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2001 SESSION
HB 2267 Selected Sciences Grants Program.
Introduced by: H. Morgan Griffith | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Selected Sciences Grants Program. Creates the Selected Sciences Grants Program, to be administered by the State Council of Higher Education, to provide tuition assistance in the form of grants and fellowships awarded to bona fide domiciliaries of Virginia who (i) attend public or private, accredited, nonprofit institutions of collegiate education outside the Commonwealth whose primary purpose is to provide collegiate, graduate, or professional education, and not to provide religious training or theological education; and (ii) are enrolled in programs leading to an undergraduate degree in meteorological sciences shall be eligible for grants pursuant to this chapter.
Grant amounts cannot exceed the annual average appropriation per full-time equivalent student for the previous year from the general fund of the state treasury for operating costs at two- and four-year public institutions of collegiate education in Virginia and must be used only for payment of charges for tuition, fees, room, board, or other educational expenses.
Grants are limited to four years of undergraduate study. State Council regulations will address the forfeiture and repayment of grants by recipients who fail to complete the degree program.
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HISTORY
- 01/10/01 House: Presented & ordered printed, prefiled 01/10/01 010737748
- 01/10/01 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 01/19/01 House: Reported from Education (23-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/01 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/25/01 House: Tabled in Appropriations (27-Y 1-N)