85R2872 MM-D
By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 49
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) 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. If a student appointed under
this subsection to receive a scholarship 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, 2017.