September 6, 2007, Introduced by Senators GARCIA, ALLEN, RICHARDVILLE, BIRKHOLZ, PAPPAGEORGE, HARDIMAN, JELINEK, VAN WOERKOM, PATTERSON, CROPSEY, GILBERT, CASSIS, McMANUS, KUIPERS, OLSHOVE, JANSEN, SWITALSKI, STAMAS, CHERRY, JACOBS, BROWN, BARCIA, GLEASON, WHITMER, CLARKE, BISHOP, BASHAM, SCHAUER, HUNTER, SCOTT and CLARK-COLEMAN and referred to the Committee on Senior Citizens and Veterans Affairs.
A bill to amend 1964 PA 208, entitled
"An act to grant scholarships to students enrolled in postsecondary
education institutions; and to provide for the administration of
the scholarship program,"
by amending section 7 (MCL 390.977), as amended by 2004 PA 181.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 7. (1) An applicant awarded a first-year scholarship or a
renewal scholarship is not restricted in the choice of the
institution in this state which he or she desires to attend if the
institution is an eligible postsecondary institution under rules
promulgated by the Michigan higher education assistance authority,
except that a student shall not use a scholarship award at an
institution whose primary purpose is to prepare students for
ordination or appointment as a member of the clergy of a church,
denomination, or religious association, order, or sect or at an
institution that does not 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. An applicant awarded a first-year
scholarship or a renewal scholarship is not restricted in the
choice of the course of study he or she wishes to pursue.
(2) An approved institution chosen by the applicant is not
required to accept the applicant for enrollment, or once having
admitted the applicant, to continue the applicant's enrollment. The
approved institution accepting the enrollment of a state
competitive scholarship award winner shall notify the authority of
the recipient's enrollment and shall submit annually to the
authority reports which are required and necessary to administer
this act.