Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF1453

Modifying certain provisions providing for financial aid for +post-secondary
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 and eliminating +certain tuition
and fee limits for cost of attendance determination purposes; +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; +repealing the
requirement for HESO to increase the living and miscellaneous expense+ allowance
using the savings from certain increases in the maximum federal Pell +grant and
a certain provision authorizing HESO to provide grants to students participating
in the Akita program (ja)