HF 210

as introduced - 81st Legislature (1999 - 2000) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to education; modifying assigned student 
  1.3             share in determining grant stipends; indexing private 
  1.4             college tuition cap to inflation rate; amending 
  1.5             Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 136A.121, 
  1.6             subdivisions 5 and 6. 
  1.7   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.8      Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 136A.121, 
  1.9   subdivision 5, is amended to read: 
  1.10     Subd. 5.  [GRANT STIPENDS.] The grant stipend shall be 
  1.11  based on a sharing of responsibility for covering the recognized 
  1.12  cost of attendance by the applicant, the applicant's family, and 
  1.13  the government.  The amount of a financial stipend must not 
  1.14  exceed a grant applicant's recognized cost of attendance, as 
  1.15  defined in subdivision 6, after deducting the following:  
  1.16     (1) the assigned student responsibility of at least 47 40 
  1.17  percent of the cost of attending the institution of the 
  1.18  applicant's choosing; 
  1.19     (2) the assigned family responsibility as defined in 
  1.20  section 136A.101; and 
  1.21     (3) the amount of a federal Pell grant award for which the 
  1.22  grant applicant is eligible. 
  1.23     The minimum financial stipend is $300 per academic year. 
  1.24     Sec. 2.  Minnesota Statutes 1998, section 136A.121, 
  1.25  subdivision 6, is amended to read: 
  1.26     Subd. 6.  [COST OF ATTENDANCE.] (a) The recognized cost of 
  2.1   attendance consists of allowances specified in law for room and 
  2.2   board and miscellaneous expenses, and 
  2.3      (1) for public institutions, tuition and fees charged by 
  2.4   the institution; or 
  2.5      (2) for private institutions, an allowance for tuition and 
  2.6   fees equal to the lesser of the actual tuition and fees charged 
  2.7   by the institution, or the private institution tuition maximums 
  2.8   established in law which shall be adjusted for inflation 
  2.9   annually. 
  2.10     (b) For the purpose of paragraph (a), clause (2), the 
  2.11  private institution tuition maximum for two- and four-year, 
  2.12  private, residential, liberal arts, degree-granting colleges and 
  2.13  universities must be the same. 
  2.14     (c) For a student attending less than full time, the office 
  2.15  shall prorate the recognized cost of attendance to the actual 
  2.16  number of credits for which the student is enrolled. 
  2.17     The recognized cost of attendance for a student who is 
  2.18  confined to a Minnesota correctional institution shall consist 
  2.19  of the tuition and fee component in paragraph (a), clause (1) or 
  2.20  (2), with no allowance for living expenses.