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Committee amends GI scholarship bill, lowers disability threshold and establishes pilot program
Summary
The committee amended House Bill 487, the Alabama GI independent scholarship measure, to change the minimum veteran disability rating for dependent eligibility from 40% to 30% and to add a pilot program; members agreed to strike a proposed first-payer restriction pending further negotiations on institutional language.
The committee adopted two amendments to House Bill 487, legislation that modifies the Alabama GI independent scholarship program for dependents of disabled and deceased veterans.
Representative Parker Moore described the bill as reducing the minimum service-connected disability rating and creating a pilot program to broaden eligibility for scholarships administered under…
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