Senate Bill sb0412

    Florida Senate - 2007                                   SB 412

    By Senator Baker





    20-423-07                                               See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to educational opportunities

  3         for dependent children of servicemembers or

  4         civilian personnel classified as prisoners of

  5         war or missing in action; amending s. 295.015,

  6         F.S.; expanding the provision of educational

  7         opportunity at state expense for children of

  8         servicemembers, or civilian personnel captured

  9         while serving with the consent or authorization

10         of the United States Government, who are

11         classified as prisoners of war or missing in

12         action; providing an effective date.

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

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16         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 295.015, Florida

17  Statutes, is amended to read:

18         295.015  Children of prisoners of war and persons

19  missing in action; education.--

20         (1)  It is hereby declared to be the policy of the

21  state to provide educational opportunity at state expense for

22  dependent children either of whose parents has been became

23  classified as a prisoner prisoners of war or missing in action

24  in the service of the Armed Forces of the United States during

25  the Korean Conflict or during the Vietnam Era, as defined in

26  s. 1.01(14), or in the capacity of civilian personnel captured

27  while serving with the consent or authorization of the United

28  States Government. Such educational opportunity shall be

29  provided until such time as the parent so classified is

30  returned alive or the parent's remains are recovered; provided

31  that, in order to be eligible, the parents of such children

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    Florida Senate - 2007                                   SB 412
    20-423-07                                               See HB




 1  must have been bona fide residents of the state for 5 years

 2  next preceding their application for the benefits hereof and

 3  must be permanent residents of the state on the effective date

 4  of this act.

 5         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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