HOUSE FILE 2265

BY  COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS

(SUCCESSOR TO HSB 550)

A BILL FOR

An Act authorizing certain expenditures of funds from the veterans affairs training program account.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 35A.16, subsection 4, Code 2011, is amended to read as follows:
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  a.  A county commission of veteran affairs training program account shall be established within the county commissions of veteran affairs fund. Any moneys remaining in the fund after the allocations under subsection 3 shall be credited to the account and used by the department to fund the county commission of veteran affairs training program under section 35A.17.
   b.  If moneys appropriated to the commission pursuant to section 35A.13, subsection 4, are insufficient to pay the expenditures authorized under section 35A.13, subsection 6, the executive director, as directed by the commission, may use any moneys remaining in the county commission of veterans affairs training account to pay for such expenditures.
EXPLANATION
   This bill authorizes certain expenditures of funds from the veterans affairs training program account.
   The bill allows the executive director of the department of veterans affairs, at the direction of the commission of veterans affairs, to use moneys remaining in the veterans affairs training program account to pay for certain veterans expenditures authorized from the veterans trust fund if there are insufficient moneys in the veterans trust fund to pay for those expenditures.
   Expenses authorized pursuant to Code section 35A.13, subsection 6, include certain travel expenses, job training or college tuition assistance expenses, unemployment assistance, expenses related to the purchase of durable medical equipment or services to allow veterans to remain in their homes, expenses related to hearing care, dental care, vision care, or prescription drugs, individual counseling or family counseling programs, family support group programs or programs for children of members of the military, honor guard services, expenses related to ambulance and emergency room services for certain veterans, emergency expenses related to vehicle repair, housing repair, or temporary housing assistance, expenses related to establishing whether a minor child is a dependent of a deceased veteran, and certain matching funds.