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2001 - 2002 LEGISLATURE
ASSEMBLY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT 1,
TO 2001 ASSEMBLY BILL 496
October 29, 2001 - Offered by Representative Musser.
AB496-ASA1,1,4
1An Act to renumber 45.19;
to amend 20.485 (2) (q), 36.27 (3) (title) and 38.24
2(5) (title); and
to create 36.27 (3r), 38.24 (6), 45.19 (2), 45.19 (3) and 115.28 (51)
3of the statutes;
relating to: tuition vouchers for students who sound Taps at
4military honors funerals.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB496-ASA1,1,76
20.485
(2) (q)
Military honors funerals. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule
7to provide military honors funerals for veterans under s. 45.19
(1).
AB496-ASA1, s. 2
8Section
2. 36.27 (3) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB496-ASA1,1,99
36.27
(3) (title)
Tuition remissions
for survivors.
AB496-ASA1,2,211
36.27
(3r) Fee remissions for funeral assistants. The board shall grant a $25
12remission of nonresident tuition or academic fees to any student enrolled in the
1system as an undergraduate for each valid voucher issued to the student under s.
245.19 (3).
AB496-ASA1, s. 4
3Section
4. 38.24 (5) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB496-ASA1,2,44
38.24
(5) (title)
Fee remissions for survivors.
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38.24
(6) Fee remissions for funeral assistants. The district board shall grant
7a $25 remission of fees under subs. (1m) and (3) to a student for each valid voucher
8issued to the student under s. 45.19 (3).
AB496-ASA1,2,1511
45.19
(2) The department of veterans affairs shall create a tuition voucher form
12to be used by funeral directors under sub. (3). The department of veterans affairs
13shall distribute copies of the tuition voucher form, plus an explanation of the form's
14use, to every operator of a funeral establishment. The department of veterans affairs
15may not charge a fee for the tuition voucher form or for the distribution of the form.
AB496-ASA1,2,2517
45.19
(3) A funeral director may issue a tuition voucher in the amount of $25
18to an individual who sounds "Taps" on a bugle, trumpet, or cornet during a military
19honors funeral held in this state for a deceased veteran and who is a student in grades
206 to 12 or at an institution of higher education, as defined under s. 895.515 (1) (b).
21The tuition voucher may be used at any time for the payment of tuition and required
22program activity fees at a University of Wisconsin System institution as provided
23under s. 36.27 (3r) or a technical college as provided under s. 38.24 (6). The
24department of veterans affairs shall encourage private institutions of higher
25education to accept the vouchers. The vouchers are not transferable.
AB496-ASA1,3,42
115.28
(51) Funeral assistants. Encourage school boards to grant an excused
3absence to a pupil in grades 6 to 12 for the purpose of sounding "Taps" during a
4military honors funeral for a decreased veteran.
