As Reported by House Finance and Appropriations Committee 1
123rd General Assembly 4
Regular Session H. B. No. 740 5
1999-2000 6
REPRESENTATIVES GARDNER-CORBIN-MEAD-JONES-AMSTUTZ-BARRETT- 7
BOYD-CAREY-COUGHLIN-DAMSCHRODER-EVANS-HOOPS-KILBANE-KREBS- 8
METELSKY-METZGER-D. MILLER-R. MILLER-MOTTLEY-NETZLEY- 9
O'BRIEN-OGG-PERRY-PETERSON-ROBERTS-STAPLETON-SULLIVAN-VESPER- 10
WILSON 11
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A B I L L
To amend section 3333.26 of the Revised Code to 15
waive tuition payments for the children and 16
spouses of public service officers killed in the
line of duty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO: 18
Section 1. That section 3333.26 of the Revised Code be 20
amended to read as follows: 21
Sec. 3333.26. (A) Any citizen of this state who has 30
resided within the state for one year and who was in the active 31
service of the United States as a soldier, sailor, nurse, or 32
marine between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, and who has 33
been honorably discharged from such service, shall be admitted to 34
any school, college, or university that receives state funds in 35
support thereof, without being required to pay any tuition or 36
matriculation fee, but is not relieved from the payment of 37
laboratory or similar fees. 38
(B)(1) As used in this division: 40
(a) "Volunteer fire fighter" has the meaning given in 43
division (B)(1) of section 146.01 of the Revised Code; 44
(b) "PUBLIC SERVICE OFFICER" MEANS AN OHIO FIRE FIGHTER, 46
VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER, POLICE OFFICER, MEMBER OF THE HIGHWAY 47
PATROL, EMPLOYEE DESIGNATED TO EXERCISE THE POWERS OF POLICE 48
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OFFICERS PURSUANT TO SECTION 1545.13 OF THE REVISED CODE, OR 49
OTHER PEACE OFFICER AS DEFINED BY DIVISION (B) OF SECTION 2935.01 50
OF THE REVISED CODE, OR A PERSON HOLDING ANY EQUIVALENT POSITION 51
IN ANOTHER STATE;
(c) "Qualified former spouse" means the former spouse of a 54
fire fighter or law enforcement PUBLIC SERVICE officer described 55
in division (B)(3) of this section who is the custodial parent of 56
a minor child of that marriage pursuant to an order allocating 57
the parental rights and responsibilities for care of the child 58
issued pursuant to section 3109.04 of the Revised Code. 60
(2) Any resident of this state who is under twenty-six 62
years of age, or under thirty years of age if the resident has 63
been honorably discharged from the armed services of the United 64
States, and who is the child of an Ohio fire fighter, volunteer 65
fire fighter, police officer, member of the highway patrol, 66
employee designated to exercise the powers of police officers 67
pursuant to section 1545.13 of the Revised Code, or other peace 68
officer as defined by division (B) of section 2935.01 of the 69
Revised Code, A PUBLIC SERVICE OFFICER killed in the line of 71
duty, and who is admitted to any state university or college as 72
defined in division (A)(1) of section 3345.12 of the Revised 73
Code, community college, state community college, university 74
branch, or technical college, shall not be required to pay any 75
tuition or any student fee for up to four academic years of 76
education, which shall be at the undergraduate level.
(3) Any resident of this state who is the spouse or 78
qualified former spouse of an Ohio fire fighter, volunteer fire 81
fighter, police officer, member of the highway patrol, employee 82
designated to exercise powers of police officers pursuant to 83
section 1545.13 of the Revised Code, or other peace officer as 85
defined in division (B) of section 2935.01 of the Revised Code, A 88
PUBLIC SERVICE OFFICER killed in the line of duty, and who is 89
admitted to any state university or college as defined in 90
division (A)(1) of section 3345.12 of the Revised Code, community 92
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college, state community college, university branch, or technical 93
college, shall not be required to pay any tuition or any student 94
fee for up to four academic years of education, which shall be at 95
the undergraduate level. 96
(C) Any institution that is not subject to division (B) of 98
this section and that holds a valid certificate of registration 99
issued under Chapter 3332., a valid certificate issued under 100
Chapter 4709., or a valid license issued under Chapter 4713. of 101
the Revised Code, or that is nonprofit and has a certificate of 102
authorization issued under section 1713.02 of the Revised Code 103
that reduces tuition and student fees of a student who is 104
eligible to attend an institution of higher education under the 105
provisions of division (B) of this section by an amount indicated 106
by the Ohio board of regents shall be eligible to receive a grant 108
in that amount from the board. Each institution that enrolls 109
students under division (B) of this section shall report to the 110
board, by the first day of July of each year, the number of 111
students who were so enrolled and the average amount of all such 112
tuition and fees waived during the preceding year. The board 113
shall determine the average amount of all such tuition and fees 114
waived during the preceding year. The average amount of tuition 115
and fees waived under division (B) of this section during the 116
preceding year shall be the amount of grants that participating 117
institutions shall receive under this division during the current 118
year, but no grant under this division shall exceed the tuition 119
and student fees due and payable by the student prior to the 120
reduction referred to in this division. Such grants shall be 121
made for four years of undergraduate education of an eligible 122
student.
Section 2. That existing section 3333.26 of the Revised 124
Code is hereby repealed. 125
Section 3. Section 3333.26 of the Revised Code is 127
presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended by 128
both Am. Sub. H.B. 281 and Am. Sub. H.B. 627 of the 121st General 129
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Assembly, with the new language of neither of the acts shown in 131
capital letters. This is in recognition of the principle stated 132
in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that such 133
amendments are to be harmonized where not substantively 134
irreconcilable and constitutes a legislative finding that such is 135
the resulting version in effect prior to the effective date of 136
this act.