2010 Tennessee Code
Title 49 - Education
Chapter 4 - Financial Aid
Part 9 - State Lottery Proceeds
49-4-914 - Scholarships awards.

49-4-914. Scholarships awards.

(a)  Subject to the amounts appropriated by the general assembly and any provision of law relating to a shortfall in funds available for postsecondary financial assistance from the net proceeds of the state lottery, the amount of a Tennessee HOPE scholarship awarded to a student attending an eligible four-year postsecondary institution shall be determined in accordance with § 4-51-111 and shall be set in the general appropriations act.

(b)  Subject to the amounts appropriated by the general assembly and any provision of law relating to a shortfall in funds available for postsecondary financial assistance from the net proceeds of the state lottery, a Tennessee HOPE scholarship awarded to a student attending an eligible two-year postsecondary institution shall determined in accordance with § 4-51-111 and shall be set in the general appropriations act.

(c)  Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (b) to the contrary, beginning with the 2008-2009 academic year and for academic years thereafter, the amount of a Tennessee HOPE scholarship awarded to a student attending an eligible two-year postsecondary institution that provides on-campus housing shall be the same as the amount of a Tennessee HOPE scholarship awarded to students attending eligible four-year postsecondary institutions.

[Acts 2003, ch. 298, § 1; 2005, ch. 481, §§ 23, 24; 2006, ch. 974, §§ 1, 2; 2008, ch. 1142, § 13.]