‘‘Subpart 10—Public Service Scholarship Program 
‘‘SEC. 420Q. SCHOLARSHIPS FOR PUBLIC SERVICE. 
‘‘(a) STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of 
this subpart to establish a Public Service Scholarship Pro-
gram to promote public service by exceptionally able stu-
dents who show promise of continued excellence. 
‘‘(b) SCHOLARSHIPS AUTHORIZED.— 
‘‘(1) PROGRAM AUTHORITY.—The Secretary is 
authorized, in accordance with the provisions of this 
subpart, to make grants to States to enable the 
States to award scholarships to individuals who have 
demonstrated outstanding academic achievement, 
who show promise of continued academic achieve-
ment, and who enter into an agreement in accord-
ance with subsection (e)(3). 
‘‘(2) PERIOD OF AWARD.—Scholarships under 
this section shall be awarded for a period of not less 
than 1 or more than 4 years during the first 4 years 
of study at any institution of higher education eligi-
ble to participate in any programs assisted under 
this title. The State educational agency admin-
istering the program in a State shall have discretion 
to determine the period of the award (within the lim-
its specified in the preceding sentence). 
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‘‘(3) USE AT ANY INSTITUTION PERMITTED.— 
A student awarded a scholarship under this subpart 
may attend any institution of higher education. 
‘‘(4) PUBLIC SERVICE SCHOLARS.—Individuals 
awarded scholarships under this subpart shall be 
known as ‘Public Service Scholars’. 
‘‘(c) ALLOCATION AMONG STATES.— 
‘‘(1) ALLOCATION FORMULA.—From the sums 
appropriated pursuant to subsection (i) for any fis-
cal year, the Secretary shall allocate to each State 
that has an agreement under subsection (d) an 
amount equal to $10,000 multiplied by the number 
of scholarships determined by the Secretary to be 
available to such State in accordance with paragraph 
(2). 
‘‘(2) NUMBER OF SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE.— 
The number of scholarships to be made available in 
a State for any fiscal year shall bear the same ratio 
to the number of scholarships made available to all 
States as the State’s population ages 5 through 17 
bears to the population ages 5 through 17 in all the 
States, except that not less than 10 scholarships 
shall be made available to any State. 
‘‘(3) USE OF CENSUS DATA.—For the purpose 
of this subsection, the population ages 5 through 17 
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in a State and in all the States shall be determined 
by the most recently available data, satisfactory to 
the Secretary, from the Bureau of the Census. 
‘‘(d) AGREEMENTS WITH STATES.—The Secretary 
shall enter into an agreement with each State desiring to 
participate in the scholarship program authorized by this 
subpart. Each such agreement shall include provisions de-
signed to assure that— 
‘‘(1) the State educational agency will admin-
ister the scholarship program authorized by this sub-
part in the State; 
‘‘(2) the State educational agency will comply 
with the eligibility and selection provisions of this 
subpart; 
‘‘(3) the State educational agency will conduct 
outreach activities to publicize the availability of 
scholarships under this subpart to all eligible stu-
dents in the State, with particular emphasis on ac-
tivities designed to assure that students from low-in-
come and moderate-income families have access to 
the information on the opportunity for full participa-
tion in the scholarship program authorized by this 
subpart; and 
‘‘(4) the State educational agency will pay to 
each individual in the State who is awarded a schol-
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arship for any academic year under this subpart 
$10,000 for such academic year. 
‘‘(e) ELIGIBILITY OF SCHOLARS.— 
‘‘(1) HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION OR EQUIVA-
LENT
AND
ADMISSION
TO
INSTITUTION
RE-
QUIRED.—Each student awarded a scholarship 
under this subpart shall— 
‘‘(A) be a graduate of a public or private 
secondary school (or a home school, whether 
treated as a home school or a private school 
under State law) or have the equivalent of a 
certificate of graduation as recognized by the 
State in which the student resides; and 
‘‘(B) have been admitted for enrollment at 
an institution of higher education. 
‘‘(2) SELECTION BASED ON PROMISE OF ACA-
DEMIC
ACHIEVEMENT.—Each student awarded a 
scholarship under this subpart must demonstrate 
outstanding academic achievement and show promise 
of continued academic achievement. 
‘‘(3) PUBLIC SERVICE AGREEMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—To be eligible to re-
ceive a scholarship under this subpart, a stu-
dent shall enter into a written agreement with 
the Secretary that specifies that— 
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‘‘(i) the student will seek to obtain 
employment, and will remain employed, as 
an employee of the Federal Government 
for a required period of service of not less 
than 5 years, unless the student fails to 
obtain or is involuntarily separated from 
that employment; 
‘‘(ii) if the student fails to obtain such 
employment, or is involuntarily separated 
from such employment on account of mis-
conduct, or voluntarily separates from such 
employment, before the end of the period 
specified in the agreement, the student will 
repay the Secretary the sum of the 
amounts of any scholarships received by 
such student under this subpart; 
‘‘(iii) if the student is required to 
repay an amount to the Secretary under 
clause (ii) and fails to repay such amount, 
a sum equal to that amount shall be recov-
erable by the Federal Government from 
the student by such methods as are pro-
vided by law for the recovery of amounts 
owed to the Federal Government; and 
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‘‘(iv) the Secretary may waive, in 
whole or in part, a right of recovery under 
this subsection if the individual is perma-
nently and totally disabled at the time of 
the waiver request or the Secretary deter-
mines, on the basis of a demonstration 
submitted by or on behalf of the individual, 
that— 
‘‘(I) recovery would cause the in-
dividual a substantial economic or 
personal hardship; or 
‘‘(II) recovery would be otherwise 
contrary to the public interest; 
‘‘(B) REPAYMENTS.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Any amount re-
paid by, or recovered from, an individual 
under this paragraph shall be credited to 
the appropriation account from which the 
amount involved was originally paid as a 
scholarship. 
‘‘(ii) MERGER.—Any amount credited 
under clause (i) shall be merged with other 
sums in such account and shall be avail-
able for the same purposes and period, and 
subject to the same limitations, if any, as 
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the sums with which the amount was 
merged. 
‘‘(f) SELECTION OF SCHOLARS.— 
‘‘(1) 
ESTABLISHMENT
OF
CRITERIA.—The 
State educational agency is authorized to establish 
the criteria for the selection of scholars under this 
subpart. 
‘‘(2) ADOPTION OF PROCEDURES.—The State 
educational agency shall adopt selection procedures 
designed to ensure an equitable geographic distribu-
tion of awards within the State (and in the case of 
the Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or 
the Freely Associated States, not to exceed 10 indi-
viduals will be selected from such entities). 
‘‘(3) CONSULTATION
REQUIREMENT.—In car-
rying out its responsibilities under paragraphs (1) 
and (2), the State educational agency shall consult 
with school administrators, school boards, teachers, 
counselors, and parents. 
‘‘(4) TIMING
OF
SELECTION.—The selection 
process shall be completed, and the awards made, 
prior to the end of each secondary school academic 
year. 
‘‘(g) STIPENDS AND SCHOLARSHIP CONDITIONS.— 
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‘‘(1) AMOUNT
OF
AWARD.—Each student 
awarded a scholarship under this subpart shall re-
ceive a stipend of $10,000 for each academic year of 
study for which the scholarship is awarded, except 
that in no case shall— 
‘‘(A) the total amount of financial aid 
awarded to such student exceed such student’s 
total cost-of-attendance for any such academic 
year; or 
‘‘(B) the total amount of financial aid 
awarded to such student under this subpart ex-
ceed a total of $40,000 for all such academic 
years. 
‘‘(2) USE OF AWARD.—The State educational 
agency shall establish procedures to assure that a 
scholar awarded a scholarship under this subpart 
pursues a course of study at an institution of higher 
education. 
‘‘(h) CONSTRUCTION OF NEEDS PROVISIONS.—Ex-
cept as provided in section 471, nothing in this subpart, 
or any other Act, shall be construed to permit the receipt 
of a scholarship under this subpart to be counted for any 
needs test in connection with the awarding of any grant 
or the making of any loan under this Act or any other 
provision of Federal law relating to educational assistance. 
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‘‘(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this subpart 
for fiscal year 2009 and each of the 3 succeeding fiscal 
years such sums as may be necessary to award 10,000 
Public Service Scholarships during each of the academic 
years that begin in such fiscal years.’’. 
Æ 
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