§ 13-55-50 Application for admission to approved institution--Determination of scholarship eligibility--Distribution of funds.

SD Codified L § 13-55-50 (2019) (N/A)

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13-55-50. Application for admission to approved institution--Determination of scholarship eligibility--Distribution of funds. Any eligible student seeking to obtain a jump start scholarship shall, by September first of the year following the student's graduation from high school, apply for admission to an approved postsecondary education institution. The institution shall determine the student's initial eligibility, and once the student is admitted into the jump start scholarship program, the executive director of the Board of Regents shall make scholarship payments to the institution on behalf of the student. The approved institutions shall submit to the Board of Regents the names of all eligible students by October first for the first semester and by February twenty-fifth for the second semester, and once the eligibility of each student is verified, the executive director of the Board of Regents shall distribute the funds necessary to award the scholarship to each eligible student to the approved institutions for the first semester on October fifteenth or the first working day thereafter, and for the second semester on March fifteenth or the first working day thereafter.

Source: SL 2011, ch 102, § 4.

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