HF 2166

as introduced - 83rd Legislature (2003 - 2004) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

  1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to veterans; transferring responsibility for 
  1.3             the veterans training program and general 
  1.4             responsibility for veterans educational benefits to 
  1.5             the commissioner of veterans affairs; appropriating 
  1.6             money; amending Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, 
  1.7             section 197.78, subdivision 1; proposing coding for 
  1.8             new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 197; repealing 
  1.9             Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 124D.97. 
  1.10  BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.11     Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 2003 Supplement, section 
  1.12  197.78, subdivision 1, is amended to read: 
  1.13     Subdivision 1.  The commissioner of education veterans 
  1.14  affairs shall foster and support educational programs for the 
  1.15  benefit of veterans to assure that no Minnesotan shall be 
  1.16  deprived of earned veterans benefits by virtue of the 
  1.17  unavailability of programs for which the veteran is entitled to 
  1.18  enroll and receive subsistence, tuition, and other benefits 
  1.19  under federal programs.  It shall be the responsibility of the 
  1.20  commissioner to measure the demand for veterans service 
  1.21  educational programs based on the criteria mandated by federal 
  1.22  veterans benefits laws and to authorize, promote, and make 
  1.23  grants within appropriated amounts to assure such program 
  1.24  availability. 
  1.25     Sec. 2.  [197.781] [VETERANS TRAINING PROGRAM.] 
  1.26     The commissioner of veterans affairs shall administer the 
  1.27  veterans training program.  Money in the veterans training 
  2.1   revolving fund for the veterans training program is appropriated 
  2.2   to the commissioner to pay the necessary expenses of operating 
  2.3   the program.  The department must act as the state agency for 
  2.4   approving educational institutions for purposes of United States 
  2.5   Code, title 38, chapter 36, relating to educational benefits for 
  2.6   veterans and other persons and it may adopt rules to fulfill its 
  2.7   obligations as the state approving agency.  All federal money 
  2.8   received for purposes of the veterans training program must be 
  2.9   deposited in the veterans training revolving fund. 
  2.10     Sec. 3.  [REPEALER.] 
  2.11     Minnesota Statutes 2002, section 124D.97, is repealed. 
  2.12     Sec. 4.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.13     This act is effective July 1, 2004.