85R4418 JRJ-D
By: RodrÃguez S.B. No. 439
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, Education Code, is amended by
amending Subsections (b) and (c) and adding Subsection (d) to read
as follows:
(b) In each year, the governor and the lieutenant governor
may each appoint two students and each state senator and each state
representative may appoint one student to receive an initial
scholarship under this subchapter. The board by rule shall
establish a process so that for each appointment under this section
the appointing officer may submit the name of an alternate student
for the scholarship.
(c) For a student to continue to receive a scholarship
awarded under this subchapter, the student must maintain
satisfactory academic progress as determined by the board
[institution in which the student is enrolled].
(d) If an eligible alternate student is submitted to the
board under Subsection (b) and the board determines a student
appointed under Subsection (b) to receive an initial scholarship
fails to maintain eligibility or otherwise meet the requirements to
continue receiving the scholarship, beginning with the academic
year following the determination the board shall award the
remaining term of the initial scholarship to the corresponding
alternate student submitted to the board by the appointing officer
under Subsection (b).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.