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State |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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 | 21st Century Skills |
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| Accountability |
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| Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
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| Accountability--Reporting Results |
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| Accountability--Rewards |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--No Pass No Play |
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| Accountability--Sanctions/Interventions--Takeovers |
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| Accountability--School Improvement |
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| Adult Basic Education |
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| Assessment |
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| Assessment--Accommodations |
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| Assessment--College Entrance Exams |
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| Assessment--Computer Based |
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| Assessment--End-of-Course |
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| Assessment--Formative/Interim |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Alternative Education |
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| At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
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| Attendance |
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| Attendance--Compulsory |
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| Attendance--Truancy |
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| Background Checks |
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| Bilingual/ESL |
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| Business Involvement |
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| Career/Technical Education |
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| Career/Technical Education--Career Academies/Apprenticeship |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Charter Districts |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Closings |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Cyber Charters |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Finance |
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| Choice of Schools--Charter Schools--Research |
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| Choice of Schools--Choice/Open Enrollment |
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| Choice of Schools--Innovation Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Magnet or Specialized Schools |
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| Choice of Schools--Tax Credits |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers |
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| Choice of Schools--Vouchers--Privately Funded |
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| Civic Education |
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| Civic Education--Character Education |
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| Civic Education--Civic Knowledge and Literacy |
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| Civic Education--Pledge of Allegiance |
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| Class Size |
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| Curriculum |
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| Curriculum--Arts Education |
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| Curriculum--Drivers Education |
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| Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
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| Curriculum--Foreign Language/Sign Language |
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| Curriculum--Health/Nutrition Education |
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| Curriculum--Language Arts |
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| Curriculum--Mathematics |
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| Curriculum--Physical Education |
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| Curriculum--Science |
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| Curriculum--Sex Education |
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| Curriculum--Social Studies/History |
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| Data-Driven Improvement |
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| Demographics--Enrollments |
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| Desegregation |
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| Economic/Workforce Development |
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| Equity |
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| Federal |
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| Finance |
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| Finance--Adequacy/Core Cost |
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| Finance--Aid to Private Schools |
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| Finance--Bonds |
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| Finance--District |
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| Finance--Facilities |
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| Finance--Federal |
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| Finance--Funding Formulas |
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| Finance--Local Foundations/Funds |
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| Finance--Lotteries |
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| Finance--Performance Funding |
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| Finance--Private Giving |
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| Finance--Resource Efficiency |
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| Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
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| Finance--Student Fees |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
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| Finance--Taxes/Revenues--Alternative Revenues |
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| Governance |
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| Governance--Deregulation/Waivers/Home Rule |
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| Governance--Ethics/Conflict of Interest |
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| Governance--Mandates |
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| Governance--School Boards |
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| Governance--School Boards--Training |
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| Governance--Site-Based Management |
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| Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
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| Health |
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| Health--Child Abuse |
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| Health--Mental Health |
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| Health--Nutrition |
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| Health--School Based Clinics or School Nurses |
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| Health--Suicide Prevention |
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| High School |
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| High School--Advanced Placement |
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| High School--College Readiness |
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| High School--Dropout Rates/Graduation Rates |
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| High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
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| High School--Early Colleges/Middle Colleges |
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| High School--Exit Exams |
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| High School--GED (General Education Development) |
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| High School--Graduation Requirements |
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| High School--International Baccalaureate |
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| Instructional Approaches--Grading Practices |
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| Instructional Approaches--Homeschooling |
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| Integrated Services/Full-Service Schools |
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| Leadership |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent |
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| Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Evaluation and Effectiveness |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Induction Programs and Mentoring |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Preparation--Alternative |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Professional Development |
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| Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure |
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| Middle School |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--African American |
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| Minority/Diversity Issues--American Indian / Alaska Native / Native Hawaiian |
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| No Child Left Behind--Adequate Yearly Progress |
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| No Child Left Behind--Assessment |
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| No Child Left Behind--Consequences for Schools |
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| No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
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| No Child Left Behind--School Support |
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| No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
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| Online Learning--Digital/Blended Learning |
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| Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
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| P-16 or P-20 |
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| P-3 |
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| P-3 Child Care |
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| P-3 Content Standards and Assessment |
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| P-3 Ensuring Quality |
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| P-3 Finance |
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| P-3 Governance |
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| P-3 Grades 1-3 |
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| P-3 Health and Mental Health |
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| P-3 Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Kindergarten--Full-Day Kindergarten |
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| P-3 Preschool |
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| P-3 Special Ed./Inclusion |
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| P-3 Teaching Quality/Professional Development |
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| Parent/Family |
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| Postsecondary |
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| Postsecondary Accountability |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
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| Postsecondary Accountability--Student Learning |
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| Postsecondary Affordability |
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 | Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
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| CA | Vetoed 10/2011 | Community College
Postsec. | Directs the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to establish a voluntary pilot program on up to 10 community college campuses to increase student participation in state and federal financial aid programs. Requires that the program be targeted at (1) students who are potentially eligible for financial aid who complete an application for a fee waiver but do not complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), and (2) Students potentially eligible for financial aid who do not receive any campus, state or federal financial aid. Encourages the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to pursue both private and federal funding to support implementation and operation of the pilot program. By January 10, 2014, directs the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to provide to the Legislative Analyst's Office (1) Strategies and techniques that participating community college campuses employed in administering the pilot program, and (2) Data on student participation in state and federal financial aid programs. Directs the Legislative Analyst's Office shall report to the legislature on the results of the pilot program and make recommendations for statewide expansion of the program. Requires that these provisions remain in effect only until January 1, 2015. Bill text: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0051-0100/ab_91_bill_20110902_enrolled.pdf
Governor's veto message: http://gov.ca.gov/docs/AB_91_Veto_Message.pdf
Title: A.B. 91
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2011 | Postsec. | From bill summary: Existing law requires that a student, other than a nonimmigrant alien, who has attended high school in California for 3 or more years, who has graduated from a California high school or attained the equivalent thereof, who has registered at or attends an accredited institution of higher education in California not earlier than the fall semester or quarter of the 2001–02 academic year, and who, if he/she is an alien without lawful immigration status, has filed a prescribed affidavit is exempt from paying nonresident tuition at the California Community Colleges and the California State University. This bill amends the Donahoe Higher Education Act, as of January 1, 2013, to require the trustees of the California State University and the board of governors of the California Community Colleges, and to request the regents of the University of California, to establish procedures and forms that enable students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under the above-described provision, or who meet equivalent requirements adopted by the regents, to participate in all student aid programs administered by these segments to the full extent permitted by federal law, except as provided. This provision applies to the University of California only if the regents, by appropriate resolution, act to make it applicable.
Provides that students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under the above provision, or who meet equivalent requirements adopted by the regents, are eligible to apply for, and participate in, any student financial aid program administered by the state of California to the full extent permitted by federal law. Requires the Student Aid Commission to establish procedures and forms that enable those students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under the above provision to apply for, and participate in, all student financial aid programs administered by the state to the full extent permitted by federal law. Prohibits students who are exempt from paying nonresident tuition under the provision described above from being eligible for Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards unless specified conditions are met. Makes these provisions operative as of January 1, 2013. Existing federal law requires that a state may provide that an alien who is not lawfully present in the U.S. is eligible for any state or local public benefit for which that alien would otherwise be ineligible under a specified federal law only through enactment of a state law that affirmatively provides for that eligibility. This bill finds and declares that the amendments to the Donahoe Higher Education Act described above are state laws within the meaning of this federal provision. As of January 1, 2013, requires community college districts to waive the fees of students who are exempt from nonresident tuition under the provision described in the first paragraph above, and who otherwise qualify for a waiver under this provision, under regulations and procedures adopted by the board of governors. Because the bill imposes new duties on community college districts with respect to determining eligibility for fee waivers, the bill constitutes a state-mandated local program. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_131_bill_20111008_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 131
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2011 | Postsec. | From bill summary: Requires the Student Aid Commission to develop, and regularly review and update at least every 5 years, the areas of occupational or technical training for which students may utilize Cal Grant C awards. Requires the commission to give priority in granting the awards to students pursuing occupational or technical training in areas that meet specified criteria. Requires a determination by the commission for a subsequent award year that the program under which a Cal Grant C was initially awarded is no longer deemed to receive priority to not affect an award recipient's renewal. Requires the commission to publish and retain on its Web site a current list of the areas of occupational or technical training meeting those specified criteria. Requires the commission to examine the graduation rates and job placement data of eligible programs and to give priority to students seeking to enroll in programs that rate high in those areas. Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to submit a report to the legislature, containing specified data on the outcomes of the Cal Grant C Program, on or before April 1, 2015, and on or before April 1 of each odd-numbered year thereafter. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0451-0500/sb_451_bill_20111008_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 451
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2011 | Postsec. | Creates the Diversity in Engineering Scholarship Program. Defines ''targeted group member" as a person belonging to a class of race, color or sex, whose percent of the workforce within the Department of Transportation's professional classification that includes civil engineers is less than that class's percent of the statewide labor market for such job activities as recorded in the Department's annual affirmative action plan. Defines ''eligible student" as a targeted group member who: (i) is an Illinois resident at the time of scholarship application; (ii) is enrolled full-time at any Illinois college or university in any program leading toward a degree in civil engineering; (iii) agrees to conditions required by the Department, including the obligation to work for the Department after graduation if a position is offered for at least one year for each academic year the student receives a scholarship. Provides that the Department of Transportation, subject to appropriation, must award scholarships to up to 20 students each year in the amount of no more than $7,500 per academic year. Directs the Department to promulgate rules as necessary to implement and administer the scholarship program.
http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/HB/PDF/09700HB1256lv.pdf
Title: H.B. 1256
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2011 | Postsec. | Directs the board of higher education, in formulating the annual budget request, to consider undergraduate tuition and fee waiver programs (in addition to rates of tuition and fees) at the state universities and colleges. Establishes a pilot program at Eastern Illinois University to increase the board of higher education's institutional tuition waiver limitation for the university over a 4-year period. Directs the institutional board to annually report to the board of higher education on the pilot program's impact on tuition revenue, enrollment goals, and increasing access and affordability on such dates as the board of higher education determines. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0290.pdf
Title: S.B. 1798
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2011 | Postsec. | Enacts the California Dream Act of 2011. Provides that on or after January 1, 2012, a student, other than a nonimmigrant alien, who is exempt from paying nonresident tuition under Section 68130.5 of the Education Code http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=edc&group=68001-69000&file=68130-68134, who is attending the California State University, the California Community Colleges or the University of California is eligible to receive a scholarship derived from nonstate funds received, for the purpose of scholarships, by the segment at which he/she is a student. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_130_bill_20110725_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 130
Source:
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| MN | Signed into law 07/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | Redirects early graduation savings from a school district to the early graduation achievement scholarship program for participating students (current law allows a school district to continue to count a student who graduates early in its enrollment for the full school year). Creates the early graduation achievement scholarship program. Qualifies a student who graduates early for a scholarship of up to $7,500. Allows the student to use the scholarship at any accredited higher education institution. Creates a process for the Commissioner of Education to verify the student's enrollment in a higher education institution. Creates the early graduation military service award program. Qualifies a student who graduates early and enters the military to receive a cash award not to exceed the scholarship amounts listed in section 6. (Article 1, Secs 4-6)
http://wdoc.house.leg.state.mn.us/leg/LS87/1/HF0026.0.pdf
Title: H.F. 26
Source: http://www.house.leg.state.mn.us
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| NH | Became law without governor's signature 07/2011 | Postsec. | Changes the criteria relating to the required score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test or other nationally recognized and norm referenced assessment for designation as a Granite State scholar. Also changes the date by which the postsecondary education commission shall distribute matching funds to participating institutions.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2011/SB0045.html
Title: S.B. 45
Source: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/
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| TX | Signed into law 07/2011 | Postsec. | Reduces the membership of the Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation's board from 11 to 9 members. Makes all members gubernatorial apointees (with senate approval) (previously 10 of the 11 members were appointed by governor); directs governor to designate the board chair (board chair previously elected by board). Reduces from 5 to 4 the members who must have knowledge of or experience in finance, including management of funds or business operations. Clarifies that four postsecondary faculty or administrative representatives must be from institutions considered eligible institutions under the Higher Education Act of 1965. Pages 129-130 of 263: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/821/billtext/pdf/SB00001F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 1
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| CA | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | From bill summary: Specifies that, effective with the 2012-13 academic year, an institution with a 3-year cohort default rate that is equal to or greater than 30%, and that would otherwise be eligible for participation in the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Transfer Entitlement Awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards, the Cal Grant C Awards, and the Cal Grant T Awards programs is ineligible for initial and renewal Cal Grant awards at the institution. Provides exceptions. Pages 40-50: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0101-0150/ab_114_bill_20110630_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 114 - Cal Grant Institutional Eligibility
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Revises high school core curriculum requirements for students to be eligible for Taylor Opportunity Program for Students awards.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=760112
Title: H.B. 589
Source: http://www.legis.state.la.us
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| MO | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Repeals sections 335.036, 335.200, 335.203, 335.206, and 335.209 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri. Enact four new sections relating to higher education financial assistance programs. This bill requires the Department of Higher Education to make available a nonrenewable advanced placement incentive grant of $500 to any recipient of financial aid under the A+ Schools or Access Missouri programs if the recipient received a score of three or higher on two advanced placement examinations in mathematics or science while attending a Missouri public high school. The Nursing Education Incentive Program, established within the Department of Higher Education to address nursing shortages. The State Board of Nursing within the Division of Professional Registration in the Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration is authorized to provide funding for the program. Subject to appropriations, Department of Higher Education will award grants to eligible higher education institutions accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association based on criteria to be determined by the board and the Department of Higher Education. Grant award amounts cannot exceed $150,000, and no campus may receive more than one grant per year. An eligible institution must offer a nursing program that meets the predetermined category and area of need as established by the board and the Department of Higher Education, based on data from sources specified in the bill. The bill also repeals the provisions regarding an obsolete incentive grant program which focused on nontraditional nursing students and the provisions regarding the Nurse Training Incentive Fund.
http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills111/billpdf/truly/HB0223T.PDF
Title: H.B. 223
Source: http://www.house.mo.gov
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Existing policy directs the chancellor of the board of regents to encourage state universities and colleges to submit proposals under the choose Ohio first scholarship program for initiatives that recruit Ohio residents enrolled in colleges and universities in other states or other countries to return to Ohio and enroll in state universities or colleges as graduate students in STEM or medicine or STEM or medical education. New provision also permits state colleges and universities to submit proposals for initiatives that recruit graduates, or undergraduates who will graduate in time to participate in the subsequent school year, from an Ohio college or university who received, or will receive, a degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or medicine to participate in a graduate-level teacher education master's program in one of those fields that requires the student to establish a domicile in the state and to commit to teach for a minimum of three years in a hard-to-staff school district in the state upon completion of the master's degree program. Permits the chancellor to require a college or university to give priority to qualified candidates who graduated from a high school in the state. Provides "hard to staff" must be defined by the department of education.
Page 440 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part2.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - Choose Ohio First Scholarship Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OH | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Amends various provisions related to the Ohio National Guard Scholarship Program. Makes students at private institutions of higher education, community colleges, state community colleges, university branches, and technical colleges eligible for participation. Clarifies that "tuition" for purposes of the amount of scholarship payments does not include laboratory fees, room and board, or other similar fees and charges. Provides that scholarships will be approved for all eligible applicants. Repeals language regarding reducing an applicant's scholarship amount based on the amount of certain other service-related benefits. Makes applicants enrolled in 3 but fewer than 6 credit hours eligible for a scholarship. Establishes procedures for projecting the potential costs of the program (i.e., scholarship recipients) and identifies actions to be taken if the amounts available for the program are inadequate to provide scholarships for all eligible applicants.
Pages 801-807 of 1000: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText129/129_HB_153_EN_part3.pdf
Title: H.B. 153 - National Guard Scholarship Program
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| OR | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Creates new provisions for the Oregon Roadmap to Language Excellence Scholarship of up to $2,000 to a qualified student who has shown measurable gain of proficiency in speaking, reading and writing skills in the same language for which the scholarship was awarding during the previous academic year.
http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measpdf/hb2200.dir/hb2221.en.pdf
Title: H.B. 2221
Source: http://www.leg.state.or.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Authorizes a student who has a documented medical disability that restricts the student's attendance to part-time to petition for an extension of the current five-year limitation in order for the student to retain the HOPE scholarship.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/107/Bill/SB2008.pdf
Title: S.B. 2008
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Changes the number and qualifications of students, the selection process, and term length for appointment to the board of the Tennessee student assistance corporation.
http://state.tn.us/sos/acts/107/pub/pc0394.pdf
Title: S.B. 77
Source: http://state.tn.us
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| TN | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Enables students who first received the Tennessee HOPE scholarship, HOPE access grant or HOPE scholarship for nontraditional students in the fall semester 2009 or thereafter, to receive such lottery-funded scholarships and grants in the summer semester, in addition to the fall and spring semesters; revises the law on terminating events for the HOPE scholarship or access grant.
http://state.tn.us/sos/acts/107/pub/pc0437.pdf
Title: H.B. 2010
Source: http://state.tn.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | Requires that the Texas essential knowledge and skills related to personal financial literacy include instruction in methods of paying for college and other postsecondary education and training. Requires each high district and open enrollment charter school offering a high school program to provide instruction in personal financial literacy in any course meeting the requirements for an economic credit, using state board-approved materials. Requires the instruction in financial literacy to include instruction in methods of paying for college and other postsecondary education and training, including instruction on completing the application for federal student aid (FAFSA). Requires districts and open enrollment charter schools to ensure that a student enrolled in a dual credit course meets the requirements for an economics credit receives the instruction described above. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB00034F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 34
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Clarifies that a student may receive an athletic scholarship if not receiving a tuition equalization grant. Requires a student to be making satisfactory academic progress toward a degree or certificate, as determined by the individual's institution at the end of the first full academic year in which the person initially receives a tuition equalization grant. Clarifies that semester credit hour requirements for maintenance of a tuition equalization grant apply to the years after the first full academic year. Also requires a student, as a condition of continued eligibility for a tuition equalization grant, to completed at least 75% of the semester credit hours attempted in the person's most recent full academic year. For a student in exceptional financial need, makes approval of a tuition equalization grant of up to 150% of what the student would otherwise have been awarded contingent upon the student's institution rather than the higher education coordinating board. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB02907F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 2907
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Adds references to alternative education loans to passage about guaranteed student loans. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB02911F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 2911
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Provides that an individual may not receive a Texas Educational Opportunity Grant and a TEXAS Grant for the same semester, regardless of whether the individual is eligible for both. Provides that an individual who is eligible for both for the same semester is entitled to receive only the grant of the greater amount. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB03577F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 3577
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Clarifies that public institution of higher education emergency loan programs may cover textbook costs. http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB03578F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 3578
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Directs the higher education coordinating board to annually determine the allocation of money available for TEXAS grants among general academic teaching institutions and other eligible institutions and to distribute the money accordingly. In allocating funds to general academic teaching institutions for initial TEXAS grants for an academic year, directs the board to ensure that each institution's percentage share of the total amount of money for initial grants for such institutions for that year does not, as result of students establishing eligibility for an initial grant at the institution, change from the institution's percentage share of the total amount of money for initial grants that is allocated to those institutions for the preceding academic year. Amends provisions related to giving priority to awarding TEXAS grants to students demonstrating greatest financial need. Specifies that such students' expected family contribution must not exceed 60% of the average statewide amount of tuition and required fees.
Beginning with TEXAS grants awarded for the 2013-2014 academic year, in determining who should receive an initial TEXAS grant, requires each general academic teaching institution, in addition to giving prioirty to students demonstrating the greatest financial need, to give highest priority to students who completed the recommended high school program and have accomplished any two or more of specified advanced academic criteria. Provides that if there is money available in excess of the amount required to award an initial TEXAS grant to all students meeting those criteria, a general academic teaching institution must make awards to other students who meet specified other eligibility criteria. Effective with grants awarded for 2013-14 academic year, adds provisions to make eligible for an initial TEXAS grant an individual who entered the military not later than the first anniversary of their high school graduation and enrolled for at least 3/4 of a full course load not later than 12 months after an honorable discharge from the military. Existing law permits the awarding of a TEXAS grant to a high school student who has not completed eligibility requirements (i.e., course requirements) but is on track to do so; new provisions extend similar awarding of grants to associate's degree candidates on track to complete an associate's degree. Creates provisions for awarding a TEXAS grant to first-time awardees eligible to receive an initial TEXAS grant in an academic year for which sufficient money was not available through legislative appropriations to allow the coordinating board to award initial TEXAS grants to at least 10% of the persons eligible for initial TEXAS grants in that year. Provides an individual's eligibility is not affected by specified components. Provides that such an individual is entitled to the highest priority if the person was entitled to that priority when the person first established eligibility for an initial TEXAS grant. Provides such a person is not eligible for a TEXAS grant for a previous academic year.
Directs the higher education coordinating board to annually provide a report to the legislative oversight committee on the TEXAS grant program and Teach for Texas grant program on the operation of the TEXAS grant program, including information from the three preceding state fiscal years on specified elements, including the persistence, retention and graduation rates of students receiving TEXAS grants.http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/SB00028F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 28
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Consolidates related higher education programs governing tuition, fee exemptions and waivers respective to specific target populations. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/SB00032F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 32
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Vetoed 06/2011 | Postsec. | Extends authority of Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation to permit corporation to administer student financial aid programs and other student loan programs, and participate in revenue-generating activities
to support the guaranteed student loan program and other higher education student financial aid and student loan programs. Extends membership conflict of interest provisions to exclude board members or employees of certain postsecondary lenders. Organizes the corporation under the business code (currently organized under the nonprofit corporation act). Increases from 4 to 5 the members who are postsecondary faculty or administrators. Permits corporation meetings by conference call. Extends definition of revenue-generating activity corporation may participate in. Repeals enabling legislation for two corporation advisory committees, and replaces with provision authorizing corporation to establish advisory committees as the board considers appropriate. Adds provision directing the state auditor to periodically review the corporation's activities in a manner consistent with the state auditor's audit plan. Makes other changes.
Bill text: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/SB00040F.pdf#navpanes=0
Governor's veto message: http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/scanned/vetoes/82/sb40.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 40
Source: www.lrl.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Excludes course credit earned before graduating from high school from credit totals used to determine student eligibility for an undergraduate tuition rebate. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/SB00176F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 176
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | Directs the higher education coordinating board to provide for a uniform priority application deadline for student financial assistance for institutions of higher education that are not public junior colleges. Specifies the priority deadline may not serve as a determination of eligibility for state financial assistance, but requires that otherwise eligible applicants who apply on or before the deadline be given priority consideration for available state financial assistance before other applicants. Directs the coordinating board to consult with financial aid personnel at institutions of higher education in adopting rules providing for the deadline. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/SB00851F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 851
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | Community College
Postsec. | Establishes the Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (T-STEM) Challenge Scholarship program. Establishes initial and continuing student eligibility criteria, including that a student work no more than 15 hours a week for a business participating in the program. Provides that an eligible institution is a public junior college or public technical institute that admits at least 50 students into a STEM program each academic year, and develops partnerships with business and industry to identify local employment needs in STEM fields and provide part-time employment for students. For an institution to maintain program eligibility, it must demonstrate that at least 70% of its T-STEM Challenge Scholarship graduates, within 3 months after graduation, are employed by a business in a STEM field, or enrolled in upper-division courses towards a bachelor's degree in a STEM field. Requires that at least 50% of scholarship funds come from private funds. Provides a student may receive a scholarship for not more than two academic years.
Page 3-5: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB02910F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 2910 - T-STEM Challenge Scholarship Program
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | Postsec. | From fiscal analysis: Specifies that awards under the Early High School Graduation Scholarship program be paid from funds appropriated for that purpose and amends statutory language to eliminate required funding transfers from the Foundation School Program (FSP) to fund the program.
Pages 4-5 of 19: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB03708F.pdf#navpanes=0
Fiscal analysis: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/fiscalnotes/pdf/HB03708F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 3708 - Early High School Graduation Scholarship
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | Specifies that military personnel, veterans or dependents seeking the tuition exemption must be currently residing in the state, effective with fall 2011 (provides grandfather clause for existing recipients who received an exemption while residing out of state). Requires the higher education coordinating board to allow, following the death of an individual eligible for an exemption, assignment of the exemption for the unused portion of the credit hours to a child of the person, to be made by the person's spouse or other legally designated caretaker of the child, if the child does not otherwise qualify for an exemption. Requires a child dependent eligible for an exemption to be 25 or younger on the first day of the term for which the exemption is claimed. Directs the higher education coordinating board to prescribe procedures by which a child who suffered from a severe illness or other debilitating condition that affected the child's ability to use the exemption before reaching age 25 to be granted additional time to use the exemption corresponding to the time the child was unable to use the exemption because of the illness or condition.
Creates new section directing the governing board of an institution to provide a tuition exemption to the dependent child of a resident member of the U.S. Armed Forces (or who is otherwise eligible for resident tuition) for any semester during which the member is on active duty in a combative military operation outside the U.S. Requires each applicant to submit satisfactory evidence of eligibility for the exemption. Provides a person may not receive such an exemption for more than 150 semester credit hours, and may not receive an exemption if the person is in default on a Texas educational loan. Prohibits institutions from considering the person's eligibility for such an exemption when determining whether to admit the person to any certificate or degree program. Directs the legislature, in its appropriations to institutions of higher education, based on availability, to provide sufficient money to cover the full costs of such exemptions. Requires the higher education coordinating board, in the event of insufficient funds, to prorate the available funding to each institution for these purposes in proportion to the total amount the institution would otherwise be entitled to receive. Specifies an institution is required to grant an exemption from the payment of tuition under these provisions only to the extent money is available for that purpose. http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/SB00639F.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: S.B. 639
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | Repeals provisions relating to programs that were never implemented or are no longer funded. The programs are: Digital Divide Council and the associated Pilot Project for Discounted Computers and Internet Access for Low-Income Students; the Institute on Urban Policy and Commerce; the Community and Faith-based Organizations Initiative; the Community and Library Technology Access Partnership; the Community computer access grant program; Adult Literacy Centers; the Florida Literacy Corps; Preteacher and Teacher Education Pilot programs, the Teacher Education Pilot Programs for High-Achieving Students; the Merit Award Program; the Critical Teacher Shortage Program, which includes: the Florida Teacher Scholarship and Forgivable Loan Program, the Critical Teacher Shortage Tuition Reimbursement Program, and the Critical Teacher Shortage Student Loan Forgiveness Program.
The legislation also repeals professional service contracts for instructional staff and the requirement for students who took Algebra I in the middle grades from 2007-2008 through 2009-2010 to take the Algebra I end-of-course assessment in the 2010-2011 school year.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h7087er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=7087&Session=2011
Title: H.B. 7087
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2011 | Postsec. | From Legislative Budget Committee Summary:
Coenrollment in Public Schools and Adult Education Programs
Prohibits funding for coenrollment in public schools and adult general education programs, except that for the 2011-2012 fiscal year students may enroll in core courses for credit recovery or dropout prevention for up to two courses. Provides that high school students are exempt from the payment of block tuition for general adult education programs.
Facilities
Expands the class size reduction lottery bond program to include other educational facilities. Suspends temporarily the state match for facilities and operating challenge grant programs for colleges and universities, effective July 1, 2011. Provides that existing eligible donations will remain eligible for future match and that the suspension may be removed once $200 million of the grant backlog has been matched. Allows a university board of trustees to expend carry-forward balances from prior year operational appropriations on legislatively approved fixed capital outlay projects authorized for the establishment of a new campus.
Finance
Streamlines library operations through consolidation and joint purchasing. Requires creation of a union catalog for higher education. Requires the Florida College System Council of Presidents to develop and recommend an equitable funding formula for the distribution of certain state funds to the college system institutions. Provides for the use of a funding formula to ensure equitable distribution of district workforce funds. Provides a $200,000 limit on the amount of state funds that may be paid for salaries of college and university presidents and administrative employees. Terminates the University Concurrency Trust Fund.
Finanical Aid/Scholarships
Increases the Florida Medallion Scholarship test scores in 2013-2014, from 1050 to 1170 for SAT, including the applicable home school test scores. Increases or establishes required community service hours for Bright Futures applicants. Requires applicants for Bright Futures, and certain other programs to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid prior to disbursement of funds. Prioritizes state student financial aid to the neediest (Pell eligible) students for the Florida Work Experience Program and the First Generation in College Program.
Northwest Regional Data Center
Designates the Northwest Regional Data Center as a primary data center.
Student Enrollment Pilot Program
Authorizes a spring and summer term student enrollment pilot program at the University of Florida for the purpose of aligning student enrollment and the availability of instructional facilities. Authorizes Bright Futures scholarships in the summer for these students.
Transient Student Admission
Authorizes the implementation of a transient student admission application process through the Florida Academic Counseling Tracking for Students system to include admissions, readmissions, financial aid, and transfer of credit functions. Authorizes a fee of $5 to support the system.
Tuition
Provides an exemption from the 30 percent need-based expenditure requirement from the tuition differential fee if the university has covered the entire tuition and fee costs of all resident students who are eligible for need-based aid. Authorizes alternative documentation for tuition fee waivers for Purple Heart veterans. Increases the tuition surcharge for excess hours to 100 percent in excess of 115 percent of the credit hours required for a degree. Requires a block tuition and corresponding out-of-state fee for students enrolled in adult general education courses. Removes fee exemptions for certain students and requires residency of students to be documented. http://laws.flrules.org/files/Ch_2011-063.pdf
Title: S.B. 2150
Source: http://laws.flrules.org
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| IL | Adopted 05/2011 | Postsec. | Urges Governor Pat Quinn, the Board of Higher Education, and all public universities in the state to do all that is in their power to prevent the furlough of instructors and professors, and resolves that public universities should examine their financial ability to implement a tuition waiver program targeted at students coming from the middle-income brackets. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/HR/PDF/09700HR0326lv.pdf
Title: H.R. 326
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2011 | Postsec. | Names certain private colleges that qualify as approved postsecondary educational institutions. Specifies that students with associate degrees shall be treated the same as other applicants for scholarship awards. Requires attainment of a minimum cumulative grade point average to retain certain scholarships. In addition, with respect to the twenty-first century scholars program, specifies that certain applicants must attend an academic success program and meet certain financial need criteria. Limits scholarships and tuition remission programs to courses for an undergraduate degree and requires the scholarships be used in not more than eight years. Permits a scholarship to be used for summer classes and provides special rules for professional degree students. Provides a formula for calculating certain scholarships and tuition remission programs. Indicates that changes affecting tuition remissions for children of certain veterans apply only to children of veterans who enlist after July 1, 2011. Establishes a program for the collection of data from private colleges. Provides civil immunity to persons who provide the student data. Merges the higher education award fund and the freedom of choice grant fund. Makes other related changes.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/SE/SE0577.1.html
Title: S.B. 577
Source: http://www.in.gov
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | Provides a Mitch Daniels Early Graduation Scholarship to a student who graduates from high school before Grade 12. It provides that the amount of the scholarship is $4,000. Requires the state board of education to amend its rules to facilitate graduation from high school in less than seven semesters and allows a student to participate in an early college, a dual credit, or a dual enrollment program during any grade in high school. Student would need to complete the necessary courses by Grade 11, apply for the grant and enroll in an approved postsecondary education institution.
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2011/HE/HE1001.1.html
Title: H.B. 1001--Early Graduation Scholarship
Source: http://www.in.gov
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2011 | Postsec. | Establishes the Task Force on Funding a Green Technology, Life Science, and Health Information Technology Loan Assistance Repayment Program. Requires the Task Force to conduct a study and make recommendations on or before December 31, 2011, for a program that assists graduates who earned a degree in a field relating to green technology or specified related fields to repay a federal or state higher education loan. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/chapters_noln/Ch_360_hb0758T.pdf
Title: H.B. 758
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us
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| NC | Signed into law 05/2011 | Postsec. | Provides financial assistance in the form of forgivable loans for service to qualified students who are committed to working in the state in order to respond to critical employment shortages. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/HTML/S137v6.html
Title: S.B. 137
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| ND | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | For Career and Technical Scholarship, and Academic Scholarship, adds sign language as a choice for scholarship coursework and replaces B average with a 3.0 GPA based on a 4.0 scale. For maintaining eligibility during college, allows a second chance for failing to maintain 2.75 GPA.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/62-2011/documents/11-0208-12000.pdf
Title: S.B. 2150 - Multiple Provisions
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2011 | Postsec.
Community College | Allows a student to participate in the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program and qualify for an award equivalent to resident tuition if the student is a child of any person killed after January 1, 2000, in the line of duty in any branch of the United States Armed Forces or who died after January 1, 2000, as a result of any injury sustained while in the line of duty. The person who died from injures or was killed must have filed an Oklahoma income tax return for the year prior to death. The student must enroll in an institution within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education prior to turning 21 and must satisfy admission standards for first-time-entering students. Students must enroll in an institution within the Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, a postsecondary vocational-technical program approved for a cooperative program with the Oklahoma State System of Higher education or an Oklahoma private institution of higher learning. Students will not be subject to the other qualification requirements of the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program. Student is eligible after the age of 21 if, he or she is unable to enroll before turning 21 because of active duty service.
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/hB/HB1343%20ENR.DOC
Title: H.B. 1343
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| WA | Partial veto 05/2011 | Postsec. | Establishes the office of student financial assistance and the council for higher education by eliminating the higher education coordinating board and transferring its functions to various entities.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Senate%20Passed%20Legislature/5182-S2.PL.pdf
Title: S.B. 5182
Source: http://apps.leg.wa.gov
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| HI | Signed into law 04/2011 | Postsec. | Repeals state authorization to allow a private not-for-profit corporation to acquire student loan notes. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/Bills/SB675_SD1_.HTM
Title: S.B. 675
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2011 | Postsec. | Relates to the College Student Aid Commission. Ensure that students receiving state-funded scholarships and grants are attending institutions of higher education that meet all of the following conditions: are not required to register under chapter 261B and are eligible to participate in a federal student aid program authorized under Tit. IV of the federal Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended.
Requires institutions whose students are eligible for or who receive financial assistance under programs administered by the commission to report numbers of minority students enrolled in and minority faculty members employed at the institution (report is to be submitted to the general assembly, the governor, and the legislative services agency by March 1 annually.) Deletes explicit references to affirmative action. Requires that information on equal opportunity and affirmative action efforts in the recruitment, appointment, assignment, and advancement of personnel at the institution be provided upon request.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=SF122&menu=text&ga=84
Title: S.F. 122
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2011 | Postsec. | Alters from 21 to 25 the age before which foster care recipients must be enrolled at public institutions of higher education to be exempt from paying specified tuition. Also alters from 21 to 25 the age before which foster care recipients must be enrolled as candidates for specified degrees to not be required to pay the difference between the amount of specified scholarships or grants and the amount of specified tuition. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/hb/hb1208t.pdf
Title: H.B. 1208
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2011 | Postsec. | Makes the North Dakota academic scholarships and the North Dakota career ad technical education scholarships available to any eligible resident student who fulfills the requirements and who graduates from a nonpublic high school in a bordering state while residing with a custodial parent in North Dakota.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/62-2011/documents/11-0367-03000.pdf
Title: H.B. 1154
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| ND | Passed 04/2011 | Postsec.
Community College | A concurrent resolution directing the Legislative Management to study the use of specialized companies to manage student financial aid refund operations and the online financial and banking services that the companies are offering to students.
Title: S.C.R. 4026
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| OK | Signed into law 04/2011 | Postsec. | Adds the requirement that students -- to be eligible to participate in the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program -- maintain satisfactory academic progress as required for eligibility for federal Title IV student financial aid programs. (Effective 2012-2013 school year)
http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/hB/HB1421%20ENR.DOC
Title: H.B. 1421
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2011 | Postsec. | Addresses administrative consistency in conditional scholarship and loan repayment student financial aid programs. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202011/1424.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1424
Source: apps.leg.wa.gov
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2011 | Postsec.
Community College | Amends the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Act, amends provisions concerning criminal penalties for lottery fraud and scholarship stacking.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Acts/Act207.pdf
Title: H.B. 1302
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2011 | Postsec.
Community College | Clarifies the purposes, duties and operation of the Arkansas Student Loan Authority. Defines loans and students. Authorizes authority to adopt rules governing: (1) Compliance statutes or regulations governing the guaranty, insurance, purchase, or other dealing in guaranteed educational loans or education loans by corporations or federal agencies; and (2) Standards of eligibility for educational institutions, students, and lenders.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Acts/Act521.pdf
Title: H.B. 1489
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2011 | Postsec. | Gives priority for an Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship to a student whose parent was a member of the U.S. Armed Forces and was killed while performing military duty.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Acts/Act825.pdf
Title: H.B. 1821
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us
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| AR | Signed into law 03/2011 | Postsec.
Community College | Directs the Department of Higher Education, the Department of Education, and the Bureau of Legislative Research jointly to conduct a study of the fairness of the distribution of Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarships funded by net proceeds of the Arkansas Lottery. The study must include a review of scholarship data for the 2010-11 and 2011-12 academic years concerning:
(1) The race, gender, county of residence, transcript indication of learning disability, and financial need of scholarship applicants;
(2) The distribution of scholarships by race, gender, and county of residence of scholarship recipients;
(3) The number and amount of scholarships awarded to students at each two-year college;
(4) The number and amount of scholarships awarded to students at each four-year university;
(5) The barriers to applying for the scholarships encountered by students;
(6) The reasons that students did not qualify for the scholarships; and
(7) The number of students with an indication of a learning disability on the applicant's transcript who applied for the scholarship and either received or did not receive a scholarship.
http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2011/2011R/Bills/HB1937.pdf
Title: H.B. 1937
Source: http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/
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| CA | Signed into law 03/2011 | Postsec. | Makes amendments to the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Transfer Cal Grant Entitlement Awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards, the Cal Grant C Awards, and the Cal Grant T Awards programs. From bill summary:
--Provides that the maximum household income and asset levels applicable to a renewing applicant are the greater of the adjusted household income and asset levels or the maximum household income and
asset levels at the time of the renewing recipient's initial Cal Grant award.
--Imposes additional requirements on qualifying institutions, requiring the state postsecondary education commission to certify by October 1 of each year the institution's latest 3-year cohort default rate as most recently reported by the U.S. Department of Education. Provides that an otherwise qualifying institution with a 3-year cohort default rate at or greater than specified percentages is ineligible for initial or renewal Cal Grant awards at the institution.
--Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to submit a report to the legislature by January 1, 2013, on the implementation of the 3-year cohort default rate provisions of the act.
--Specifies that financial need, for the purposes of the act, is determined to establish both an applicant's initial eligibility for a Cal Grant award and a renewing applicant's continued eligibility using federal financial need methodology, as prescribed.
--Also requires participating institutions, beginning in 2012, as a condition for participation in the Cal Grant program, to annually report to the commission for its undergraduate programs: (1) enrollment, persistence and graduation data for all students, and (2) job placement rate and salary and wage information for each program that is either (a) designed or advertised to lead to a particular type of job; or (b) advertised or promoted with any claim regarding job placement.
Clarifies that Cal Grant awards may be renewed as long as minimum financial need as re-defined in statute continues to exist.
Pages 46-52 of 81: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0051-0100/sb_70_bill_20110324_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 70 - Sec. 69432.7, 69432.9, 69433.2, 69433.6
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| GA | Signed into law 03/2011 | Postsec. | Amends the method by which the amount of the HOPE scholarship is calculated. Additionally specifies that remedial or developmental courses may not be covered by HOPE scholarship funds. Clarifies definition of "legal resident" for purposes of eligibility for all HOPE scholarships. Among other changes, extends HOPE eligibility to an active duty service member or the spouse of an active duty service member stationed in Georgia.
Previous legislation required a full-time student to have a minimum 3.0 grade point average (GPA) at the end of the quarter or semester in which the student had attempted 45 quarter hours or 30 semester hours. New provision requires full-time student to maintain at least a 3.0 GPA at additional quarter or semester hour checkpoints. Effective with the Class of 2015, requires students as a criterion for HOPE eligibility to receive credit prior to high school graduation in at least two courses from the following categories:
(1) Advanced math, such as Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry, Math III, or an equivalent or higher course
(2) Advanced science, such as Chemistry, Physics, Biology II, or an equivalent or higher course
(3) Advanced Placement courses in core subjects
(4) International Baccalaureate courses in core subjects
(5) Courses taken at a unit of the University System of Georgia in core subjects where such courses are not remedial and developmental courses, as defined in Code Section 20-3-519
(6) Advanced foreign language courses.
Provides that effective with the Class of 2016, students must complete three or more such courses, and that effective with the Class of 2017, students must complete at least four courses from the aforementioned categories.
Provides that "Zell Mill Scholars" receive an additional HOPE award amount based on a specified calculation. Establishes a Zell Miller Scholar designation:
--For freshmen: either (1) a minimum 3.7 GPA and a combined 1,200 reading and math SAT score or an ACT composite of at least 26, (2) graduated a valedictorian or salutatorian, (3) or completed a home study program earning the aforementioned ACT or SAT scores and a minimum 3.3 GPA during the first 45 quarter hours or 30 semester hours of postsecondary education
--For a sophomore, junior, senior or first professional student: meets the aforementioned criteria with a minimum 3.3 GPA at specified credit unit checkpoints.
Provides that any HOPE scholarship recipient or Zell Miller Scholar designee who loses eligibility may regain it only once. Adds provision that a student may receive a scholarship until 7 years after high school graduation or its equivalent (provides exception for students performing active duty military service during that 7-year period).
Repeals provision that no minimum number of hours of enrollment is required. Repeals provisions that HOPE scholarship covers student fees and provides a book allowance. Specifies that HOPE award may not exceed a student's tuition. Adds provision that no student who has completed a baccalaureate degree or higher is eligible for a HOPE grant. Makes various amendments to the HOPE GED voucher program. Adds provision that every eligible postsecondary institution is subject to examination at least once every three years by the Georgia Student Finance Commission, to determine whether the institution has complied with rules and regulations pertaining to the HOPE scholarships and grants. Permits the Georgia Student Finance Commission to suspend a postsecondary institution from receiving HOPE scholarship or grant award payments if it fails to refund monies after certifying an ineligible student for receipt of a HOPE scholarship or grant. Provides that it is a misdemeanor to knowingly make or accept false statements to enable an ineligible student to obtain a HOPE scholarship.
Repeals provisions related to the HOPE teacher's scholarship, PROMISE and PROMISE II teacher's scholarships, and the HOPE Scholarship/Pre-K Legislative Oversight Committee. Amends method of calculating the annual interest rate for any GOT [Graduate on Time] Student Loan. Permits a student to cancel a direct loan from the state if such student is employed by and agrees to teach in a public school in Georgia
as a science, technology, engineering, or math teacher at any K-12 level. Provides that for service repayment, the loan must be repaid at a rate of one year of service for each academic year of study or its equivalent.
Amends provisions related to tuition equalization grants at private colleges and universities. Among other changes, for a proprietary institution of higher education to be approved, it must be domiciled and incorporated in Georgia, and have been in existence in the state for at least 10 years. Any proprietary institution that qualified as of January 2011 can continue to be an approved school as long as it meets the requirements as they existed on the day prior to the effective date of this section. Adds that eligible student for purposes of tuition equalization grant must meet eligibility requirements for the HOPE program
http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/112820.pdf
Also see http://www.usg.edu/student_affairs/students/how_hope_changes_will_affect_usg_students/
Title: H.B. 326
Source: www.legis.ga.gov
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | Amends existing law on the Mastery Advancement Pilot Program (MAPP), which provides students with the opportunity and incentive to move more rapidly through the curriculum and earn a scholarship for completing all graduation requirements at least one year in advance of their traditional graduation date. Repeals provisions that required certain numbers of districts of varying sizes and charter schools to be selected from each of three regions in the state (however, no change to original provision that up to 21 districts and 3 charter schools may participate in the program).
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2011/H0078.pdf
Title: H.B. 78
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov
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| NY | Signed into law 03/2011 | Postsec. | Part E: Amends language related to tuition assistance program awards. Permits a $4,000 award to students for each year of undergraduate study for students enrolled at a non-public degree-granting institution that does not offer a bachelor's degree, or at a registered not-for-profit, tax-exempt business school that does not offer a bachelor's degree. Provides this does not apply to a program of study leading to a certificate or degree in nursing. Chapter 58 http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S02808&Summary=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
Part F: Provides that "income" for purposes of determining aid include any tax-free pension and annuity income.
Part G: Rewrites section 661(6)(b) and (c) relating to consequences for a student who defaults on a student loan. Provides any student who defaults on any state or federal student loan, or who fails to comply with the terms of a tuition assistance program award, or fails to repay an award, is ineligible until the student is no longer in default status or noncompliance or nonpayment is reconciled.
Part H: Creates a new tuition assistance program award eligibility schedule for students who have been granted exclusion of parental income who have a spouse but no other dependent.
Part I: For students first receiving aid in 2010-11 and thereafter: Increases number of credits and minimum grade point average earned for a student to be eligible/maintain eligibility for state financial aid; clarifies that students enrolled in remedial programs are no longer eligible for tuition assistance grant program awards.
Part J: Removes graduate student eligibility for tuition assistance program awards.
Part Z: Extends eligibility for tuition assistance program awards to full-time resident undergraduate students attending certain institutions that were previously ineligible. Provides such eligible students must be attending an institution that:
--Is 501(c)(3) tax-exempt
--Is accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education
--Has its headquarters and main campus located in the state and is eligible for funds under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965
--Enrollment in such institution would render the student eligible for a federal Pell grant
--Provides a program of instruction lasting at least three years, for which the student is enrolled.
Provides such a student is ineligible if the applicant:
--Does not meet citizenship requirements
--Does not meet specified income requirements
--Does not maintain good academic standing
--Is in default in the repayment of any state or federal student loan, has failed to comply with the terms of any service condition imposed by an academic performance award or has failed to make a refund of any award
--Is incarcerated in a federal, state or other penal institution.
Chapter 58 http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S02808&Summary=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y
Title: S.B. 2808 - Part E, F, G, H, I, J, Z
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2011 | Postsec. | Establishs the jump start scholarship program to be administered by the Board of Regents. The purpose of the program is to allow a student who graduates from a public high school in three years or less to receive a scholarship funded with a portion of the money saved by the state in state aid to education funding as a result of the student's early graduation if the student enrolls at any college, university, or technical school accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools that provides instruction from a campus located in South Dakota.
To be eligible for the jump start scholarship program, a student must:
(1) Be a resident of South Dakota; (2) Complete the requirements of the recommended high school program as established by the Board of Education, and be awarded a high school diploma by a public high school in three years or less; (3) Have attended a public high school in South Dakota on a full-time basis for at least two semesters prior to graduating; and (4) Within one year of graduating from high school, excluding any time served on active duty in the armed forces of the United States, enroll in a college, university, or technical school accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools that provides instruction from a campus located in South Dakota. No student who enrolls in a high school for all or any part of a fourth year is eligible for the jump start scholarship program.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2011/Bill.aspx?File=HB1175ENR.htm
Title: H.B. 1175
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2011 | Postsec. | Defines "qualified deceased military member" for purposes of the undergraduate tuition waiver for dependents of a qualified deceased military member. Clarifies a dependent of a qualifying deceased military member who was a member of the Utah National Guard is not required to be a resident student. http://le.utah.gov/~2011/bills/hbillenr/hb0335.pdf
Title: H.B. 335
Source: le.utah.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2011 | Postsec. | Creates the aerospace training student loan program which will be administered by the higher education coordinating board. Creates the aerospace training student loan account. http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202011/1846-S.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1846
Source: apps.leg.wa.gov
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2011 | Postsec. | Modifies the curriculum requirements of the Hathaway success curriculum for students graduating from high schoolin the 2010-2011 school year and thereafter, as follows: One of the following: two sequenced years of foreign language at least one of which must be taken in high school; two years of instruction in fine and performing arts; two years of instruction in career-vocational education. One of the following: Demonstrated proficiency on the state standard for the foreign cultures and languages common core of knowledge requirement; demonstrated proficiency on the state standards for the fine and performing arts common core of knowledge requirement; demonstrated proficiency in the state standards for the career-vocational education common core or knowledge requirement. The curriculum required to qualify for provisional opportunity scholarship eligibility are the curriculum required for high school graduation. Chapter CH 0199
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2011/Introduced/HB0013.pdf
Title: H.B. 13
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2011 | Postsec. | Relates to the Western Regional Higher Education Compact; imposing a repayment provision on specified students; defining the requirements of the loan or service repayment program; and providing for an effective date. In the interest of recruiting health care professionals, this is a repayment program for participating students in medicine, dentistry, podiatry, and osteopathic medicine, An agreement must be obtained from each student admitted as a WICHE program student to a participating institution of higher education for the 2012-2013
academic year and thereafter. Each student must: (A)(1) Actively engage in full-time medical practice in the state for not less than 3 years; The taking of a medical residency program in the state shall be credited toward the practice requirements at the rate of one-third (1/3) year of full-time practice for each year of service in a medical residency program in the state; or (2) repay the amount expended by the state of Wyoming on the student's education in the WICHE program, with interest. If the student withdraws before completion of the degree program, interest will begin to accrue at an interest rate equal to the Stafford loans. At no time will the interest rate be more than 8%. (B) The student may apply to the Commission to be reliefed of the obligation of repayment if the repayment would cause a hardship. The Commission shall annually report the number of students relieved from repayment to the joint labor, health and social services interim committee not later than October 1; (C) Any monies collected by students in the WICHE program will be credited to the WICHE program repayment account and expended upon appropriation by the legislature. (D) The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the fields of occupational therapy, physical therapy, optometry, physician assistant or veterinary medicine.
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2011/Engross/HB0103.pdf
Title: H.B. 103
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2011 | Community College
Postsec. | Extends Hathaway scholarship eligibility for students attending a community college in Wyoming. Increases the semesters of Hathaway Scholarship--opportunity, performance and honor--availability from 4 semesters to 8 semesters for students attending Wyoming community colleges that have received a degree or certificate from a community college or have successfully completed coursework that enables the student to enroll in a program that will result in a professional degree offred by a community college. This change is available for students that received the scholarship prior to the fall semester of 2011-2012 so long as scholarship eligibility is otherwise maintained. The University of Wyoming and the Wyoming community college are required to report to the Joint Education Committee and Joint Appropriations Committee by November 1, 2011 in relation to implementation of standardized remediation efforts and recommendations that will improve retention rates for students that receive a Hathaway Scholarship. Chapter 00085
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2011/engross/sf0101.pdf
Title: S.F. 101
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| UT | Signed into law 02/2011 | Postsec. | Repeals Cesar Chavez Scholarship Program. Replaces the "Utah Centennial Opportunity Program for Education" with the "Success Stipend Program" within the State System of Higher Education. Amends the purpose of the Success Stipend Program to clarify that the program is for students who demonstrate financial need after utilizing family and personal resources, federal assistance and scholarships. Amends definition of "costs of attendance" under the program. Requires that an eligible student be making satisfactory academic progress (as defined by the institution). Specifies that institutions must offer either need-based grants or need-based work-study stipends, giving strong emphasis to need-based work-study stipends. Prohibits the board of regents from using program money for administrative costs or overhead, and permits an institution to use no more than 3% of its program money for administrative costs or overhead. Directs the board to base the criteria for awarding program funds to an institution or eligible student on assisting only the most financially needy students.
Repeals language directing the board to (1) establish a research database; (2) conduct appropriate research into the effects of student financial aid on students' access to and persistence in postsecondary education and training; and (3) utilize the research in planning and modifying the design of the program. Adds that two of the areas the board must annually report to the higher education appropriations committee are the number of program recipients at each institution, and the average amount of financial assistance provided. http://le.utah.gov/~2011/bills/sbillenr/sb0107.pdf
Title: S.B. 107
Source: le.utah.gov
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| AL | Adopted 01/2011 | Postsec. | The new rule is intended to provide administrative procedures as regards the Alabama Student Grant Program administered by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education.
Title: AL ADC 300-4-3-.01
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| IL | Signed into law 01/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | 2010 legislation has created the Task Force on Private Student Loans (see http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/96/PDF/096-0880.pdf). This provision establishes the legislative expectation that institutions of higher learning comply with reasonable requests from the task force or it support staff for aggregated data relevant to the purposes of the task force. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/96/SB/PDF/09600SB0647lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 647
Source: www.ilga.gov
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