HOUSE BILL No. 5209

 

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.