The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (Coordinating Board) adopts amendments to §15.10 concerning the Texas Research Incentive Program (TRIP) without changes to the proposed text as published in the October 30, 2015, issue of the Texas Register (40 TexReg 7557). Changes to this section were made in accordance with Senate Bill 44, passed by the 84th Texas Legislature, Regular Session. The TRIP rule amendments proposed for this section were reviewed and approved by the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on TRIP on October 5, 2015. The report of the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee is available at the offices of the Coordinating Board located at 1200 East Anderson Lane, Austin, Texas. Specifically, this section is amended to explicitly allow donations for restricted undergraduate research to be matched and explicitly disallow donations for undergraduate financial aid grants to be matched.

No comments were received regarding the amendments.

The amendments are adopted under the Texas Education Code, §62.123. Texas Education Code, §62.124 provides the Coordinating Board with the authority to adopt rules for the administration of the program.