06 LC 28
3099S
The
House Committee on Higher Education offers the following substitute
to
SB 415:
A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
AN ACT
To
amend Code Section 20-3-485 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating
to definitions relative to the Georgia HERO (Helping Educate Reservists and
their Offspring) Scholarship, so as to provide that a person evacuated from a
combat zone due to severe injuries shall be deemed to have completed a
qualifying term of service; to provide for related matters; to repeal
conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
BE
IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:
SECTION
1.
Code
Section 20-3-485 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to
definitions relative to the Georgia HERO (Helping Educate Reservists and their
Offspring) Scholarship, is amended by striking paragraph (5) and inserting in
lieu thereof a new paragraph (5) to read as follows:
"(5)
'Qualifying term of service' means deployment overseas for active service on or
after the effective date of this subpart to a location or locations outside of
the United States and its territories designated by the United States Department
of Defense as a combat zone for a consecutive period of at least 181 days or, in
the case of an individual who is killed or receives a 100 percent disability as
a result of injuries received in such combat zone, any period of time on active
service in such combat
zone;
provided, however, that any person who fails to serve the full 181 consecutive
days because he or she was evacuated from the combat zone due to severe injuries
shall be deemed to have completed a qualifying term of
service."
SECTION
2.
All
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are repealed.