Senate Bill No. 18
(By Senators Bailey, Dempsey, Sharpe, Minard, Hunter and Love)
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[Introduced January 11, 2006; referred to the Committee
on Education; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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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 person any tuition or any fees, including those provided in sections two and three of this
article, if such 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 who was killed in the line of duty,
a probation officer who was killed in the line of duty, a
conservation officer, or a registered firefighter, and such officer
or firefighter was killed in the line of duty while employed by the
state or any political subdivision thereof, or such 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 person to pay special fees,
including any laboratory fees, if such fees are required of all
other students taking a single or the particular course and may
also require such 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 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.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to grant tuition waivers to
the children and spouses of parole and probation officers killed
in the line of duty.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.
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