HOUSE BILL No. 5173

 

September 6, 2007, Introduced by Reps. Polidori, Garfield, Rick Jones, Sak, Miller, Simpson, Espinoza, Constan, Brown, Scott, Sheltrown, Wojno, Farrah, Gonzales, Vagnozzi, Marleau, Hansen and Dean and referred to the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security.

 

     A bill to amend 1996 PA 195, entitled

 

"Police officer's and fire fighter's survivor tuition act,"

 

by amending section 4 (MCL 390.1244).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 4. (1) Beginning in the 1996-1997 academic year, upon

 

receiving an application under section 3(c), the department shall

 

determine whether the applicant and the courses for which tuition

 

waiver is sought meet the requirements of section 3 and, if so,

 

shall approve the application and notify the state institution of

 

higher education that the application has been approved.

 

     (2) Beginning Subject to subsection (3), beginning in the

 

1996-1997 academic year, upon application by the state institution


 

of higher education, the department annually shall reimburse each

 

state institution of higher education for the total amount of

 

tuition waived during the immediately preceding fiscal year under

 

section 3. The department annually shall report to the legislature

 

the number of individuals for whom tuition has been waived at each

 

state institution of higher education and the total amounts to be

 

paid under this act for that fiscal year.

 

     (3) Beginning in the 2007-2008 academic year, the department

 

shall reimburse under subsection (2) only those state institutions

 

of higher education that consider a student enrolled in that

 

institution a resident of this state for determining his or her

 

tuition rates if the student is an active duty member, or the

 

spouse or dependent child of an active duty member, of the armed

 

forces of the United States, while that active duty member is

 

stationed in this state and during the student's continuous full-

 

time enrollment in the academic degree program in which he or she

 

is enrolled if that active duty member is transferred to active

 

duty outside of this state.