Text: HF02279 Text: HF02281 Text: HF02200 - HF02299 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN 1 1 HOUSE FILE 2280 1 2 1 3 AN ACT 1 4 REQUIRING THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO 1 5 DEVELOP AND ADMINISTER AN OPERATION RECOGNITION PROGRAM. 1 6 1 7 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 8 1 9 Section 1. Section 256.9, Code Supplement 1999, is amended 1 10 by adding the following new subsection: 1 11 NEW SUBSECTION. 49. Develop and administer, with the 1 12 cooperation of the commission of veterans affairs, a program 1 13 which shall be known as "operation recognition". The purpose 1 14 of the program is to award high school diplomas to World War 1 15 II veterans who left high school prior to graduation to enter 1 16 United States military service. The department and the 1 17 commission shall jointly develop an application procedure, 1 18 distribute applications, and publicize the program to school 1 19 districts, accredited nonpublic schools, county commissions of 1 20 veterans affairs, veterans organizations, and state, regional, 1 21 and local media. All honorably discharged World War II 1 22 veterans who are residents or former residents of the state, 1 23 who served between September 16, 1940, and December 31, 1946, 1 24 and who did not return to school and complete their education 1 25 after the war shall be eligible to receive a diploma. 1 26 Diplomas may be issued posthumously. Upon approval of an 1 27 application, the department shall issue an honorary high 1 28 school diploma for an eligible veteran. The diploma shall 1 29 indicate the veteran's school of attendance. The department 1 30 and the commission shall work together to provide school 1 31 districts, schools, communities, and county commissions of 1 32 veterans affairs with information about hosting a diploma 1 33 ceremony on or around Veterans Day. The diploma shall be 1 34 mailed to the veteran or, if the veteran is deceased, to the 1 35 veteran's family. 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 4 BRENT SIEGRIST 2 5 Speaker of the House 2 6 2 7 2 8 2 9 MARY E. KRAMER 2 10 President of the Senate 2 11 2 12 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and 2 13 is known as House File 2280, Seventy-eighth General Assembly. 2 14 2 15 2 16 2 17 ELIZABETH ISAACSON 2 18 Chief Clerk of the House 2 19 Approved , 2000 2 20 2 21 2 22 2 23 THOMAS J. VILSACK 2 24 Governor
Text: HF02279 Text: HF02281 Text: HF02200 - HF02299 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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