Bill > A3098

Introduced Session

This bill establishes a Military Funeral Honors Grant Program to provide grants to certain nonprofit organizations that provide military funeral honors. The Adjutant General of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs will establish a grant program to provide grants in an amount up to $75 to qualified veteran organizations to be used for the providing of military funeral honors in the State. Under the bill, "veteran organization" means a nonprofit veteran organization that provides military funeral honors in the State and qualifies as a section 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(19) federal tax-exempt organization. Under the bill, the department will develop procedures for the submission of grant applications and eligibility criteria for the awarding of grant funds. The grants will not exceed $75 per funeral. The department may decrease the amount of the grant for services performed at a second or subsequent funeral when a qualified veteran organization performs services at more than one funeral on the same day. To implement the grant program, there will be established and maintained a special revolving fund to be known as the "Military Funeral Honors Grant Fund." The fund will be credited with: moneys that the Legislature may appropriate; moneys received by the department as gifts, grants, or donations, including grants accepted by the Adjutant General pursuant to law; any return on investment of moneys deposited in the grant fund; fees collected, if any, from applicants; and other moneys made available for the purposes of the grant program. The department may charge a nominal fee in connection with applications for participation in the grant program as it deems reasonable. The department may claim from the grant fund an amount not to exceed five percent of the moneys annually appropriated to cover administrative expenses.

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Don Guardian (R)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Military and Veterans' Affairs Committee (on 01/09/2024)

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