63rd Legislative Assembly - 2013

Interment at Veterans’ Cemetery Eligibility

• 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

ND National Guard-Emergency Management

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

DAV Plates

• 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)

Child Custody

• 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

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