‘‘(M) capacity building activities that cre-
ate college-going cultures in participating 
schools and local educational agencies.’’; and 
(iv) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(16) Creating or expanding secondary school 
drop-out recovery programs that allow students who 
have dropped out of secondary school to complete a 
regular secondary school diploma and begin college- 
level work. 
‘‘(17) Establishing data collection and data 
sharing agreements to obtain, analyze, and report 
postsecondary outcome data for eligible students for 
a period of not more than 72 months after the end 
of the grant award period, which may include post-
secondary enrollment, persistence, and completion 
data. 
‘‘(18) Establishing or maintaining an agree-
ment with a consortium of eligible entities described 
in section 404A(c) to— 
‘‘(A) foster collaborative approaches to re-
search and evaluation; 
‘‘(B) improve the quality of data collection, 
data sharing, analysis and reporting; and 
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‘‘(C) apply evidence to improve programs 
and evaluation under this chapter. 
‘‘(19) Providing services under this chapter to 
students who have received services under a previous 
grant award under this chapter but have not yet 
completed grade 12.’’; 
(B) in subsection (c)— 
(i) in paragraph (3), by inserting 
‘‘and technical assistance’’ after ‘‘support’’; 
and 
(ii) by striking paragraph (9); and 
(C) in subsection (d)— 
(i) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘or’’; 
(ii) by redesignating paragraph (4) as 
paragraph (5); and 
(iii) by inserting after paragraph (3) 
the following: 
‘‘(4) eligible for free or reduced-price lunch 
under the Richard B Russell National School Lunch 
Act; or’’; 
(5) in section 404E (20 U.S.C. 1070a–25)— 
(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) by redesignating paragraphs (1) 
and (2) as paragraphs (2) and (3), respec-
tively; 
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(ii) by inserting before paragraph (2), 
as redesignated by clause (i), the following: 
‘‘(1) APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) PLAN FOR MAINTENANCE OF FINAN-
CIAL ASSISTANCE.—An eligible entity proposing 
to establish or maintain a financial assistance 
program providing scholarships for students as-
sisted by the program of the eligible entity 
under this chapter shall include a plan regard-
ing the financial application program with the 
application submitted under section 404C. 
‘‘(B) SCHOLARSHIP
DETAILS.—Under a 
plan described in subparagraph (A), an eligible 
entity— 
‘‘(i) may elect to offer one or more 
types of scholarships; and 
‘‘(ii) shall describe, for each type of 
scholarship— 
‘‘(I) the minimum and maximum 
awards for the scholarships, consistent 
with section 404E(d), based on cri-
teria and disbursement priorities es-
tablished by the eligible entity; 
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‘‘(II) the duration of the scholar-
ships, which may be single-year or 
multi-year awards; 
‘‘(III) the enrollment require-
ments 
for 
participating 
students, 
which may include providing scholar-
ships for participating students who 
are enrolled in an institution of higher 
education on less than a full-time 
basis during any award year; and 
‘‘(IV) notwithstanding subsection 
(g), any additional student eligibility 
criteria established by the eligible en-
tity for earning and maintaining 
scholarships under this section, in-
cluding— 
‘‘(aa) financial need; 
‘‘(bb) meeting participation 
milestones in the activities of-
fered by the eligible entity under 
section 404D; 
‘‘(cc) meeting and maintain-
ing satisfactory academic mile-
stones; and 
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‘‘(dd) other criteria aligned 
with State and local goals to 
incentivize postsecondary readi-
ness, access, and success.’’; and 
(iii) in paragraph (3), as redesignated 
by clause (i), by striking ‘‘may award’’ and 
inserting ‘‘may use not less than 10 per-
cent and not more than 50 percent of 
funds made available under this chapter to 
award’’; 
(B) in subsection (b)— 
(i) in the subsection heading, by in-
serting ‘‘STATE’’ before ‘‘LIMITATION’’; 
and 
(ii) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘eli-
gible entity demonstrates’’ and all that fol-
lows through the period at the end and in-
serting the following: ‘‘eligible entity— 
‘‘(I) demonstrates that the eligi-
ble entity has another means of pro-
viding the students with the financial 
assistance described in this section or 
eligible students have reasonable ac-
cess to State and local financial as-
sistance programs; and 
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‘‘(II) describes such means or ac-
cess in the application submitted 
under section 404C.’’; 
(C) in subsection (e)— 
(i) by striking paragraph (1) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(A) SCHOLARSHIP
PLAN.—Each eligible 
entity described in section 404A(c)(1) that re-
ceives a grant under this chapter shall hold in 
reserve, for the students served by such grant 
as described in section 404B(d)(1)(A) or 
404D(d), an estimated amount that is based on 
the eligible entity’s scholarship plan described 
in subsection (a)(1). 
‘‘(B) INTEREST USE.—Interest earned on 
funds held in reserve under subparagraph (A) 
may be used by the eligible entity to administer 
the scholarship program during the award pe-
riod and through the post-award period de-
scribed in paragraph (4).’’; 
(ii) in paragraph (2)(B), by inserting 
‘‘, or been accepted for enrollment,’’ after 
‘‘enrolled’’; and 
(iii) in paragraph (3)— 
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