Eight semesters of tuition at no cost at any state-supported college or university in Mississippi, for a child of a servicemember whose home of record is Mississippi and who is officially reported a prisoner of war or missing in action.
Servicemember officially reported a prisoner of war or missing in action. The member must be officially reported as either a prisoner of war or missing in action. This is an assigned casualty status, not a family determination. No disability rating is involved, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
Since 2019 the State Personnel Board implements the statutory preference by placing veterans at the top of the eligible list, disabled veterans first, rather than by adding points. Disabled means 30% or a Purple Heart.
90 days of service during a period of war or armed conflict. The statutory definition of veteran is 90 days in the active Armed Forces during a period of war or armed conflict with an honorable discharge, or a discharge in under 90 days for a service-connected injury. Peacetime service alone does not meet it. No rating is required for the base preference, so the rating filter never hides this benefit.
The credit for employing an unemployed post-9/11 veteran was repealed effective January 1, 2018. Mississippi Veterans Affairs still lists it as a current benefit. No hire made now qualifies.
Repealed effective January 1, 2018. No hire made on or after January 1, 2018 creates a credit under this section. A taxpayer who became eligible before that date kept the credit and could carry it forward. Nothing here turns on a rating, so the rating filter never hides this entry.
Separating service members, current Guard and reserve members, and dependents of members stationed here all get resident tuition, on three different statutes with three different conditions. The Guard route is strictly last-dollar where the Returning Heroes cap is not.
Separating with an honorable or general discharge, declaring Missouri residency. Section 173.1150.1 and .2: in the process of separating from any branch with an honorable or general discharge, demonstrating presence and declaring residency in Missouri, or in the community college’s taxing district.
A tuition and fee waiver at Missouri public institutions plus a grant programme, capped at University of Missouri average tuition and 120 completed credit hours. The 2026 session struck GI Bill entitlements from the offset list, and the waiter switches off entirely in any year the state appropriation share falls.
A current member of the Missouri National Guard in satisfactory service. Section 173.239.1 and 3(1)(a): the assistance is available while the person is a member, on a certificate of satisfactory service from the commanding officer.
An honorary high school diploma for any honorably discharged veteran who left school to serve and did not return, and for civilian prisoners of war. Former residents qualify, diplomas may be issued posthumously, and the diploma names the veteran’s school.
An honorably discharged veteran who left high school to serve and did not return. Section 160.360.2. The section does not limit itself to any war or period of service.
A private employer may prefer veterans without breaching state equal employment law, and every federally funded state training programme must run a five-tier veteran priority with special disabled veterans first and an annual report to the legislature.
A private employer may prefer a veteran, and is protected against state EEO claims only. Section 285.250.1 and .3. The safe harbour covers state equal employment opportunity law. It does not mention local ordinances and does not address federal law.
Two parallel three-point bonus preferences with three percent goals, one for any honorably discharged veteran-owned enterprise created in 2026 and one for service-disabled veteran businesses, and a business may take only one. Both bind every political subdivision as well as the state.
Any VA-certified service-connected disability, with no percentage. Section 34.074.1 defines a service-disabled veteran as any individual disabled as certified by the appropriate federal agency responsible for the administration of veterans’ affairs. No rating percentage appears in the section.
Tuition capped at $50 per credit hour for a combat veteran at any Missouri public institution, and at 30 percent of tuition and fees for a graduate degree. The undergraduate right expires ten years after discharge and the graduate right at twenty, and professional degrees are excluded.
Served in armed combat, shown by theater service, combat medals or hostile fire pay. Section 173.900.2. The statute sets no minimum number of days and no post-September 11, 2001 cutoff. Documentation may be a combat theater record, combat service medals, or receipt of imminent danger or hostile fire pay or the combat pay tax exclusion.
The merit system preference is a tie-breaker and nothing more: it applies only "if all other relevant job-related factors are equal" and names no points. A Missouri National Guard member on the register has the stronger right, because an interview is mandatory.
Preference applies only if all other job-related factors are equal. Section 36.220.1, second sentence. The preference is a tie-breaker; the section names no points, no percentage and no ranking rule.
Since January 1, 2024, Monroe County assigns a six percent goal for service-disabled veteran-owned businesses to most County contracts, including construction and professional services, and accepts either State or federal SBA certification.
A business certified as service-disabled veteran-owned by the State or the SBA. Both certifications require a service-connected disability; the State one needs a rating of at least 10 percent.
Monroe County's Personnel Policies and Procedures Manual (July 15, 2026) gives a county employee with a VA service-connected rating up to six calendar days a year of paid leave for VA examinations or treatment, Guard and Reserve members 240 paid hours of training leave, and chapter 295 hiring preference, though it exempts department heads and assistant administrators, which the statute does not.
Monroe County employee or applicant who is a veteran or Guard or Reserve member. Leave for VA appointments needs any service-connected rating; preference follows chapter 295; military leave needs Guard or Reserve membership.
Monroe County's Tax Collector takes an online Business Tax Receipt Exemption Form from an honorably discharged veteran, a veteran's spouse or unremarried surviving spouse, or the spouse of an active-duty member with orders, after the business tax application, with a DD-214 or Veteran Health ID card. A business inside a city needs both a county and a city receipt.
Honorably discharged veteran, spouse, surviving spouse, or PCS military spouse. An honorable discharge (DD-214 or Veteran Health ID card), or the listed spouse with proof. No rating is needed.
Resident tuition waived at Montana University System campuses, but only after the GI Bill has run out. A veteran who still has federal entitlement left, or who never elected it, is not eligible.
Federal education benefits must be exhausted or expired. The veteran must have elected eligibility for Title 38 or Title 10 education benefits and have exhausted them or lost them through passage of time. Remaining GI Bill entitlement disqualifies. A VEAP participant who withdrew any part of their contribution before expiration is disqualified.
120 hours of paid military leave a year for a public employee, banking to 240, and a state reemployment right for Guard members on state duty. The reemployment right can be lost by never telling the employer you are in the Guard.
120 hours of paid leave, after six months, public employers only. A state or local government employee with at least six months of service who is in the National Guard or a reserve component gets 120 hours of paid military leave a calendar or academic year, credited in full at once, not charged against vacation, carrying over to a maximum of 240 hours. Private employers are not required to pay for military leave.
Tuition waived at Montana University System campuses for a serving Guard member, undergraduate or graduate. A Guard member who is not a Montana resident gets in-state status for the purpose of the waiver.
A serving member in good standing, certified by the Adjutant General. The student must be a bona fide member of the Montana National Guard and have applied for the waiver no later than the third week of the first semester, must be certified in good standing, and must maintain satisfactory academic progress.
Montana boards must count military training toward licence requirements, must license a qualified spouse or member moving in from another state, and must stop charging fees and continuing education to a deployed licensee.
Boards must count military training. Section 37-1-145 requires every board and program to accept relevant education, training or service completed in the armed forces, the reserves or a state National Guard toward licence qualifications. It sets no fixed amount of credit.
A private employer in Montana may lawfully adopt a policy of preferring veterans in hiring. It creates nothing a veteran can claim, but it answers the discrimination objection an employer would otherwise raise.
Permissive for the employer, not a right for the veteran. The section authorises a private employer to adopt a veteran hiring preference. It does not require any employer to do so and creates nothing a job applicant can claim or enforce.
A $1,000 scholarship for a Montana student who holds the Purple Heart or a higher combat decoration. A student whose tuition is fully covered by VA education benefits is expressly excluded.
Purple Heart or a higher combat medal. Eligibility runs to a recipient of the Purple Heart or a higher medal for combat-related service, verified by a DD 214 or other authentic discharge form listing awards. A dishonorable or other than honorable discharge disqualifies; a general discharge does not.
An employer gets $1,500 a year for a registered apprentice who is a veteran, double the ordinary amount, for up to five years. It is a reason to name your veteran status to an employer before they hire.
The wider employment-preference definition of veteran. The credit uses the definition in 39-29-101, which covers 180 days of active duty under honorable conditions including a general discharge, a reserve member called up during a war or campaign, and a Montana National Guard member with six years of service of which the last three were in the Montana Guard.
Five points for a veteran and ten for a disabled veteran or eligible relative in public hiring, plus retention in a layoff. The preference is lost entirely unless it is claimed in writing before applications close.
Claim it in writing before applications close. Section 39-29-103(2) requires a written claim of preference before the filing deadline for the position, and makes failure to claim a complete defense to an enforcement action. Mentioning service on a resume or in an interview is not a claim.
Since November 4, 2025 a Board policy gives veterans discharged other than dishonorably, and some military spouses, a hiring preference in County jobs, replacing an ordinance whose points needed a 20% rating and ended five years after separation. The procedures setting the points are not published. County employees can now be paid for weekend drills.
Discharge other than dishonorable. Veterans discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable, and some military spouses. No rating is needed.
Priority for a veteran among the top-rated applicants for a county merit job, with a veteran rated 30% or more first. Police, fire and rescue, and correctional applicants get 10 preference points at 30% or more and 5 points otherwise.
First priority and 10 points at 30%. A veteran rated 30% or more service-connected comes first and gets 10 points for a public safety job. A veteran with no rating still gets equal priority with a person with a disability, and 5 points for a public safety job.
Up to 36 months of education payments, $2,601 a month for full-time school from October 1, 2026, for a veteran who paid $1,200 into the program during active duty.
Service and contribution. Active duty after June 30, 1985, with the $1,200 contribution and the required service, or another listed category.
Up to 36 months of education payments, $508 a month full time from October 1, 2026, for a Guard or Reserve member with a six-year Selected Reserve obligation.
Six-year Selected Reserve obligation. A six-year obligation in the Selected Reserve, and continued satisfactory participation.
Morgan County gives a full-time employee in the Guard or Reserve up to 15 days a year of paid leave for annual training, on orders, with county and military pay both, not charged to paid time off; active duty leave is unpaid with USERRA rights, and family members get up to 10 days of unpaid Indiana military family leave (Personnel Policy Handbook, revised January 1, 2026).
Morgan County full-time employee in the Guard or Reserve. Membership in a reserve component and orders; no rating is needed.
Muskegon County's Personnel Rules give veterans preference in initial appointment to county jobs - 90 days of active duty, an honorable discharge and two years of Michigan residence - and grant military leave, USERRA reemployment, health coverage for up to 24 months and a paid day for an official military funeral.
Eligible veteran, initial county appointment. Released from active duty with 90 or more days of active duty service, an honorable discharge and two years of Michigan residence; the preference applies to the first appointment only. No rating is needed.
Since Local Law 2 of 2016, every Nassau County department aims for at least six percent of County contracts to go to businesses certified by the State as service-disabled veteran-owned.
A business certified by the State as service-disabled veteran-owned. The State certification requires a service-connected disability rating of at least 10 percent; see the State entry.
Seventy-five percent of resident tuition for an undergraduate programme and fifty percent for a graduate one, with no lifetime limit, but only two hundred people in the state may hold it in any calendar year.
Nebraska resident in a Nebraska-based Active Selected Reserve unit. Section 80-901. Both the residence and the unit location matter; a Nebraska resident drilling with an out-of-state unit is outside the programme.
Resident tuition at any Nebraska public college from the first day, for a veteran with ninety days of service and for a family member using transferred benefits. The condition is registering to vote in Nebraska.
A veteran with not fewer than ninety days of active service. Section 85-502.01(1)(a), using the title 38 definition of veteran. Active military, naval, air or space service. No rating and no wartime period.
One hundred percent of resident tuition for an undergraduate programme, at private nonprofit colleges as well as public ones, capped at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln rate and at twelve hundred members a year.
A member of the Nebraska National Guard. Section 85-505. Members of federal reserve components use the separate Active Selected Reserve credit in 80-901 instead.
A private employer of any size may adopt a written veterans preference policy, is protected from discrimination claims for using it, and is listed on a public registry kept by the Commissioner of Labor.
The employer must have adopted a written policy. Section 48-238(2). The preference is voluntary. A veteran has no claim against an employer that has not adopted one.
Every Nebraska public college must automatically accept a qualifying veteran or serving member who meets its admissions requirements. The word automatically is doing less work than it appears to.
A Nebraska high school graduate from January 1, 2002 onward. Section 85-2902(2)(a)(i). Graduating before 2002, or not graduating from high school, puts a veteran outside the Act whatever their service.
Five percent added to a passing score, ten for a disabled veteran, and where no exam is used the preference decides between equally qualified candidates. Violating it is a misdemeanour.
Full-time duty during a war or a VA-recognised qualifying period. Section 48-225(3). Service between January 31, 1955 and February 28, 1961 must have exceeded one hundred eighty days unless the shorter service resulted from a service-connected or service-aggravated disability.
All tuition, and the fees left after federal and state grants, waived at the University of Nebraska, the state colleges and the community colleges. Permanent individual unemployability counts; a temporary total rating does not.
A parent, stepparent or spouse who died on active duty or of a service-connected disability. Section 80-411(2)(b)(i) and (ii). No rating is involved on either route.
Nevada County's Human Resources runs paid and unpaid internships for current and former service members, including VA-paid placements, and a programme for military spouses, aimed at permanent county jobs; the county holds the Department of Labor's HIRE Vets Platinum Medallion.
Current and former service members and military spouses. Open to service members, veterans and military spouses; no rating is needed.
A full waiver of registration, laboratory and other mandatory fees at the Nevada System of Higher Education for a Purple Heart recipient, and for the recipient’s child who graduated from a Nevada high school. It is last-dollar: federal educational benefits are credited first.
The Purple Heart alone, with no residency or discharge test for the veteran. NRS 396.5443, subsection 1(a) reaches a veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States who has been awarded the Purple Heart. No Nevada residency, discharge characterisation, minimum service or disability appears in that paragraph.
A discretionary waiver of registration and laboratory fees for an active Nevada Guard member including a recruit, assignable to a spouse or child on reenlistment. A separate waiver covers the spouse or child of a prisoner of war or a service member missing in action, and deems them a Nevada resident for fee purposes.
An active Nevada National Guard member, including a recruit, full-time or part-time. NRS 396.544, subsection 1. The waiver is discretionary, and the section provides for reimbursement if a recruit who received it fails to enter the Guard.
At least half of registration and other fees waived for a Nevada resident veteran who has a bachelor’s degree and enrols in a graduate programme in a field the State has designated a critical need occupation. The veteran or a third party must cover the rest.
A bona fide Nevada resident veteran with a completed bachelor’s degree. NRS 396.5446, subsection 1 and paragraph (a). Residency is required here, unlike the veteran’s own claim under the Purple Heart waiver in NRS 396.5443.
The strongest interview mandate in this catalog. An appointing authority must interview every qualified veteran with a service-connected disability, and must give veterans without a service-connected disability at least 22 percent of the interviews for the position, rounded up.
Every qualified applicant who is a veteran with a service-connected disability gets an interview. NRS 284.265, subsection 2(a). The obligation is to interview each such veteran, not one of them, and it is uncapped.
Up to $1,000 to a Guard member or former member for each recruit they bring in, and up to $6,000 to a member who reenlists or reclassifies into a critical vacancy and is not eligible for a federal bonus. Paid from a continually appropriated nonlapsing fund the adjutant general controls.
A current Guard member in grades E-1 to O-3, or any former member, for a referral. RSA 110-B:60. The grade ceiling applies to current members. A former member of the New Hampshire national guard may collect the referral incentive with no grade limit stated.
Tuition-free courses at the state university and community college systems for an active New Hampshire Guard member, after federal tuition assistance is used first. The spouse transfer option is repealed effective July 1, 2027, and an out-of-state Guard member who cannot use the waiver still pays the in-state rate.
A sworn in active member of the New Hampshire National Guard, resident or not. RSA 110-B:63-c, I. Residence in New Hampshire is not required for the waiver. Active member is defined in RSA 110-B:63-b, I by reference to Army and Air Force satisfactory membership standards.
A designated administrator in the department of military affairs and veterans services helps a veteran turn a military occupational specialty into a state occupational licence, and helps the licensing office decide what military training satisfies a licence requirement.
A veteran seeking to enter a profession licensed by a board under the OPLC. RSA 110-B:91, I(a) and II. A profession regulated outside the office of professional licensure and certification under RSA 310 is outside the section.
The statute is a tie-breaker and nothing more: preference where a veteran is one of several equally qualified candidates. The 5 and 10 point credits a veteran is told about are in a personnel rule and a Division of Personnel form, not in the statute, and they apply only on entry to state service.
For state employment, any veteran as defined in RSA 21:50. RSA 283:4, II. No wartime service, no 90 days and no state citizenship is required when the state is the employer. Amended by 2026 chapter 252, section 2, effective August 31, 2026.
In New Jersey civil service, every disabled veteran who passes an open competitive exam is ranked above every veteran, and every veteran above every non-veteran, regardless of score, and must be appointed in that order. Veterans are also favoured in promotions and layoffs. It covers wartime service, listed operations and campaign medals, not peacetime service alone.
A listed war or operation, or a campaign or expedition medal. N.J.S.A. 11A:5-1(b)(1) to (16). Peacetime service without a medal does not qualify.
New Jersey public colleges must give veterans and service members priority course registration, readmit a student who left for military service with the same academic standing and no fee, and give in-state tuition to anyone living in New Jersey using VA education or vocational rehabilitation benefits.
State agencies aim to award at least 3 percent of contracts to New Jersey businesses at least 51 percent owned by veterans with any service-connected disability, and a resident veteran discharged under honorable conditions has a statutory right to a peddler's licence.
Any service-connected rating for the set-aside. N.J.S.A. 52:32-31.2.
Up to 16 credits a semester tuition-free at a New Jersey public college or university, undergraduate or graduate, for an active New Jersey Guard member in good standing who has finished initial training, and for the child or surviving spouse of a Guard member killed on duty. It pays after federal and state grants and the Post-9/11 GI Bill.
Active New Jersey Guard member in good standing after initial training. N.J.S.A. 18A:62-24(a)(1).