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As Reported by House Finance and Appropriations Committee
123rd General Assembly
Regular Session
1999-2000 | H. B. No. 740 |
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WILSON
A BILL
To amend section 3333.26 of the Revised Code to waive tuition payments for the
children and spouses of public service officers killed in the line of duty.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 3333.26 of the Revised Code be amended to read as
follows:
Sec. 3333.26. (A) Any citizen of this state who has
resided within the state for one year and who was in the active
service of the United States as a soldier, sailor, nurse, or
marine between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, and who has
been honorably discharged from such service, shall be admitted to
any school, college, or university that receives state funds in
support thereof, without being required to pay any tuition or
matriculation fee, but is not relieved from the payment of
laboratory or similar fees.
(B)(1) As used in this division:
(a) "Volunteer fire fighter" has
the meaning given in division (B)(1) of section 146.01 of the
Revised Code;
(b) "PUBLIC SERVICE OFFICER" MEANS AN OHIO FIRE FIGHTER,
VOLUNTEER FIRE FIGHTER, POLICE OFFICER, MEMBER OF THE HIGHWAY PATROL, EMPLOYEE
DESIGNATED TO EXERCISE THE POWERS OF POLICE OFFICERS PURSUANT TO SECTION
1545.13 OF THE REVISED CODE, OR OTHER PEACE OFFICER AS
DEFINED BY DIVISION (B) OF SECTION 2935.01 OF THE REVISED
CODE, OR A PERSON HOLDING ANY EQUIVALENT POSITION IN ANOTHER STATE;
(c) "Qualified former spouse" means the former spouse of
a fire fighter or law enforcement PUBLIC SERVICE officer
described in division
(B)(3) of this section who is the custodial parent of a
minor child of that marriage pursuant to an order allocating the
parental rights and responsibilities for care of the child
issued pursuant to section 3109.04 of the Revised
Code.
(2) Any resident of this state who is under twenty-six years of
age, or under thirty years of age if the resident has been honorably
discharged from the armed services of the United States, and who
is the child of an Ohio fire fighter, volunteer fire fighter,
police officer, member of the highway patrol, employee designated
to exercise the powers of police officers pursuant to section
1545.13 of the Revised Code, or other peace officer as defined by
division (B) of section 2935.01 of the Revised Code, A PUBLIC SERVICE
OFFICER killed in
the line of duty, and who is admitted to any state university or
college as defined in division (A)(1) of section 3345.12 of the
Revised Code, community college, state community college,
university branch, or technical college, shall not be required to
pay any tuition or any student fee for up to four academic years
of education, which shall be at the undergraduate level.
(3) Any resident of this state who is the spouse or qualified
former spouse of an
Ohio
fire fighter, volunteer fire fighter, police officer, member of
the highway patrol, employee designated to exercise powers of
police officers pursuant to section 1545.13 of the
Revised
Code, or other peace officer as
defined in division (B) of
section 2935.01 of the Revised
Code, A PUBLIC SERVICE OFFICER killed in the line of
duty, and who is admitted to any state university or college as
defined in division (A)(1) of
section 3345.12 of the Revised
Code, community college, state
community college, university branch, or technical college,
shall not be required to pay any tuition or any student fee for
up to four academic years of education, which shall be at the
undergraduate level.
(C) Any institution that is not subject to division (B) of
this section and that holds a valid certificate of registration
issued under Chapter 3332., a valid certificate issued under
Chapter 4709., or a valid license issued under Chapter 4713. of
the Revised Code, or that is nonprofit and has a certificate of
authorization issued under section 1713.02 of the Revised Code
that reduces tuition and student fees of a student who is
eligible to attend an institution of higher education under the
provisions of division (B) of this section by an amount indicated
by the Ohio board of regents shall be eligible to receive a
grant in that amount from the board. Each institution that
enrolls students under division (B) of this section shall report
to the board, by the first day of July of each year, the
number of students who were so enrolled and the average amount of
all such tuition and fees waived during the preceding year. The
board shall determine the average amount of all such tuition
and fees waived during the preceding year. The average amount of
tuition and fees waived under division (B) of this section during
the preceding year shall be the amount of grants that
participating institutions shall receive under this division
during the current year, but no grant under this division shall
exceed the tuition and student fees due and payable by the
student prior to the reduction referred to in this division.
Such grants shall be made for four years of undergraduate
education of an eligible student.
Section 2. That existing section 3333.26 of the Revised Code is hereby
repealed.
Section 3. Section 3333.26 of the Revised Code is presented in this act
as a composite of the section as amended by both
Am. Sub. H.B. 281 and Am. Sub. H.B. 627 of the 121st General Assembly, with
the new language of
neither of the acts shown in capital letters. This is in
recognition of the principle stated in division (B) of section
1.52 of the Revised Code that such amendments are to be
harmonized where not substantively irreconcilable and constitutes
a legislative finding that such is the resulting version in
effect prior to the effective date of this act.
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