SB 18 Text

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR

Senate Bill No. 18
(By Senators Bailey, Dempsey, Sharpe, Minard, Hunter and Love)
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[Originating in the Committee on Education;
reported February 24, 2006.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §18B-10-7 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to granting tuition waivers to the children and spouses of parole and probation officers killed in the line of duty.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18B-10-7 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 10. FEES AND OTHER MONEY COLLECTED AT STATE INSTITUTIONS
OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

§18B-10-7. Tuition and fee waivers for children and spouses of officers and firefighters killed in the line of duty.

Each state institution of higher education shall permit any person to attend its undergraduate courses and classes if classroom space is available without charging ~~such~~ the person any tuition or any fees, including those provided in sections two and three of this article, if ~~such~~ the person is the child or spouse of a law-enforcement officer as defined in section one, article twenty-nine, chapter thirty of this code, a correctional officer at a state penal institution, a parole officer, a probation officer, a conservation officer or a registered firefighter, and ~~such~~ that officer or firefighter was killed in the line of duty while employed by the state or any political subdivision ~~thereof~~ of the state, or ~~such~~ that firefighter was a member of a volunteer fire department serving a political subdivision of this state: Provided, That the state institution of higher education may require ~~such~~ the person to pay special fees, including any laboratory fees, if ~~such~~ the fees are required of all other students taking a single or the particular course and also may ~~also~~ require ~~such~~ the person to pay for parking. The governing boards may promulgate rules for determining the availability of classroom space and other rules as it considers necessary to implement this section, including rules regarding qualifications for attendance, which shall not exceed the qualifications required of other persons.
The governing boards also may ~~also~~ extend to persons attending courses and classes under this section any rights, privileges or benefits extended to other students which it considers appropriate.

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