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OH HB461
Bill
Status
5/19/2010
Primary Sponsor
Denise Driehaus
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AI Summary
HB 461 Summary
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Restructures the Ohio Veterans' Home Agency into the Department of Veterans Services, consolidating veterans' homes operations under departmental control rather than as a separate agency.
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Modifies Ohio National Guard Scholarship Program requirements, reducing minimum credit hour enrollment from 6 to 3 hours and extending eligibility for individuals called to active duty after September 11, 2001.
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Establishes the Commission for the Future of Local Veterans Posts in Ohio with 9 members to analyze economic status, tax/regulatory issues, and sustainability of local veterans posts and report recommendations by December 31, 2010.
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Grants high school diplomas to World War II, Korean Conflict, and Vietnam War veterans and women who left school to work or support families during those periods, if they received honorable discharge.
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Makes appropriations adjustments totaling approximately $29.7 million for school payments and reappropriates funds between education budget line items to meet American Recovery and Reinvestment Act requirements.
Legislative Description
And to amend Sections 265.50.55 and 409.10 of Am. Sub. H.B. 1 of the 128th General Assembly to make changes to the law regarding the Ohio Veterans' Home Agency, the Department of Veterans Services, the Ohio National Guard Scholarship Program, and other military-related laws, to establish the Commission for the Future of Local Veterans Posts in Ohio, to provide for adjustments to payments to schools, to provide for adjustments to payments for nonpublic schools, and to make an appropriation.
Veteran- and military-related laws-changes
Last Action
To Finance & Financial Institutions
5/20/2010