Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF2005

Establishing the Minnesota promise scholarship under the higher education
services office to motivate students from low income families with no previous
higher education attendance to prepare for post-secondary education, specifying
student eligibility requirements; requiring the HESO to establish a selection
committee to review and select scholarship recipients, specifying committee
membership representation requirements and certain selection criteria; providing
for the scholarship awards; specifying certain HESO trust fund maintenance and
administration requirements; encouraging campuses participating in the state
work study program to place students in the college corps portion of the program
to be created under the supervision of the HESO to provide seventh and eighth
grade students with information on academic and financial preparation for
post-secondary education opportunities; establishing an intervention investment
program for college attendance to support mentoring, tutoring and information on
post-secondary education preparation to low income elementary students,
providing for HESO award of grants to post-secondary institutions or nonprofit
organizations; appropriating money to the HESO to support early intervention and
college awareness programs including the get ready outreach program and the
Minnesota minority education partnership (mk)