Senate Bill sb0412c1

    Florida Senate - 2007                            CS for SB 412

    By the Committee on Military Affairs and Domestic Security;
    and Senator Baker




    583-1899-07

  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                            CS for SB 412
    583-1899-07




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

 2  years next preceding the event that led to the parent's

 3  classification as a prisoner of war or missing in action by

 4  the United States Government their application for the

 5  benefits hereof and must be permanent residents of the state

 6  on the effective date of this act.

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

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 9          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
10                         Senate Bill 0412

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12  This committee substitute reduces the Florida residency
    requirement from 5 years to 1 year prior to an event resulting
13  in said resident being declared a prisoner of war or missing
    in action.  It also deletes statute language that could be
14  interpreted as limiting the eligibility for educational
    benefits to only those who were Florida residents at the time
15  the act was originally passed in 1972.

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