September 6, 2007, Introduced by Senators ALLEN, GARCIA, RICHARDVILLE, PAPPAGEORGE, BIRKHOLZ, HARDIMAN, JELINEK, VAN WOERKOM, PATTERSON, CROPSEY, GILBERT, CASSIS, McMANUS, KUIPERS, OLSHOVE, JANSEN, SWITALSKI, STAMAS, CHERRY, JACOBS, BROWN, BARCIA, GLEASON, WHITMER, BISHOP, CLARKE, BASHAM, ANDERSON, SCHAUER, HUNTER, SCOTT and CLARK-COLEMAN and referred to the Committee on Senior Citizens and Veterans Affairs.
A bill to amend 1976 PA 174, entitled
"An act to provide free tuition for state resident North American
Indians in Michigan public community colleges, public universities,
and certain federal tribally controlled community colleges; and to
prescribe certain powers and duties of certain state departments,
commissions, and agencies,"
by amending section 2a (MCL 390.1252a).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
2a. (1) The Subject
to subsection (3), the Michigan
commission
on Indian Affairs affairs shall annually , upon
application
therefore, reimburse each
institution that applies for
reimbursement for the total amount of tuition waived during the
prior
immediately preceding fiscal year under section 1. of
this
act.
(2) The commission shall report to the legislature annually
the number of American Indians for whom tuition has been waived at
each institution and the total amounts to be paid under this act.
(3) Beginning in 2008, the commission shall reimburse under
subsection (1) only those institutions that consider a student
enrolled in that institution a resident of this state for
determining his or her tuition rates if the student 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 full-time 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.