Law/Policy Change

Veterans Preference

• Provides protection for private employers who establish a veterans preference hiring program
• Employer not held liable from lawsuits by protected classes (Age, national origin, etc.)
• Fiscal note: $0

Veterans Preference

• Adds "administrator" to list of exemptions from Veterans Preference laws
• Add definition of administrator which adds: assistant or associate school district superintendent, school principal, special education director, director of a multidistrict special education unit, career and technical education director, director of area career and technology center, athletic or activity director.
• Fiscal note: $0

Book of ND Veterans

• The Adjutant General shall initiate and coordinate the writing, publishing, and distribution of a record of all North Dakota Veterans, including a record of all North Dakotans killed in action and missing in action since statehood. The Adjutant General shall determine the projected costs for the completion of the writing, publishing, and distribution of the records and present those projections to the legislative management.
• Appropriations: $0
• Fiscal note: $0

Hunting License for 100% Disabled

• Added: Definition of a "Disabled Veteran"
• Added: For a resident disabled veteran combined general game, habitat stamp, small game, and fur-bearer license $3
• Fiscal note: $10,080. Not general fund dollars.
• NDCC: 20.1-01-02 (15)    20.1-03-12 (54)

Property Tax Exemption while on Active Duty

• Reduce taxable valuation of homestead for each day on Federal active duty divided by total number of days in a year (365). Full year would equal 100% reduction.
• On first $4,500 of taxable value of homestead.
• Spouses living together may only apply for 1 exemption
• Service members living together and not married can apply for full exemption based on the percentage of ownership in the homestead.
• Fiscal note: No amount provided.

Caskets for Veterans

Origination of Bill: Senator Marcellais, Richard

• Provide military casket at no cost to veterans interred in ND
• Type of casket to be approved by Adjutant General
• Appropriations: $2,800,000

Bill re-introduced in 2015 SB 2238

Indian Veteran Representative

• ND Department of Veterans Affairs to provide an Indian Veteran representative in the ND county with the most registered Indian Veterans
• Appropriations: $25,000

Property Tax Exemption

• Change disabled veterans homestead taxable valuation limit from $5,400 to $6,750
• Fiscal note: $477,000

Appropriation for Transfer to Veterans' Postwar Trust Fund

Origination of bill: Commissioner, ACOVA, NDVCC

• Appropriated $210,000 to the Department of Veterans Affairs to be used in lieu of income generated from the veterans' postwar trust fund for programs authorized by law to benefit and serve veterans or their dependents.
• Appropriated $50,000 to the Department of Veterans Affairs for purchasing vans for the transport of veterans or their dependents. General fund dollars.
• Begins July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2013

Criminal History Record Checks

A BILL for an Act to create and enact a new subdivision to subsection 2 of section 12-60-24 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to criminal history record checks for the office of the adjutant general; and to declare an emergency.