HB 35

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to educational opportunities for dependent
3	children of servicemembers or civilian personnel
4	classified as prisoners of war or missing in action;
5	amending s. 295.015, F.S.; expanding the provision of
6	educational opportunity at state expense for children of
7	servicemembers, or civilian personnel captured while
8	serving with the consent or authorization of the United
9	States Government, classified as prisoners of war or
10	missing in action; providing an effective date.
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12	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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14	Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 295.015, Florida
15	Statutes, is amended to read:
16	295.015  Children of prisoners of war and persons missing
17	in action; education.--
18	(1)  It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state to
19	provide educational opportunity at state expense for dependent
20	children either of whose parents has been became classified as a
21	prisoner prisoners of war or missing in action in the service of
22	the Armed Forces of the United States during the Korean Conflict
23	or during the Vietnam Era, as defined in s. 1.01(14), or in the
24	capacity of civilian personnel captured while serving with the
25	consent or authorization of the United States Government. Such
26	educational opportunity shall be provided until such time as the
27	parent so classified is returned alive or the parent's remains
28	are recovered; provided that, in order to be eligible, the
29	parents of such children must have been bona fide residents of
30	the state for 5 years next preceding their application for the
31	benefits hereof and must be permanent residents of the state on
32	the effective date of this act.
33	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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