Education Code › Title 3 › Chapter 61 › Subchapter K

Texas Education Code § 61.604

Limitations

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board · Repayment of Certain Mental Health Professional Education Loans

(a) A mental health professional may receive repayment assistance under this subchapter for not more than three years.

(b) Not more than 10 percent of the number of repayment assistance grants paid under this subchapter each year may be awarded to mental health professionals providing mental health services described by Section 61.603(a)(3)(C).

(c) Not more than 30 percent of the number of repayment assistance grants paid under this subchapter each year may be awarded to mental health professionals in any one of the professions listed in Section 61.601.

(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (c), if in a state fiscal year not all funds available for purposes of the program are used, the board may allocate any unused funds to award repayment assistance grants to mental health professionals in any of the professions listed in Section 61.601.

(e) Repealed by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1180 (S.B. 646), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2025.

Official text of the Texas Education Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 322 (S.B. 239), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2015.

Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 891 (H.B. 3083), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2017.

Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1101 (H.B. 3808), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2017.

Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 678 (H.B. 1211), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2023.

Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 678 (H.B. 1211), Sec. 6(1), eff. September 1, 2023.

Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1069 (S.B. 532), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2023.

Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1180 (S.B. 646), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2025.

Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1180 (S.B. 646), Sec. 6, eff. September 1, 2025.

This section refers to

§ 61.603§ 61.601

Sections that refer to this one

§ 61.607§ 61.608