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Committee hears bill to extend Georgia Public Safety Memorial tuition benefit to spouses
Summary
The House Higher Education Committee heard HB 56 to add surviving spouses to the Georgia Public Safety Memorial Grant; members requested language to allow part-time study and to clarify coverage for volunteer firefighters before the bill returns.
The House Higher Education Committee heard House Bill 56 on the Georgia Public Safety Memorial Grant, a proposal to extend the program’s tuition benefit to spouses of law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical technicians and correctional officers killed in the line of duty.
Chairman Petrie, the bill’s sponsor, told the committee the proposal “very simply, seeks to add the spouses of those individuals to the eligibility,” and said the change is intended to “allow…
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