House Study Bill 550 - Introduced HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS BILL BY CHAIRPERSON CHAMBERS) A BILL FOR An Act authorizing certain expenditures of funds from the 1 veterans affairs training program account. 2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 3 TLSB 5542YC (3) 84 aw/rj

H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 35A.16, subsection 4, Code 2011, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 4. a. A county commission of veteran affairs training 3 program account shall be established within the county 4 commissions of veteran affairs fund. Any moneys remaining in 5 the fund after the allocations under subsection 3 shall be 6 credited to the account and used by the department to fund the 7 county commission of veteran affairs training program under 8 section 35A.17 . 9 b. If moneys appropriated to the commission pursuant to 10 section 35A.13, subsection 4, are insufficient to pay the 11 expenditures authorized under section 35A.13, subsection 6, the 12 executive director, as directed by the commission, may use any 13 moneys remaining in the county commission of veterans affairs 14 training account to pay for such expenditures. 15 EXPLANATION 16 This bill authorizes certain expenditures of funds from the 17 veterans affairs training program account. 18 The bill allows the executive director of the department 19 of veterans affairs, at the direction of the commission of 20 veterans affairs, to use moneys remaining in the veterans 21 affairs training program account to pay for certain veterans 22 expenditures authorized from the veterans trust fund if there 23 are insufficient moneys in the veterans trust fund to pay for 24 those expenditures. 25 Expenses authorized pursuant to Code section 35A.13, 26 subsection 6, include certain travel expenses, job training or 27 college tuition assistance expenses, unemployment assistance, 28 expenses related to the purchase of durable medical equipment 29 or services to allow veterans to remain in their homes, 30 expenses related to hearing care, dental care, vision care, or 31 prescription drugs, individual counseling or family counseling 32 programs, family support group programs or programs for 33 children of members of the military, honor guard services, 34 expenses related to ambulance and emergency room services for 35 -1- LSB 5542YC (3) 84 aw/rj 1/ 2

H.F. _____ certain veterans, emergency expenses related to vehicle repair, 1 housing repair, or temporary housing assistance, expenses 2 related to establishing whether a minor child is a dependent of 3 a deceased veteran, and certain matching funds. 4 -2- LSB 5542YC (3) 84 aw/rj 2/ 2