§5023. Residency requirements
A.Except as provided by Subsection D of this Section, to be eligible for an award
pursuant to this Chapter, an independent student, as defined by the administering agency,
shall have been a resident of Louisiana during the twenty-four months preceding the date of
the student's graduation from high school. However, an independent student who graduated
from a public or approved nonpublic high school in this state in the 2002-2003 school year
or thereafter meets the requirements of this Section if he actually resided or lived in this state
for the period of his last two full years of high school culminating in graduation as certified
by the high school.
B.Except as provided by Subsection D of this Section, to be eligible for an award
pursuant to this Chapter, a
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§5023. Residency requirements
A. Except as provided by Subsection D of this Section, to be eligible for an award
pursuant to this Chapter, an independent student, as defined by the administering agency,
shall have been a resident of Louisiana during the twenty-four months preceding the date of
the student's graduation from high school. However, an independent student who graduated
from a public or approved nonpublic high school in this state in the 2002-2003 school year
or thereafter meets the requirements of this Section if he actually resided or lived in this state
for the period of his last two full years of high school culminating in graduation as certified
by the high school.
B. Except as provided by Subsection D of this Section, to be eligible for an award
pursuant to this Chapter, a dependent student, as defined by the administering agency, shall
meet one of the following requirements:
(1) He has a parent or court-ordered custodian who is a resident of Louisiana during
the twenty-four months preceding the date of the student's graduation from high school.
(2) He is the dependent child of a resident of Louisiana on active duty with the
United States Armed Forces who is stationed outside Louisiana but who claims Louisiana
as his official state of legal residence and who has filed a Louisiana state income tax return
for the most recent two years.
(3) If he graduated from a public or approved nonpublic high school in this state in
the 2002-2003 school year or thereafter, he actually resided or lived in this state for the
period of his last two full years of high school culminating in graduation as certified by the
high school.
(4) He is the dependent child of a nonresident of Louisiana on active duty with the
United States Armed Forces who is stationed in Louisiana under permanent change of station
orders and who not later than one hundred eighty days after reporting to such station changes
his military personnel records to establish Louisiana as his official state of legal residence
and complies with Louisiana income tax laws and regulations for the time period while
stationed in Louisiana.
(5) His parent or court-ordered custodian meets all of the following criteria:
(a) He is living outside of the United States or its territories.
(b) He is not on active duty with the United States armed forces.
(c) He was a resident of Louisiana who actually lived in Louisiana for at least the
twenty-four months preceding the date he started living outside of the United States or its
territories.
(d) He has remained a resident of Louisiana through the date of the student's
graduation from high school or completion of a home study program approved by the State
Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
C. Residency shall be demonstrated by proof of the following as required by the
administering agency or by other proof required by the administering agency by rule:
(1) If registered to vote, is registered in Louisiana.
(2) If licensed to drive a motor vehicle, is in possession of a Louisiana driver's
license.
(3) If owning a motor vehicle located within Louisiana, is in possession of Louisiana
registration for that vehicle.
(4) If earning an income, has filed a Louisiana state income tax return and has
complied with state income tax laws and regulations.
D.(1) Any student who is the dependent child of a member of the United States
Armed Forces who is not a resident of this state, is living in this state under permanent
change of station orders but does not claim Louisiana as his state of legal residence, and who
graduates from a public or approved nonpublic high school in this state in the 2000-2001
academic school year or thereafter shall meet the requirements of this Section if he actually
lives in this state for the period of his last two full years of high school culminating in
graduation as certified by the high school.
(2)(a) Any displaced student as defined by R.S. 17:5101(A)(2) who graduates from
an out-of-state school during the 2006-2007 school year and is awarded a Louisiana Distance
Diploma issued by the state Department of Education shall meet the requirements of this
Section if he actually resided in Louisiana during his entire tenth grade year of high school
and was enrolled for such time in an eligible Louisiana high school or, for dependent
students, if the displaced student has a parent or court-ordered custodian who actually resided
in a parish listed in R.S. 17:5101(A)(2)(a) for at least the twelve months prior to August 26,
2005, or in a parish listed in R.S. 17:5101(A)(2)(b) for at least the twelve months prior to
September 20, 2005.
(b) A displaced student who meets the residency requirement of this Paragraph shall
not be required to have for the respective awards a higher minimum composite score on the
ACT or on the SAT than required for a student who graduates from an eligible Louisiana
high school provided such student has, for Opportunity awards, a cumulative high school
grade point average on all courses on the high school transcript of at least 2.50 calculated on
a 4.00 scale or, for Performance and Honors awards, a cumulative high school grade point
average on all courses on the high school transcript of at least 3.50 calculated on a 4.00 scale.
(3)(a) Any dependent student graduating from an out-of-state high school during the
2006-2007 school year whose parent or court-ordered custodian was a member of the United
States Armed Forces who, in the year 2006, moved from Louisiana under a permanent
change of station orders and retired from the armed forces, and changed his military
personnel records to reflect a change of his state of legal residence from Louisiana to another
state, shall meet the requirements of this Section, provided that such parent or court-ordered
custodian changes his military personnel records from the other state to reestablish Louisiana
as his state of legal residence no later than July 1, 2007, and has filed a Louisiana state
income tax return for the two years preceding the date of the dependent's graduation from
high school.
(b) Any dependent student who meets the requirements of this Paragraph shall
qualify for an award under this Chapter if the student has a composite score on the 1990
version of the ACT which is at least two points higher than that required by this Section for
a student graduating from a Louisiana public high school or nonpublic high school which has
been approved by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education or an equivalent
concordant value on an enhanced or revised version of such test or on the SAT.