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2013 SESSION
SB 848 Students; increases additional grant to those attending State 2-year colleges for engineering, etc.
Introduced by: John S. Edwards | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles | history
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE:
Grants for certain students attending Virginia two-year colleges. Provides that a student pursuing undergraduate work in engineering, mathematics, nursing, teaching, or science shall be eligible to receive an additional $2,500 more than students pursuing other academic courses of study under the two-year college grant program. Current law allows such students to receive $1,000 more. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Tax credits for donations to organizations providing scholarships to certain students attending Virginia two-year colleges. Creates a 65 percent tax credit for donations to scholarship foundations to pay for qualified educational expenses for students enrolled in an associate degree program at a Virginia two-year college based on science, technology, engineering, math, education, or nursing. Scholarship foundations eligible to receive such donations would be preapproved by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia.