House File 2364 - Introduced HOUSE FILE 2364 BY COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 640) A BILL FOR An Act requiring that a veteran be seriously injured or very 1 seriously injured in order to be eligible to receive a grant 2 under the injured veterans grant program. 3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 4 TLSB 6058HV (1) 84 aw/nh

H.F. 2364 Section 1. Section 35A.14, subsection 4, Code Supplement 1 2011, is amended to read as follows: 2 4. Moneys appropriated to or received by the department for 3 providing injured veterans grants under this section may be 4 expended for grants of up to ten thousand dollars to a veteran 5 who is seriously injured veteran or very seriously injured, as 6 defined in the most recently published United States department 7 of defense joint publication 1-02, to provide financial 8 assistance to the veteran so that family members of the veteran 9 may be with the veteran during the veteran’s recovery from an 10 injury received in the line of duty in a combat zone or in a 11 zone where the veteran was receiving hazardous duty pay after 12 September 11, 2001. 13 EXPLANATION 14 This bill requires that a veteran be seriously injured 15 or very seriously injured in order to be eligible to receive 16 a grant under the injured veterans grant program. The bill 17 provides that the terms “seriously injured” and “very seriously 18 injured” shall be as defined in the most recently published 19 United States department of defense joint publication 1-02. 20 The United States department of defense joint publication 21 1-02, as published on January 15, 2012, defines “seriously 22 injured” as the casualty status of a person whose injury is 23 classified by medical authority to be of such severity that 24 there is cause for immediate concern, but there is not imminent 25 danger to life. The joint publication defines “very seriously 26 injured” as the casualty status of a person whose injury is 27 classified by medical authority to be of such severity that 28 life is imminently endangered. 29 -1- LSB 6058HV (1) 84 aw/nh 1/ 1