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Introduced Session

Legislative Counsel's Digest: Existing law creates the Silver State Opportunity Grant Program. Under the Program, the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada is required to award grants to eligible students to pay for a portion of the cost of education at a community college or state college that is part of the Nevada System of Higher Education. One of the requirements for eligibility for such a grant is that a student be enrolled, or accepted to be enrolled, during a semester in at least 15 credit hours at a community college or state college that is part of the Nevada System of Higher Education. (NRS 396.952) Section 1 of this bill reduces the minimum number of such required credit hours to 12 credit hours and provides that a student who is enrolled in fewer than 12 credit hours is still eligible for a grant if the student: (1) is enrolled in his or her final semester of study; or (2) receives a waiver of the 12 credit hour requirement from the student s college based on hardship. Section 1 also provides that a student who loses his or her eligibility for a grant because he or she was not enrolled in 12 credit hours during a semester: (1) may regain his or her eligibility for a grant in future semesters by satisfying the 12 credit hour requirement during a semester for which he or she is not eligible for a grant; and (2) will lose eligibility permanently if he or she fails for a second time to satisfy the 12 credit hour requirement in a subsequent semester. Section 2 of this bill provides that money provided to a community college or state college for a grant awarded on behalf of a student under the Silver State Opportunity Grant Program does not revert and any remaining amount must be carried forward and used for grants for eligible students in a subsequent semester.

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Olivia Diaz (D)*, 

(No further action taken.) (on 06/06/2017)

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