Status: Passed 5/6/24
Budget proposal of $1,644,170 included that in both the House and the Senate versions of the budget. For the 2024-2025 there be a total of $2.6M budgeted at Georgia Student Finance Commission for IPSE Grants at public institutions. This amount is expected to cover tuition and program fees for projected 2024-2025 students.
This bill was signed on 4/27/23. Section 1, Subpart 12 encompasses the requirements and procedures of a 5-year pilot of a state-funded scholarship for IPSE students. In the fiscal budget year 2024, $955,830 has been allocated to fund these grants for the first year. The funds will cover tuition, and may cover fees, for IPSE students. Requirements for eligibility of both the IPSE student and the programs are detailed in the bill.
This legislation, enacted in 2020, appropriates $500,000 in funding for inclusive postsecondary education for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in the FY 2021 Georgia state budget. This continues an annual source of funding set up in 2019, when the legislature reallocated $500,000 from the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency to the Georgia Council on Developmental Disabilities for the purpose of promoting inclusive postsecondary education. This specific funding has been kept at the same level consistently since then.
Enacted in 2015, this legislation created a committee which conducted a study into PSE and employment needs for individuals with IDD from September to November 2015. It recommended that the Georgia legislature create an Employment First Georgia Council under the Georgia VR Agency.
