| State |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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 CA | Signed into law 09/2012 | P-12 | From bill summary: Requires state professional licensing boards, with certain exceptions, to waive the renewal fees, continuing education requirements, and other renewal requirements as determined by the board, if any are applicable, of any licensee or registrant who is called to active duty as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces or the California National Guard if certain requirements are met. Except as specified, prohibits a licensee or registrant from engaging in any activities requiring a license while a waiver is in effect. Requires a licensee or registrant to meet certain renewal requirements within a specified time period after being discharged from active duty service prior to engaging in any activity requiring a license. Requires a licensee or registrant to notify the board of his/her discharge from active duty within a specified time period. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1551-1600/ab_1588_bill_20120929_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1588
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2012 | P-12 | From bill summary: Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to convene the State Council required by the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to complete the work of a specified task force if the superintendent finds it infeasible or impractical to reconvene the task force with its original membership. Requires the task force's final report to be submitted no later than December 1, 2013, and extends the effective date of provisions regarding the task force and the State Council and their duties to January 1, 2014. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_2201-2250/ab_2202_bill_20120920_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 2202
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | Permits military-trained applicants who have been awarded a military occupational specialty and military-spouse applicants who are licensed in another jurisdiction to receive occupational licenses in the State. SESSION LAW 2012-196 http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/House/PDF/H799v6.pdf
Title: H.B. 799
Source: ncleg.net
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| HI | Signed into law 07/2012 | P-12 | Requires professional and vocational licensing boards to consider relevant military education, training, and service as part of the evaluation process toward the qualifications of a license. Requires the licensing administrator of the professional and vocational licensing division of the department of commerce and consumer affairs to communicate the intent of this Act to each licensing authority and report to the legislature. Repealed effective June 30, 2022. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2012/bills/HB2258_SD1_.pdf
Title: H.B. 2258
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Authorizes issuance of expedited temporary occupational or professional license to a service member or spouse of a service member who holds valid licensure for the occupation or profession in another state, commonwealth, possession or territory of the United States or District of Columbia, or any foreign jurisdiction, and requirements are equivalent to licensure standards in Illinois, and who meets other specified requirements. Provides under Types of Licenses section of education code for "Professional Educator License with Stipulations" for service member or spouse. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/97/SB/PDF/09700SB0275lv.pdf
Title: S.B. 275
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Prohibits an otherwise eligible student from being determined ineligible for participation in an extracurricular interscholastic athletic activity at the student's school if the student's transfer was necessitated by military orders issued to the student's parent or legal guardian, provided that all of specified conditions apply, including that the parent/guardian is a member of the uniformed services as defined in statute. Directs the Louisiana High School Athletic Association to annually report to the house and senate education committees the number of students deemed eligible to participate in extracurricular interscholastic athletic activities pursuant to these provisions, the schools such students transferred from and enrolled in, and the athletic activities in which such students participated. http://legis.la.gov/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=811706
Title: H.B. 631
Source: legis.la.gov
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| MA | Signed into law 05/2012 | P-12 | Provides definitions of military terms and provides that this legislation applies to active duty members of the uniformed services, members or veterans of the uniformed services who are severely injured and medically discharged or retired for a period of 1 year after medical discharge or retirement, and members of the uniformed services who die on active duty or as a result of injuries sustained on active duty for a period of 1 year after death.
Requires schools to provide to parents official (or unofficial) records to students for transfer purposes. Requires receiving schools to request official student records from a student's previous school, which should be furnished within 10 days.
Provides that students have 30 days to to obtain any immunizations required by the receiving state.
Provides that students be allowed to continue enrollment at the grade level in the receiving state that is equal with the grade level from the local education agency in the sending state at the time of transition, regardless of age. When a student transfers before or during the school year, the receiving state school shall initially honor placement of the student in educational courses based on the student's enrollment in the sending state school or educational assessments conducted at the school in the sending state if the courses are offered and space is available. This does not preclude the school in the receiving state from performing subsequent evaluations to ensure appropriate placement and continued enrollment of the student in the courses.
Requires the receiving state to initially provide comparable services to a student with disabilities based on: (i) the student's current individualized education program; (ii) the requirements of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, 29 U.S.C.A. section 794; and (iii) title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C.A. sections 12131-12165. The receiving state is required to make reasonable accommodations and modifications to address the needs of incoming students with disabilities, subject to an existing 504 or title II plan, to provide the student with equal access to education.
Provides that local education agency administrative officials shall have flexibility in waiving course or program prerequisites or other preconditions for placement in courses or programs offered under the jurisdiction of the local education agency.
Provides that a student whose parent or legal guardian is an active duty member of the uniformed services and has been called to duty for, is on leave from or immediately returned from deployment to a combat zone or combat support posting, may be granted additional excused absences at the discretion of the local education agency superintendent to visit with that parent or legal guardian on leave or preparing for or returning from deployment.
http://www.malegislature.gov/Bills/187/Senate/S02254
Title: S.B. 2254
Source: http://www.malegislature.gov/
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| NV | Issued 05/2012 | P-12 | Every professional licensing board organized pursuant to the Nevada Revised Statues is ordered to:
Facilitate endorsement of a current license from another state as long as the requirements for licensure in that jurisdiction are substantially equivalent to the requirements in Nevada; and
Where possible, provide for a temporary or provisional license allowing a military spouse to practice while fulfilling requirements needed to qualify for endorsement in this state, or while awaiting verification of documentation supporting such an endorsement; and
Expedite application procedures for a military spouse, including where possible the approval of a license based on an affidavit from the applicant that the information provided on the application is true and that verifying documentation has been requested.
In the case that statutory requirements prohibit any of the actions above, the executive director or chairman of a professional licensing board shall inform the Governor's office in writing of the suggested statutory changes to make reciprocity for military spouse licensure an efficient and practical reality. http://gov.nv.gov/news/item/4294973520/
Title: Executive Order# 2012-11
Source: gov.nv.gov
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| AK | Signed into law 04/2012 | Postsec. | Directs the department or applicable board to accept military education, training, and service credit for some or all of the qualifications otherwise required of an applicant for a license or certificate issued or to accept academic credit towards a degree or technical education if an applicant provides satisfactory evidence of successful completion of relevant military education, training, or service. Permits department to provide a temporary occupational license for qualified military service members under certain circumstances. Requires that a postsecondary educational institution or workforce investment board demonstrate that it accepts military education, training, or service credit or hours toward a degree or technical program offered by the institution.
http://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/27/Bills/HB0282C.PDF
Title: H.B. 282
Source: legis.state.ak.us
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| FL | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes August 7th of each year as "Purple Heart Day," and encourages schools to commemorate Purple Heart Day and honor those wounded or killed while serving in any branch of the U.S. Armed Services. Requires each Florida College System institution and state university that offers priority course registration for a segment of the student population, or upon implementation of priority course registration for a segment of the student population, to provide priority course registration for each veteran receiving GI Bill educational benefits or for the spouse or dependent children of the veteran to whom the GI Bill educational benefits have been transferred. Encourages each independent postsecondary educational institution offering priority course registration to provide priority course registration for each veteran or spouse/dependents using GI Bill educational benefits. http://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_s0922er.DOCX&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0922&Session=2012
Title: S.B. 922
Source: myfloridahouse.gov
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| GA | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Adopts the "Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children." Provides for the purpose and policy of the compact. Provides for student educational records and enrollment, placement and attendance, eligibility, graduation, and state coordination services. Creates the Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Provides for the members of the interstate commission and their service. Provides for an executive committee and its membership and duties. Provides for the commission's powers, duties, organization, and operations. Provides for oversight, enforcement, and dispute resolution. Provides for financing of the interstate commission. Provides for member states, an effective date, and amendments; provides for withdrawal and dissolution; provides for binding effect and other laws. http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20112012/127877.pdf
Title: S.B. 227
Source: www.legis.ga.gov
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| MS | Signed into law 04/2012 | P-12 | Authorizes school boards to allow course credit to high school students who are also members of the national guard, and who complete basic training camp at the end of their junior year and before the start of their senior year. Authorizes the school district to award the student one Carnegie unit of elective credit upon receipt of evidence of the student's completion of basic training.
http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2012/pdf/HB/0700-0799/HB0784SG.pdf
Title: H.B. 784
Source: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/
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| NJ | Signed into law 04/2012 | Postsec. | Establishes a four-year "VETeach Pilot Program" pilot to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans.
Provides that Richard Stockton College of New Jersey will enroll in a 36-month teacher preparation program, a single cohort of students who are veterans of the United States Armed Forces and who served on or after September 11, 2001. The program shall lead to a baccalaureate degree and completion of the requirements necessary to apply to the State Board of Examiners for a certificate of eligibility with advanced standing.
Provides that a certificate of eligibility with advanced standing issued to a student who completes the pilot program shall authorize the student to seek employment as a teacher in grades K through 8, and in certain secondary education fields.
Requires that, upon the conclusion of the pilot program, the commissioner shall report to the Governor and the Legislature on the number of veterans who enrolled in the teacher preparation program, the number of those veterans who were hired as teachers in public or nonpublic schools, and the advisability of the establishment of similar programs on a permanent basis.
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2012/Bills/AL12/2_.PDF
Title: S 1026
Source: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/
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| VA | Signed into law 04/2012 | Postsec. | Except for the Board of Medicine and the Board of Dentistry, requires the regulatory boards within the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, the Department of Health Professions, or any board named in Title 54.1 to accept the military training, education, or experience of a service member returning from active military service in the armed forces of the United States, to the extent that such training, education, or experience is substantially equivalent to the requirements established by law and regulations of the respective board for the issuance of any license, permit, certificate, or other document, however styled or denominated, required for the practice of any business, profession, or calling in the Commonwealth.
Provides that to the extent that the service member's military training, education or experience, or portion thereof, is not deemed substantially equivalent, the respective board shall credit whatever portion of the military training, education, or experience that is substantially equivalent toward meeting the requirements for the issuance of the license, permit, certificate, or other document.
Authorizes a regulatory board to require the service member to provide such documentation of his training, education, or experience as deemed necessary to determine substantial equivalency.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?ses=121&typ=bil&val=hb938
Title: H.B. 938
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Modifying the criteria for awarding high school diplomas to certain veterans. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4433%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2012&sesstype=RS&i=4433
Title: H.B. 4433
Source: www.legis.state.wv
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| WY | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Provides for an interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children. Facilitates enrollment and placement of children of military families.
http://legisweb.state.wy.us/2012/Enroll/SF0078.pdf
Title: S.F. 78
Source: http://legisweb.state.wy.us
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2012 | P-12 | Clarifies language relating to enrollment of students pursuant to a special power of attorney to correspond to language in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. This bill is identical to SB 190.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?121+ful+CHAP0029+pdf
Title: H.B. 640/S.B. 190
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us/
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| PA | Signed into law 02/2012 | P-12 | Authorizes the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to join the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children; provides for the form and enforcementof the compact; imposes additional powers and duties on the Governor, the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the compactcommissioner; and establishes the State Council on Interstate Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
Title: S.B. 159
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| NY | Issued 11/2011 | Postsec. | Continues the New York State Council on Returning Veterans and Their Families, and expands the membership and mission. Expansion of membership adds the Commissioner of the State Education Department, the President of the Higher Education Services Corporation or their designees, among others. Expanded mission includes making recommendations to (1) assist with the credentialing of military specialties into civilian occupations, so that the skills, education, training, experience, and credentials acquired by veterans during their military service can be used to expand their employment opportunities, and (2) provide returning veterans with information and assistance in meeting their academic goals, including information and assistance regarding scholarship opportunities and higher education loans. Directs every agency and authority in the state to review paths into the civilian workforce and identify ways the state can better recognize the skills, education, training, experience, and credentials acquired by veterans while in military service, including by reviewing licensure and educational credit programs to identify ways qualifying military training and experience can be counted.
Executive Order 34: http://www.governor.ny.gov/executiveorder/34
Original 2008 Executive Order (revoked and superceded by Executive Order 34): http://www.governor.ny.gov/archive/paterson/executiveorders/eo_12.html
Title: Executive Order 34
Source: www.governor.ny.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2011 | P-12
Postsec. | From bill summary: Authorizes the organization of a California Cadet Corps (http://www.cadet.org/cadet/site/default.asp) at each college, community college or school where there is not currently a J.R.O.T.C. or R.O.T.C. program, and under such rules and regulations as the governing body of the schools and the Adjutant General may prescribe. Also authorizes the Adjutant General to appoint officers, warrant officers and noncommissioned officers for duty in each college, community college or school under the jurisdiction of the governing board, and requires that their pay, allowances and expenses be disbursed from the college, community college or school in which they serve. Authorizes the Adjutant General to order those officers to temporary state active duty to perform functions in support of the California Cadet Corps. Authorizes the governor, upon recommendation of the Adjutant General, to appoint Special Project Officers, warrant officers, and noncommissioned officers for service in the California Cadet Corps, and authorizes the Adjutant General to adopt rules and regulations for the promotion of officers, warrant officers and noncommissioned officers of the California Cadet Corps. Authorizes members of the California Cadet Corps to use California National Guard facilities for training purposes. Authorizes any executive officer, assistant executive officer, advisor, officer, warrant officer or noncommissioned officer hurt in the line of duty to receive workers' compensation. Creates a presumption that the yearly earning of such individual is not less than $10,000.
Authorizes the instructors of a military academy meeting specified requirements, including having more than 80 students, to be commissioned in the California Cadet Corps, and authorizes the Adjutant General to enter into a cooperative agreement with a governing board of a school district or a county office of education to establish a military academy or an alternative education option. Requires the executive officer, the assistant executive officer, the regional advisors or military officers of the California National Guard, State Military Reserve, or Naval Militia detailed by the Adjutant General to inspect units of the California Cadet Corps at least once every 2 years and annually for any unit receiving a rating of unsatisfactory in a prior year's inspection. Also requires units in their first year of operation to receive an assistance visit to ensure assigned personnel receive the training and support needed to adequately prepare for their first formal, for-record inspection. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_0501-0550/sb_537_bill_20111008_chaptered.pdf
Title: S.B. 537
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2011 | P-12 | From bill summary: Includes spending time with an immediate family member who is an active duty member of the uniformed services and has been called to duty for, is on leave from, or has immediately returned from, deployment to a combat zone or combat support position, as a type of excused absence. Requires that absences granted pursuant to these provisions be granted for a period of time to be determined at the
discretion of the superintendent of the school district. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0351-0400/ab_387_bill_20111008_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 387
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| IL | Signed into law 08/2011 | P-12 | Provides that at the time of annual enrollment or at any time during the school year, a school district or a recognized non-public school serving any of grades K-12 must provide, either on its standard enrollment form or on a separate form, the opportunity for the individual enrolling the student to voluntarily state whether the student has a parent or guardian who is a member of a branch of the U.S. armed forces and who is either deployed to active duty or expects to be deployed to active duty during the school year. Requires school districts and recognized non-public schools to report this enrollment data to the state board of education. http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/97/PDF/097-0505.pdf
Title: H.B. 2870
Source: www.ilga.gov
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | From bill analysis: Establishes the eligibility of the adjutant general's department to receive Foundation School Program funding for students enrolled in the Texas ChalleNGe Academy. Directs the department to contract with an appropriate school district for the provision of educational services for students enrolled in the academy. Requires that the school district with which the department contracts be responsible for ensuring compliance with any applicable regulatory requirements imposed under the Education Code and enforced by the commissioner of education and the Texas Education Agency.
Bill text: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/billtext/pdf/HB02247F.pdf#navpanes=0
Bill analysis: http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodocs/82R/analysis/pdf/HB02247E.pdf#navpanes=0
Title: H.B. 2247
Source: www.capitol.state.tx.us
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Makes permanent the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children. Deletes the definition of ''test period". Deletes provisions relating to the furnishing of unofficial education records and the principal's determination of available space. Makes mandatory previously optional provisions re: a student's continued enrollment at a grade level commensurate with their grade level in the sending state (regardless of age), waiver of graduation requirements if the student has completed similar coursework elsewhere. Clarifies military representation on the state council on educational opportunity for military children within the board of education. Effective June 30, 2011. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/Bills/HB4_CD1_.HTM
Title: H.B. 4
Source: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
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| NC | Signed into law 06/2011 | P-12 | Requires school districts to report annually to the State Board of Education (SBE) on the number of children with immediate family members in the military and whether the school district has an employee trained to handle the unique needs of children with immediate family members in the military. Requires the SBE to report the information collected by districts to the Legislative Education Oversight Committee. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S597v4.pdf
Title: S.B. 597
Source: http://www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| NE | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Adopts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Slip/LB575.pdf
Title: L.B. 575
Source: http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov
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| CT | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Allows a local or regional board of education to award a diploma to a veteran of World War II or the Korean hostilities, who left high school prior to graduation in order to serve in the armed forces of the United States and did not receive a diploma as a consequence of such service. http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/ACT/PA/2011PA-00017-R00HB-06319-PA.htm
Title: H.B. 6319
Source: http://www.cga.ct.gov
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| VT | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Adopts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
Title: H.B. 38
Source: Westlaw/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Requires the state Department of Education to develop a specified form relating to teacher certification and tenure and to post the form on its Web site. Requires the Adjutant General or the Adjutant General's designee to assist military spouses in finding specified employment. http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/bills/hb/hb0998e.pdf
Title: H.B. 998
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us
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| ND | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | Enacts the Compact on educational opportunity for military children to help with timely enrollment, accurate placement, facilitate on-time graduation, etc..
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/62-2011/documents/11-0204-05000.pdf
Title: H.B. 1248
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| ME | Signed into law 04/2011 | P-12 | Provides that eligible Vietnam veterans may be awarded high school diplomas; Veterans of World War II and the Korean Conflict already included in the statute. http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/bills_125th/chappdfs/PUBLIC25.pdf
Title: H.P. 96
Source: http://www.mainelegislature.org
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Specifies that any active duty military personnel must be kept in good standing by the administrative body with which he/she is licensed or certified, provided that, at the time of activation, the member was in good standing with a state administrative body, and was duly licensed to engage in his/her profession in the Commonwealth. Requires that any active duty military personnel's certification or licensure must be renewed without payment of fees or obtaining continuing education credits when circumstances associated with military duty prevent obtaining training, and a waiver request has been submitted to the appropriate administrative body. Provides the license or certificate must be continued as long as the holder is an active duty member of the military, and for a period of six months after discharge from active duty.
Directs an administrative body to issue a temporary or regular license or certificate to the spouse of any active duty military personnel within 30 days if the spouse meets the administrative body's statutory requirements and applies to the administrative body. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB301/bill.doc
Title: H.B. 301
Source: www.lrc.ky.gov
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Adds a fifth citizen member to the Virginia Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and specifies that such member must be a representative from a military installation in Virginia. Such representative is to be appointed by the Governor.
http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?111+ful+CHAP0106+pdf
Title: H.B. 1976
Source: http://lis.virginia.gov/
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2011 | P-12 | Allows priority school enrollment within the attendance area to students whose parents are active duty military personnel in New Mexico.
http://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/11%20Regular/final/HB0014.pdf
Title: H.B. 14
Source: http://www.nmlegis.gov
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| NY | Vetoed 08/2010 | P-12
Postsec. | Establishes the New York state interagency coordinating council for service-disabled veterans. Identifies council members, including the commissioner of the education department or his/her designee. Identifies the powers and duties of the council, including to promote implementation of a statewide program of coordinated services for service-disabled veterans that includes matters pertaining to educational training and retraining services and facilities. http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=a8296&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y
Title: A.B. 8296A/S.B. 7112
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| NC | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Permits public school entry of child who does not turn 5 by August 31 of the school year but whose parent is an active duty member of U.S. armed forces who is the sole legal custodian of the child, and is stationed in another state, and is deployed for duty away from the permanent duty station, and child living with an adult in North Carolina as a result of deployment away would be eligible for school enrollment in the other state. http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1246v4.pdf
Title: S.B. 1246 - Enrollment of Child under 5 Who Is Child of Military Personnel
Source: www.ncga.state.nc.us
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| TN | Signed into law 07/2010 | P-12 | Makes Tennessee a member state to, the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. The stated purpose of the compact is to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment of their parents.
http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/106/Bill/HB1911.pdf
Title: H.B. 1911
Source: http://www.capitol.tn.gov
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| RI | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Enacts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, allowing children of military families to achieve educational success by facilitating smoother transfers between schools due to relocation of active duty soldiers with school-aged children in their household. http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/PublicLaws/law10/law10100.htm
Title: H.B. 8010, S.B. 2738
Source: www.rilin.state.ri.us
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| SC | Signed into law 06/2010 | P-12 | Establishes South Carolina as a member of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, which seeks to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment of their parents. http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess118_2009-2010/bills/319.htm
Title: S.B. 319
Source: http://www.scstatehouse.gov
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| WI | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Relates to adopting the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and making an appropriation.
http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2009/data/SB-681.pdf
Title: S.B. 681
Source: http://www.legis.state.wi.us
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| FL | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | In 2008, the Florida Legislature enacted the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. The purpose of the compact is to enable member states to uniformly address educational transition issues faced by military families. This bill repeals the automatic repeal provision in the original compact legislation and adds a new provision automatically repealing the compact legislation three years after the bill takes effect. http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0521er.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0521&Session=2010
Title: H.B. 521
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov
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| NM | Signed into law 05/2010 | P-12 | Enacts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children in New Mexico. The compact's purpose is to remove
barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment of
their parents.
http://nmlegis.gov/Sessions/10%20Regular/final/HB0024.pdf
Title: H.B. 24
Source: http://nmlegis.gov
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2010 | P-12 | Requires any public school that administers the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) to choose the score reporting "Option 8," which prohibits the general release of any student information to military recruiters. Each public school must also send written notice to the ASVAB representative coordinating the school's administration of the test that the school is required to choose "Option 8" and must also notify students taking ASVAB and their parent or guardian of the requirement. A student or a student's parent or guardian may choose to release the student's personal information and ASVAB score to military recruiters by individually submitting the release forms to the military services.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2010rs/chapters_noln/Ch_105_hb0176T.pdf
Title: H.B. 176
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Enacts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Establishes the State Council on Military Children. Provides for the appointment of the state's representative on the Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. http://le.utah.gov/~2010/bills/hbillenr/hb0386.pdf
Title: H.B. 386
Source: le.utah.gov
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| SD | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Adopts the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children; provide for transfer of school records.
http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2010/Bill.aspx?Bill=88
Title: S.B. 88
Source: http://legis.state.sd.us
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| ID | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Adds to existing law relating to education to provide educational opportunity for military children, to provide findings and purpose, to provide rulemaking authority and to provide for a responsible individual at the state level. Requests the state board to promulgate rules that are consistent with articles of the interstate compact of educational opportunity for military children. Chapter 54
http://www.legislature.idaho.gov/legislation/2010/S1338.pdf
Title: S.B. 1338
Source: http://www.legislature.idaho.gov
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| VA | Signed into law 03/2010 | P-12 | Requires the Department of Education to employ a military family education liaison to provide staff support for the state Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and to assist military families and the state in facilitating the implementation of the Interstate Compact; facilitates transfer of educational records and on-time graduation.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+ful+SB299ER+pdf
Title: S.B. 299
Source: http://leg1.state.va.us
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| OH | Signed into law 12/2009 | P-12 | Includes Junior ROTC as a permitted elective within the state's core curriculum for high school graduation. Permits schools to excuse Junior ROTC students from high school physical education. Permits a student who has participated in Junior ROTC for at least two full school years to use credit received for that participation to satisfy the requirement to complete one-half unit in another course of study.
Pages 15-22 of 29: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_290_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 290 - Junior ROTC
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | Provides that a pupil who has fulfilled the requirements to receive a diploma of graduation from a high school, is otherwise eligible to participate in a graduation ceremony, and has completed the basic training for, and is an active member of any branch of the United States Armed Forces, has the right to wear the dress uniform issued to him or her by that military branch while participating in the graduation ceremony for his or her high school. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_1451-1500/ab_1463_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 1463
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 10/2009 | P-12 | Ratifies the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to facilitate the enrollment, placement, advancement and transfer of the academic records of the children of military families for the purpose of removing barriers to their educational success due to the frequent moves and deployment of their parents. Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to accept nonstate funding to offset the cost of the annual assessment. Directs the superintendent to reconvene a task force initially convened pursuant to a provision of existing law to review and make recommendations regarding the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Requires this task force to be reconvened on or after July 1, 2012, and on or before September 1, 2012, and to issue a final report of findings and conclusions on prescribed topics to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of both houses of the legislature no later than December 1, 2012. http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/09-10/bill/asm/ab_0301-0350/ab_343_bill_20091011_chaptered.pdf
Title: A.B. 343
Source: www.leginfo.ca.gov
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| ND | Signed into law 08/2009 | P-12 | Provides for a legislative council study of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/61-2009/bill-text/JAMP0300.pdf
Title: H.B. 1309
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| OH | Signed into law 07/2009 | P-12 | Partially derived from the DOE summary of H.B. 1: Ratifies the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Establishes the state Council on Educational Opportunity for Military Children within the department of education to oversee and provide coordination for the state's participation in the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Directs the governor to appoint a compact commissioner who is responsible for administering the state's participation in the compact. Directs the aforementioned state council established by the bill to appoint a military family education liaison to assist families and the state in implementing the Compact. Requires that the annual fee for participation in the Compact be divided evenly between the department of education and the department of veterans services.
DOE summary of H.B. 1: http://www.education.ohio.gov/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=71635
Pages 1024-1044 of 3120: http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/BillText128/128_HB_1_EN_N.pdf
Title: H.B. 1 - Section 3301.60, 3301.61, 3301.62, 3301.63 and 3301.64
Source: www.legislature.state.oh.us
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| HI | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Enacts the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children to remove barriers to educational attainment faced by children of military families due to frequent moves and deployment of parents. http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2009/Bills/SB1164_CD1_.HTM
Title: S.B. 1164
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| TX | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Section 49: Creates new section 42.008. Caps any funding increase that might occur to $350 per student.
Section 50: Amends basic allotment formula.
Section 51: Amends Section 42.106, "Tuition Allotment for Districts Not Offering All Grade Levels."
Section 53: Adds a district allotment for each student who has a parent in active duty in a combat zone or who has an active duty parent who transferred into the district during the school year due to action taken under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Specifies such funds may be used only to provide supplemental programs and services. Establishes conditions under which the commissioner may provide such allotments. Provides such allotments may not exceed $9.9 million in a school year. Specifies these provisions expire September 2013.
Section 54: In addition to existing annual allotment for grade 9-12 students in career and technology courses, provides additional $50 for each student who is enrolled in two or more such courses for a total of 3 or more credits, or if student is enrolled in an advanced course as part of a tech-prep program.
Section 55: Adds section 42.1541. Directs the state board to increase indirect cost allotments for special education, bilingual education, and career and technical education programs by the start of the 2009-10 school year. Provides section expires September 2010.
Pages 34-38 and 40-42 of 108: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/81R/billtext/pdf/HB03646F.pdf
Title: H.B. 3646 - Sections 49-51 and 53-55
Source: www.legis.state.tx.us
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| NV | Signed into law 06/2009 | P-12 | Enacts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Chapter 463
http://leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/SB/SB303_EN.pdf
Title: S.B. 303
Source: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/
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| AL | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Adds Alabama to the Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, an interstate compact to address the education transition issues of children of active duty military families. Allows for the uniform treatment at the state and local district level of military children for transferring between school districts and states.
Title: H.B. 438
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| AK | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | An Act relating to an interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children; amending Rules 4 and 24, Alaska Rules of Civil Procedure; and providing for an effective date. Provides for a Compact administrator, charged with cooperation with all departments, agencies and officers of and in the goverment of the state and its subdivisions. Provides for a subcommittee of the State Board of Education to serve as the state council under AS 14.34.010.
http://www.legis.state.ak.us/PDF/26/Bills/HB0137Z.PDF
Title: H.B. 137
Source: http://www.legis.state.ak.us
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| AK | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Relates to an Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to facilitate the timely enrollment of children of military families and ensuring that they are not placed at a disadvantage due to difficulty in the transfer of education records, attendance requirements, scheduling, assessment, eligibility for participation in extracurricular activities and on- time graduation. Chapter 10
http://www.legis.state.ak.us
Title: H.B. 137
Source: http://www.legis.state.ak.us
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| GA | Signed into law 05/2009 | P-12 | Provides for the transfer of students who are military dependents into a local school system. Provides that students must be placed in grade level commensurate with their grade level in the sending state at the time of transition, including in kindergarten, regardless of age. Requires local school systems to initially honor student placement in courses based on the student's enrollment in the sending state school or assessments administered at the school in the sending state, if the courses are offered, including Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, vocational, technical and career pathway courses. Also requires local school systems to initially honor education program placements in the sending state, including placement in English as a second language and gifted and talented programs. Directs local school systems to be flexible in waiving course or program prerequisites or other preconditions for placement in courses and programs.
Allows additional excused absences for students whose parent has been called to active duty for, is on leave from or immediately returned from deployment to a combat zone or combat support posting. Directs local school systems to facilitate the opportunity for transitioning qualified military children's inclusion in extracurricular activities, regardless of application deadlines. Adds provisions related to high school course substitution, and recognition of other states' exit exams, national norm-referenced achievement tests or alternative testing to facilitate on-time graduation. Provides that if a military student transferring at the beginning or during his or her senior year is ineligible to graduate from the receiving local education agency after all alternatives have been considered, the local school system must coordinate with the sending local education agency to ensure the receipt of a diploma. http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/pdf/sb114.pdf
Title: S.B. 114
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| IN | Signed into law 04/2009 | P-12 | Enacts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children; provides for coordination of efforts among state agencies and other states to facilitate the transfer of students of military families between schools, including the transfer of educational and other records; provides for the recognition of coursework to facilitate timely graduation of students of military families. Public Law 21
http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2009/pdf/he/he1107.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1107
Source: http://www.in.gov/legislative/
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Adds 53A-11-1401 through -1404, collectively known as Education Policies for Military Children. Provides definitions. Allows for certain exceptions when military children transfer schools, including the use of official and unofficial education records, time periods for producing official records, age of school enrollment, immunizations and graduation provisions. Provides that tuition may not be charged a military child in the care of a non-custodial parent or other person living in a jurisdiction other than that of the custodial parent. http://le.utah.gov/~2009/bills/hbillenr/hb0194.pdf
Title: H.B. 194
Source: le.utah.gov
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| IA | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Establishes the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children; establishes a council on educational opportunity for military children to provide advice and recommendations regarding this state's participation in and compliance with the interstate compact; directs the governor to appoint a military family education liaison to assist military families and the state in facilitating the implementation of the compact.
http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=BillInfo&Service=Billbook&ga=83&menu=text&hbill=HF214
Title: H.B. 214
Source: http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us
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| KY | Signed into law 03/2009 | P-12 | Relates to students of civilian military employees; provides students of civilian military employees the same rights as students of military families under the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children if the parents are required to move to perform their job responsibilities, resulting in the students changing schools. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/09RS/SB39/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 39
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CA | Signed into law 09/2008 | P-12 | Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene and support a task force to review and make recommendations regarding the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Chapter 589
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset2text.htm
Title: A.B. 2049
Source: http://www.assembly.ca.gov
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Provides an interstate compact to ensure standards for educational records for children of military families.
http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/lis144.nsf/vwLegislation/HB+297/$file/legis.html?open
Title: H.B. 297
Source: http://legis.delaware.gov
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| FL | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Relates to educational opportunity for military children; directs the Governor to execute the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children; provides requirements relating to student records and enrollment, placement and attendance, and eligibility for graduation; creates an interstate commission and specifies powers and duties; requires the Secretary of State to furnish the enrolled act to member states approving compacts.
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h1203er.xml&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=1203&Session=2008
Title: H.B. 1203
Source: http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/default.aspx
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| LA | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Provides that a child whose parent is a member of the U.S. Armed Forces or the National Guard and such parent has been called to duty for or is on leave from overseas deployment shall be granted up to five excused absences from school per school year for the child to visit with his or her parent. Provides that upon returning to school, the student must be permitted to complete all class assignments, including all tests, missed while the child was absent. http://www.legis.state.la.us/billdata/streamdocument.asp?did=497665
Title: H.B. 200
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| MI | Signed into law 06/2008 | P-12 | Establishes interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children; provides for the facilitation of the timely enrollment of children of military families and ensuring that they are not placed at a disadvantage due to difficulty in the transfer of education records from the previous school district or variations in entrance and age requirements, scheduling, sequencing, grading, course content or assessment.
http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2007-2008/publicact/pdf/2008-PA-0215.pdf
Title: H.B. 5963
Source: http://www.legislature.mi.gov/
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2008 | P-12 | Creates the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to remove barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment of their parents; facilitates on-time graduation, timely enrollment, student placement, and transfer of education records of children of military families.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2008a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/BAB68718C7F52EF2872573AA007AC55E?open&file=1317_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1317
Source: http://www.leg.state.co.us
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| GA | Vetoed 05/2008 | P-12 | Adds Georgia as a member of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Includes provisions related to unofficial and official records and transcripts, immunizations, kindergarten and first grade entrance age, course placement and placement in special services such as gifted and talented and special education, absences related to deployment activities, high school graduation requirements and exit exams, and transfers during the student's senior year.
Provides for state coordination, the creation of the Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children by member states, and the interstate commission's powers and duties, organization and operation, rulemaking functions, oversight, enforcement and dispute resolution, and financing.
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2007_08/pdf/sb345.pdf
Title: S.B. 345
Source: www.legis.state.ga.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Concerns the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children; facilitates removal of barriers to educational success imposed on children of military families due to frequent moves and deployment of their parents through timely enrollment, placement process, qualification and eligibility for enrollment, educational programs and participation in extracurricular activities, on time graduation, uniform collection and sharing of information. Chapter No. 86
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/48leg/2r/bills/sb1334s.pdf
Title: S.B. 1334
Source: http://www.azleg.gov
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Removes barriers for educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment; specifies course placement, timely enrollment and attendance requirements; determines eligibility requirements; facilitates on- time graduation; facilitates state coordination; establishes the Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to provide oversight; provides oversight, enforcement and dispute resolution mechanisms. http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/08RS/SB68/bill.doc
Title: S.B. 68
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KS | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Enacts the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2008/2714.pdf
Title: H.B. 2714
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| MD | Signed into law 04/2008 | P-12 | Establishes a Task Force on Educational Issues Affecting Military Children; provides that the task force shall examine educational issues affecting military children, including efforts to ease the transition of military children to state schools, the timely receipt of paperwork necessary for local school systems to facilitate transfers of such children, the effect of graduation requirements, and the feasibility of the state joining the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunities for Military Children.
http://mlis.state.md.us/2008rs/bills/hb/hb0784t.pdf
Title: H.B. 784; S.B. 457
Source: http://mlis.state.md.us/
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Adds that school districts may issue high school diplomas to veterans of military service in Vietnam and deletes the requirement for veterans of WWII and Korea that required them to have been scheduled to graduate between 1940 and 1955 to be issued a high school diploma.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202008/1283.SL.pdf
Title: H.B. 1283
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/legislature
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| WA | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | The office of the superintendent of public instruction (OSPI) is directed to convene and support a task force to review and make recommendations regarding the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children. Support is to be provided to the (four) legislative members of the task force from the committee staff of the senate and house. The task force must issue a report, at minimum, on the components of the compact that are currently implemented or not implemented, the interplay between the compact and federal and state law and the legal obligations the compact would impose on the state if adopted.
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202008/6426-S.SL.pdf
Title: S.B. 6426
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/legislature
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| WV | Signed into law 03/2008 | P-12 | Creates the West Virginia remembers program to provide a forum for public school children to learn about "military service, patriotism and courage" from veterans. The state board is directed to promulgate rules on the program, including that the program is not a part of the required curriculum, the presentation of the program is the option of the classroom teacher and that there is a process for soliciting speakers from veterans' groups. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Text_HTML/2008_SESSIONS/RS/BILLS/HB2967%20Enr.htm
Title: H.B. 2967
Source: http://www.legis.state.wv.us
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| MT | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Statutorily provides for the Montana National Guard Youth Program.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/
Title: S.B. 295
Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov/
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| LA | Adopted 02/2007 | P-12 | Allows the issuance of an ancillary ROTC certificate to an individual who has retired from the active duty in the military or who has been officially recommended by the appropriate branch of the military service, with certification by the appropriate Department of Defense unit, to serve as a Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps instructor (ROTC). Page 33 of 50: http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0702/0702rul.pdf
Repromulgated August 2007 (page 9 of 79): http://www.doa.louisiana.gov/osr/reg/0708/0708RUL.pdf
Title: LAC 28:CXXXI.408
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| VA | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12
Postsec. | Eliminates the requirement that a student must have been attending a public school in Virginia while residing with a custodial parent prior to the parent's deployment as a member of the Virginia National Guard or as a member of the United States Armed Forces outside the U.S. in order to attend public school without paying tuition. http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?071+ful+HB2092ER
Title: H.B. 2092
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| KY | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Designates Millersburg Military Institute as the official Kentucky military school. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SJ83/bill.doc
Title: S.J.R. 83
Source: StateNet
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| IA | Signed into law 04/2004 | P-12 | Authorizes school districts and nonpublic schools to apply credit toward graduation under the state education program for successful completion of military basic training. http://coolice.legis.state.ia.us/Cool-ICE/default.asp?Category=billinfo&Service=Billbook&hbill=HF2241
Title: H.F. 2241
Source: StateNet
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