A bill to extend a program that awards high school diplomas to veterans whose educations were interrupted because they were drafted during World War II, the Korean War or the Vietnam War was signed into law by Gov. David Ige on Friday.

The law also authorizes the state Department of Education to continue awarding diplomas to people whose high school educations were interrupted because they were confined in wartime internment camps.

The state Department of Education so far has awarded 26 high school diplomas under the program, including 25 to military veterans and another to Sarah Yomogi Sato, a McKinley High School student who was relocated with her family from Hawaii to internment camps in Arkansas and California.

The program of issuing diplomas was scheduled to end on June 30, but Senate Bill 181 signed by Ige will extend the program until 2020.

Ige said before signing the bill that he hopes that by then "hopefully we can contact or identify as many (as possible) who may have been interrupted so we can provide some completion" for veterans and people who were confined in camps.