The state benefits division shall: A. provide oversight of veterans' service organizations; B. develop or coordinate veterans' programs and outreach, including economic development; and C. determine eligibility for, conduct or oversee state-funded veterans' services and benefits, including determining eligibility for veteran property tax exemptions, hunting and fishing licensing and motor vehicle license plate programs; managing the Vietnam and children of deceased veterans scholarship programs; and overseeing the military honors burial program and state veterans' cemeteries, monuments and museums. History: Laws 2004, ch. 19, § 14; 2017, ch. 84, § 6. ANNOTATIONSThe 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, removed certain programs from the list of veterans' programs that are coordinated by the state benefits division under this section, and made technical changes; in Subsection B, after 'including', deleted 'transitional living, housing, healthcare and'; and in Subsection C, after 'overseeing the', deleted 'state funeral' and added 'military', and after 'honors', deleted 'and'.
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