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.