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Bill to create Disabled Veterans Assistance Fund receives bipartisan support; program would fund home accessibility grants
Summary
House Bill 3,627 would establish a Disabled Veterans Assistance Fund to provide grants for accessibility modifications at residences owned by disabled veterans or immediate family members; bill sponsors and witnesses described a $2 million seed, an 80% area median income eligibility threshold and coordination with county veteran service officers.
Representative Rick Lewis told the House Committee on Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans on March 11 that House Bill 3,627 would establish a Disabled Veterans Assistance Fund in the state treasury to provide grants for accessibility resources at residences owned by disabled veterans or by family members with whom the veteran lives.
"The bill is bipartisan, bicameral," Representative Lewis said. He told members the fund would begin with $2,000,000 in the bill as introduced and that the Department of…
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