2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 164 - STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES -- REGIONAL EDUCATION -- ARCHAEOLOGY 164.2847 Waiver of tuition and mandatory student fees for Kentucky foster or adopted children.
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164.2847 Waiver of tuition and mandatory student fees for Kentucky foster or
adopted children.
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Tuition and mandatory student fees for any undergraduate program of any
Kentucky public postsecondary institution, including all four (4) year universities
and colleges and institutions of the Kentucky Community and Technical
College System, shall be waived for a Kentucky foster or adopted child who is
a full-time or part-time student if the student meets all entrance requirements
and maintains academic eligibility while enrolled at the postsecondary
institution, and if:
(a) The student's family receives state-funded adoption assistance under
KRS 199.555;
(b) The student is currently committed to the Cabinet for Health and Family
Services under KRS 610.010(5) and placed in a family foster home or is
placed in accordance with KRS 605.090(3);
(c) The student is in an independent living program and the placement is
funded by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;
(d) The student who is an adopted child was in the permanent legal custody
of and placed for adoption by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
A student who meets the eligibility criteria of this paragraph and lives
outside of Kentucky at the time of application to a Kentucky
postsecondary institution may apply for the waiver up to the amount of
tuition for a Kentucky resident; or
(e) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services was the student's legal
custodian on his or her eighteenth birthday.
Tuition and mandatory student fees for any undergraduate program of any
Kentucky public postsecondary institution, including all four (4) year universities
and colleges and institutions of the Kentucky Community and Technical
College System, shall be waived for a Department of Juvenile Justice foster
child who is a full-time or part-time student if the student meets all entrance
requirements and maintains academic eligibility while enrolled at the
postsecondary institution and obtains a recommendation for participation from
an official from the Department of Juvenile Justice, and if:
(a) The student has not been sentenced to the Department of Juvenile
Justice under KRS Chapter 640;
(b) The student has been committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice
for a period of at least twelve (12) months;
(c) The student is in an independent living program and placement is funded
by the Department of Juvenile Justice;
(d) The parental rights of the student's biological parents have been
terminated; or
(e) The student was committed to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services
prior to a commitment to the Department of Juvenile Justice.
Upon request of the postsecondary institution, the Cabinet for Health and
Family Services shall confirm the eligibility status under subsection (1) of this
section and the Department of Juvenile Justice shall confirm the eligibility
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status and recommendations under subsection (2) of this section of the student
seeking to participate in the waiver program. Release of this information shall
not constitute a breach of confidentiality required by KRS 199.570, 610.320, or
620.050.
The student shall complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid to
determine the level of need and eligibility for state and federal financial aid
programs. If the sum of the tuition waiver plus other student financial
assistance, except loans and the work study program under 42 U.S.C. secs.
2751-2756b, from all sources exceeds the student's total cost of attendance, as
defined in 20 U.S.C. sec. 1087ll, the tuition waiver shall be reduced by the
amount exceeding the total cost of attendance.
The student shall be eligible for the tuition waiver:
(a) For entrance to the institution for a period of no more than four (4) years
after the date of graduation from high school; and
(b) For a period of five (5) years after first admittance to any Kentucky
institution if satisfactory progress is achieved or maintained, except when
extended in accordance with subsection (6) of this section.
The expiration of a student's five (5) year eligibility under subsection (5)(b) of
this section shall be extended upon a determination by the institution that the
student was unable to enroll for or complete an academic term due to serving:
(a) On active duty status in the United States Armed Forces;
(b) As an officer in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public
Health Service; or
(c) On active service in the Peace Corps Act or the Americorps.
The original expiration date shall be extended by the total number of years
during which the student was on active duty status. The number of months
served on active duty status shall be rounded up to the next higher year to
determine the maximum length of eligibility extension allowed.
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall report the number of
students participating in the tuition waiver program under subsection (1) of this
section and the Department of Juvenile Justice shall report the number of
students participating in the tuition waiver program under subsection (2) of this
section on October 1 each year to the Council on Postsecondary Education
and the Legislative Research Commission.
The Council on Postsecondary Education shall report nonidentifying data on
graduation rates of students participating in the tuition waiver program by
November 30 each year to the Legislative Research Commission.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to:
(a) Guarantee acceptance of or entrance into any postsecondary institution
for a foster or adopted child;
(b) Limit the participation of a foster or adopted student in any other program
of financial assistance for postsecondary education;
(c) Require any postsecondary institution to waive costs or fees relating to
room and board; or
(d) Restrict any postsecondary institution, the Department of Juvenile
Justice, or the Cabinet for Health and Family Services from accessing
other sources of financial assistance, except loans, that may be available
to a foster or adopted student.
Effective:July 15, 2014
History: Amended 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 132, sec. 16, effective July 15, 2014. -Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 70, sec. 1, effective June 25, 2013. -- Amended
2008 Ky. Acts ch. 87, sec. 16, effective July 15, 2008. -- Amended 2005 Ky.
Acts ch. 99, sec. 137, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch.
279, sec. 2, effective July 15, 2002. -- Created 2001 Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 1,
effective June 21, 2001.
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