Bill Text: MI HB5424 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Veterans; cemeteries; state veterans cemetery burial grant program; create, and provide eligibility standards for certain spouses and dependents of veterans. Creates new act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-18 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 01/17/2018 [HB5424 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB5424-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5424

 

 

January 17, 2018, Introduced by Rep. Kosowski and referred to the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs.

 

     A bill to create a grant program to provide no-cost or

 

reduced-cost burials in state veterans cemeteries for certain

 

spouses and dependents of veterans.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Department" means the department of military and veterans

 

affairs.

 

     (b) "State veterans cemetery" means a cemetery operated and

 

maintained by this state for the benefit of deceased eligible

 

veterans or eligible spouses and dependents.

 

     Sec. 2. The department shall create and operate a program to

 

grant no-cost or reduced-cost burials in a state veterans cemetery

to low-income spouses and dependents of veterans.

 

     Sec. 3. The department shall promulgate rules governing

 

eligibility and application for the grant program provided in

 

section 2.

 

     Enacting section 1. This act takes effect 90 days after the

 

date it is enacted into law.