There is established a Veterans Tuition Gap Program to serve qualifying military veterans with tuition assistance at institutions of higher education when:

(1)	federal benefits under the federal program have been exhausted or are not available; and

(a)	United States Code, Title 10, Chapter 1606, Educational Assistance for Members of the Selected Reserve;

(b)	United States Code, Title 38, Chapter 30, All-Volunteer Force Educational Assistance Program;

(c)	United States Code, Title 38, Chapter 31, Training and Rehabilitation for Veterans with Service-Connected Disabilities;

(d)	United States Code, Title 38, Chapter 32, Post-Vietnam Era Veterans' Educational Assistance; or

(e)	United States Code, Title 38, Chapter 33, Post-9/11 Educational Assistance. See Utah Code 53B-13b-102 Program: means the Veterans Tuition Gap Program created in this chapter. See Utah Code 53B-13b-102 Qualifying military veteran: means a veteran, as defined in Section 68-3-12. See Utah Code 53B-13b-102
(2)	a qualifying military veteran has not finished a bachelor’s degree and is in the final year of a bachelor’s degree program.

Amended by Chapter 143, 2017 General Session