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For Immediate Release 
 
May 1, 2005 
 
Speaker Richardson appoints a House HOPE Scholarship Program Study Committee 
Atlanta Today House Speaker Glenn Richardson (R-Hiram) appointed State Representatives Bill Hembree (R-Douglasville), James Mills (RGainesville), Mike Coan (R-Lawrenceville), Bob Smith (R-Watkinsville), and Ed Rynders (R-Albany) to the House HOPE Scholarship Program Study Committee. Rep. Bill Hembree will be serving as the Chair of the Study Committee. Rep. Bill Hembree is the Chairman of the House Higher Education Committee. 
 
The committee will study the conditions, needs, issues, and problems 
 
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regarding but not limited to the impact that results when students transfer between institutions in which credit hours may or may not be honored, and 
 
Brent Cranfield 
 
which may cause students to be required to take more credit hours than is allowed under the maximum hour limitations under the program. The 
 
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committee was created by the passage of House Resolution 442. The 
 
bcranfield@legis.state.ga. study committee will end its meeting on December 31, 2005. 
 
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