NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 458

HOUSE BILL 868

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE A MORE EQUITABLE PROCEDURE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THE CHILDREN OF WAR VETERANS AND FOR THE ADJUSTMENT OF SCHOLARSHIP ACCOUNTS OF VETERANS' CHILDREN WHO WITHDRAW FROM EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS BY REASON OF ILLNESS OR OTHER REASONS BEFORE THE COMPLETION OF A SEMESTER OR TERM.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 165-22.1 is hereby amended by adding a new subsection, at the end thereof to read as follows:

"(e)       Irrespective of other provisions of this Article, the Department of Veterans Affairs may prescribe special procedures for adjusting the accounts of scholarship recipients who for reasons of illness, physical inability to attend class or for other valid reason satisfactory to the Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs may withdraw from State or private educational institutions prior to the completion of the term, semester, quarter or other academic period being attended at the time of withdrawal. Such procedures may include, but shall not be limited to, paying the recipient the dollar value of his unused entitlements for the academic period being attended, with a corresponding deduction of this period from his remaining scholarship eligibility time."

Sec. 2.  This act shall be effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of May, 1971.