The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PETITION OF:
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PETITION OF:
Stephen M. Brewer
Robert S. Creedon, Jr.
Kathi-Anne Reinstein
Edward M. Augustus, Jr.
Scott P. Brown
Sean Curran
Thomas M. McGee
Charles A. Murphy
Harold P. Naughton, Jr.
Michael F. Rush
Todd M. Smola
Thomas M. Stanley
Robert A. O'Leary
Steven C. Panagiotakos
Lida E. Harkins
William Smitty Pignatelli
James E. Vallee
Gale D. Candaras
Michael R. Knapik
Louis L. Kafka
William N. Brownsberger
Frank I. Smizik
William C. Galvin
David M. Torrisi
Jeffrey Davis Perry
Stephen R. Canessa
Denis E. Guyer
Peter V. Kocot
Barbara A. L'Italien
Paul C. Casey
Frank M. Hynes
Matthew C. Patrick
Robert L. Rice, Jr.
John P. Fresolo
J. James Marzilli, Jr.
Stephen Stat Smith
F. Jay Barrows
Paul J. Donato
Christine E. Canavan
Richard T. Moore
Lewis G. Evangelidis
James H. Fagan
David B. Sullivan
John V. Fernandes
William G. Greene, Jr.
Alice K. Wolf
Paul Kujawski
Linda Dean Campbell
Stephen L. DiNatale
Sarah K. Peake
Douglas W. Petersen
William Lantigua
Jennifer L. Flanagan
Timothy J. Toomey, Jr.
James R. Miceli
Robert K. Coughlin
John D. Keenan
Bradley H. Jones, Jr.
Thomas J. Calter
Karyn E. Polito
Carl M. Sciortino, Jr.
Geraldo Alicea
Joseph R. Driscoll
Brian A. Joyce
Richard J. Ross
Marian Walsh
James B. Eldridge
Bruce J. Ayers
Martin J. Walsh
Demetrius J. Atsalis
Mary E. Grant
Walter F. Timilty
Susan C. Fargo
Jennifer M. Callahan
Jeffrey Sanchez
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In the Year Two Thousand and Seven.
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An Act establishing the Massachusetts GI bill for veterans . |
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Whereas, The deferred operation of this act would tend to defeat its purpose, which is forthwith to provide higher education tuition and fee waiver programs for veterans. therefore it is hereby declared to be an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public convenience.
Section 19 of chapter 15A of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out the third paragraph, inserted by section 2A of chapter 130 of the acts of 2005, and inserting in place thereof the following paragraph:-
Such guidelines shall provide tuition and fee waivers for Massachusetts National Guard members and veterans, as defined in clause forty-third of section 7 of chapter 4. The commonwealth, not the institutions of public higher education, shall bear the cost of such tuition and fee waivers for Massachusetts National Guard members and veterans. The guidelines shall also require applicants for tuition and fee waivers under this paragraph to demonstrate application for all available federal educational financial aid. The board shall report in writing the number and cost of waivers under this paragraph not later than January 1 and June 1 of each year to the joint committee on veterans and federal affairs and the house and senate committees on ways and means.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect on July 1, 2007.