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Committee advances substitute to expand Georgia Public Safety Memorial Grant to spouses, updates statutory limits
Summary
The House Higher Education Committee moved a substitute for HB 56 that extends scholarship eligibility from children to spouses of fallen or permanently disabled public safety officers, clarifies part-time enrollment rules and updates statutory dollar limits that had not been revised since 1972.
The House Higher Education Committee on Wednesday advanced a substitute for House Bill 56 to allow spouses of law enforcement officers, firefighters and prison guards who are killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty to access the Georgia Public Safety Memorial Grant previously available to their children.
The substitute also creates an explicit part‑time pathway for spouses and updates outdated statutory dollar limits for the program. Materials from the Georgia Student Finance Commission included with the bill show the commission maintained about $4,000,000 in…
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