Provide $20,000 to the Department of Veterans Affairs to assist in holding Stand Down events in communities around North Dakota. Provides maximum of $5,000 per event - must have matching funds.
This bill would...
March of each year is Women Veterans' Month. Each year the governor shall issue a proclamation on March first in honor and remembrance of surviving and departed women veterans who have served honorably and with courage on behalf of the United States of America since the American Revolutionary War.
Issue four any deer licenses annually to the wounded warrior project for distribution. A license issued under this subsection is valid from the opening of the youth deer season through the close of the deer season.
Provides a 40% tax credit for guard members if deployed.
Provides 24 hours of paid leave time for classified government employees to participate in honor guard for funerals.
Changes assistant to assistants and adds athletic team coaches as exempt to veteran preference laws in higher education.
SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Subsection 5 of section 37-19.1-02 of the North Dakota Century Code is amended and reenacted as follows:
Updates the Veterans Preference Laws. Combines the NDCC and the NDAC and separates the Competitive Personnel System and the Non-Competitive Personnel System to make it easier for employers and veterans to understand. Clarifies the appeals process.
Appropriations for ND DVA and Veterans Home Budgets.
Adds one time funding for discharge project and website for NDDVA.
A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact sections 37-28-02 and 37-28-03 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to the definition of foreign service and period of service and payment of adjusted compensation for domestic and foreign service; to amend and reenact section 6 of chapter 17 of the 2005 Session Laws, as amended by section 10 of chapter 42 of the 2007 Session Laws, relating to payment of adjusted compensation for veterans; and to declare an emergency.
