September 12, 2007, Introduced by Reps. Rick Jones, Opsommer, Sheltrown, Agema, Polidori, Pearce, Mayes, Stahl and LaJoy and referred to the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security.
A bill to amend 1986 PA 273, entitled
"An act to establish a Michigan educational opportunity grant
program for resident qualified students enrolled in eligible public
postsecondary schools; and to prescribe the powers and duties of
certain state agencies,"
by amending section 3 (MCL 390.1403), as amended by 2004 PA 183.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 3. (1) A recognized postsecondary school in this state is
eligible to participate in the MEOG program under this act if the
postsecondary school is a degree-granting public institution
approved by the department of labor and economic growth.
(2) A grant shall not be made under this act to a student who
is
enrolled in an institution whose that meets any of the
following:
(a) The institution's 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.
(b) The institution does not consider any of the following
students enrolled in that institution residents of this state for
determining their tuition rates:
(i) A student who is an active duty member, or the spouse or
dependent child of an active duty member, of the armed forces of
the United States, while that active duty member is stationed in
this state and during the student's continuous enrollment in the
academic degree program in which he or she is enrolled if that
active duty member is transferred to active duty outside of this
state.
(ii) A student who is a child of an active duty member of the
armed forces of the United States who was stationed in this state
but is transferred to a duty location outside of this state within
the 1-year period preceding the student's initial enrollment in
that institution and the student continues to live in this state.