Gov. Jim Doyle is expected to sign a law that would waive tuition at state public universities for children of Wisconsin soldiers killed while on duty and eliminate the property tax burden for their widowed spouses. The proposals are part of a larger package that contains some benefits that also would apply to disabled veterans and their spouses.
One provision would have the state pay half the tuition at state public universities and colleges for all the state’s 497,000 military veterans.