Section 901.654 - Factors(a) Scholarships shall be established and administered in a manner that the board determines best serves the public purpose of the scholarships.(b) In determining what best promotes the public purpose, the board shall consider at a minimum the following factors relating to each person applying for a scholarship under this section: (2) ethnic or racial minority status; and (3) scholastic ability and performance in at least 15 hours of upper-level accounting coursework. Amended by Acts 2023, Texas Acts of the 88th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 447,Sec. 13, eff. 6/9/2023.Transferred from Education Code, Subchapter N, Chapter 61 and amended by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 119, Sec. 2, eff. 9/1/2009.