Bill Text: MI SB0550 | 2015-2016 | 98th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Higher education; tuition; Michigan tuition grants; revise to allow students in theology, divinity, or religious programs in certain institutions to receive tuition grant money. Amends secs. 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 of 1966 PA 313 (MCL 390.992 et seq.) & adds sec. 1a.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-10-07 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [SB0550 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2015-SB0550-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 550
October 7, 2015, Introduced by Senator ZORN and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 1966 PA 313, entitled
"An act to award tuition grants to resident students enrolled in
independent nonprofit institutions of higher learning; and to make
an appropriation therefor,"
by amending sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (MCL 390.992, 390.993,
390.994, 390.995, and 390.996), sections 3, 4, 5, and 6 as amended
by 1980 PA 503, and by adding section 1a.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1a. As used in this act:
(a) "Department" means the department of treasury.
(b) "Eligible resident student" means an individual who has
resided in this state continuously for the immediately preceding 12
months, is not considered a resident of any other state, is not
incarcerated in a corrections institution, and is enrolled as an
undergraduate or graduate student in an independent nonprofit
college or university in this state, as described in section 1.
Sec.
2. The Michigan higher education assistance authority
created
by Act No. 77 of the Public Acts of 1960, as amended, being
sections
390.951 to 390.961 of the Michigan Compiled Laws,
department
shall administer the tuition grants
which established
under section 1 and shall, as provided by this act, make those
grants be available to each eligible
resident student registered as
an
eligible undergraduate or graduate student. Priority shall be
given
students, giving priority to full-time students.
Sec. 3. (1) Upon application of an eligible resident student,
who
has resided in this state continuously for the preceding 12
months,
is not considered a resident of any other state, is not
incarcerated
in a corrections institution, and is registered in an
independent
nonprofit college or university in this state, as
described
in section 1, the Michigan
higher education assistance
authority
department shall grant to
that student an amount as
provided
for in this act for each semester of attendance. A student
shall
not be eligible for a grant for tuition and fees that he or
she attends an independent nonprofit college or university, as
described in section 1, for not more than 10 semesters of
undergraduate education, or its equivalent in trimesters, or its
equivalent
as determined by the authority department
for less than
full-time
students; in not more than 6 semesters of graduate
education,
or its equivalent in trimesters; and in not more than 8
semesters
in of dental education, or its equivalent in trimesters.
(2)
A An eligible resident student shall maintain satisfactory
academic progress, as defined by the college or university in which
the student is enrolled, in order to remain eligible for the
tuition grant under this act.
(3)
If a an eligible resident student possessing a degree at a
given academic level enrolls for a second degree at the same
academic
level, the authority department
shall include tuition
grants received by the student when enrolled for the previous
degree at the same level in determining the student's eligibility
pursuant
to under subsection (1).
Sec. 4. (1) The department shall determine the amount of the
grant
to be paid for each semester or trimester shall be determined
by
the Michigan higher education assistance authority based upon an
evaluation
of the family's financial resources of the eligible
resident student's family. In determining financial resources the
authority
department shall use the same criteria as used in Act No.
208
of the Public Acts of 1964, as amended, being sections 390.971
to
390.981 of the Michigan Compiled Laws. 1964 PA 208, MCL 390.971
to 390.981. The evaluation shall make allowance for other family
members
of the applicant's family enrolled in an approved
institution of higher education.
(2) A grant shall not be made under this act to a student who
is
enrolled in a program of study leading to a degree in theology,
divinity,
or religious education.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.
(3)
Prorated The department
shall make prorated payments shall
be
made at the beginning of each
semester or term to the eligible
resident student or to the college or university for credit to the
student's account.
Sec. 5. Each tuition grant shall not exceed the amount of
tuition and fees for the full academic year as reported by the
college
or university in which the applicant eligible resident
student
is enrolled, or an amount that the
Michigan higher
education
assistance authority department
finds appropriate in
relation
to the family's financial resources, whichever is the
lesser.
less. If there are not sufficient appropriated funds to
provide each eligible resident student with the grant amount for
which
the student is eligible, the Michigan higher education
assistance
authority department shall establish a maximum grant
level for that academic year.
Sec.
6. The Michigan higher education assistance
authoritydepartment shall promulgate rules to carry out implement
this
act pursuant to Act No. 306 of the Public Acts of 1969, as
amended,
being sections 24.201 to 24.315 of the Michigan Compiled
Laws.the administrative procedures act of 1969,
1969 PA 306, MCL
24.201 to 24.328.
