Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF0173

Modifying certain provisions providing for financial aid for postsecondary
education students; requiring higher education services office grants to the
Minnesota private colleges council to administer financial aid programs based on
the financial needs of students attending member institutions, requiring the
programs to include aid for attendance and child care and work study assistance
costs; requiring the council in consultation with the student association to
develop guidelines to identify economically disadvantaged persons and to provide
financial assistance to encourage educational development, requiring allocation
of money appropriated to member institutions to provide the assistance and
annual reports to HESO; redefining eligible institution for student grant in aid
purposes as a private post-secondary educational institution not affiliated with
organizations allocating financial aid to member institutions through state
funded grants; requiring and providing for the same types of financial aid
grants under the Minnesota state colleges and universities (MnSCU) system and
the university of Minnesota and appropriating money to the separate systems for
the assistance
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