Act of Oct. 13, 1994,P.L. 593, No. 88 Cl. 24 - SCOTLAND SCHOOL FOR VETERANS' CHILDREN - AMEND
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SCOTLAND SCHOOL FOR VETERANS' CHILDREN - AMEND
Act of Oct. 13, 1994,
P.L. 593,
No. 88
Cl. 24
Session of 1994
No. 1994-88
SB 910
AN ACT
Amending the act of May 21, 1943 (P.L.302, No.140), entitled, as amended, "An act providing for the admission of children to, and their education and maintenance in, and their discharge from the Scotland School for Veterans' Children; prohibiting discharging children or taking children from said school, or children from leaving the same without an order of the Board of Trustees of the Scotland School for Veterans' Children; and prescribing penalties," further providing for admission requirements; and making an editorial change.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1.
Section 1 of the act of May 21, 1943 (P.L.302, No.140), entitled, as amended, "An act providing for the admission of children to, and their education and maintenance in, and their discharge from the Scotland School for Veterans' Children; prohibiting discharging children or taking children from said school, or children from leaving the same without an order of the Board of Trustees of the Scotland School for Veterans' Children; and prescribing penalties," amended May 29, 1980 (P.L.196, No.56), is amended to read:
Section 1.
The Board of Trustees of the Scotland School for Veterans' Children shall admit to the Scotland School for Veterans' Children, under such rules and forms of application as it may adopt, children over six (6) and under [fourteen (14)]
sixteen (16)
years of age, of [parents who have]
a custodial parent or legal guardian who has
resided in this Commonwealth for a continuous period of not less than [five]
three
years prior to application for admission of such children, or prior to the death of the last survivor of such parents, and one or both of whose parents
, grandparents, siblings or parents' siblings
has served in any branch of the armed forces of the United States and has died in such service or has been honorably discharged therefrom.
Preference in admission shall be as follows: (1) Children whose parent or parents served in the armed forces during any war or armed conflict in which the United States has been, is now or may hereafter be engaged, or in any movement or campaign in connection therewith or resulting therefrom; (2) Children, both of whose parents are dead; (3) Children, with only one living parent; (4) Destitute children not being in [either of the two]
the
foregoing classes.
Section 2.
This act shall take effect immediately.
APPROVED--The 13th day of October, A. D. 1994.
ROBERT P. CASEY