PRINTER'S NO. 3084
No. 556 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY ROEBUCK, O'NEILL, PALLONE, BEYER, BEAR, BIANCUCCI,
BISHOP, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, CLYMER, COHEN, CONKLIN, DALEY,
DiGIROLAMO, GALLOWAY, GEIST, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GINGRICH,
GRUCELA, HELM, HESS, JAMES, MAJOR, MANN, MANTZ, MELIO,
MENSCH, MILLARD, MOYER, MURT, MUSTIO, M. O'BRIEN, PRESTON,
REICHLEY, ROSS, RUBLEY, SANTONI, SIPTROTH, SONNEY, STURLA,
SURRA, THOMAS, VULAKOVICH AND WOJNAROSKI, JANUARY 15, 2008
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
JANUARY 15, 2008
A RESOLUTION
1 Designating the month of January 2008 as "Financial Aid
2 Awareness Month" and commending the work of the Pennsylvania
3 Higher Education Assistance Agency and the Pennsylvania
4 Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.
5 WHEREAS, January is the first month in which students can
6 apply for student financial aid to help finance their
7 postsecondary education; and
8 WHEREAS, The ability of some college students to attend and
9 pursue a postsecondary education is conditional on the
10 availability of student financial assistance; and
11 WHEREAS, Knowledge of the availability of student financial
12 aid to help finance a postsecondary education has been shown to
13 vary across demographic groupings; and
14 WHEREAS, The Commonwealth, through the Pennsylvania Higher
15 Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA), has been one of the leading
16 states in the nation, providing need-based State grant financial
1 assistance to eligible Pennsylvania residents and providing
2 other State financial assistance programs; and
3 WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania Association of Student Financial
4 Aid Administrators (PASFAA) has been one of the leading state
5 associations of financial aid professionals in the nation,
6 providing cost-effective products and services to schools and
7 students to, as their motto says, "finance tomorrow's dreams";
8 and
9 WHEREAS, The Commonwealth, PHEAA and PASFAA want to promote
10 the availability of student financial assistance to help finance
11 a postsecondary education, in the form of Federal grants, loans
12 and work-study, State grants and other specialized State funding
13 programs, to help eligible Pennsylvanians pursue their
14 postsecondary endeavors; therefore be it
15 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives designate the
16 month of January 2008 as "Financial Aid Awareness Month," urge
17 all college students seeking financial assistance to apply for
18 assistance and recognize the work of PHEAA and PASFAA in their
19 respective efforts to promote the availability of postsecondary
20 student financial assistance for the residents of this
21 Commonwealth.
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