Georgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions

HB 69 - HOPE scholarship; extend to private college students

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Code Sections - 20-3-251

1. Pinholster  15th       2. Brown  130th            3. Harris  17th


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HB 69                                             LC 16 3822






                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official
  1- 2  Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to scholarships, loans,
  1- 3  and grants, so as to provide that the HOPE scholarship
  1- 4  program of grants to qualifying high school students shall
  1- 5  be extended to those qualifying students attending
  1- 6  accredited private colleges and universities located in the
  1- 7  State of Georgia; to provide for related matters; to repeal
  1- 8  conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

  1- 9       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1-10  Article 7 of Chapter 3 of Title 20 of the Official Code of
  1-11  Georgia Annotated, relating to scholarships, loans, and
  1-12  grants, so as to provide that the HOPE scholarship program
  1-13  of grants to qualifying high school students shall be
  1-14  extended to those qualifying students attending accredited
  1-15  private colleges and universities located in the State of
  1-16  Georgia, is amended by adding a new Code Section 20-3-251 to
  1-17  read as follows:

  1-18    "20-3-251. (Index)

  1-19    All Georgia high school students who graduate with a 3.0
  1-20    cumulative grade point average in the college preparatory
  1-21    curriculum or a 3.2 cumulative grade point average in
  1-22    other curricula will be eligible to receive a Helping
  1-23    Outstanding Pupils Educationally (HOPE) Scholarship
  1-24    Program grant equal to the difference between the amount
  1-25    paid by Pell or other grants and the cost of tuition at
  1-26    any Georgia public college such student actually attends
  1-27    if such student's family income for the year of such
  1-28    student's graduation from high school is below the level
  1-29    set by the Georgia Student Finance Commission for the
  1-30    awarding of such grants for that year.  Any student who is
  1-31    a resident of this state, graduates from a high school in
  1-32    this state, whose family income is below that amount set
  1-33    by the commission, and who attends an accredited private



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                                                  LC 16 3822

  2- 1    college or university located in this state shall receive
  2- 2    a HOPE grant in an amount equivalent to the average such
  2- 3    grant awarded to a similarly situated student attending a
  2- 4    public college or university of the University System of
  2- 5    Georgia. The HOPE grants shall be funded entirely from
  2- 6    proceeds of the Georgia lottery."

                         SECTION 2.

  2- 7  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
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