Bill Text: WV SB385 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishing program to pay monthly allotment to certain veterans
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-12 - To Military [SB385 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-SB385-Introduced.html
FISCAL NOTE
2024 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 385
By Senator Caputo
[Introduced January 12, 2024; referred
to the Committee on Military; and then to the Committee on 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.
