THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY GRUCELA, BARRAR, CAUSER, BEYER, BOYD, CALTAGIRONE, BROWN, DALLY, BUXTON, CARROLL, CLYMER, CONKLIN, DeLUCA, DONATUCCI, EVERETT, FABRIZIO, FAIRCHILD, FLECK, FRANKEL, GEIST, GIBBONS, GOODMAN, GRELL, GROVE, HALUSKA, HARHAI, HARKINS, HENNESSEY, HESS, HORNAMAN, HUTCHINSON, W. KELLER, KORTZ, KOTIK, KULA, MAHONEY, MANN, MELIO, MICOZZIE, MILLARD, MILLER, MURT, MUSTIO, M. O'BRIEN, O'NEILL, PALLONE, PAYNE, PERRY, PETRARCA, PRESTON, QUINN, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, STERN, STEVENSON, STURLA, THOMAS, VULAKOVICH, WATSON, WHEATLEY, WHITE AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 24, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, FEBRUARY 24, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, further providing for educational

leave of absence.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 7313 of Title 51 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 7313.  Educational leave of absence.

Whenever any member of the Pennsylvania National Guard or

other reserve component of the armed forces of the United States

shall be called or ordered to active duty, other than active

duty for training, including, in the case of members of the

Pennsylvania National Guard, active State duty, the educational

institution in which the member is enrolled shall grant the

member or their spouse a military leave of absence from their

education. [Persons] Members and spouses on military leave of

absence from their educational institution shall be entitled,

upon the member's release from military duty, to be restored to

the educational status they had attained prior to [their] the

member being ordered to military duty without loss of academic

credits earned, scholarships or grants awarded or tuition and

other fees paid prior to the commencement of the military duty.

It shall be the duty of the educational institution to refund

tuition or fees paid or to credit the tuition and fees to the

next semester or term after the termination of the educational

military leave of absence at the option of the student.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.