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AL HB315
Bill
Status
5/16/2023
Primary Sponsor
Jerry Starnes
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AI Summary
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Expands educational benefits eligibility to spouses of service members killed while on state active duty status, previously limited to federal armed forces service.
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Includes spouses whose service member's death results proximately and within three years of an injury sustained while on state active duty status.
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Eligible spouses receive up to five standard academic years of training (not to exceed 45 months) at any qualifying school under existing tuition reimbursement guidelines.
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Maintains existing restrictions: benefits do not apply to spouses who remarried before applying, and remarriage during attendance requires the spouse to pay tuition from the remarriage date forward.
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Becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and gubernatorial approval.
Legislative Description
Relating to the Department of Veterans Affairs; to amend Section 31-6-5, as last amended by Act 2022-91, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975; to expand eligibility for educational benefits to spouses of those who were killed while on active state duty status or whose death results proximately and within three years of an injury sustained while on state active duty status.
Department of Veterans Affairs; additional benefits for spouses of those who were killed while on state active duty status
Last Action
Read Second Time in Second House
5/31/2023