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<meta><dc:title>Public Law 118–7: To modify the age requirement for the Student Incentive Payment Program of the State maritime academies.</dc:title>
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<citableAs>Public Law 118–7</citableAs><citableAs>137 Stat. 52</citableAs>
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<dc:date>2023-06-30</dc:date>
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<preface><centerRunningHead>PUBLIC LAW 118–7—JUNE 30, 2023</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/137/52">137 STAT. 52</page>
<dc:type>Public Law</dc:type><docNumber>118–7</docNumber>
<congress value="118">118th Congress</congress>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize12" style="-uslm-lc:I658005">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I658011">To modify the age requirement for the Student Incentive Payment Program of the State maritime academies.<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8" id="x79aa353e-e80a-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658076"><approvedDate date="2023-06-30">June 30, 2023</approvedDate></p><p class="centered fontsize8" id="x79aa353f-e80a-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658076">[<ref href="/us/bill/118/s/467">S. 467</ref>]<?GPOvSpace 08?></p></sidenote></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="x79aa5b50-e80a-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Changing Age-Determined Eligibility To Student Incentive Payments Act.</p></sidenote>
<section id="d2791e88" identifier="/us/pl/118/7/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I658146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="x79aa5b51-e80a-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658180"><ref href="/us/usc/t46/s101">46 USC 101 note</ref>.</p></sidenote><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Changing Age-Determined Eligibility To Student Incentive Payments Act</shortTitle>” or the “<shortTitle role="act">CADETS Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d2791e106" identifier="/us/pl/118/7/s2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I658141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>AGE REQUIREMENT FOR THE STUDENT INCENTIVE PAYMENT PROGRAM OF THE STATE MARITIME ACADEMIES.</heading><content class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="x79aa8262-e80a-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  <ref href="/us/usc/t46/s51509">Section 51509 of title 46, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><clause class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y79aa8263-e80a-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="i">“(i) </num><heading class="fontsize10"><inline class="smallCaps">Age Requirement</inline>.—</heading><content>The Secretary may make an agreement under this section only with a qualified student who will meet the age requirement for enlistment or commission in the Navy Reserve at the time of graduation from the academy.”</content></clause>
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<actionDescription style="-uslm-lc:I658030">Approved</actionDescription> <date date="2023-06-30">June 30, 2023</date>.</action>
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658031"><inline class="underline">LEGISLATIVE HISTORY</inline>—<ref href="/us/bill/118/s/467">S. 467</ref>:</heading>
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<headingText style="-uslm-lc:I658032">SENATE REPORTS:</headingText> ┐No. <ref href="/us/srpt/118/22">118–22</ref> (<committee>Comm. on Commerce, Science, and                     Transportation</committee>).
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658032">CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 169 (2023):</heading>
<p class="indentUp4 firstIndent-1" id="x79aaa974-e80a-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658035">May 16, considered and passed Senate.</p><p class="indentUp4 firstIndent-1" id="x79aaa975-e80a-11f0-a1e4-69761a48a15a" style="-uslm-lc:I658035">June 12, 14, considered and passed House.</p></note>
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