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                                  HOUSE BILL 2092

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State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

 

By Representatives Basich, P. Johnson, Dellwo, Edmondson, Ludwig, Anderson, Sheldon, Jones, Kremen, Day, Pruitt, Fuhrman, Wood, Rayburn and Prentice.

 

Read first time February 22, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Higher Education\Appropriations.Extending veterans' education benefits.


     AN ACT Relating to veterans; and amending RCW 28B.15.620.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

     Sec. 1.  RCW 28B.15.620 and 1989 c 306 s 4 are each amended to read as follows:

     Notwithstanding any other provision of law, veterans of the Vietnam conflict who have served in the southeast Asia theater of operations attending institutions of higher learning shall be exempted from the payment of any increase in tuition and fees otherwise applicable to any other resident or nonresident student at any institution of higher education, and shall not be required to pay more than the total amount of tuition and fees paid by veterans of the Vietnam conflict on October 1, 1977:  PROVIDED, That for the purposes of this exemption, "veterans of the Vietnam conflict" shall be those persons who have been on active federal service as a member of the armed military or naval forces of the United States between a period commencing August 5, 1964, and ending on May 7, 1975, and who qualify as a resident student under RCW 28B.15.012, and who have enrolled in state institutions of higher education on or before May 7, ((1990)) 1995.  This section shall expire June 30, ((1995)) 2000.