SB3036

Report Title:

Office of Veterans Services; Outreach Counseling

 

Description:

Makes an appropriation for increased veteran outreach counseling.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	3036
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

making an appropriation for the office of veteran services.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that there are many veterans in Hawaii who are entitled to services but do not know it. With an increased capacity for outreach counseling, the office of veterans services could identify such eligible veterans, integrate them into the service delivery system, and bring tens of millions of dollars of additional federal funding into the State.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funding that would enable the office of veteran's services to contract for enhanced outreach counseling services for veterans on the islands of Maui and Hawaii.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ , or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2002-2003, to contract to provide outreach counseling to veterans by providing them with information on veteran's services.

SECTION 3. The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of defense for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2002.

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