HB1119_S_Cmte_Amend

SECTION 1. Section 37-103-19, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

37-103-19. (1) Resident status of a spouse or children of members of the armed forces on extended active duty shall be that of the military parent for the purpose of attending state-supported institutions of higher learning and junior colleges of the State of Mississippi during the time that their military parents are stationed within the State of Mississippi and shall be continued through the time that military parents are stationed in an overseas area with last duty assignment within the State of Mississippi, excepting temporary training assignments en route from Mississippi. Resident status of minor children shall terminate upon reassignment under Permanent Change of Station Orders of their military parents for duty in the continental United States outside the State of Mississippi, excepting temporary training assignments en route from Mississippi, except that children of members of the armed forces who attain Mississippi residency in accordance with the above provisions, who begin and complete their senior year of high school in Mississippi, and who enroll full time in a Mississippi institution of higher learning or junior college to begin studies in the fall after their graduation from high school, shall maintain their residency status so long as they remain enrolled and a student in good standing at a Mississippi institution of higher learning or junior college (enrollment during summer school not required).

(2) The spouse or child of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States who dies or is killed is entitled to pay the resident tuition fee if the spouse or child becomes a resident of Mississippi within one hundred eighty (180) days of the date of death.

(3) If a member of the Armed Forces of the United States is stationed outside Mississippi and the member's spouse or child established residence in Mississippi by residing in Mississippi and by filing with the Mississippi institution of higher learning or community college at which the spouse or child plans to register a letter of intent to establish residence in Mississippi, the institution of higher education or community college shall permit the spouse or child to pay the tuition, fees and other charges provided for Mississippi residents without regard to length of time that the spouse or child has resided in Mississippi.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.