Under existing law, the wife, widow, or child of a veteran is entitled to scholarship benefits for postsecondary education based on certain conditions including service of the veteran during "wartime or extra hazardous conditions." The Department of Veterans' Affairs has in the past provided benefits to dependents of any veteran based on any service, but as of January 2011 began providing benefits only to dependents of veterans who served during certain designated conflict periods.
This bill would delete the requirement that the service of the veteran had to have been during wartime or extrahazardous conditions. The bill would also provide that the application of the change would be applied retroactively to January 2011.
Ison motion to Indefinitely Postpone adopted Voice Vote
Ison motion to Substitute SB85 FOR HB128 adopted Voice Vote
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 707
Military and Veterans Affairs first Substitute Offered
Third Reading Indefinitely Postponed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Military and Veterans Affairs
Source: Alabama Legislature