Bill > A2559

Introduced Session

This bill would increase the annual payments by the State to veterans with certain wartime service-connected disabilities to $1,800. Currently, a blind veteran receives $750 annually under the Blind Veterans' Allowance Program. This amount has not been changed since 1971. A veteran with certain other disabilities also receives $750 annually under the Paraplegic and Hemiplegic Veterans' Allowance Program. This amount has not been changed since 1981. This bill would increase the annual payments to $1,800.

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Daniel Benson (D)*,  BettyLou DeCroce (R)*,  Anthony Verrelli (D)*,  Herbert Conaway (D),  Serena DiMaso (R),  JoAnn Downey (D),  Roy Freiman (D),  DiAnne Gove (R),  Eric Houghtaling (D),  Angelica Jimenez (D),  Robert Karabinchak (D),  Pam Lampitt (D),  Yvonne Lopez (D),  Angela Mcknight (D),  Pedro Mejia (D),  Bill Moen (D),  Gabriela Mosquera (D),  Carol Murphy (D),  Annette Quijano (D),  Verlina Reynolds-Jackson (D),  Kevin Rooney (R),  Parker Space (R),  Shanique Speight (D),  Sterley Stanley (D),  Lisa Swain (D),  Cleopatra Tucker (D),  Chris Tully (D),  Valerie Vainieri Huttle (D),  Harold Wirths (R), 

Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee (on 01/04/2022)

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