83R12356 KSD-D
By: Howard H.B. No. 3663
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to eliminating the set-aside of a portion of medical
school tuition for the physician education loan repayment program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 61.5391(a), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The physician education loan repayment program account
is an account in the general revenue fund. The account is composed
of:
(1) gifts and grants contributed to the account;
(2) earnings on the principal of the account; and
(3) other amounts deposited to the credit of the
account, including:
(A) [money deposited under Section 61.539(b);
[(B)] legislative appropriations; and
(B) [(C)] money deposited under Section
155.2415, Tax Code.
SECTION 2. Section 61.539, Education Code, is repealed.
SECTION 3. (a) The repeal by this Act of Section 61.539,
Education Code, applies beginning with tuition charged for the 2013
fall semester.
(b) The repeal by this Act of Section 61.539, Education
Code, does not affect the application of that section to tuition set
aside for purposes of that section for any semester or other
academic term before the 2013 fall semester, and the former law is
continued in effect until the tuition set aside before the 2013 fall
semester has been used as prescribed by that section.
SECTION 4. 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, 2013.