S37 - Waive Tuition/Fallen Officer Was Guardian (SL 2015-296)

Overview: S.L. 2015-296 requires campuses of The University of North Carolina, and North Carolina community colleges to waive tuition for children whose legal guardians and legal custodians are law enforcement officers, firefighters, volunteer firefighters, or rescue squad workers who are killed as a direct result of traumatic injury sustained in the line of duty or are permanently and totally disabled as a direct result of a traumatic injury sustained in the line of duty. The act also clarifies that the guardianship and custodian relationships must be verified by an order from a court proceeding.

This act became effective October 30, 2015, and applies beginning with the 2016 spring academic semester.