SB 2353 - EMPLOYMENT-Veterans Preference-Amend Definitions of Veteran, wartime, justifiable cause, appeals, expedition medal..... - 2007

Veterans Preference

A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact sections 37-01-40, 37-19.1-01, and 37-19.1-02 and subsection 1 of section 37-19.1-04 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to veterans and veterans' preferences.

• Amend Definition of veteran
  • Changed 24 months to 180 days.
  • Changed person to individual.
• Amend definition of “wartime veteran”.
  • Changed person to individual.
  • Changed “war” to “armed conflict”.
• Added to periods of service. 
  • “…or presidential proclamation beginning hostilities…”
  • Added periods of war dates
• Added requirement for NDDVA to maintain list of dates for “expeditionary medal”
• Added definition of “Justifiable cause”.
• Added definition of “personnel system”.
• Updated agencies using personnel system.
• Added to appeals section: action for employing agency if appeal in favor of veteran “…together with backpay and benefits from the date the appointment should have been made less amounts otherwise earnable through due diligence…”