Senate Bill sb1096c1

    Florida Senate - 2004                           CS for SB 1096

    By the Committee on Military and Veterans' Affairs, Base
    Protection, and Spaceports; and Senators Fasano and Lynn




    301-1526-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to requirements for high school

  3         graduation; amending s. 1003.43, F.S.; amending

  4         certain prerequisites to allow the award of a

  5         standard high school diploma to honorably

  6         discharged veterans of the Korean War who did

  7         not complete the necessary graduation

  8         requirements; providing an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Subsection (13) of section 1003.43, Florida

13  Statutes, is amended to read:

14         1003.43  General requirements for high school

15  graduation.--

16         (13)  The Commissioner of Education may award a

17  standard high school diploma to honorably discharged veterans

18  who started high school between 1946 and 1950 and were

19  scheduled to graduate between 1949 1950 and 1955 1954, but

20  were inducted into the United States Armed Forces between June

21  1949 1950 and January 1955 1954, and served during the Korean

22  War prior to completing the necessary high school graduation

23  requirements. Upon the recommendation of the commissioner, the

24  State Board of Education may develop criteria and guidelines

25  for awarding such diplomas.

26         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2004.

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    Florida Senate - 2004                           CS for SB 1096
    301-1526-04




 1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
 2                         Senate Bill 1096

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 4  The CS extends eligibility for a standard high school diploma
    to certain Korean War veterans who were inducted into the
 5  armed forces after June 1949, rather than June 1950.

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