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SB 2007 - BUDGET - Department of Veterans Affairs - 2013

Veterans Affairs: Adds one FTE
Veterans Affairs: $15,000 for website improvements
Veterans Home funding: Demolish old veterans home $1,121,000
Veterans Home Approved: Hold over Veterans Home construction funds into next biennium to complete all billings
Veterans Home Approved: Carry over funding for Electronic Health record system into next biennium
Veterans Home Approved: Authorization of Melvin Norgard funds for construction of a workshop $788,200
Reduced Veterans Home operating budget by $50,000

Protects National Guard members from employer discrimination when involuntarily activated for State Active Duty emergencies for more than twenty regular working days in a calendar year. Under NDCC 37-29-03
Fiscal note: $0

Add: "a child who is without any sibling and who survives the veteran" to eligibility for internment at ND State Veterans Cemetary
Fiscal note: $350,000. Federal VA Cemetery Grants

Allows local emergency management organizations to enter into interstate mutual aid agreements with nearby political subdivisions.

Allows 100% disabled Veterans with DAV plates to park in handicapped parking without additional handicapped parking tab
Fiscal note: $0
NDCC 39-01-15 (1&2)

Addresses visitation rights of family members of children whose parent is deployed
Addresses military deployments when considering child custody
Addresses temporary child custody while custodial parent is deployed
Includes Redeploying and Redeployment
Fiscal note: $0
DSLO KEY ISSUES 2015

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

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

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