12 AM
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NOT GERMANE
Senators Jones of the 10th and Jackson
of the 2nd offered the following amendment:
Amend
the Senate Education and Youth Committee substitute to SB 364 (LC 33 4643S) by
inserting after
"definition;"
on line 4 "to amend Code Section 20-3-519
of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to
HOPE, so as to revise a definition;"
By
inserting between lines 60 and 61 the following:
SECTION
2A.
Code
Section 20-3-519 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
definitions relative to HOPE, is amended by revising subparagraphs (A) and (B)
of paragraph (27) as follows:
"(A)
As an incoming freshman:
(i)
Having graduated from an eligible high school with a grade point average
of at least
3.7 calculated in accordance with Code Section 20-2-157 and having received a
score of at least 1,200 combined critical reading score and math score on a
single administration of the SAT or an ACT composite scale score of at least
26
in the top 3
percent of their graduating class;
(ii)
Having graduated from an eligible high school as a valedictorian or
salutatorian; or
(iii)(ii)
Having completed a home study program meeting the requirements of subsection (c)
of Code Section
20-2-690,
having received a score of at least 1,200 combined critical reading score and
math score on a single administration of the SAT or an ACT composite scale score
of at least 26, and earning a cumulative
grade point average of at least 3.3 at an eligible postsecondary institution at
the end of the quarter or semester in which the student has attempted 45 quarter
hours or 30 semester hours, provided that such student shall be eligible to
receive a retroactive scholarship for such student's freshman year to be paid at
the end of the freshman year; and
(B)
As a sophomore, junior, senior, or first professional student
who met the
requirements of subparagraph (A) of this
paragraph, having a cumulative grade point
average of at least 3.3 at the checkpoints set forth in paragraph (1) of
subsection (b) of Code Section 20-3-519.2. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a
student that entered an eligible postsecondary institution as a freshman between
July 1, 2007, and June 30, 2011, and met the requirements of subparagraph (A) of
this paragraph may become a Zell Miller Scholar as a sophomore, junior, senior,
or first professional student."