Tuition Waiver for Purple Heart or Higher Award Recipients

A state university or community college shall waive undergraduate tuition for each recipient of a Purple Heart or another combat decoration superior in precedence who:

(a) Is enrolled as a full-time, part-time or summer-school student in an undergraduate program that terminates in a degree or certificate;

(b) Is currently, and was at the time of the military action that resulted in award of the Purple Heart or other combat decoration superior in precedence, a resident of this state; and

(c) Submits to the state university or the community college the DD-214 form issued at the time of separation from service as documentation that the student has received a Purple Heart or another combat decoration superior in precedence.

Such a waiver for a Purple Heart recipient or recipient of another combat decoration superior in precedence shall be applicable for 110 percent of the number of required credit hours of the degree or certificate program for which the student is enrolled.
Effective July 1, 2006.

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