1254                                      LAWS OF MARYLAND                                Ch. 602

CHAPTER 602
(House Bill 1082)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 36 and 40 of Article
77A of the Annotated Code of Maryland ([[1969 Replacement Volume and]]
1972 Supplement), title "Higher Education,'" subtitle "Scholarships," to permit
members of the State Senate, or the House of Delegates to appoint part-time
students to State scholarships, and the prorating of the scholarship accordingly.

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Sections 36 and 40 of Article 77A of the Annotated Code of
Maryland ([[1969 Replacement Volume and]] 1972 Supplement), title "Higher
Education," subtitle "Scholarships," be and they are hereby repealed and
re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

36.

Any award to be made according to the provisions of this subtitle shall be given
only to an applicant who has met the following conditions: (1) That he shall have
passed, in the academic year preceding that for which the award is to be made, a
competitive examination to be administered by the State Scholarship Board in
accordance with rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by that Board, the
pertinent results of which shall be transmitted to the respective appointing
authorities, except that when an award is made to a student who is already
enrolled in an institution of higher learning and has completed one year of study in
good academic standing, the requirement for an examination is waived, (2) that he
shall have been, at the time of the examination, a resident of the State and of the
senatorial district or subdistrict of the State from which he seeks appointment,
except as otherwise provided elsewhere in this article, (3) that he shall have been
accepted for admission to the regular undergraduate program of the institution at
which the award is to be used and (4) that he shall have accepted any other
conditions attached to the granting of the award by the law or by regulations
adopted pursuant thereto. The respective appointing authorities, in making their
appointments, shall take into consideration the financial needs of the several
applicants as determined by the State Scholarship Board in accordance with the
uniform rules and regulations adopted and promulgated by that Board, which shall
be so prepared and applied as to assure that definite financial need shall be a
prerequisite to receiving an award under the provisions of this section; but if the
applicant is adjudged to have definite financial need in the final judgment of the
awarding member of the General Assembly from the county or senatorial or
legislative district in which the applicant resides, that fact shall be accepted for the
purposes of this section, and the State Scholarship Board by regulation or
otherwise may not negate the acceptance of this judgment of financial need or
impose upon it requirements of time or procedure. Once appointed to receive an
award according to the provisions of this section, a student shall be entitled to hold
the award for four academic years, except as otherwise provided elsewhere in this
section; provided that he becomes and remains enrolled in the institution at which
the award is used in a full-time (minimum 12 semester hours) program [[;OR A
PART SCHOLARSHIP FOR A PART-TIME STUDENT, CARRYING AT
LEAST 6 SEMESTER HOURS, WITH THE SCHOLARSHIP MONEY
BEING PRORATED ACCORDINGLY;]] OR A PART TIME PROGRAM
(MINIMUM 6 SEMESTER HOURS), of under graduate study leading to the
granting of a degree PROVIDED FURTHER THAT FOR PART-TIME
STUDENTS THE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD IS APPROPRIATELY
PRO-RATED, AND MAY BE FOR A PERIOD NOT TO EXCEED TWICE
THE NUMBER OF YEARS FOR WHICH A FULL-TIME STUDENT IS
ELIGIBLE: [[WITH A MAXIMUM OF TWO PART-TIME STUDENTS