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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY SOLOBAY, BAKER, COSTA, BREWSTER, ERICKSON, FOLMER, FONTANA, KITCHEN, ORIE, RAFFERTY, STACK, VOGEL, WASHINGTON, WAUGH AND D. WHITE, FEBRUARY 28, 2011 |
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| REFERRED TO VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, FEBRUARY 28, 2011 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania |
2 | Consolidated Statutes, further providing for educational |
3 | leave of absence. |
4 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
5 | hereby enacts as follows: |
6 | Section 1. Section 7313 of Title 51 of the Pennsylvania |
7 | Consolidated Statutes is amended to read: |
8 | § 7313. Educational leave of absence. |
9 | Whenever any member of the Pennsylvania National Guard or |
10 | other reserve component of the armed forces of the United States |
11 | shall be called or ordered to active duty, other than active |
12 | duty for training, including, in the case of members of the |
13 | Pennsylvania National Guard, active State duty, the educational |
14 | institution in which the member is enrolled shall grant the |
15 | member or the member's spouse a military leave of absence from |
16 | their education. [Persons] Members and spouses on military leave |
17 | of absence from their educational institution shall be entitled, |
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1 | upon the member's release from military duty, to be restored to |
2 | the educational status they had attained prior to [their] the |
3 | member's being ordered to military duty without loss of academic |
4 | credits earned, scholarships or grants awarded or tuition and |
5 | other fees paid prior to the commencement of the military duty. |
6 | It shall be the duty of the educational institution to refund |
7 | tuition or fees paid or to credit the tuition and fees to the |
8 | next semester or term after the termination of the educational |
9 | military leave of absence at the option of the student. |
10 | Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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