Bill Text: MI HB4190 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Higher education; financial aid; legislative merit award scholarships; add citizenship requirement. Amends sec. 4 of 1976 PA 228 (MCL 390.1304).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 23-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-10 - Printed Bill Filed 02/06/2009 [HB4190 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB4190-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4190

 

February 5, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Agema, Rogers, McMillin, Crawford, Opsommer, Pavlov, Lund, Meltzer, Rick Jones, Marleau, Haines, Meekhof, Knollenberg, Bolger, Moss, Denby, Ball, Daley, Lori, Kurtz, Calley, Moore and Walsh and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to amend 1976 PA 228, entitled

 

"The legislative merit award program act,"

 

by amending section 4 (MCL 390.1304), as amended by 2004 PA 182.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 4. A person is eligible for a scholarship award if the

 

person meets all of the following qualifications:

 

     (a) Has resided in this state continuously for the preceding

 

12 months and is not considered a resident of any other state.

 

     (b) Is a United States citizen or any other student described

 

as eligible to receive title IV, HEA program assistance under 34

 

CFR 668.33.

 

     (c) (b) Has not graduated from high school at the time of the

 

scholarship examination.

 

     (d) (c) Enrolls in a recognized postsecondary educational

 

institution within 4 years after graduation from high school.

 

     (e) (d) Is not enrolled in an institution whose primary

 

purpose is to prepare students for ordination or appointment as a

 

member of the clergy of a church, denomination, or religious

 

association, order, or sect.