Text: HF02279 Text: HF02281 Text: HF02200 - HF02299 Text: HF Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
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1 1 HOUSE FILE 2280
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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:
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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.
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2 3
2 4 BRENT SIEGRIST
2 5 Speaker of the House
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2 7
2 8
2 9 MARY E. KRAMER
2 10 President of the Senate
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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.
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2 16
2 17 ELIZABETH ISAACSON
2 18 Chief Clerk of the House
2 19 Approved , 2000
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2 23 THOMAS J. VILSACK
2 24 Governor
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