Minnesota Session Laws - 1993, Regular Session

  
    Laws of Minnesota 1993 

                        CHAPTER 103-S.F.No. 1006 
           An act relating to veterans; authorizing the veterans 
          homes board to define residency by board rule; 
          amending Minnesota Statutes 1992, section 198.022. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1992, section 198.022, is 
amended to read: 
    198.022 [ELIGIBILITY OF SPOUSES AND SURVIVING SPOUSES.] 
    The board is authorized to admit eligible spouses of those 
veterans who are or if living would be, eligible for admission 
to the homes.  
    (1) Except as provided in section 198.03, all applicants 
for admission to one of the Minnesota veterans homes must be 
without adequate means of support and unable by reason of 
wounds, disease, old age, or infirmity to properly maintain 
themselves.  
    (2) Veterans must have served in a Minnesota regiment or 
have been credited to the state of Minnesota, or have been a 
resident of the state in accordance with board rules preceding 
the date of application for admission.  
    (3) Spouses and surviving spouses of eligible veterans must 
be at least 55 years of age, have been residents of the state of 
Minnesota in accordance with board rules preceding the date of 
application for admission, and meet the criteria for admission 
to a home established in the rules of the home in accordance 
with this chapter and the applicable statutes and rules of the 
department of health. 
    Presented to the governor May 6, 1993 
    Signed by the governor May 7, 1993, 2:51 p.m.