SENATE BILL No. 743

 

 

September 6, 2007, Introduced by Senators PRUSI, ALLEN, GARCIA, RICHARDVILLE, BIRKHOLZ, PAPPAGEORGE, HARDIMAN, JELINEK, VAN WOERKOM, 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 1986 PA 303, entitled

 

"An act to establish a Michigan work-study program for qualified

resident students attending eligible graduate and professional

graduate schools and employed by qualified employers; to prescribe

the powers and duties of certain state agencies; and to provide for

an appropriation,"

 

by amending section 3 (MCL 390.1323).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 3. (1) A recognized graduate or professional graduate

 

school in this state is eligible to participate in the program if

 

the graduate or professional graduate school is meets all of the

 

following:

 

     (a) Is a degree-granting institution approved by the state

 

board of education. , the


 

     (b) Its instructional programs are not comprised composed

 

solely of sectarian instruction or religious worship. , and the

 

school

 

     (c) It participates in the federal work-study program under

 

sections 441 to 448 of title IV of the higher education act of

 

1965, 42 U.S.C. USC 2751 to 2756b.

 

     (d) It considers 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.

 

     (2) A participating school , at its option , may offer

 

academic credit to students enrolled in the program.