2023 House Bill 5177

Higher education: tuition; Michigan tuition grant program; modify to permit grants to be awarded to individuals incarcerated in correctional facilities.

A bill to amend 1966 PA 313, entitled “An act to award tuition grants to resident students enrolled in independent nonprofit institutions of higher learning; and to make an appropriation therefor,” by amending sections 2 and 3 (MCL 390.992 and 390.993), section 3 as amended by 2021 PA 41.

Introduced in the House

Oct. 17, 2023

Introduced by Rep. Kara Hope (D-74) and two co-sponsors

Co-sponsored by Reps. Amos O’Neal (D-94) and Jimmie Wilson (D-32)

Referred to the Committee on Higher Education