Report Title:

UH; National Guard

Description:

Authorizes the department of defense to provide tuition assistance to graduate or professional students at the University of Hawaii retroactive to 2001.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1218

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

 

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

SECTION 1. Section 121-45, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) The adjutant general, subject to the availability of funds, may award tuition assistance to qualified enlisted persons, warrant officers, and company grade officers (0-1 through 0-3) in the Hawaii national guard who are[:

(1) Residents of the State, as defined by the board of regents pursuant to section 304-4; and

(2)] residents of the State, as defined by the board of regents pursuant to section 304-4, and are either:

(1) Undergraduate students working toward a degree on any campus of the University of Hawaii; provided that any Hawaii national guard member who has been continuously receiving tuition assistance from the University of Hawaii since July 1, 1995, under the administrative continuation of tuition waivers previously authorized under section 304-14.6, and who has been enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program up to and including January 1, 1996, may continue to receive tuition assistance under this section until the member no longer meets the requirements of this section or obtains the degree the member is presently seeking, whichever occurs first[.]; or

(2) Graduate or professional students working toward a graduate or professional degree on any campus of the University of Hawaii."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act, upon its approval, shall take effect retroactive to July 1, 2001.

INTRODUCED BY:

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