SB519

The bill adds Government Code Section 442.0205. The introduced, Senate committee, engrossed, House committee and enrolled versions contain the same operative grant requirements, funding authority, application deadline and effective-date provision. The history records a corrected Senate committee report, but comparison of the posted text versions identifies no substantive change to these provisions. Introduced text; All five versions.

The official amendment index lists no floor amendments, consistent with the recorded passage without amendments. The two eligibility activities are joined by “and” throughout: doing only one is not enough under this section. Amendment index; Final eligibility language.

Compare the published text versions in the official text index. A change is not attributed to a specific amendment here without a verified record.

The intended benefit is support for student history competitions and publication of student or faculty work through qualifying nonprofits. Contract performance requirements give the commission a way to hold recipients accountable. Actual reach depends on available money, applications and awards; the act does not itself appropriate a specified sum or guarantee every eligible applicant a grant. Program design and limits.

The March 16 fiscal note—the only note linked in the bill’s text index—says grant-program costs are indeterminate because appropriations and application volume are unknown. It assumes administrative costs can be absorbed within existing resources and anticipates no local-government fiscal impact. That is not a finding that the grants cost nothing. Fiscal note.