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IN HB1492
Bill
Status
1/14/2015
Primary Sponsor
Timothy Harman
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AI Summary
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Allows nonresident children of veterans to pay resident tuition rates at Indiana state educational institutions if their parent served in the U.S. Armed Forces or Indiana National Guard and received a discharge other than dishonorable.
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Requires the veteran parent to be an Indiana resident and the child to possess requisite academic qualifications to be eligible for the resident tuition rate.
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Requires that if the child was adopted by the veteran parent, the adoption must have occurred before the child turned 18 years old.
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Eligibility ends if the veteran parent becomes a nonresident of Indiana, except if the parent's nonresidency results from death, in which case the child continues to receive the resident tuition rate.
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Effective date is July 1, 2015.
Legislative Description
Resident tuition rate for children of veterans. Provides that a person: (1) whose mother or father served in the armed forces of the United States or the Indiana National Guard, received a discharge or separation other than a dishonorable discharge, and are residents of Indiana; (2) who is a nonresident of Indiana; and (3) who meets certain other requirements; is eligible to pay the resident tuition rate determined by the state educational institution.
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Education
1/14/2015