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SENATE BILL 904
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By: Senator Benson
Introduced and read first time: February 7, 2022
Assigned to: Budget and Taxation
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Maryland Higher Education Commission – Formerly Incarcerated Youth Grant 2
Program – Established 3
FOR the purpose of establishing the Formerly Incarcerated Youth Grant Program to be 4
administered by the Office of Student Financial Assistance within the Maryland 5
Higher Education Commission; requiring the Division of Parole and Probation 6
within the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services and the 7
Department of Juvenile Services to provide certain information to certain 8
individuals; and generally relating to the Formerly Incarcerated Youth Grant 9
Program. 10
BY adding to 11
Article – Education 12
Section 18–3901 through 18–3904 to be under the new subtitle “Subtitle 39. 13
Formerly Incarcerated Youth Grant Program” 14
Annotated Code of Maryland 15
(2018 Replacement Volume and 2021 Supplement) 16
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 17
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 18
Article – Education 19
SUBTITLE 39. FORMERLY INCARCERATED YOUTH GRANT PROGRAM. 20
18–3901. 21
(A) IN THIS SUBTITLE THE FOLLOWING WORDS HAVE THE MEANING S 22
INDICATED. 23
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(B) “ELIGIBLE STUDENT ” MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO : 1
(1) IS A RESIDENT OF THE STATE; 2
(2) IS UNDER THE AGE OF 26 YEARS; 3
(3) (I) HAS BEEN INCARCERATED ; OR 4
(II) IS INCARCERATED AT TH E TIME OF APPLICATIO N BUT WILL 5
BE RELEASED FROM INCARCERATION WITHIN 6 MONTHS AFTER THE DAT E OF THE 6
APPLICATION; 7
(4) WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A FEDER AL PELL GRANT IN THAT YEAR; 8
AND 9
(5) WILL APPLY FOR A FEDE RAL PELL GRANT IN THAT YEAR . 10
(C) “PROGRAM” MEANS THE FORMERLY INCARCERATED YOUTH GRANT 11
PROGRAM. 12
18–3902. 13
(A) (1) THERE IS A FORMERLY INCARCERATED YOUTH GRANT 14
PROGRAM. 15
(2) THE OFFICE SHALL ADMINISTER THE PROGRAM. 16
(B) THE PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM IS TO PROVIDE TO ELI GIBLE 17
STUDENTS WHO RECEIVE FEDERAL PELL GRANTS MATCHING STATE FUNDS TO 18
SUPPORT THE INDIVIDU AL IN ATTENDING AN I NSTITUTION OF POSTSECONDARY 19
EDUCATION IN THE STATE. 20
(C) AN ELIGIBLE STUDENT M AY APPLY TO THE OFFICE FOR A GRANT UNDER 21
THE PROGRAM IF THE STUDENT CERTIFIES THAT THE ST UDENT WILL BE ELIGIBLE 22
AND WILL APPLY FOR A FEDERAL PELL GRANT IN THAT YEAR . 23
(D) THE OFFICE SHALL AWARD A GRANT UNDER THE PROGRAM: 24
(1) TO EACH ELIGIBLE STUD ENT WHO APPLIES TO THE OFFICE FOR 25
THE GRANT AND RECEIVES A FEDERAL PELL GRANT IN THAT YEAR; AND 26
(2) IN AN AMOUNT: 27
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(I) EQUAL TO THE AMOUNT O F THE FEDERAL PELL GRANT 1
THAT THE ELIGIBLE ST UDENT RECEIVED IN THAT YEAR; BUT 2
(II) NOT MORE THAN $3,000. 3
(E) AN ELIGIBLE STUDENT W HO RECEIVES A GRANT UNDER THE PROGRAM 4
SHALL USE THE GRANT FOR THE TUITION AND MANDATORY FEES A ND ROOM AND 5
BOARD FOR ON –CAMPUS HOUSING AT AN INSTITUTION OF POSTSECONDARY 6
EDUCATION IN THE STATE. 7
(F) THE OFFICE SHALL DISTRIBUTE A GRANT AWARDED UNDER THE 8
PROGRAM TO THE INSTITUTION OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION IN WHICH THE 9
ELIGIBLE STUDENT WHO RECEIVES THE GRANT IS ENROLLED AT THE SAME TIME AS 10
FUNDS FOR FEDERAL PELL GRANTS ARE DISTRIBUTE D. 11
18–3903. 12
THE DIVISION OF PAROLE AND PROBATION WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF 13
PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF 14
JUVENILE SERVICES PERIODICALLY SHALL PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT TH E 15
PROGRAM AND THE GRANT APPLICATION PROCESS TO INDIVIDUALS WHO M AY BE 16
ELIGIBLE FOR A GRANT THROUGH THE PROGRAM. 17
18–3904. 18
THE COMMISSION SHALL ADOP T REGULATIONS TO CAR RY OUT THIS 19
SUBTITLE. 20
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect July 21
1, 2022. 22