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Laredo veterans committee backs city advocacy for House Bill 2540 to extend Hazelwood Act benefits to siblings
Summary
The committee voted to ask city officials to include support for House Bill 2540 on the Austin advocacy agenda; the bill—an amendment tied to the Hazelwood Act—would allow siblings of service members killed in action to inherit state tuition benefits currently limited to spouses and children, committee members said.
Members of the Laredo Veterans Affairs Committee voted Jan. 14 to ask the City of Laredo to include advocacy for House Bill 2540 on the agenda for a scheduled delegation trip to Austin. The motion carried by voice vote after discussion of the bill’s proposed change to the Hazelwood Act, which provides tuition benefits at public Texas institutions for eligible service members and dependents.
Ricardo Quijano, a Texas Military Department soldier and family readiness specialist, described the bill as a technical change to add siblings as eligible beneficiaries in cases where a service member dies in the line of duty. “This bill is gonna help all Texas residents,” Quijano said, and he outlined…
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