Text: HF00476 Text: HF00478 Text: HF00400 - HF00499 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 261.21A TUITION AND FEES
1 2 EXEMPTION FOR PERSONS WHO RECEIVED FOSTER CARE.
1 3 1. For the purposes of this section unless the context
1 4 otherwise requires, "eligible student" means an individual who
1 5 meets both of the following conditions:
1 6 a. The student was subject to a court order under chapter
1 7 232, division III or IV, which transferred the custody of the
1 8 student to the department of human services and the student
1 9 was placed in foster care or another out-of-home placement at
1 10 any of the following times in the student's life:
1 11 (1) The day before the student's eighteenth birthday.
1 12 (2) The day of the student's fourteenth birthday, if the
1 13 student was eligible for adoption on or after that date.
1 14 (3) The day on which the student graduated from high
1 15 school or received the equivalent of a high school diploma.
1 16 b. The student enrolls in an undergraduate course of study
1 17 at a community college as defined in section 260C.2, or an
1 18 institution of higher learning under the control of the state
1 19 board of regents on or before the third anniversary of the
1 20 date the student was discharged from foster care, graduated
1 21 from high school, or received the equivalent of a high school
1 22 diploma.
1 23 2. An eligible student is exempt from payment of
1 24 undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees at a community
1 25 college as defined in section 260C.2, or an institution of
1 26 higher learning under the control of the state board of
1 27 regents.
1 28 EXPLANATION
1 29 This bill provides an exemption from the tuition and fees
1 30 charged by regents institutions and community colleges for
1 31 certain persons who were placed in foster care or another out-
1 32 of-home placement.
1 33 New Code section 261.21A would include the exemption as
1 34 part of the Code's college student aid commission chapter.
1 35 Eligibility is limited to students who were in the custody of
2 1 the department of human services under a child or family in
2 2 need of assistance court order and placed in foster care on
2 3 the day prior to their 18th birthday, on the day of their 14th
2 4 birthday if eligible for adoption, or on the day of high
2 5 school graduation or the receipt of an equivalency diploma.
2 6 The student must be enrolled in an undergraduate course of
2 7 study at a community college or regents institution on or
2 8 within three years of the date of discharge from foster care,
2 9 high school graduation, or receipt of the equivalent of a high
2 10 school diploma.
2 11 LSB 2462YH 78
2 12 jp/sc/14
Text: HF00476 Text: HF00478 Text: HF00400 - HF00499 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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