	53	person who is otherwise eligible to receive a TEXAS grant, in the
54	54	event of a hardship or for other good cause shown, including a
55	55	showing of a severe illness or other debilitating condition that
56	56	may affect the person's academic performance or that the person is
57	57	responsible for the care of a sick, injured, or needy person and
58	58	that the person's provision of care may affect the person's academic
59	59	performance, to receive a TEXAS grant while enrolled in a number of
60	60	semester credit hours that is less than the number of semester
61	61	credit hours required under Subsection (a)(5) or Section
62	62	56.3041(5), as applicable. The coordinating board may not allow a
63	63	person to receive a TEXAS grant while enrolled in fewer than six
64	64	semester credit hours.
65	65	SECTION 4. Subchapter M, Chapter 56, Education Code, is
66	66	amended by amending Section 56.3041 and adding Section 56.3042 to
67	67	read as follows:
68	68	Sec. 56.3041. INITIAL ELIGIBILITY OF PERSON GRADUATING FROM
69	69	HIGH SCHOOL ON OR AFTER MAY 1, 2013, AND ENROLLING IN A GENERAL
70	70	ACADEMIC TEACHING INSTITUTION. Notwithstanding Section 56.304(a),
71	71	to be eligible initially for a TEXAS grant, a person graduating from
72	72	high school on or after May 1, 2013, and enrolling in a general
73	73	academic teaching institution must:
74	74	(1) be a resident of this state as determined by
75	75	coordinating board rules;
76	76	(2) meet the academic requirements prescribed by
77	77	Paragraph (A), (B), or (C) as follows:
78	78	(A) be a graduate of a public or accredited
79	79	private high school in this state who completed the recommended
80	80	high school program established under Section 28.025 or its
81	81	equivalent and have accomplished any two or more of the following:
82	82	(i) graduation under the advanced high
83	83	school program established under Section 28.025 or its equivalent,
84	84	successful completion of the course requirements of the
85	85	international baccalaureate diploma program, or earning of 12 or
86	86	more credits in high school through courses described in Sections
87	87	28.009(a)(1), (2), and (3);
88	88	(ii) satisfaction of the Texas Success
89	89	Initiative (TSI) college readiness benchmarks prescribed by the
90	90	coordinating board under Section 51.3062(f) on any assessment
91	91	instrument designated by the coordinating board under Section
92	92	51.3062(c) or (e), or qualification for an exemption as described
93	93	by Section 51.3062(p), (q), or (q-1);
94	94	(iii) graduation in the top one-third of
95	95	the person's high school graduating class or graduation from high
96	96	school with a grade point average of at least 3.0 on a four-point
97	97	scale or the equivalent; or
98	98	(iv) completion for high school credit of
99	99	at least one advanced mathematics course following the successful
100	100	completion of an Algebra II course, as permitted by Section
101	101	28.025(b-3), or at least one advanced career and technical course,
102	102	as permitted by Section 28.025(b-2);
103	103	(B) have received an associate degree from a
104	104	public or private institution of higher education; or
105	105	(C) if sufficient money is available, meet the
106	106	eligibility criteria described by Section 56.304(a)(2)(A);
107	107	(3) meet financial need requirements established by
108	108	the coordinating board;
109	109	(4) be enrolled in an undergraduate degree or
110	110	certificate program at the general academic teaching institution;
111	111	(5) except as provided under rules adopted under
112	112	Section 56.304(h), be enrolled as:
113	113	(A) an entering undergraduate student for at
114	114	least three-fourths of a full course load, as determined by the
115	115	coordinating board, not later than the 16th month after the
116	116	calendar month in which the person graduated from high school;
117	117	(B) an entering undergraduate student who
118	118	entered military service not later than the first anniversary of
119	119	the date the person graduated from high school and who enrolled for
120	120	at least three-fourths of a full course load, as determined by the
121	121	coordinating board, at the general academic teaching institution
122	122	not later than 12 months after being honorably discharged from
123	123	military service; or
124	124	(C) a continuing undergraduate student for at
125	125	least three-fourths of a full course load, as determined by the
126	126	coordinating board, not later than the 12th month after the
127	127	calendar month in which the person received an associate degree
128	128	from a public or private institution of higher education;
129	129	(6) have applied for any available financial aid or
130	130	assistance; and
131	131	(7) comply with any additional nonacademic
132	132	requirements adopted by the coordinating board under this
133	133	subchapter.
134	134	Sec. 56.3042. INITIAL QUALIFICATION [ELIGIBILITY] OF
135	135	PERSON ON TRACK TO MEET ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS [COMPLETE
136	136	RECOMMENDED OR ADVANCED CURRICULUM]. (a) If at the time an
137	137	eligible institution awards TEXAS grants to initial recipients for
138	138	an academic year an applicant has not completed high school or the
139	139	applicant's final high school transcript is not yet available to
140	140	the institution, the student is considered to have satisfied the
141	141	eligibility requirements of Section 56.304(a)(2)(A) or
142	142	56.3041(2)(A) if the student's available high school transcript
143	143	indicates that at the time the transcript was prepared the student
144	144	was on schedule to graduate from high school and to meet the
145	145	eligibility requirements [complete the recommended or advanced
146	146	high school curriculum or its equivalent], as applicable to the
147	147	student, in time to be eligible for a TEXAS grant for the academic
148	148	year.
149	149	(a-1) If at the time an eligible institution awards TEXAS
150	150	grants to initial recipients for an academic year an applicant who
151	151	is an associate degree candidate has not completed that degree or
152	152	the applicant's final college transcript is not yet available to
153	153	the institution, the student is considered to have satisfied the
154	154	associate degree requirement of Section 56.304(a)(2)(B) or
155	155	56.3041(2)(B) if the student's available college transcript
156	156	indicates that at the time the transcript was prepared the student
157	157	was on schedule to complete the associate degree in time to be
158	158	eligible for a TEXAS grant for the academic year.
159	159	(b) The coordinating board or the eligible institution may
160	160	require the student to forgo or repay the amount of an initial TEXAS
161	161	grant awarded to the student as described by Subsection (a) or (a-1)
162	162	if the student fails to meet the eligibility requirements of
163	163	Section 56.304(a)(2)(A), 56.3041(2)(A), 56.304(a)(2)(B), or
164	164	56.3041(2)(B), as applicable to the student, [complete the
165	165	recommended or advanced high school curriculum or its equivalent]
166	166	after the issuance of the available high school or college
167	167	transcript.
168	168	(c) A person who is required to forgo or repay the amount of
169	169	an initial TEXAS grant under Subsection (b) may subsequently become
170	170	eligible to receive an initial TEXAS grant under Section 56.304 or
171	171	56.3041 by satisfying the associate degree requirement prescribed
172	172	by Section 56.304(a)(2)(B) or 56.3041(2)(B) and the other
173	173	[applicable] requirements of those sections applicable to the
174	174	person [that section] at the time the person reapplies for the
175	175	grant.
176	176	(d) A person who receives an initial TEXAS grant under
177	177	Subsection (a) or (a-1) and is not required to forgo or repay the
178	178	amount of the grant under Subsection (b) may become eligible to
179	179	receive a subsequent TEXAS grant under Section 56.305 only by
180	180	satisfying the associate degree requirement prescribed by Section
181	181	56.304(a)(2)(B) or 56.3041(2)(B), as applicable to the person, in
182	182	addition to the requirements of Section 56.305 at the time the
183	183	person applies for the subsequent grant.
184	184	SECTION 5. The change in law made to Subchapter M, Chapter
185	185	56, Education Code, by this Act applies beginning with TEXAS grants
186	186	awarded for the 2013 fall semester. Grants awarded for a semester
187	187	or term before the 2013 fall semester are governed by the applicable
188	188	law in effect immediately before the effective date of this Act, and
189	189	the former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
190	190	SECTION 6. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.