HB 2423 Text

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
H. B. 2423

(By Delegate Louisos)
(Originating in the Committee on Veterans Affairs
And Homeland Security)
[February 25, 2004]

A BILL to amend and reenact §18-2-34 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing awarding of high school diplomas to certain surviving veterans.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §18-2-34 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 2. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

§18-2-34. High school diplomas for surviving World War I, World War II, Korean Conflict, and Vietnam Conflict veterans.

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, the state board shall provide for the awarding of high school diplomas, either by the county board in the county in which the veteran resides or the county in which the veteran would have received his or her ~~diplomas~~ diploma, whichever location the veteran chooses, to any surviving World War I, ~~veteran~~ ~~and any~~ World War II, Korean Conflict or Vietnam Conflict veteran who:
(1) Left ~~high~~ school prior to graduation and served in the armed forces of the United States: Provided, That a veteran of the Korean Conflict or the Viet Nam Conflict must have been attending high school at the time he or she left prior to graduating and served in the armed forces of the United States;
(2) Did not receive a high school diploma;
(3) Was discharged from the armed services under honorable conditions; and
(4) Completes the application process as provided by the joint rules of the state board and the veterans' council.
(b) The state board and the veterans' council, created in article one, chapter nine-a of this code, shall jointly ~~promulgate~~ propose rules for the identification of eligible veterans and for the awarding of high school diplomas. The rules shall provide for an application process and the credentials required to receive the high school diplomas.
(c) For purposes of this section:
(1) "World War I veteran" means any veteran who:
(A) Performed wartime service between April sixth, one thousand nine hundred seventeen, and November eleventh, one thousand nine hundred eighteen; or
(B) Has been awarded the World War I Victory Medal;
(2) "World War II veteran" means any veteran who performed wartime service between September sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred forty, and December thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred forty-six;
(3) "Korean Conflict veteran" means any veteran who performed military service between June twenty-seventh, one thousand nine hundred fifty, and January thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred fifty-five; and
(4) "Vietnam Conflict veteran" means any veteran who performed military service between February twenty-eighth, one thousand nine hundred sixty-one, and May seventh, one thousand nine hundred seventy-five.

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