Senate Bill 121

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Title AN ACT relating to student financial aid and making an appropriation thereof.
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Bill Request Number 460
Sponsor K. Winters
Summary of Original Version Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Shared Funding Scholarship Grant Program for undergraduate junior students on track to graduate within two years and undergraduate senior students on track to graduate within one year; require the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority in collaboration with the Council on Postsecondary Education to promulgate an administrative regulation outlining the program to be implemented by academic year 2011-2012; amend KRS 154A.130 to change the distribution percentages of the state lottery funds, beginning in 2011-2012 for the KEES Program, the College Access Program and the Kentucky Tuition Grants Program, and the Shared Funding Scholarship Grant Program; require that by fiscal year 2013-2014 all unclaimed lottery prizes be credited to the Shared Funding Scholarship Grant Program; amend KRS 164.7879 to require a high school student, beginning in academic year 2011-2012 to attain a grade point average of at least 3.0 on a 4-point scale to qualify for a KEES base award and a 22 on the ACT to qualify for an ACT supplement.
Index Headings of Original Version Administrative Regulations and Proceedings - KHEAA, establishment of grant program
Appropriations - Shared funding scholarship grant program, use of lottery funds for
Education, Finance - Shared funding scholarship grant program, use of lottery funds for
Education, Finance - KEES, qualifications for and value of awards, modification of
State Agencies - KHEAA, promulgation of administrative regulations for shared scholarship grant program
Universities and Colleges - Shared funding scholarship grant program

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02/01/10
  • introduced in Senate
02/03/10
  • to Education (S)


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