1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to the military; providing reimbursement
1.3 	grants or pay for certain honor guard members;
1.4 	appropriating money; proposing coding for new law in
1.5 	Minnesota Statutes, chapters 192; 197.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. [192.382] HONOR GUARDS.
1.8 	Upon the death of any person who has honorably served six
1.9 	or more years or is in active service in the Minnesota National
1.10 	Guard, the adjutant general may activate members to serve as an
1.11 	honor guard at the funeral.  Members activated for service as
1.12 	honor guards must be paid at the rate provided in section
1.13 	192.49, subdivision 1 or 2.

1.14 	Sec. 2. [197.231] HONOR GUARDS.
1.15 	The commissioner of veterans affairs shall pay, within
1.16 	available funds and upon request by a local unit of a
1.17 	congressionally chartered veterans organization or its
1.18 	auxiliary, up to $50 to the local unit for each time that local
1.19 	unit provides an honor guard detail at the funeral of a deceased
1.20 	veteran.

1.21 	Sec. 3. APPROPRIATION.
 1.22 	$....... is appropriated from the general fund to the
1.23 	adjutant general for purposes of section 1 and $....... is
1.24 	appropriated from the general fund to the commissioner of
1.25 	veterans affairs for the purposes of section 2.  These
2.1 	appropriations are available until June 30, 2007.

2.2 	Sec. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.
 2.3 	Sections 1 to 3 are effective July 1, 2005.