(a) Definitions.
Director means the Director of the Department of Finance or the Director’s designee.
(b) The Director must administer a workforce investment scholarship program that:
(1) awards workforce investment scholarships to students in an undergraduate degree program which prepares students for:
(A) one of the County’s 10 most needed occupations;
(B) certification by the State Department of Education to teach mathematics or science in a Maryland public school;
(C) a degree in engineering, mathematics, or a natural science; or
(D) a degree in early childhood education or early childhood special education.
(2) requires a student who receives a workforce investment scholarship to agree to work in the County as a mathematics or science teacher, as an engineer, or in one of the County’s 10 most needed occupations for at least the number of years the student receives the scholarship; and
(3) requires the repayment of the scholarship by a student who does not complete a degree or who does not satisfy other conditions of the scholarship.
(c) The Executive must adopt regulations under Method 2 implementing the scholarship program after considering the Board’s recommendations. The regulations must govern the award of workforce investment scholarships covering tuition, books, fees, and related expenses to attend an undergraduate degree program at:
1. Montgomery College for the first 2 years; and
2. the Universities at Shady Grove for the last 2 years; or
3. any campus for one of the participating Universities at Shady Grove for the last 2 years if the degree program is not offered at Shady Grove. (2009 L.M.C., ch. 12, § 1; 2015 L.M.C., ch. 36, § 1.)
Editor’s note—2015 L.M.C., ch. 36, § 8 also states, in part: All other provisions of this Act take effect 180 days after the Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation is designated under Section 30B-2.