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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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