Educational benefits for Korean War veterans

Section 1 amends Sections 2 and 3 of Republic Act No. 65, as amended by Republic Act No. 1362, to extend educational benefits to veterans of the Korean War.
Section 2 authorizes an initial budget appropriation to implement the amended educational benefits.

Section 2 extends the educational benefits to officers and enlisted men in good standing of the Philippine Army and of any recognized or deserving guerrilla organizations who took active participation in the resistance movement and/or the liberation drive against the enemy.
Section 2 also extends the benefits to those who honorably served with the Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (PEFTOK).
Section 2 limits coverage to beneficiaries who have neither heretofore enjoyed educational benefits under this Act nor under United States laws.
Section 2 provides that the benefits may be availed by a veteran who desires to study, or one child of a veteran in whose favor he renounces such right, or the widow or child of a deceased veteran in whose favor the right is applied for the surviving widow or legal guardian.

Section 2 requires admission of qualified beneficiaries to any school, college, university, or institution authorized by the government.
Section 2 makes attendance free from all school fees, expressly including tuition, matriculation, athletic, library, laboratory, medical, ROTC, diploma, and graduation fees.

Section 2 provides that if the widow remarries, she loses the benefits granted her under this section.
Section 2 requires the Philippine Veterans Board to decide which children enjoy the benefits when the veteran contracted two or more marriages and there are children in any or all of those marriages.
Section 2 also requires the Philippine Veterans Board to decide who of the children shall enjoy the benefits when the veteran and his wife died before the enactment of this law.
Section 2 fixes the benefit duration based on the veteran’s war-time service:
- Between December 8, 1941 and December 2, 1945, and between September 15, 1950 and May 31, 1955 for non-PEFTOK veterans.
- For PEFTOK veterans, it uses the period September 15, 1950 to May 31, 1955, plus one year.
- In no case is the duration less than two school years.
Section 2 provides that the benefit period is defined as four quarters or two semesters and one summer.
Section 2 allows the Philippine Veterans Board to in its discretion allow a veteran to finish his course if, after utilizing the covered period, he has not yet finished the course he is taking, depending on his scholastic standing.
Section 2 provides that a veteran is considered not to be using the allocation of school years when he is enrolled only in the elementary grades or in the high school.

Section 2 provides that educational benefits may be utilized for review courses such as the pre-bar, pre-board, and the CPA reviews.
Section 2 authorizes the Board, in its discretion and for plausible reasons, to allow a veteran to change the course he originally applied for or is actually taking.

Section 2 provides that no private school, college, or institute can be compelled to accept a number of students exceeding 25% of its entire enrollment.

Section 3 provides that the educational benefits under the amended Section 2 are available only to those who signify their desire to study to the Chairman of the Philippine Veterans Board.
The required notice must be made not later than one year after the approval of the amendatory Act (June 22, 1957).

Section 2 authorizes the appropriation of PHP 1,800,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from any funds in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the Act initially following approval.
Section 2 provides that sums needed thereafter must be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

Section 3 provides that the Act takes effect upon its approval (June 22, 1957).