FAST Act simplifies and modernizes financial aid programs, while maximizing stewardship of grants benefitting students - Cost-saving legislation, simplifying and modernizing the HOPE Lottery Scholarship’s financial aid program, was approved in 2020. Called the Financial Aid Simplification for Tennessee (FAST) Act, it is the most comprehensive financial aid overhaul since the implementation of the HOPE Lottery Scholarship Program in 2003. Public Chapter 794 streamlines state law so that students and their families have a clearer understanding of their options, while maximizing stewardship of gr...