Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
1 instrument in Louisiana. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsAdds 180 days of service as a route to the fire and police hiring preference, which had required wartime service.
Before the amendment the five-point preference reached service "during times of war." The act adds "or for one hundred eighty days or more" as an alternative, so a peacetime veteran with six months of service who previously got nothing now gets the points. The Department of Veterans Affairs release described it as setting a 180-day minimum requirement, which reads as a new hurdle and has the effect backwards.
A bill moves when the people who vote on it hear from the people it affects. Enter your address to see who represents you in Congress and in your state legislature, and where to get free, accredited help with a VA claim: your county veterans service officer or town veterans’ agent, and your state’s service offices.