Senate Amendment 5074
PAG LIN
1 1 Amend Senate File 2312 as follows:
1 2 #1. Page 1, lines 1 and 2, by striking the words
1 3 <VETERANS APPRECIATION PROGRAM == GRANTS> and
1 4 inserting the following: <INJURED VETERANS GRANT
1 5 PROGRAM>.
1 6 #2. Page 1, line 9, by striking the words <A
1 7 veterans appreciation program> and inserting the
1 8 following: <An injured veterans grant program>.
1 9 #3. Page 1, line 11, by striking the word
1 10 <hardship>.
1 11 #4. Page 1, line 11, by inserting after the word
1 12 <eligible> the following: <injured>.
1 13 #5. Page 1, line 13, by striking the words
1 14 <veterans appreciation> and inserting the following:
1 15 <injured veterans>.
1 16 #6. Page 1, line 14, by striking the words <one=
1 17 time hardship>.
1 18 #7. Page 1, by striking lines 15 and 16 and
1 19 inserting the following: <dollars to a seriously
1 20 injured veteran to provide financial assistance to the
1 21 veteran so that family members of the veteran may be
1 22 with the veteran during the veteran's recovery from an
1 23 injury received in the line of duty in a combat zone
1 24 or in a zone>.
1 25 #8. Page 1, line 19, by striking the word
1 26 <commission> and inserting the following:
1 27 <department>.
1 28 #9. Page 1, line 20, by striking the word
1 29 <hardship>.
1 30 #10. Page 1, line 20, by striking the word
1 31 <section.> and inserting the following: <section in
1 32 accordance with the following:
1 33 a. Grants shall be paid in increments of two
1 34 thousand five hundred dollars, up to a maximum of ten
1 35 thousand dollars upon proof that the veteran has been
1 36 evacuated from the operational theater in which the
1 37 veteran was injured to a military hospital for an
1 38 injury received in the line of duty and shall continue
1 39 to be paid, at thirty=day intervals, up to the maximum
1 40 amount, so long as the veteran is hospitalized or
1 41 receiving medical care or rehabilitation services
1 42 authorized by the military and the presence or
1 43 assistance of family members is necessary.
1 44 b. Proof of continued medical care or
1 45 rehabilitation services may include any reasonably
1 46 reliable documentation showing that the veteran is
1 47 receiving continued medical or rehabilitative care as
1 48 a result of qualifying injuries. Proof that the
1 49 injury occurred in the line of duty shall be made
1 50 based upon the circumstances of the injury known at
2 1 the time of evacuation from the combat zone or zone in
2 2 which the veteran was receiving hazardous duty pay.
2 3 c. Grants for veterans injured prior to the
2 4 effective date of this Act shall be payable, upon a
2 5 showing that the veteran would have been eligible for
2 6 payment had the injury occurred on or after the
2 7 effective date of this Act.>
2 8 #11. Page 1, lines 24 and 25, by striking the
2 9 words <veterans appreciation> and inserting the
2 10 following: <injured veterans grant>.
2 11 #12. Page 1, by inserting after line 25 the
2 12 following:
2 13 <Sec. . 2005 Iowa Acts, chapter 175, section 4,
2 14 subsection 3, as enacted by 2006 Iowa Acts, House File
2 15 2080, section 3, is amended to read as follows:
2 16 3. VETERANS APPRECIATION INJURED VETERANS GRANT
2 17 PROGRAM
2 18 For implementation of a new veterans appreciation
2 19 injured veterans grant program, contingent upon
2 20 enactment of law by the Eighty=first General Assembly,
2 21 2006 Session, codifying the new program requirements
2 22 in chapter 35A, for providing hardship grants to
2 23 military veterans seriously injured in a combat zone
2 24 since September 11, 2001:
2 25 .................................................. $ 1,000,000
2 26 If the general assembly enacts law codifying a new
2 27 fund or other requirements for the new program for
2 28 which the appropriation is made in this subsection,
2 29 then notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated
2 30 in this subsection that remain unencumbered or
2 31 unobligated at the close of the fiscal year shall not
2 32 revert but shall remain available for expenditure for
2 33 the purposes designated until the close of the
2 34 succeeding fiscal year. However, if the general
2 35 assembly does not enact such law, the appropriation
2 36 made in this subsection shall revert as provided in
2 37 section 8.33.>
2 38 #13. Title page, line 1, by striking the word
2 39 <hardship>.
2 40 #14. By renumbering as necessary.
2 41
2 42
2 43
2 44 COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
2 45 JEFF ANGELO, CO=CHAIRPERSON
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2 48
2 49 ROBERT E. DVORSKY, CO=CHAIRPERSON
2 50 SF 2312.702 81
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