Code of Alabama - Title 38: Public Welfare - Chapter 12B - Fostering Hope Scholarship Act of 2015

• Section 38-12B-1 Short title
  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Fostering Hope Scholarship Act of 2015.
• Section 38-12B-2 Develpment and adminstration of program
  (a) The State Department of Human Resources shall develop and administer Fostering Hope, a scholarship program for designated persons currently or formerly in the state...
• Section 38-12B-3 Mentor service
  The program shall include a mentor service administered by the department as a support system for participants of the college tuition scholarship program. This service...
• Section 38-12B-4 Use of funds
  Appropriations for the program shall be used by the department on behalf of participants in each fiscal year to pay public two-year and four-year institutions...
• Section 38-12B-5 Payment of tuition and required fees
  The program shall pay tuition and required fees for a participant as governed by rules promulgated by the department. In no event shall tuition and...
• Section 38-12B-6 Eligibility; disbursement of funds
  (a) To be eligible to participate in the program, a scholarship applicant shall satisfy all of the following: (1) Be in the legal custody of...
• Section 38-12B-7 Reductions to awards
  A scholarship awarded pursuant to this chapter may not be reduced by the amount of any federal aid, scholarship funds, or grant funds otherwise received...
• Section 38-12B-8 Priority of funding
  Fostering Hope scholarship funds shall be applied to tuition and mandatory fees before any other grant, loan, voucher, or scholarship the student may be awarded...
• Section 38-12B-9 Ineligibility from participation
  Any other provision of this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, an otherwise eligible person who earns grants, scholarships, or other awards, excluding loans, sufficient to...
• Section 38-12B-10 Promulgation of rules
  The commissioner of the department may promulgate rules as necessary to implement and administer this chapter.

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