Bill Text: PA HR565 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Ratifying the designation of Valley Forge Military College as the Official Military College of Pennsylvania and endorsing and encouraging participation in the Valley Forge Military College Legislative Appointment Initiative Program.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 41-23)

Status: (Passed) 2009-12-16 - Adopted [HR565 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR565-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3001
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 565 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY DRUCKER, ADOLPH, BARBIN, BARRAR, BELFANTI, BENNINGHOFF, BOYLE, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, CHRISTIANA, D. COSTA, DeLUCA, DENLINGER, DeWEESE, EACHUS, FAIRCHILD, FLECK, FRANKEL, GEIST, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GODSHALL, GOODMAN, GRELL, GRUCELA, HESS, HORNAMAN, JOHNSON, KNOWLES, KORTZ, KULA, LENTZ, MANN, MARKOSEK, McCALL, McGEEHAN, McILVAINE SMITH, MIRABITO, MUNDY, MURT, O'NEILL, PARKER, PASHINSKI, PICKETT, PYLE, QUINN, RAPP, READSHAW, ROEBUCK, SABATINA, SANTARSIERO, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, SONNEY, STABACK, STERN, SWANGER, TALLMAN, TRUE, WALKO AND YOUNGBLOOD, DECEMBER 9, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, DECEMBER 9, 2009
A RESOLUTION
Ratifying the designation of Valley Forge Military College as
the Official Military College of Pennsylvania, endorsing and
encouraging participation in the Valley Forge Military
College Legislative Appointment Initiative Program.
WHEREAS, The Valley Forge Military College Legislative
Appointment Initiative Program (Initiative Program) serves to
identify young men and women who possess or have demonstrated
the highest physical, intellectual, moral and leadership
potential and service-to-country-orientation and who have an
interest in attending the two-year, postsecondary educational
institution at Valley Forge Military College, the "Official
Military College of Pennsylvania" and to help facilitate their
receipt of financial assistance to attend the college; and
WHEREAS, The Initiative Program may be used to complement the
Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) and the Early
Commissioning Program (ECP), and students who are accepted into
the ECP at Valley Forge Military College are commissioned as
officers in the United States Army upon graduation and are also
awarded a scholarship and earnings; and
WHEREAS, Financial allowances and an $8,500 scholarship under
the Initiative Program can provide a student with a cost-free
postsecondary education; and
WHEREAS, This program is open to all men and women,
regardless of race, creed, ethnicity or nationality, who are
legal residents of this Commonwealth, who have successfully
completed and graduated from a secondary school and who are
believed to possess the intellectual, moral and leadership
potential and the skills or accomplishments to successfully
matriculate at the Official Military College of Pennsylvania or
who otherwise meet the academic, intellectual, moral and
physical eligibility standards of the college; and
WHEREAS, Each individual appointed who meets the minimum
standard guidelines set each year by Valley Forge Military
College is guaranteed acceptance into the Valley Forge Military
College and is academically eligible for an ECP scholarship and
admission into the ECP; and
WHEREAS, Each representative will be authorized to establish
a committee to select a legislative appointee to the freshman
class each year, and each legislative appointee will receive an
Initiative Program scholarship for each year of their two years
of attendance at Valley Forge Military College; and
WHEREAS, Valley Forge Military College will fund and provide
the Initiative Program scholarship to each legislative
appointee, and each legislative appointee is guaranteed
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acceptance to Valley Forge Military College and to receipt of
the Initiative Program scholarship; and
WHEREAS, Accepted students will officially be placed into
nomination for an ROTC scholarship; and
WHEREAS, The legislative appointee is not required to enter
the ROTC or the ECP but, by doing so, can become a commissioned
officer in the United States Army upon graduation from Valley
Forge Military College and essentially have a 100% scholarship
to Valley Forge Military College; and
WHEREAS, Upon admission, each legislative appointee will be
required to take the oath of allegiance administered by Valley
Forge Military College to support and defend the Constitution of
the United States and of the Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, Upon acceptance, a certificate will be issued by
Valley Forge Military College evidencing the legislative
appointment and the member of the House of Representatives
whose committee selected the appointee; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives endorse and
support the Valley Forge Military College Legislative
Appointment Initiative Program; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the Committee on Ethics of the House of
Representatives develop guidelines to govern local selection
committees to help ensure that the selection committees and
legislative appointments do not create any conflicts of interest
or otherwise violate 65 Pa.C.S. Ch. 11 (relating to ethics
standards and financial disclosure) or the act of July 10, 1968
(P.L.316, No.154), known as the Legislative Code of Ethics; and
be it further
RESOLVED, That members of the House of Representatives be
encouraged to establish local selection committees to identify
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and select applicants for appointment in accordance with the
guidelines developed pursuant to this resolution; and be it
further
RESOLVED, That the designation of Valley Forge Military
College, located in Wayne, Pennsylvania, be ratified and that
the college be again designated as the "Official Military
College of Pennsylvania."
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