           CHAPTER 25A--OVERSEAS DEFENSE DEPENDENTS' EDUCATION
 
Sec. 926. School system for dependents in overseas areas


(a) Establishment and operation

    The Secretary of Defense shall establish and operate a school system 
for dependents in overseas areas as part of the defense dependents' 
education system.

(b) Tuition and assistance when schools unavailable

    (1) Under such circumstances as the Secretary of Defense may 
prescribe in regulations, the Secretary may provide tuition to allow 
dependents in an overseas area where a school operated by the Secretary 
is not reasonably available to attend schools other than schools 
established under subsection (a) of this section on a tuition-free 
basis. Any school to which tuition is paid under this subsection to 
allow a dependent in an overseas area to attend such school shall 
provide an educational program satisfactory to the Secretary.
    (2)(A) The Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Transportation 
with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service of 
the Navy, may provide financial assistance to sponsors of dependents in 
overseas areas where schools operated by the Secretary of Defense under 
subsection (a) of this section are not reasonably available in order to 
assist the sponsors to defray the costs incurred by the sponsors for the 
attendance of the dependents at schools in such areas other than schools 
operated by the Secretary of Defense.
    (B) The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Transportation 
shall each prescribe regulations relating to the availability of 
financial assistance under subparagraph (A). Such regulations shall, to 
the maximum extent practicable, be consistent with Department of State 
regulations relating to the availability of financial assistance for the 
education of dependents of Department of State personnel overseas.

(c) Continuation of enrollment for certain dependents of members of 
        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 period beginning on 
October 1, 1990, and ending on December 31, 2001, 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) of this section) 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.

(Pub. L. 95-561, title XIV, Sec. 1407, Nov. 1, 1978, 92 Stat. 2367; Pub. 
L. 101-510, div. A, title V, Sec. 504(a), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1559; 
Pub. L. 103-160, div. A, title V, Sec. 561(n), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 
1668; Pub. L. 105-261, div. A, title V, Sec. 561(k), title VI, Sec. 657, 
Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2026, 2054; Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], 
title V, Sec. 571(k)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-135.)

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of section 1407 of Pub. L. 95-561. Subsec. (d), 
formerly subsec. (c), of section 1407 enacted section 429 of Title 37, 
Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services.


                               Amendments

    2000--Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 106-398 substituted ``December 31, 
2001'' for ``September 30, 2001''.
    1998--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105-261, Sec. 657, inserted heading, 
designated existing provisions as par. (1), substituted ``Under such 
circumstances as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe in regulations, 
the Secretary'' for ``Under such circumstances as he may by regulation 
prescribe, the Secretary of Defense'', and added par. (2).
    Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 105-261, Sec. 561(k), substituted ``during 
the period beginning on October 1, 1990, and ending on September 30, 
2001'' for ``during the nine-year period beginning on October 1, 1990''.
    1993--Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 103-160 substituted ``nine-year 
period'' for ``five-year period''.
    1990--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 101-510 added subsec. (c) and 
redesignated former subsec. (c) as (d). See Codification note above.
