093_HB1792

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning veterans.

 2        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section 5.  The Children  of  Deceased  Veterans  Act  is
 5    amended by changing Section 1 as follows:

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