1. (a) The earned income of a dependent child who is a full-time or part-time student is exempt when determining Family Medicaid eligibility.

2. (b) In this section,

   1. (1) "full-time student" means a student who is regularly attending

      1. (A) vocational training that is designed to prepare a student or gainful employment, including participation in the Job Corps program established under 29 U.S.C. 2881 - 2901, for at least 30 hours a week if the program involves shop practices or at least 25 hours a week if the program does not involve shop practices;
      2. (B) a college or university for at least 12 semester or quarter credit hours a semester or quarter;
      3. (C) a high school for at least 25 hours a week or, if in a high school cooperative or apprenticeship training program, full-time as defined by that program; or
      4. (D) an accredited correspondence course for at least 25 hours a week;

   2. (2) "part-time student" means a student who is regularly attending a school, college, university, or course of vocational training

      1. (A) who is not a full-time student; and
      2. (B) whose course load equals at least one-half of the course load for a full-time student enrolled in a similar educational or training program, rounding down if necessary;
   3. (3) "regularly attending" means enrolled and attending courses or enrolled but absent because of official school vacation, illness, convalescence, or family emergency.

(Eff. 7/20/2007, Register 183)

Authority: AS 47.05.010, AS 47.07.020, AS 47.07.040