Bill Text: WV HB2427 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Paying a monthly allotment to certain veterans
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-15 - To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security [HB2427 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2019-HB2427-Introduced.html
WEST
virginia legislature
2019 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2427
By Delegates Caputo, Longstreth, Pyles, Angelucci, Boggs, Miller, Campbell, Sponaugle, Hartman, Miley and Swartzmiller
[Introduced January 15, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and Homeland Security then Finance.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia.1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §9A-1-10a, relating to paying a monthly allotment to certain veterans.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 1. Department of veterans’ assistance.
§9A-1-10a. Monthly allotment to certain veterans.
(a) The secretary shall establish a program that pays a monthly allotment check of $150 to all veterans who have been honorably discharged, who are 65 years of age or older, who served on active duty during a period of war, and who are not currently receiving a Federal Veterans Administration check for disability or retirement.
(b) For those veterans who are 66 years or older when the program begins, they shall receive a lump sum check in the amount of a year’s worth of benefits for every year they are over the age of 65.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide for the establishment of a program to pay a monthly allotment check to certain veterans.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
