From the ECS State Policy Database Special Populations--Military

This database is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States (ECS). Most entries are legislative, although rules/regulations and executive orders that make substantive changes are included. Every effort is made to collect the latest available version of policies; in some instances, recent changes might not be reflected. For expediency purposes minimal attention has been paid to style (capitalization, punctuation) and format. Please cite use of the database as: Education Commission of the States (ECS) State Policy Database, retrieved [date]. State Status/Date Level Summary CA Signed into law 09/2012 P-12 Licensure Renewal Requirements for Active Duty Military A.B. 1588 From bill summary: Requires state professional licensing boards, with certain exceptions, to waive the renewal fees, continuing education re... More... CA Signed into law 09/2012 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children - Task Force and State Council A.B. 2202 From bill summary: Authorizes the superintendent of public instruction to convene the State Council required by the Interstate Compact on Ed... More... NC Signed into law 07/2012 P-12 Licensure for Military Personnel and Spouses H.B. 799 Permits military-trained applicants who have been awarded a military occupational specialty and military-spouse applicants who are licensed ... More... HI Signed into law 07/2012 P-12 Military Training and Professional Licensure H.B. 2258 Requires professional and vocational licensing boards to consider relevant military education, training, and service as part of the evaluati... More... IL Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Educator Licensure for Service Member or Spouse S.B. 275 Authorizes issuance of expedited temporary occupational or professional license to a service member or spouse of a service member who holds ... More... LA Signed into law 06/2012 P-12 Eligibility of Students from Military Families to Participate in Interscholastic Athletic Activities H.B. 631 Prohibits an otherwise eligible student from being determined ineligible for participation in an extracurricular interscholastic athletic ac... More... MA Signed into law 05/2012 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children S.B. 2254 Provides definitions of military terms and provides that this legislation applies to active duty members of the uniformed services, members ... More... NV Issued 05/2012 P-12 Providing Reciprocity for Military Spouses Seeking Licensure in this State Executive Order# 2012-11 Every professional licensing board organized pursuant to the Nevada Revised Statues is ordered to: Facilitate endorsement of a current licen... More... AK Signed into law 04/2012 Postsec. Military Training/Postsecondary Credit H.B. 282 Directs the department or applicable board to accept military education, training, and service credit for some or all of the qualifications ... More... FL Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Postsec. Veterans S.B. 922 Establishes August 7th of each year as "Purple Heart Day," and encourages schools to commemorate Purple Heart Day and honor those wounded or... More... GA Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children S.B. 227 Adopts the "Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children." Provides for the purpose and policy of the compact. Provid... More... MS Signed into law 04/2012 P-12 Academic Credit for National Guard Basic Training Camp H.B. 784 Authorizes school boards to allow course credit to high school students who are also members of the national guard, and who complete basic t... More... NJ Signed into law 04/2012 Postsec. Teacher Certification of Veterans S 1026 Establishes a four-year "VETeach Pilot Program" pilot to facilitate the teacher certification of veterans. Provides that Richard Stockton C... More... VA Signed into law 04/2012 Postsec. Military Training; Accept as Equivalent to Requirements for Licensures H.B. 938 Except for the Board of Medicine and the Board of Dentistry, requires the regulatory boards within the Department of Professional and Occupa... More... WV Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 High School Diplomas for Certain Veterans H.B. 4433 Modifying the criteria for awarding high school diplomas to certain veterans. http://www.legis.state.wv.us/bill_status/bills_text.cfm?billdo... More... WY Signed into law 03/2012 P-12 Interstate Compact on Students of Military Families S.F. 78 Provides for an interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children. Facilitates enrollment and placement of children of mil... More... VA Signed into law 02/2012 P-12 Public School Enrollment; Military Children H.B. 640/S.B. 190 Clarifies language relating to enrollment of students pursuant to a special power of attorney to correspond to language in the Interstate Co... More... PA Signed into law 02/2012 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children S.B. 159 Authorizes the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to join the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children; provides for th... More... NY Issued 11/2011 Postsec. Continuing the New York State Council on Returning Veterans and Their Families Executive Order 34 Continues the New York State Council on Returning Veterans and Their Families, and expands the membership and mission. Expansion of membersh... More... CA Signed into law 10/2011 P-12 Postsec. California Cadet Corps S.B. 537 From bill summary: Authorizes the organization of a California Cadet Corps (http://www.cadet.org/cadet/site/default.asp) at each college, co... More... CA Signed into law 10/2011 P-12 Excused Absence and Military Deployment A.B. 387 From bill summary: Includes spending time with an immediate family member who is an active duty member of the uniformed services and has bee... More... IL Signed into law 08/2011 P-12 Children of Active Dury Parents H.B. 2870 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 se... More... TX Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Funding for Texas ChalleNGe Academy H.B. 2247 From bill analysis: Establishes the eligibility of the adjutant general's department to receive Foundation School Program funding for studen... More... HI Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children H.B. 4 Makes permanent the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children. Deletes the definition of ''test period". Deletes p... More... NC Signed into law 06/2011 P-12 Behavioral Health Services for Military S.B. 597 Requires school districts to report annually to the State Board of Education (SBE) on the number of children with immediate family members i... More... NE Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children L.B. 575 Adopts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. http://www.nebraskalegislature.gov/FloorDocs/Current/PDF/Sli... More... CT Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Diplomas to Veterans of WWI or the Korean War H.B. 6319 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 schoo... More... VT Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children H.B. 38 Adopts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. ... More... MD Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Teacher Certification & Tenure/Employment for Military Spouses H.B. 998 Requires the state Department of Education to develop a specified form relating to teacher certification and tenure and to post the form on ... More... ND Signed into law 05/2011 P-12 Compact on educational opportunity for military children H.B. 1248 Enacts the Compact on educational opportunity for military children to help with timely enrollment, accurate placement, facilitate on-time g... More... ME Signed into law 04/2011 P-12 Vietnam Veterans Awarded High School Diplomas H.P. 96 Provides that eligible Vietnam veterans may be awarded high school diplomas; Veterans of World War II and the Korean Conflict already includ... More... KY Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Certification for Active Duty Military Personnel and Their Spouses H.B. 301 Specifies that any active duty military personnel must be kept in good standing by the administrative body with which he/she is licensed or ... More... VA Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 Postsec. Community College Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children H.B. 1976 Adds a fifth citizen member to the Virginia Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and specifies... More... NM Signed into law 03/2011 P-12 School Enrollment for Children of Military Personnel H.B. 14 Allows priority school enrollment within the attendance area to students whose parents are active duty military personnel in New Mexico. htt... More... NY Vetoed 08/2010 P-12 Postsec. State Interagency Coordinating Council for Service-Disabled Veterans A.B. 8296A/S.B. 7112 Establishes the New York state interagency coordinating council for service-disabled veterans. Identifies council members, including the com... More... NC Signed into law 07/2010 P-12 Enrollment of Child under 5 Who Is Child of Military Personnel S.B. 1246 - Enrollment of Child under 5 Who Is Child of Military Personnel 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. a... More... TN Signed into law 07/2010 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children H.B. 1911 Makes Tennessee a member state to, the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. The stated purpose of the compac... More... RI Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children H.B. 8010, S.B. 2738 Enacts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, allowing children of military families to achieve educationa... More... SC Signed into law 06/2010 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children S.B. 319 Establishes South Carolina as a member of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, which seeks to remove bar... More... WI Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children S.B. 681 Relates to adopting the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children and making an appropriation. http://www.legis.st... More... FL Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Extends date of Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children H.B. 521 In 2008, the Florida Legislature enacted the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. The purpose of the compact... More... NM Signed into law 05/2010 P-12 Educational Opportunity for Military Children - Interstate Compact H.B. 24 Enacts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children in New Mexico. The compact's purpose is to remove barriers to... More... MD Signed into law 04/2010 P-12 Release of Student Information to Military Recruiters H.B. 176 Requires any public school that administers the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) to choose the score reporting "Option 8,"... More... UT Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children H.B. 386 Enacts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Establishes the State Council on Military Children. Provides... More... SD Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Military Student Mobility S.B. 88 Adopts the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children; provide for transfer of school records. http://legis.state.s... More... ID Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Education of Military Children S.B. 1338 Adds to existing law relating to education to provide educational opportunity for military children, to provide findings and purpose, to pro... More... VA Signed into law 03/2010 P-12 Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children S.B. 299 Requires the Department of Education to employ a military family education liaison to provide staff support for the state Council on the Int... More... OH Signed into law 12/2009 P-12 Junior ROTC H.B. 290 - Junior ROTC Includes Junior ROTC as a permitted elective within the state's core curriculum for high school graduation. Permits schools to excuse Junior... More... CA Signed into law 10/2009 P-12 Military Uniforms at High School Graduations A.B. 1463 Provides that a pupil who has fulfilled the requirements to receive a diploma of graduation from a high school, is otherwise eligible to par... More... CA Signed into law 10/2009 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children A.B. 343 Ratifies the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to facilitate the enrollment, placement, advancement and tr... More... ND Signed into law 08/2009 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children H.B. 1309 Provides for a legislative council study of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. http://www.legis.nd.go... More... OH Signed into law 07/2009 P-12 Interstate Military Compact and Related Provisions H.B. 1 - Section 3301.60, 3301.61, 3301.62, 3301.63 and 3301.64 Partially derived from the DOE summary of H.B. 1: Ratifies the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Establis... More... HI Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children S.B. 1164 Enacts the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children to remove barriers to educational attainment faced by childre... More... TX Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Changes to Funding Formula H.B. 3646 - Sections 49-51 and 53-55 Section 49: Creates new section 42.008. Caps any funding increase that might occur to $350 per student. Section 50: Amends basic allotment f... More... NV Signed into law 06/2009 P-12 Education of Military Children S.B. 303 Enacts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Chapter 463 http://leg.state.nv.us/75th2009/Bills/SB/SB303_E... More... AL Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Interstate Military Compact H.B. 438 Adds Alabama to the Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, an interstate compact to address the education t... More... AK Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Education of Military Children H.B. 137 An Act relating to an interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children; amending Rules 4 and 24, Alaska Rules of Civil Pr... More... AK Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Educational Opportunity for Military Children H.B. 137 Relates to an Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to facilitate the timely enrollment of children of militar... More... GA Signed into law 05/2009 P-12 Military Students S.B. 114 Provides for the transfer of students who are military dependents into a local school system. Provides that students must be placed in grade... More... IN Signed into law 04/2009 P-12 Education of Military Children H.B. 1107 Enacts the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children; provides for coordination of efforts among state agencies an... More... UT Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Education Policies for Military Children H.B. 194 Adds 53A-11-1401 through -1404, collectively known as Education Policies for Military Children. Provides definitions. Allows for certain exc... More... IA Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Military Children H.B. 214 Establishes the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children; establishes a council on educational opportunity for mi... More... KY Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Children of Civilian Military Employees S.B. 39 Relates to students of civilian military employees; provides students of civilian military employees the same rights as students of military... More... AR Signed into law 03/2009 P-12 Educational Sucess for Military Children H.B. 1400 Removes barriers to educational success for military children. http://www.arkleg.state.ar.us/assembly/2009/R/Bills/HB1400.pdf... More... CA Signed into law 09/2008 P-12 Military children A.B. 2049 Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene and support a task force to review and make recommendations regarding the Inter... More... DE Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Compact on Education for Children of Military Families H.B. 297 Provides an interstate compact to ensure standards for educational records for children of military families. http://legis.delaware.gov/LIS/... More... FL Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children H.B. 1203 Relates to educational opportunity for military children; directs the Governor to execute the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity ... More... LA Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Absences for Children of Active-Duty Parents H.B. 200 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... More... MI Signed into law 06/2008 P-12 Education Compact for Military Children H.B. 5963 Establishes interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children; provides for the facilitation of the timely enrollment of c... More... CO Signed into law 05/2008 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children H.B. 1317 Creates the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children to remove barriers to educational success imposed on childre... More... GA Vetoed 05/2008 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children S.B. 345 Adds Georgia as a member of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Includes provisions related to unoffici... More... AZ Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Military education S.B. 1334 Concerns the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children; facilitates removal of barriers to educational success imp... More... KY Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children S.B. 68 Removes barriers for educational success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment; specifies course... More... KS Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children H.B. 2714 Enacts the interstate compact on educational opportunity for military children. http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2008/2714.pdf... More... MD Signed into law 04/2008 P-12 Education of Military Children H.B. 784; S.B. 457 Establishes a Task Force on Educational Issues Affecting Military Children; provides that the task force shall examine educational issues af... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 High School Diplomas for Veterans H.B. 1283 Adds that school districts may issue high school diplomas to veterans of military service in Vietnam and deletes the requirement for veteran... More... WA Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children S.B. 6426 The office of the superintendent of public instruction (OSPI) is directed to convene and support a task force to review and make recommendat... More... WV Signed into law 03/2008 P-12 West Virginia Remembers Program H.B. 2967 Creates the West Virginia remembers program to provide a forum for public school children to learn about "military service, patriotism and c... More... MT Signed into law 04/2007 P-12 Montana National Guard Youth Challenge Program S.B. 295 Statutorily provides for the Montana National Guard Youth Program. http://data.opi.mt.gov/... More... LA Adopted 02/2007 P-12 Certification of ROTC Instructors LAC 28:CXXXI.408 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 o... More... VA Signed into law 02/2007 P-12 Postsec. Military Students Public School Tuition Waiver H.B. 2092 Eliminates the requirement that a student must have been attending a public school in Virginia while residing with a custodial parent prior ... More... KY Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Official Kentucky Military School S.J.R. 83 Designates Millersburg Military Institute as the official Kentucky military school. http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/RECORD/04RS/SJ83/bill.doc... More... IA Signed into law 04/2004 P-12 Military Basic Training Completion Credit H.F. 2241 Authorizes school districts and nonpublic schools to apply credit toward graduation under the state education program for successful complet... More...