S-3003

   Amend Senate File 93 as follows:
   1.  Page 1, after line 23 by inserting: 
   <Sec. ___.  Section 35B.6, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  The members of the commission shall qualify by taking the usual oath of office. The commission shall organize by selecting one of the commission members as chairperson and one as secretary. The commission, subject to the annual approval of the board of supervisors, shall employ an executive director or administrator who shall have the power to employ other necessary employees to carry out the provisions of this chapter, including administrative or clerical assistants, but no member of the commission shall be so employed. The state department of veterans affairs shall recognize the executive director or administrator as a county veterans service officer of a veterans’ service organization recognized pursuant to 38 C.F.R. §14.628(c) for the purposes of assisting veterans and their dependents in obtaining federal and state benefits. The commission shall recommend the compensation of the executive director or administrator and all employees of the county veteran affairs office to the board of supervisors. The board of supervisors shall consider the recommendation and shall determine and approve the compensation of the executive director or administrator and all employees of the county veteran affairs office. The executive director must possess the same qualifications as provided in section 35B.3 for commission members shall be a veteran as defined in section 35.1. However, this qualification requirement shall not apply to a person employed as an executive director prior to July 1, 1989.>
   2.  Title page, line 1, by striking <on> and inserting <as a commissioner or an executive director for>
   3.  By renumbering as necessary.

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COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS

JEFF REICHMAN, CHAIRPERSON