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Committee reviews bill narrowing drug-related HOPE disqualification to marijuana possession
Summary
Sponsors presented a bill to narrow the state’s drug-based disqualification from HOPE scholarship eligibility so that only marijuana-related convictions would bar HOPE; sponsor said the change mirrors federal Pell changes and committee members asked for judiciary consultation to avoid unintended criminal-code conflicts.
A sponsor brought House Bill 206 before the House Higher Education Committee to revise a state law that can disqualify students from state scholarship programs over drug convictions. The sponsor said the federal Pell Grant recently removed a provision that denied eligibility for individuals with certain drug convictions, and the proposed state change would narrow Georgia's postsecondary "drug" disqualification to marijuana-related offenses only. "This bill ... is strictly and specifically only focusing on removing marijuana…
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