September 6, 2007, Introduced by Senators BASHAM, ALLEN, GARCIA, RICHARDVILLE, PAPPAGEORGE, BIRKHOLZ, HARDIMAN, JELINEK, VAN WOERKOM, PATTERSON, CROPSEY, GEORGE, GILBERT, CASSIS, McMANUS, KUIPERS, OLSHOVE, JANSEN, SWITALSKI, STAMAS, CHERRY, JACOBS, BROWN, BARCIA, GLEASON, WHITMER, ANDERSON, BISHOP, HUNTER, SCOTT, CLARK-COLEMAN and CLARKE and referred to the Committee on Senior Citizens and Veterans Affairs.
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 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.