Bill would extend in-state tuition waiver to children born and raised in South Carolina whose wartime veteran parent later leaves the state

Representative Bobby Cox, chair of the subcommittee on veterans and military affairs, opened discussion on House Bill 3,453, sponsored by Representative Seth Rose. The bill would allow a child of a wartime veteran to receive free tuition to any state-supported college, university or post-high-school technical school if the child "has been a resident of the state since birth," according to the bill summary presented to the subcommittee.

The bill sponsor, Representative Seth Rose, described a case he said motivated the proposal: two daughters born and raised in South Carolina whose father received a Purple Heart and later moved out of state after developing post-traumatic stress. "It's not just the veteran who suffers when they become, when they have a mental injury from serving in the armed forces and they're wounded in…