Bill Text: GA SB358 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Education; provide tuition grant assistance for students attending Georgia Military College similar to North Georgia College and State University
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-04 - Senate Read and Referred [SB358 Detail]
Download: Georgia-2009-SB358-Introduced.html
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Senate
Bill 358
By:
Senators Grant of the 25th, Hudgens of the 47th, Harp of the 29th, Hill of the
4th, Hooks of the 14th and others
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Part 3 of Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of
Georgia Annotated, relating to the Georgia Student Finance Authority, so as to
provide tuition grant assistance for students attending Georgia Military College
similar to military students attending North Georgia College and State
University; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date and
applicability; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Part
3 of Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of Georgia
Annotated, relating to the Georgia Student Finance Authority, is amended by
revising Code Section 20-3-440, relating to legislative findings, as
follows:
"20-3-440.
The
General Assembly finds that it is essential for the national defense that
persons be encouraged to consider military leadership positions as an honorable
and rewarding profession and that North Georgia College and State
University,
Georgia's only state supported military college,
plays
and Georgia
Military College play a significant role
in preparing and training students for professional life in the military as a
profession. It is the purpose of the General Assembly, as provided for in this
subpart, to encourage students to enroll in
the military
training programs of North Georgia College
and State University and
its
military training program
Georgia
Military College and to encourage such
students to accept military commissions by providing for tuition grant
assistance to such students."
SECTION
2.
Said
part is further amended by revising Code Section 20-3-442, relating to amount of
grant, as follows:
"20-3-442.
(a)
There is granted to each eligible student attending North Georgia College and
State University the sum of $1,500.00 per academic semester.
(b)
There is granted to each eligible student attending Georgia Military College the
sum of $1,000.00 per academic
quarter."
SECTION
3.
Said
part is further amended in Subpart 6A, relating to tuition grant assistance for
North Georgia College and State University, by replacing "North Georgia College
and State University" with "North Georgia College and State University or
Georgia Military College" wherever such term appears in:
(1)
Code Section 20-3-441, relating to eligible student defined for purposes of
receiving tuition grant assistance;
(2)
Code Section 20-3-443, relating to application for grants, certification of
eligibility, and refunds; and
(3)
Code Section 20-3-445, relating to audits of the college.
SECTION
4.
This
Act shall become effective on July 1, 2010, and shall apply to applications
received on or after such date.
SECTION
5.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.