THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY BAKER, RAFFERTY, WASHINGTON, ALLOWAY, FONTANA, EICHELBERGER, BRUBAKER, FERLO, WAUGH, ORIE, MUSTO, TARTAGLIONE, EARLL, GORDNER, KASUNIC, KITCHEN, O'PAKE, ROBBINS, VOGEL, YAW, BROWNE, ERICKSON, LOGAN, PILEGGI, COSTA, PIPPY, SCARNATI, STOUT, STACK, D. WHITE, WONDERLING, WOZNIAK, BOSCOLA AND WARD, FEBRUARY 19, 2009

REFERRED TO VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, FEBRUARY 19, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending Title 51 (Military Affairs) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, further providing for educational

leave of absence.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 7313 of Title 51 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 7313.  Educational leave of absence.

Whenever any member of the Pennsylvania National Guard or

other reserve component of the armed forces of the United States

shall be called or ordered to active duty, other than active

duty for training, including, in the case of members of the

Pennsylvania National Guard, active State duty, the educational

institution in which the member or the member's spouse is

enrolled shall grant the member or the member's spouse a

military leave of absence from their education. [Persons]

Members and spouses on military leave of absence from their

educational institution shall be entitled, upon release from

military duty, to be restored to the educational status they had

attained prior to their being ordered to military duty without

loss of academic credits earned, scholarships or grants awarded

or tuition and other fees paid prior to the commencement of the

military duty. It shall be the duty of the educational

institution to refund tuition or fees paid or to credit the

tuition and fees to the next semester or term after the

termination of the educational military leave of absence at the

option of the student.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.