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HOUSE BILL 2910
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1992 Regular Session
By Representatives Basich, Sheldon, Heavey, Jones, Riley, Paris, P. Johnson and Anderson
Read first time 01/31/92. Referred to Committee on Appropriations.
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.