Free Application for Federal Student Aid

(a)Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, and in addition to any other requirements established by law and the Guam Education Board, as a prerequisite to receiving a high school/academy charter school diploma from the Guam Department of Education

(GDOE)or academy charter high school, the parent or legal guardian of each student or student if the student is at least eighteen

(18)years of age, must complete and submit a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).

(b)A copy of the FAFSA form receipt shall be submitted to GDOE or academy charter school and the agency shall in no way require or retain any copies of the FAFSA form or confidential information disclosed on the application.

(c)Upon the request of a parent or legal guardian, GDOE or academy charter school must provide the student and their parent or legal guardian with any support or assistance necessary to complete the FAFSA form and shall ensure none of the confidential information shared by the parent or legal guardian is to be retained in any GDOE high school/academy charter school student records.

(d)GDOE or academy charter high school must award a high school/academy charter school diploma to a student who otherwise qualifies for a diploma but would rather opt out of the requirements of this Section if the parent or legal guardian, or student, if the student is at least eighteen

(18)years of age, certifies through a declaration, signed under penalty of perjury, that he or she opts out of completing the FAFSA form.

(e)Any person who assists with the completion of the FAFSA form and who discloses confidential information to anyone other than a GDOE student and their parent or legal guardian, commits a misdemeanor.

(f)The Guam Education Board may adopt rules to implement the requirements of this Section.