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.)