No grants shall be payable to any person under this subpart who fails to meet any of the following qualifications or restrictions:

(1) Such person shall be the child, either natural or adopted, or the spouse of a law enforcement officer, firefighter, prison guard, emergency medical technician, or highway emergency response operator who has been permanently disabled or killed in the line of duty or while performing the duties to which he or she was assigned. If such person is the adopted child of any such law enforcement officer, firefighter, prison guard, emergency medical technician, or highway emergency response operator, such person shall have been adopted and any final order of adoption issued prior to the date of the accident or event causing the death or permanent disability of such parent;

(2) Such person shall have been a citizen of this state for a period of at least 12 months immediately prior to the date of registration in an approved school and shall remain a citizen of this state while receiving funds under this subpart;

(3) The parent or spouse of such person shall have been employed, appointed, or regularly enrolled by this state or any county, municipality, department, board, bureau, branch, agency, commission, authority, or political subdivision of the state on the date of the accident or event from which death or permanent disability resulted; and

(4) Any person otherwise meeting the conditions of this subpart shall be eligible to receive a grant even though the accident or the event causing the death or disability of such person’s parent or spouse occurred prior to July 1, 2025.