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 APPRECIATIONINJURED VETERANS GRANT 2 17 PROGRAM 2 18 For implementation of a newveterans appreciation2 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 providinghardshipgrants 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 2 46 2 47 2 48 2 49 ROBERT E. DVORSKY, CO=CHAIRPERSON 2 50 SF 2312.702 81 3 1 ec/gg/4192 -1-