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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="18-4001" title_number="18" title_name="Student Financial Assistance" subtitle_number="40" subtitle_name="Fallen Transportation Workers Scholarship Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Eligible recipient” means an individual who is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Accepted for admission or enrolled in a regular undergraduate, graduate, or professional program at an institution of postsecondary education;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At least 16 years old; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <level label="i">
        <text>A surviving transportation worker;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>A child, stepchild, spouse, or unmarried partner of a surviving transportation worker;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <level label="1">
          <text>A surviving child, stepchild, spouse, or unmarried partner of a fallen transportation worker; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>If a fallen transportation worker does not have a surviving child, stepchild, spouse, or unmarried partner, a sibling of the fallen transportation worker; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>A child or stepchild of an unmarried partner.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Fallen transportation worker” means an individual:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Whose occupation is in the construction, rehabilitation, or operation of a transportation facility or transportation facilities project in the State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Who died, on or after January 1, 2022, as a result of an accident occurring while the individual was performing any job duty necessary for the construction, maintenance, rehabilitation, or operation of a transportation facility or transportation facilities project in the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Fund” means the Fallen and Surviving Transportation Workers Scholarship Fund.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Program” means the Fallen and Surviving Transportation Workers Scholarship Program.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>“Surviving transportation worker” means an individual:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Whose occupation is in the construction, rehabilitation, or operation of a transportation facility or transportation facilities project in the State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Who survived, on or after January 1, 2022, an accident:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Resulting in at least $100,000,000 in total damages to a transportation facility or transportation facilities project in the State; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Occurring while the individual was performing any job duty necessary for the construction, maintenance, rehabilitation, or operation of a transportation facility or transportation facilities project in the State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Transportation facilities project” has the meaning stated in § 4–101 of the Transportation Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Transportation facility” has the meaning stated in § 3–101 of the Transportation Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Unmarried partner” means an individual who:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>At the time of a fallen transportation worker’s death:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Was in a committed relationship with the fallen transportation worker;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Shared a primary residence with the fallen transportation worker; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Was receiving and relied on, in whole or in part, the reasonable necessities of life from the fallen transportation worker; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>At the time of a surviving transportation worker’s accident:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Was in a committed relationship with the surviving transportation worker;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Shared a primary residence with the surviving transportation worker; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Was receiving and relied on, in whole or in part, the reasonable necessities of life from the surviving transportation worker.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
