H.B. No. 3577
AN ACT
relating to eligibility requirements for the Texas Educational
Opportunity Grant.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 56.404(e), Education Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(e) A person may not receive a grant under this subchapter
and [if the person is eligible for] a TEXAS grant under Subchapter M
for the same semester or other term, regardless of whether the
person is otherwise eligible for both grants during that semester
or term. A person who but for this subsection would be awarded both
a grant under this subchapter and a TEXAS grant for the same
semester or other term is entitled to receive only the grant of the
greater amount.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act relating to
the eligibility of a student for a Texas Educational Opportunity
Grant applies beginning with grants awarded for the 2011-2012
academic year. Grants awarded for an academic year before the
2011-2012 academic year are governed by the law in effect
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and the former
law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. 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, 2011.
______________________________ ______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3577 was passed by the House on April
21, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 148, Nays 0, 1 present, not
voting; that the House refused to concur in Senate amendments to
H.B. No. 3577 on May 23, 2011, and requested the appointment of a
conference committee to consider the differences between the two
houses; and that the House adopted the conference committee report
on H.B. No. 3577 on May 27, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 142,
Nays 0, 2 present, not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3577 was passed by the Senate, with
amendments, on May 19, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays
0; at the request of the House, the Senate appointed a conference
committee to consider the differences between the two houses; and
that the Senate adopted the conference committee report on H.B. No.
3577 on May 28, 2011, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0
.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: __________________
Date
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Governor