Adams County's code gives an applicant for deputy sheriff or correctional officer with two years of active service and an honorable discharge five points on the Merit Commission's written test, and State law lets a recently discharged veteran ask to be tested before the next scheduled exam; county employees can also buy military service credit in the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund.
Veteran applying to the Sheriff or working for the county. Five points for two years of active service with an honorable discharge; early examination for a veteran discharged honorably or generally within 6 months. No rating is needed.
Adams County pays employees in the Guard, Reserve or armed forces full salary for four weeks of military leave a year, then tops up military pay to county salary for up to five years, and pays both shares of health premiums for the first twelve months of active duty. The Board rewrote the policy for July 2026.
Adams County employees called to military service. Regular county employees serving in the uniformed services. No rating is needed.
Undergraduate tuition, up to $400 a credit hour, plus up to $1,000 for books and fees, for a child, stepchild, or spouse of a veteran rated 40% or more service-connected, or of a veteran who was a prisoner of war, missing in action, or died from service.
At least 40% service-connected. The living-veteran disability path is a service-connected rating of 40% or more. A former prisoner of war, a missing-in-action determination, or a death from service or on active duty can qualify a dependent with no rating. The rating filter only tests the 40% path.
Five extra points on a state classified-service exam for an honorably discharged veteran. Ten points when a service-connected disability pays compensation, pension, or a disability allowance.
Ten-point preference. Ten points require a present service-connected disability that entitles the veteran to pension, compensation, or a disability allowance. Five points are available to an honorably discharged veteran with no rating floor. The five-point path is why a rating filter does not hide this entry.
The Chief Procurement Officer or a purchasing agency may award a state contract to an Alabama business more than half owned by a qualifying veteran when its bid is no more than 5% above the lowest bid. The preference is allowed, not required, and now lives in section 41-4-131.
Points added to a passing score on a county civil service examination: 10 for a disabled veteran and 5 for any other veteran on an entrance examination, and 3 and 1 on a promotional one. A disabled veteran is one rated 10% or more.
Disability points at 10%. Every qualifying veteran gets 5 entrance or 1 promotional points. A VA rating of 10% or more raises them to 10 and 3.
Up to full tuition and required fees for a serving Alaska Guard member. The University of Alaska is covered in full when combined with federal tuition assistance; other Alaska institutions are capped at $2,500 a year.
A serving Alaska National Guard member in good standing. Eligibility turns on current membership. A separated veteran is outside the program and no rating or deployment history is required.
A private employer may prefer a service member, veteran, spouse or dependent child in hiring. It is permissive, and unusually it reaches currently serving and even furloughed members.
Active, furloughed or honorably discharged. The section reaches a person active in, furloughed from, or honorably discharged from the armed forces, the reserves, the Alaska Territorial Guard or a state military unit. Currently serving members are included.
Sixteen and a half days of paid military leave a year for a Guard or reserve member employed by the state, five more for duty the governor orders, and a statutory right to the former position afterward.
A state employee in the National Guard or a reserve component. AS 39.20.340. The leave covers training duty, field exercises and search and rescue operations under direct military control.
Five percent of available points for a veteran and ten for a disabled veteran or former prisoner of war. The qualifying service periods leave a fourteen-year gap that closes the preference to most peacetime veterans.
181 days of active service, in one of the listed periods. The periods are April 6, 1917 to December 1, 1919; September 16, 1940 to December 31, 1947; June 27, 1950 to October 14, 1976; August 2, 1990 to January 2, 1992; and September 11, 2001 onward. There is no qualifying period between October 15, 1976 and August 1, 1990.
A high school diploma for a veteran who left school to serve between August 1940 and July 1947, Territorial Guard members included. No Alaska residency is required and a family may apply for a veteran who has died.
Service between August 7, 1940 and July 25, 1947. In the armed forces of the United States, with Alaska Territorial Guard members covered by name.
Ten points for a disabled veteran, five for a veteran, on open competitive examinations. The points are the small part: three preference eligibles on the list and the appointing authority may appoint only a preference eligible, and a veteran passed over is entitled to a copy of the written reasons.
Any service-connected disability reaches the ten-point category. Code 7.0202(a) defines a disabled veteran as one who has established the present existence of a service-connected disability, or who receives compensation, disability retirement benefits, or a pension from VA or a military department. A zero percent rating establishes that. There is no percentage floor, so a rating filter never hides this benefit.
Immediate in-state tuition at an Arizona university or community college for a veteran using VA education benefits after 90 days of active duty, and for any honorably discharged or retired service member who shows intent to stay. There is no time limit after discharge.
VA education benefits after 90 days of active duty, or an honorable discharge. One route is using VA education benefits after a discharge from 90 days or more of active duty; another is any honorable discharge or retirement. Both need evidence of intent to reside in Arizona. No disability rating is required, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Up to $250 per semester hour, capped at $5,250 in a state fiscal year, for a member of the Arizona National Guard. It reimburses rather than pays up front, so the member fronts the cost.
Current membership in the Arizona National Guard. The gate is membership in the Arizona National Guard in good standing. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
A tuition waiver at any Arizona state university or community college for a Purple Heart recipient rated 50% or more, who was an Arizona resident or stationed in Arizona when injured.
Purple Heart with a 50% or greater rating. The waiver requires a Purple Heart citation together with a VA disability rating of 50 percent or more. A Purple Heart recipient rated below 50 percent does not qualify.
Five points on a merit system examination for the State or any county, city or other political subdivision after more than six months of active duty, and ten points for a veteran with a service-connected disability. A spouse or surviving spouse can hold the five points in some cases.
More than six months of active duty for 5 points, any service-connected rating for 10. Five points require more than six months of active duty and a separation under honorable conditions. Ten points require a service-connected disability, with no minimum percentage named. The rating filter never hides this benefit.
Tuition, mandatory fees and on-campus housing for a first bachelor's degree, for up to eight semesters, for the spouse or child of an Arkansan who is a prisoner of war, missing or killed in action, killed on ordnance delivery, or a disabled veteran, which since 2025 includes a military disability retiree as well as a veteran rated 100 percent permanent and total. It pays what federal DEA benefits do not.
Disabled veteran: a military disability retirement, or 100 percent permanent and total. Ark. Code Ann. § 6-82-2503(a)(3), added by Act 340 of 2025.
A school board may grant a high school diploma to an Arkansas resident veteran who left school to serve in World War II, Korea or Vietnam, was honorably discharged, and served 18 consecutive months of active duty in the war period or was discharged for a service-connected disability.
Eighteen consecutive months, or a service-connected discharge, in the war period. Ark. Code Ann. §§ 6-16-133 and 6-16-134; ADE Rules Governing Diplomas for Veterans 3.02.3.
A public Arkansas college, trade school or vocational school must charge in-state tuition, whatever the student's residence, to a veteran honorably discharged after at least 90 days of active duty within three years before enrolling, and to that veteran's dependents, to current service members and their spouses, and to contracted ROTC cadets.
Honorable discharge after 90 days of active duty, within three years before enrolling. Ark. Code Ann. § 6-60-205(1).
State and local government employees in the Guard or reserves get 15 days of paid military leave a year, carrying over up to 30, and 30 working days of paid leave when called up for an emergency. Since 2025 a state employee who is a veteran or Guard or reserve member earns annual leave faster by counting prior military service.
A public employee in the Guard or reserves. Ark. Code Ann. § 21-4-102(a)(1).
Tuition-free study for up to 120 semester hours at a public Arkansas college for a Guard soldier or airman in good standing without a bachelor's degree. Since 2025 it also covers certificate and credential programs, and pays toward a private nonprofit Arkansas college up to the public amount.
A current Arkansas Guard member who has finished initial training. Ark. Code Ann. § 6-60-214(a)(2) and (3).
An Arkansas licensing board must grant an automatic licence to a service member stationed here, a veteran who lives here, or the spouse of either, who holds a licence in good standing from another state, and must count military training toward licensure. A deployed member or spouse gets 180 days after return to renew.
Stationed in Arkansas, or a veteran living here, or a spouse of either. Ark. Code Ann. § 17-4-104.
Five points for a veteran, ten for a disabled veteran, in state agency, college and school district hiring, with preference also in interviewing, promotion and layoffs. A veteran includes six years of honorable Guard or reserve service. The 2025 ban on preferential treatment by state entities expressly leaves it alone.
Honorable active duty, or six honorable years in the Guard or reserves. Ark. Code Ann. § 21-3-302(b).
Arkansas lets a private employer, city, county or township adopt a written veterans preference for hiring, promotion or layoffs without breaking discrimination law. It covers veterans with 180 days of active duty and an other than dishonorable discharge, spouses of permanently and totally disabled veterans, and surviving spouses.
More than 180 days of active duty and other than dishonorable. Ark. Code Ann. § 11-15-102(6).
Arlington gives hiring consideration to veterans, including disabled veterans, under Code section 15.2-1509. The county does not publish a point value.
Disabled veteran. Arlington states that consideration covers veterans, including disabled veterans. The FAQ does not set a minimum combined rating or a point score.
Priority career help at the Arlington Employment Center for a veteran or an eligible spouse, including skill translation and federal hiring-preference coaching.
Preference points on city job examinations for an honorably discharged veteran with 90 consecutive days of active duty and a year of Maryland residence. Reservists and National Guard members do not qualify. Documents are due before the posting closes.
Baltimore County breaks a tie in examination ratings in a veteran’s favor for a classified job, including police and fire. It adds no points, and a disability rating does not change it.
Baxter County gives an employee in the Guard or a reserve component 15 days of paid military leave a year plus travel time, carrying over to as many as 30, and up to 30 working days paid when called up for an emergency, on top of other leave; the Quorum Court revised the policy in May 2026 (Ordinance 2026-15).
Baxter County employee in the Guard or a reserve component. Membership and orders; no rating is needed.
The Bay County Code carries no local business tax article - the license and taxation chapter reserves the articles where one would sit - and the Tax Collector publishes no local business tax service, so a veteran opening a business in unincorporated Bay County owes the county no local business tax and needs no exemption. A municipality inside the county that levies one applies section 205.055.
No county business tax; statute applies where a city levies one. Bay County levies no local business tax, so no veteran exemption is needed at the county level. Any city tax follows section 205.055: honorable discharge, or a listed spouse.
Bernalillo County guarantees an interview to every veteran, disabled veteran and National Guard member who meets a job's posted qualifications. New Mexico law gives no preference for county jobs, so this is the county's own rule. It needs an honorable or general discharge.
An honorable or general discharge, or a serving Guard member. A veteran with an honorable or general discharge, a disabled veteran, or a current National Guard member who meets the posted qualifications. No rating is needed.
Bonner County's personnel policy 100.3 gives veterans, and some widows, widowers and spouses, the State's hiring preference: where qualifications are equal, the preference-eligible applicant is hired (Idaho Code 65-503 and 65-504); positions filled by a rated examination add 5 or 10 points, and a veteran rated 30% or more must be offered an interview.
Veterans and eligible family applying for county jobs. Idaho Code 65-503: 90 days of active duty under honorable conditions; 10% or a Purple Heart for the disabled tier; 30% for the interview.
The Bradford County Code carries no local business tax - its taxation chapter holds the sales surtax, gas tax, senior homestead exemption, fire rescue surtax, tourist development tax and the elderly-parent homestead reduction - and the Tax Collector publishes no business tax service, so a veteran opening a business in unincorporated Bradford County owes the county none. A city that levies one applies section 205.055.
No county business tax; statute applies where a city levies one. Bradford County levies no local business tax, so no veteran exemption is needed at the county level. Any city tax follows section 205.055: honorable discharge, or a listed spouse.
The Brevard County Tax Collector exempts an honorably discharged veteran, a spouse or unremarried surviving spouse, and a military spouse moved by PCS orders from the county business tax receipt under section 205.055, taking a DD-214 showing an honorable discharge or a Florida driver licence with the veteran designation as proof. Its web page describes only an older, narrower exemption.
Honorable discharge, or a listed spouse. An honorably discharged veteran, a spouse or unremarried surviving spouse, or a PCS military spouse. No rating is needed.
Brevard County gives Florida's veterans preference in its hiring, but says it applies only "when candidates are considered substantially equally qualified". For a job filled without a written examination, section 295.085 gives preference to any eligible applicant who meets the minimum qualifications. The DD-214 must reach Human Resources by the closing date.
Section 295.07 categories. Any of the section 295.07 categories, shown on the DD-214. A compensable rating matters only for first preference.
In unincorporated Bryan County a wartime veteran rated 10% or more, or a peacetime veteran rated 25% or more, who claims the State's exemption from the county occupation tax must give Community Development a copy of the Certificate of State License/Tax Exemption from the Georgia Department of Veterans Service.
10% wartime or 25% peacetime. A wartime veteran rated 10% or more, or a peacetime veteran rated 25% or more, with the Department of Veterans Service certificate.
Buncombe County bans discrimination for "veteran status" by employers, including the county and its contractors, and by places of public accommodation. Complaints go to the county's equity officer, within 180 days for employment or a year for public accommodation, and can end in a $100-a-day civil penalty if conciliation fails.
Veteran. Any veteran status. The ordinance reaches only areas outside towns that have not agreed to it.
Discriminating against anyone in employment because of prior military service is prohibited in the Commonwealth, carries a fine, and is separately actionable as a civil tort with punitive damages available.
Prior military service is the protected characteristic. 1 CMC § 20124 prohibits discrimination in employment, including hiring, promotion, dismissal, and the granting of salary and benefits, because of prior military service in the United States Armed Forces or Reserves. No rating, era, or discharge characterization test appears in the section.
Two points for a disabled veteran and one for a veteran on entry to the Commonwealth civil service. That is one fifth of what the federal government and every neighbouring jurisdiction award, and the statute says so in as many words.
Two points and one point, not ten and five. 1 CMC § 8702 awards two additional points to a preference eligible under 5 U.S.C. § 2108(3)(C)-(G), the federal ten-point categories, and one point to a preference eligible under § 2108(3)(A)-(B), the federal five-point categories. The Commonwealth scheme is one fifth the weight of the federal one it names.
Mandatory systemwide tuition and fees waived at any California Community College, California State University, or University of California campus, for the child, spouse, or unmarried surviving spouse of a veteran with a service-connected disability. Four plans, and only one of them has an income limit.
Plan A needs a total disability, Plan B accepts any service-connected disability. Plan A requires a total service-connected disability or death from service-related causes, plus wartime or campaign service. Plan B accepts any service-connected disability and adds an income test on the child. Because Plan B has no rating floor, the rating filter does not hide this benefit.
State departments carry a participation goal of at least 3% of annual contract dollars for certified disabled veteran business enterprises, and bids that propose DVBE participation get an incentive. Certification needs a 10% or higher rating, California domicile, and 51% ownership plus daily control by disabled veterans.
At least a 10% service-connected disability, domiciled in California. The owner has to have at least a 10% service-connected disability and be domiciled in California. Ownership of at least 51% and control of daily operations by disabled veterans are separate gates the rating filter does not test.
Passing an open state civil service examination places an eligible veteran in rank 1 of the eligibility list, whatever the score. It applies only on first entry into state service and stops once the person holds permanent civil service status.
Veteran status, an open exam, and no permanent civil service status. No rating is required for the preference. The spouse path requires a 100% disabled veteran. The gates the rating filter cannot test are the open-exam requirement and the bar on anyone who already holds permanent civil service status.
A District personnel issuance from 2019 that let agencies hire resident veterans and some spouses non-competitively into time-limited jobs at grade 12 and below. The Department of Human Resources’ manual lists its expiration date as May 16, 2024 and no successor was found, though the Army benefits library still advertises it.
Expired: the issuance lists an expiration date of May 16, 2024. E-DPM issuance I-2019-16, effective November 15, 2019.
The Callaway County Commission adopted a revised Personnel Manual Section 4.16, Military Leave, effective August 28, 2026, to comply with USERRA and RSMo 105.270, which from that day gives a county employee in the Guard or reserves up to 160 hours of paid military leave a federal fiscal year (it was 120) and leave without limit for State duty at the Governor's call.
Callaway County employee in the Guard or reserves. For county officers and employees who are members of the National Guard or a reserve component, on orders. No rating is needed.
Chatham's Probate Court issues the certificate of eligibility a disabled veteran needs for the State's business tax exemption, at no fee, and unincorporated Chatham then issues a free occupational tax certificate. The county code adds a condition the State law does not have: no one but the veteran may work in the business.
Disabled veteran holding the State certificate. The State test is a 10% disability for wartime service or 25% for peacetime, Georgia residence and no Georgia income tax owed. The filter does not hide this benefit.
Chisago County takes Minnesota's veterans preference in its own hiring: fill out the Claim for Veteran's Preference portion of the county's application form in UKG - Online Job Opportunities and submit the DD-214 with it; the preference must be claimed when the application is submitted and received by the closing date. Questions: 651-213-8830.
A veteran under 197.447, or a qualifying spouse. The preference is claimed on the county application with the DD-214, received by the closing date; no rating is needed for the preference itself.
Ten points on a 100-point scale for an original appointment to a Richmond classified job for an honorably discharged veteran eligible for VA disability compensation or pension, and five points for other honorably discharged veterans.
Eligible for VA compensation or pension. Ten points when the veteran is eligible for VA disability compensation, which a 10% rating pays, or VA pension. Five points for any other honorably discharged veteran.
Five points added to the overall score for a veteran, and ten for a disabled veteran, on a first Clark County job. The DD-214 must show an honorable discharge and be uploaded with each application.
Ten points for a disabled veteran. Five points need an honorable discharge and no rating. Ten points need a VA letter verifying a disability, with no minimum percentage named.