Bill Amendment: MS SB2547 | 2021 | Regular Session

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Scholarship eligibility requirements; increase minimum ACT scores for MTAG, HELP and MESG.

Status: 2021-03-02 - Died In Committee [SB2547 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2021-SB2547-Senate_Amendment_No_2_Cmte_Sub_.html

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Lost

 

AMENDMENT NO 2 PROPOSED TO

 

Cmte Sub for Senate Bill No. 2547

 

BY: Senator(s) Blount

 

     AMEND by deleting lines 23 through 188 and inserting in lieu thereof the following:

     SECTION *.  Section 37-106-29, Mississippi Code of 1972, which provides for the Mississippi Resident Tuition Assistant Grant Program, is repealed.

     FURTHER, AMEND after line 240 by inserting the following:

          (g)  Is found to be from a family who has an annual adjusted gross income of less than two hundred percent (200%) of the medium household income of the state.

     FURTHER, AMEND on line 416 by inserting the following sentence before the word "The":

     An applicant who has a family with an annual adjusted gross income of Thirty-seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($37,500.00) but less than Forty-seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($47,500.00) shall be limited to receiving fifty percent (50%) of the grant amount from this program.

     FURTHER, AMEND the title to conform.