SENATE DOCKET, NO. 111        FILED ON: 1/12/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 607

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act providing coverage of educational expenses to deceased veterans ..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1. The third paragraph of section 19 of chapter 15A of the General Laws, as inserted by section 2A of chapter 130 of the acts of 2005, is hereby amended by adding the following 2 sentences:-  The guidelines shall also provide tuition, fee waivers and reimbursement for room and board at any institution of public higher education in the commonwealth to a student whose parent or legal guardian was a resident of the commonwealth who served as a member of the armed forces of the United States and died in the line of service.  The commonwealth, not the institutions of public higher education, shall bear the cost of these tuition and fee waivers and reimbursements.