TITLE 17. EDUCATION

CHAPTER 20-B-3. LOUISIANA HONORS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

17:3042.33       Criteria; award ceremony

A. (1) Each city and parish school board for the high schools under its jurisdiction and the principal or headmaster of each nonpublic high school approved by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shall identify and certify to the administering agency the achievement of those students graduating in the top five percent of their class. The criteria for class ranking shall be determined by each school board or principal or headmaster of each approved nonpublic high school.

(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, students domiciled in Louisiana who are funded through the Louisiana Minimum Foundation Program and who are attending any high school in an adjoining state pursuant to an agreement between the parish school system and the local governing authority of the school in the adjoining state as of June 4, 1994, shall be eligible for receipt of the scholarship awards as provided by this Chapter. The Louisiana Student Financial Assistance Commission shall develop any necessary rules and regulations for determining the criteria for class ranking and identifying and certifying the scholarship recipients from any such high school.

B. Each scholarship recipient shall be suitably recognized at the award ceremony or school reception provided by R.S. 17:177 for presentations of the Legislative Academic Achievement Award. Members of the legislature representing the district in which a scholarship recipient's high school is located shall be invited to attend the ceremony or school reception and may make the presentation awarding the scholarship.

Added by Acts 1992, No. 1085, §1, eff. July 14, 1992. Amended by Acts 1994, 3rd Ex.Sess., No. 86, §1; Acts 1997, No. 1283, §1, eff. July 15, 1997.