Full Text of HB5840 93rd General Assembly
HB5840 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004 HB5840
Introduced 2/6/2004, by Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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330 ILCS 105/1 |
from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 26 |
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Amends the Children of Deceased Veterans Act. Adds a caption to a Section
concerning education opportunities.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning veterans.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | 3 |
| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Children of Deceased Veterans Act is amended | 5 |
| by changing
Section 1 as follows:
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| (330 ILCS 105/1) (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 26)
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| Sec. 1. Education opportunities. The Illinois Department | 8 |
| of Veterans'
Affairs
shall provide, insofar as moneys are | 9 |
| appropriated for those purposes, for
matriculation and tuition | 10 |
| fees, board, room rent, books and supplies for
the use and | 11 |
| benefit of children, not under 10 and not over 18 years of age,
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| except extension of time may be granted for a child to complete | 13 |
| high school
but in no event beyond the 19th birthday who have | 14 |
| for 12 months immediately
preceding their application for these | 15 |
| benefits had their domicile in the
State of Illinois, of World | 16 |
| War I
veterans who were killed in action
or who died between | 17 |
| April 6, 1917, and July 2, 1921, and of World War II
veterans | 18 |
| who were killed in action or died after December 6, 1941, and | 19 |
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or before December 31, 1946, and of Korean conflict veterans | 20 |
| who were killed
in action or died between June 27, 1950 and | 21 |
| January 31, 1955, and of Vietnam
conflict veterans who were | 22 |
| killed in action or died between January 1, 1961
and May 7, | 23 |
| 1975, as a result of service in the Armed Forces of the United
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| States or from other causes of World War I, World
War II, the | 25 |
| Korean conflict or the Vietnam conflict,
who died, whether | 26 |
| before or after the cessation of hostilities, from | 27 |
| service-connected
disability, and of any veterans who died | 28 |
| during the induction periods specified
below or died of a | 29 |
| service-connected disability incurred during such induction
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| periods, such periods to be those beginning September 16, 1940, | 31 |
| and ending
December 6, 1941, and beginning January 1, 1947 and | 32 |
| ending June 26, 1950
and the period beginning February 1, 1955, |
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| and ending on the day before
the first day thereafter on which | 2 |
| individuals (other than individuals liable
for induction by | 3 |
| reason of prior deferment) are no longer liable for induction
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| for training and service into the Armed Forces under the | 5 |
| Universal Military
Training and Service Act, and beginning | 6 |
| January 1, 1961 and ending May
7, 1975 and of any veterans who | 7 |
| are totally and permanently
disabled as a result of a | 8 |
| service-connected disability (or who died
while a disability so | 9 |
| evaluated was in existence); which children are attending
or | 10 |
| may attend a state educational institution of elementary grade, | 11 |
| a high
school or business college, vocational training
school | 12 |
| or other educational institution in this State where courses of
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| instruction are provided in subjects which would tend to enable | 14 |
| such
children to engage in any useful trade, occupation or | 15 |
| profession. As
used in this Act "service-connected" means, with | 16 |
| respect to disability
or death, that such disability was | 17 |
| incurred or aggravated, or that the
death resulted from a | 18 |
| disability incurred or aggravated, in the
performance of active | 19 |
| duty or active duty for training in the military
services. Such | 20 |
| children shall
be admitted to state educational institutions | 21 |
| free of tuition. No more
than $250.00 may be paid under this | 22 |
| Act for any one child for any one
school year.
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| (Source: P.A. 85-1187.)
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