00                      CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 155(EDC)                                                                    
01 "An Act relating to eligibility for the Alaska performance scholarship program."                                        
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
03    * Section 1. AS 14.43.820(a) is amended to read:                                                                   
04            (a)  Subject to appropriation, the commission shall award an Alaska                                          
05       performance scholarship to an applicant who                                                                       
06                 (1)  is a resident of the state as defined in AS 01.10.055;                                             
07                 (2)  graduated or will graduate within six months from a high school in                                 
08       the state;                                                                                                        
09                 (3)  except as provided in (c) of this section, has completed a core                                    
10       academic curriculum of high school level coursework that includes                                                 
11 (A)  four years of mathematics, four years of language arts, four                                                       
12 years of science, and four years of social studies, one year of which may                                               
13 include a foreign language, an Alaska Native language, fine arts, [OR] cultural                                         
14            heritage, or career and technical education; [OR]                                                      
15                      (B)  three years of mathematics, four years of language arts,                                      

01            three years of science, four years of social studies, and two years of                                       
02                           (i)  a foreign language or an Alaska Native language; or                              
03                           (ii)  career and technical education, one year of                                         
04 which includes two semesters of sequentially more rigorous content                                                  
05                 within a career cluster; or                                                                         
06 (C)  three years of mathematics, four years of language arts,                                                       
07 three years of science, four years of social studies, one year of which may                                         
08 be career and technical education, and two years of a foreign language or                                           
09            an Alaska Native language;                                                                               
10 (4)  has a minimum grade-point average in high school of 2.5 or higher;                                                 
11 the department shall set by regulation minimum requirements based on a substantially                                    
12       similar standard for districts that do not assign grades;                                                         
13                 (5)  has achieved a minimum score on a                                                                  
14                      (A)  college entrance examination; or                                                              
15 (B)  standardized examination designed to measure a student's                                                           
16 level of preparedness to make the transition to work, as selected by the                                                
17            department; and                                                                                              
18 (6)  is enrolled in good standing in a course of study at a qualified                                                   
19 postsecondary institution in this state that is intended to result in the award of a                                    
20       certificate or degree.                                                                                            
21    * Sec. 2. AS 14.43.820(g) is amended to read:                                                                      
22            (g)  In this section,                                                                                        
23 (1)  "career cluster" means a group of jobs and industries that are                                                 
24       related by skills or products;                                                                                
25                 (2)  "district" has the meaning given in AS 14.17.990.