THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY WAUGH, BOSCOLA, ALLOWAY, BAKER, BROWNE, BRUBAKER, EARLL, FOLMER, FARNESE, FONTANA, GORDNER, LOGAN, MUSTO, O'PAKE, ORIE, PILEGGI, PIPPY, RAFFERTY, STACK, STOUT, TOMLINSON, VOGEL, WASHINGTON, M. WHITE, WONDERLING, WOZNIAK AND YAW, MARCH 23, 2009

REFERRED TO EDUCATION, MARCH 23, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An

act relating to the public school system, including certain

provisions applicable as well to private and parochial

schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the

laws relating thereto," in high schools, further providing

for academic degrees.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 1611 of the act of March 10, 1949

(P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School Code of 1949, is

amended by adding a subsection to read:

Section 1611.  Academic Degrees.--* * *

(d)  (1)  A board of school directors may establish a program

to be known as "Operation Recognition" which provides for

granting a high school diploma to any honorably discharged

veteran who served in the United States military in the Vietnam

War between the fifteenth day of November, one thousand nine

hundred sixty-one, and the twenty-eighth day of March, one

thousand nine hundred seventy-three, who attended high school

between one thousand nine hundred fifty-eight and one thousand

nine hundred seventy-three and who would have been a member of a

graduation class during the years one thousand nine hundred

sixty-two through one thousand nine hundred seventy-five but did

not graduate from high school due to entry into military

service.

(2)  A board of school directors may award a diploma

posthumously to an eligible veteran.

(3)  An application for a diploma under this subsection must

be made in the manner prescribed by the board of school

directors.

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