CONTINUATION OF ENROLLMENT IN SCHOOLS OF THE DEFENSE DEPENDENTS’ EDUCATION SYSTEM FOR DEPENDENTS OF MEMBERS INVOLUNTARILY SEPARATED

SEC. 504. CONTINUATION OF ENROLLMENT IN SCHOOLS OF THE DEFENSE DEPENDENTS’ EDUCATION SYSTEM FOR DEPENDENTS OF MEMBERS INVOLUNTARILY SEPARATED (a) Continuation of Enrollment.— Section 1407 of the Defense Dependents’ Education Act of 1978 (20 U.S.C. 926) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection: “(c) Continuation of Enrollment for Certain Dependents of Members of the Armed Forces Involuntarily Separated.— (1) A member of the Armed Forces serving on active duty on September 30, 1990, who is involuntarily separated during the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1990, and who has a dependent described in paragraph (2) who is enrolled in a school of the defense dependents’ education system (or a school for which tuition is provided under subsection (b)) on the date of that separation shall be eligible to enroll or continue the enrollment of that dependent at that school (or another school serving the same community) for the final year of secondary education of that dependent in the same manner as if the member were still on active duty. “(2) A dependent referred to in paragraph (1) is a dependent who on the date of the separation of the member has completed the eleventh grade and is likely to complete secondary education within the one-year period beginning on that date.”. (b) Involuntarily Separated Defined.— Section 1414 of that Act (20 U.S.C. 932) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(5) The term ‘involuntarily separated’ has the meaning given that term in section 1141 of title 10, United States Code.”.