August 30, 2006, Introduced by Reps. Nitz, Emmons, Farhat, Mortimer and Moore and referred to the Committee on Higher Education and Career Preparation.
A bill to amend 1986 PA 303, entitled
"An act to establish a Michigan work-study program for qualified
resident students attending eligible graduate and professional
graduate schools and employed by qualified employers; to prescribe
the powers and duties of certain state agencies; and to provide for
an appropriation,"
by amending section 3 (MCL 390.1323).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 3. A recognized graduate or professional graduate school
in this state is eligible to participate in the program if the
graduate or professional graduate school is a degree-granting
institution
approved by the state board of education
superintendent of public instruction, the instructional programs
are not comprised solely of sectarian instruction or religious
worship, and the school participates in the federal work-study
program under sections 441 to 448 of title IV of the higher
education
act of 1965, 42 U.S.C. USC
2751 to 2756b. A
participating school, at its option, may offer academic credit to
students enrolled in the program.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act is intended to
transfer back to the superintendent of public instruction certain
powers, duties, and functions that were transferred to the former
department of career development by Executive Reorganization Order
No. 1999-7, MCL 388.995.