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HB 1080 - NATIONAL GUARD - Workforce Safety Insurance Coverage for NG Members while on State Active Duty - 2013

Adds definition of wages for ND members while on state active duty to include income from federal employment and may be included in determining the average weekly wage.
Fiscal note: $0.

Courts to take particular care to ensure child of military member called to active duty or may be called to active duty has maximum opportunity for contact with parent
Military members call to active duty service may not be a factor in court decisions to grant to deny a petition for visitation
Military member may petition for visitation rights for family member
Fiscal note: $0

Allow parent or guardian of a minor child or incapacitated person authority to delegate guardianship to another person for up to 24 months
Declared an emergency
Fiscal note: $0

Adds "Mandatory evacuation order to NDCC 37-17.1-10". Reads: "A local disaster, emergency or mandatory evacuation order may be declared" ...
Allows local executive officers of city or county to order mandatory evacuations

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

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

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

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.