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Committee directs staff to draft change to indigent-veterans burial statute to remove wartime limitation
Summary
Lawmakers asked staff to draft statutory language removing a wartime-or-conflict limitation from state statute governing indigent-veteran burial reimbursement and directed follow-up with Department of Family Services on funding mechanics.
The committee directed staff to draft statutory language that would remove the phrase limiting burial reimbursement to veterans who served “in time of war or conflict,” making the provision apply to indigent veterans more broadly.
Tim Shepherd, executive director of the Wyoming Veterans Commission, told the committee he found a drafting anomaly: the current statutory language…
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