Section 74-32,124 - Same; administration of program; duties of state board of regents(a) The board of regents shall administer the Kansas comprehensive grant program and shall: (1) Provide information regarding application procedures;(2) adopt rules and regulations for determining financial need and cost of attendance at Kansas educational institutions, determining the average amount of tuition and fees required of full-time, in-state students for enrollment at the state educational institutions, the municipal university, and the independent institutions of higher education, determining residence, determining priority or apportionment of Kansas comprehensive grants and other matters necessary for administration of the program;(3) allocate as base funding to each Kansas educational institution the amount of Kansas comprehensive grant funds awarded to the institution for fiscal year 1999; or, in the event funding is less than that provided for fiscal year 1999, the pro-rated share of that appropriation;(4) appoint a five-member advisory committee, including two representatives from state educational institutions, two representatives from not-for-profit independent institutions, and one representative from a municipal university, to recommend annually to the board of regents the formula to be used in apportioning funds in excess of the fiscal year 1999 appropriation to the Kansas educational institutions according to the formula based on financial need;(5) approve Kansas students for the award of Kansas comprehensive grants; and(6) evaluate the Kansas comprehensive grant program annually, and make a report thereon to the governor and legislature for the period.(b) The board of regents may provide for apportionment of Kansas comprehensive grants if appropriations therefor are insufficient to pay all approved grants.L. 1993, ch. 28, § 5; L. 1998, ch. 165, § 5; July 1.