84R7117 JSL-D
By: Alvarado H.B. No. 1896
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Texas Educational Opportunity Grant program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 56.407(c) and (g), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(c) The amount of a grant under this subchapter may not be
reduced by any gift aid for which the person receiving the grant is
eligible, unless the total amount of a person's grant plus any gift
aid received exceeds the student's financial need [total cost of
attendance at an eligible institution].
(g) An institution may use other available sources of
financial aid, other than a loan [or a Pell grant], to cover any
difference in the amount of a grant under this subchapter and the
actual amount of tuition and required fees at the institution.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act to Section
56.407, Education Code, applies beginning with Texas Educational
Opportunity Grants awarded for the 2016 fall semester. Grants
awarded for a semester or term before the 2016 fall semester are
governed by the applicable 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 September 1, 2015.