2015 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 70. Schools
§70-2602. Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program.

There is hereby created the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Program. The program shall also be known as “Oklahoma’s Promise”. The purpose of the program is to provide an award to students who meet the criteria set forth in the Oklahoma Higher Learning Access Act, Section 2601 et seq. of this title, and who are pursuing studies in this state leading to an associate or baccalaureate degree or who are pursuing studies in a postsecondary vocational-technical program or course offered pursuant to a duly approved cooperative agreement between a technology center school and an institution of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, and who are in good academic standing in the institution of higher education or technology center school in which enrolled, to relieve them of the burden of paying nonguaranteed resident tuition at institutions of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, to relieve them of the burden of paying tuition for enrollment in postsecondary programs of the technology center districts, or to relieve them of some portion of the burden of paying such fees or tuition, pursuant to the provisions of this act, as may be required of enrollees at private institutions of higher education which are accredited pursuant to Section 4103 of this title. The further purpose of this program is to establish and maintain a variety of support services whereby a broader range of the general student population of this state will be prepared for success in postsecondary endeavors.

Added by Laws 1992, c. 353, § 2, eff. July 1, 1992. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 153, § 1, emerg. eff. May 3, 1994; Laws 2000, c. 232, § 12, eff. July 1, 2000; Laws 2001, c. 33, § 143, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2006, c. 278, § 7, eff. July 1, 2006; Laws 2009, c. 437, § 1, eff July 1, 2009.