Bill Text: PA HB929 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizing boards of school directors to establish a program to provide high school diplomas to certain veterans.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-23 - Referred to EDUCATION [HB929 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB929-Amended.html

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PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 1053, 3359 PRINTER'S NO. 3418
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 929 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY GRUCELA, MELIO, BELFANTI, BRENNAN, BARBIN, BURNS, CASORIO, CONKLIN, CREIGHTON, DALLY, EVERETT, FAIRCHILD, FLECK, GEORGE, GODSHALL, GOODMAN, GROVE, HARHAI, HESS, HORNAMAN, KORTZ, KOTIK, KULA, LONGIETTI, MANN, MARSICO, MICOZZIE, MILLARD, MOUL, M. O'BRIEN, O'NEILL, PAYNE, PRESTON, QUIGLEY, REICHLEY, SANTONI, SIPTROTH, TRUE, VULAKOVICH, YUDICHAK, HARKINS, SOLOBAY, PHILLIPS, STERN, D. COSTA, GIBBONS, K. SMITH, GEIST, W. KELLER, McILVAINE SMITH, YOUNGBLOOD, WHITE, HUTCHINSON, FREEMAN, MAHONEY, ROCK, HENNESSEY, WATERS, MURT AND FARRY, MARCH 13, 2009
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MARCH 22, 2010
AN ACT
Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
act relating to the public school system, including certain
provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
laws relating thereto," authorizing boards of school
directors to establish a program to provide high school
diplomas to certain veterans.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 1611 of the act of March 10, 1949
(P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, is
amended by adding a subsection to read:
Section 1611. Academic Degrees.--* * *
(d) A board of school directors may establish a program to
be known as "Operation Recognition" which provides for granting
a high school diploma to any honorably discharged veteran who
served in the United States military in the Vietnam War between
the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand nine hundred
sixty-one, and the seventh day of May, one thousand nine hundred
seventy-five, who attended high school between one thousand nine
hundred fifty-eight and one thousand nine hundred seventy-five
and who would have been a member of a graduation class during
the years one thousand nine hundred sixty-two sixty-one through <--
one thousand nine hundred seventy-five but did not graduate from
high school due to entry into military service. A board of
school directors may award a diploma posthumously to an eligible
veteran. An application for a diploma under this subsection must
be made in the manner prescribed by the board of school
directors.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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