84R2266 AAF-D
By: Clardy H.B. No. 1262
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to continuing eligibility requirements for institutions
of higher education to participate in the Texas Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (T-STEM) Challenge
Scholarship Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 61.9794(b), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) To maintain eligibility, each year beginning with the
third [second] year following implementation of a scholarship
program under this subchapter, an institution must demonstrate to
the board that at least 70 percent of the institution's most recent
graduating class of T-STEM Challenge Scholarship award recipients
for which the relevant information is available [graduates, within
three months after graduation, are]:
(1) have graduated with an associate degree [employed
by a business] in a Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics (STEM) field; or
(2) within nine months after graduation, have:
(A) enrolled in upper-division courses leading
to a baccalaureate degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics (STEM) field; or
(B) become employed in this state as shown by the
latest available Texas Workforce Commission quarterly employment
data.
SECTION 2. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
shall award scholarships under Subchapter GG, Chapter 61, Education
Code, as amended by this Act, beginning with the 2015-2016 academic
year.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.