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Oklahoma Legislature· HB 3956Referred to Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee

An act relating to higher education, the official text

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1                            STATE OF OKLAHOMA

2   2nd Session of the 60th Legislature (2026)

3 HOUSE BILL 3956            By: Munson

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6                            AS INTRODUCED

7   An Act relating to higher education; waiving tuition

    and fees for permanently disabled veterans; providing

8   for codification; providing an effective date; and

    declaring an emergency.

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11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:

12  SECTION 1.      NEW LAW  A new section of law to be codified

13 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 3218.7-2 of Title 70, unless

14 there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:

15  Within The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, no tuition

16 or fees shall be charged to any person who has been honorably

17 discharged from active service in any branch of the Armed Forces of

18 the United States or Oklahoma National Guard and who has been

19 certified by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, or

20 its successor, to have a one-hundred-percent (100%) permanent

21 disability sustained through military action or accident or

22 resulting from disease contracted while in such active service.

23  SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2026.

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1   SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation

2 of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby

3 declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and

4 be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

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