By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1066
(In the Senate - Filed March 9, 2015; March 16, 2015, read
first time and referred to Committee on Higher Education;
March 25, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
Nays 0; March 25, 2015, sent to printer.)
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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 T-STEM
Challenge Scholarship recipients [graduates], within twelve
[three] months of receipt of a scholarship [after graduation], are:
(1) employed [by a business in a Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) field]; or
(2) enrolled in [upper-division] courses leading to a
certificate, associate, or baccalaureate degree in a Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) field.
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.
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