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House approves expanded veterans package to boost services, tuition waivers and recruitment incentives
Summary
Members passed a multipart veterans package (presented as a —Connecticut Hero Act— package) that includes enlistment incentives, expanded eligibility for federal benefits, tuition/fee waivers, additional veteran service officers and a disabled‑veterans revolving loan fund; sponsors described it as a bipartisan care package for service members.
The House advanced a multi‑section veterans package assembled as part of the committee genda, a set of bills the committee described as a second phase of a Connecticut Hero Act. Representative Foster, sponsor and chair of the Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, described the measure as an amalgamation of bipartisan priorities and said the package "resuscitated this zombie bill and it is now alive and…
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