H-8016

   Amend House File 2084 as follows:
   1.  Page 6, after line 31 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 35D.1, subsection 1, Code 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  The Iowa veterans home, located in Marshalltown, shall be maintained as a long-term health care facility providing nursing and residential levels of care for honorably discharged veterans and their dependent spouses, surviving spouses of honorably discharged veterans, and gold star parents. Eligibility requirements for admission to the Iowa veterans home shall coincide with the eligibility requirements for care and treatment in a United States department of veterans affairs facility pursuant to 38 U.S.C. § 1710, and regulations promulgated under that section, as amended. For the purposes of this subsection, “gold star parent” means a parent of a deceased member of the United States armed forces who died while serving on active performing military duty during a time of military conflict, as defined in section 29A.1, subsection 3, 8, or 12, or who died as a result of such service.>
   2.  Page 7, after line 6 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 321.34, subsection 24, Code 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   24.  Gold star plates.  An owner referred to in subsection 12 who is the surviving spouse, parent, child, or sibling of a deceased member of the United States armed forces who died while serving on active performing military duty during a time of military conflict, as defined in section 29A.1, subsection 3, 8, or 12, or who died as a result of such service may order special registration plates bearing a gold star emblem upon written application to the department accompanied by satisfactory supporting documentation as determined by the department. The gold star emblem shall be designed by the department in cooperation with the commission of veterans affairs. The special plate fees collected by the director under subsection 12, paragraphs “a” and “c”, from the issuance and annual validation of letter-number designated and personalized gold star plates shall be paid monthly to the treasurer of state and deposited in the road use tax fund. The treasurer of state shall transfer monthly from the statutory allocations fund created under section 321.145, subsection 2, to the veterans license fee fund created in section 35A.11 the amount of the special fees collected under subsection 12, paragraph “a”, in the previous month for gold star plates.>
   3.  Title page, line 1, after <to> by inserting <veterans, including provisions for gold star parents and the duties and administration of the>
   4.  By renumbering as necessary.

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