By: Zaffirini, et al. S.B. No. 49
(Guillen)
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 two alternates and each state
senator and each state representative may appoint one student and
one alternate to receive an initial scholarship under this
subchapter. If a student appointed under this subsection to
receive a scholarship fails to initially meet eligibility or
otherwise meet the requirements to initially receive the
scholarship, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board must
notify the alternate on file of their nomination.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.