84R8257 JRJ-D
By: Guillen H.B. No. 3506
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the appointment by certain elected officials of
students to receive a Texas Armed Services Scholarship.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 61.9772(b), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) Each biennium [In each year], the governor and the
lieutenant governor may each appoint four [two] students and each
state senator and each state representative may appoint two
students [one student] to receive an initial scholarship under this
subchapter. If, during the initial academic year in which a student
is appointed under this subsection to receive a scholarship, the
student fails to maintain eligibility or otherwise meet the
requirements to continue receiving the scholarship, the elected
official who appointed the student may appoint another student
eligible under this subchapter to receive any available funds
designated for the student originally appointed.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.