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Senate Bill 966 |
Senate Author: Uresti et al. |
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Effective: 6-17-11 |
House Sponsor: Pickett |
Senate Bill 966 amends the Education Code to expand the conditions that qualify a veteran to be issued a high school diploma by including an honorably discharged member of the armed forces of the United States who was scheduled to graduate from high school after 1989 and left school after completing the sixth or a higher grade, before graduating from high school, to serve in the Persian Gulf War, the Iraq War, or the war in Afghanistan or any other war formally declared by the United States, military engagement authorized by the United States Congress, military engagement authorized by a United Nations Security Council resolution and funded by the United States Congress, or conflict authorized by the president of the United States under the federal War Powers Resolution of 1973.