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| Alabama |
H.B. 40, First Special Session
Provides an income tax refund check-off for a contribution to the Alabama National Guard Foundation, Incorporated, a not-for-profit organization, to assist the families of Alabama National Guard members and reservists who experience a financial hardship when the breadwinner is called to active duty. |
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H.B. 124, First Special Session
Establishes the Alabama Organ Center Donor Awareness Fund and the Alabama National Guard Foundation, Incorporated, as new income tax refund check-off beneficiary organizations and amends Section 40-18-140 of the Code of Alabama 1975, which deals with income tax refund check-offs, to remove format and forms restrictions and permit the Department of Revenue latitude to locate and design check-off selections to optimize critically limited reporting and computation space on individual income tax returns. Deletes specific requirements for printing the refund checkoffs on the "face" of the individual income tax return, and amend Section 40-18-140 to incorporate check-off provisions presently codified under 11 sections of the Code of Alabama 1975, and would repeal 15 sections of the Code of Alabama 1975, which would no longer be needed. |
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H.B. 142
Indefinitely postponed
Provides an income tax refund check-off for a contribution to the Alabama National Guard Foundation, Incorporated, a not-for-profit organization, to assist the families of Alabama National Guard members and reservists who experience a financial hardship when the breadwinner is called to active duty. |
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S.B. 51, First Special Session
Indefinitely postponed
Establishes the Alabama Organ Center Donor Awareness Fund and the Alabama National Guard Foundation, Incorporated, as new income tax refund check-off beneficiary organizations and amends Section 40-18-140 of the Code of Alabama 1975, which deals with income tax refund check-offs, to remove format and forms restrictions and permit the Department of Revenue latitude to locate and design check-off selections to optimize critically limited reporting and computation space on individual income tax returns. Deletes specific requirements for printing the refund checkoffs on the "face" of the individual income tax return, and amend Section 40-18-140 to incorporate check-off provisions presently codified under 11 sections of the Code of Alabama 1975, and would repeal 15 sections of the Code of Alabama 1975, which would no longer be needed. |
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S.B. 99
Passed Senate 2/24/05
Provides an income tax refund check-off for a contribution to the Alabama National Guard Foundation, Incorporated, a not-for-profit organization, to assist the families of Alabama National Guard members and reservists who experience a financial hardship when the breadwinner is called to active duty. |
| Arizona |
S.B. 1466
Signed by governor 4/18/05, Chapter 115
Establishes the National Guard Relief Fund (NGRF) to provide financial assistance to families of the Arizona National Guard Members when the National Guard Member is serving on active duty in a combat zone. Stipulates that the adjutant general of the Department of Emergency and Military Affairs (DEMA) will administer the fund. Provides a space on the individual income tax form for a taxpayer to contribute to the NGRF. Allows taxpayers to donate to the NGRF from the tax refund or from additional funds included with the return. |
| Arkansas |
S.B. 208
Signed by governor 3/21/05, Act 1028
Creates the military family relief check-off program; includes the military family relief check-off program on the Arkansas income tax forms; creates the military family relief 14 trust fund. |
| California |
S.B. 188
Vetoed by governor 9/29/05
Provides that for purposes of determining eligibility for assistance and benefits under the CalWORKs program, the income of the family shall not include earnings or payments acquired from active duty in the California National Guard, to the extent that those funds are available to a family seeking or receiving CalWORKs aid, unless the total family income exceeds 150 percent of the federal poverty level. |
| Colorado |
H.B. 1053
Signed by governor 6/1/05, Chapter 188
Expands the voluntary contribution program for military family relief by allowing active duty military members stationed in Colorado, and the families of active duty military members stationed in Colorado, to be eligible to receive grants from the military family relief fund. Directs the Air Force society and Army emergency relief to work in cooperation to develop criteria for awarding grants to active duty military members, subject to certain eligibility requirements. Specifies that each active duty military member or the family of an active duty military member may apply to the Air Force aid society or Army emergency relief, as appropriate, for one grant per deployment to a zone in which the active duty military member qualifies to receive hostile fire pay or the equivalent. Specifies that if the Air Force society or Army emergency relief determine that an active duty military member or the family of an active duty military member is eligible to receive a grant, the Air Force society or Army emergency relief shall notify the Colorado National Guard foundation. States that upon receipt of notification, the foundation shall issue the grant. Specifies that moneys from the fund shall be awarded for grants on a first-come, first-served basis. States that the act is contingent on the passage of Senate Bill 05-52. |
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S.B. 52
Signed by governor 5/27/05, Chapter 186
Creates the Military Family Relief Fund (fund) in the state treasury. Authorizes the adjutant general of the state to accept gifts, grants, and donations to the fund. States that the fund shall consist of such gifts, grants, and donations and contributions from the military family relief voluntary contribution that appears on the state income tax form. Directs the adjutant general to transfer any gifts, grants, or donations to the fund to the state treasurer who shall credit the same to the fund. States that all moneys remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year shall be transferred to the Colorado National Guard Foundation (foundation), a Colorado nonprofit organization. Directs the foundation to use the moneys from the fund to make grants to National Guard members or reservists or to the families of National Guard members or reservists. Directs the foundation to establish criteria for awarding grants. Specifies certain requirements that a national guard member or reservist shall meet to be qualified to receive a grant. States that the Department of Veterans and Military Affairs shall have the authority to oversee the grants issued by the foundation. In the event that there is money from the fund in excess of the amount needed to make grants to National Guard members, reservists, or their families, allows the foundation to donate the excess moneys to the Western Slope Military Veterans' Cemetery Fund. For income tax years commencing on or after January 1, 2005, but prior to January 1, 2009, requires that a voluntary contribution designation line for the fund appear on individual income tax return forms. Directs the Department of Revenue to determine annually the total amount designated to the fund and to report such amount to the state treasurer and to the General Assembly. Directs the state treasurer to credit such amount to the fund. Requires the General Assembly to appropriate annually from the fund to the Department of Revenue its costs of administering moneys designated as contributions to the fund. |
| Connecticut |
H.B. 5887
Failed Joint Favorable deadline 3/15/05
Establishes a military family relief fund to supplement the income of families of the state's citizen soldiers. |
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H.B. 6011
Failed Joint Favorable deadline 3/15/05
Provides temporary relief to families of reservists during periods of financial distress, due to cuts in income because a member of the family was deployed for active duty. |
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H.B. 6627
Failed Joint Favorable deadline 3/15/05
Helps meet the immediate needs of the families of Connecticut Reserve and National Guard members who are serving in Iraq or in the "War on Terrorism" in a cost-effective and substantively effective way by expanding eligibility for relief from the Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Fund, which has more than $59 million in funds. |
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H.B. 7502, Special Session
Signed by governor 7/5/05, Public Act 3
Amends budgetary provisions; prohibits interest on property tax charges to active members of the military and provides a tax checkoff for the Military Family Relief Fund. |
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S.B. 566
Establishes a National Guard relief account within the general fund for use by the adjutant general for relief of families and members of the Connecticut National Guard and organized militia. |
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S.B. 580
Failed Joint Favorable deadline 3/15/05
Assists members of the state National Guard and their families. |
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S.B. 728
Failed Joint Favorable deadline 3/15/05
Establishes a Military Family Relief Fund in the state allowing taxpayers to contribute to said fund from their income tax return through a check-off box. |
| Florida |
H.B. 1069
Signed by governor 5/25/05, Chapter 2005-51
Creates the Family Readiness Program within the Military Affairs Department to provide need-based assistance to families of specified members of Florida National Guard on active duty; provides that implementation of the program shall be subject to appropriations expressly provided for in the program; specifies use of funds and service for which funds may be used; provides for review of requests for assistance under the program. |
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H.B. 1787
Creates the Welfare Transition Trust Fund within the Military Affairs Department; provides for source and use of the funds; provides for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund. |
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S.B. 2042
Signed by governor 4/14/05, Chapter 2005-25
Creates the Welfare Transition Trust Fund within the Military Affairs Department; provides for source and use of the funds; provides for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund. |
| Georgia |
H.B. 165
Relates to pay, pensions, and allowances for military personnel, so as to provide for financial assistance grants to families of residents of this state who are members of the Georgia National Guard or reserve forces or reserve components of the armed forces of the United States and who have been engaged in military duty for extended periods for the defense and protection of the United States and the state of Georgia; defines certain terms; creates the Commission on Helpful Economic Relief for Our Exceptional Soldiers (HEROES) and provide for its members, powers, and duties; creates the Helpful Economic Relief for Our Exceptional Soldiers (HEROES) Trust Fund and provides for its sources of funding and administration; provides for applications on behalf of minor family members; provides for rules and regulations; provides a contingent effective date; provides for contingent refund of voluntary contributions; provides for contingent automatic repeal. |
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H.B. 282
Signed by governor 4/12/05, Act No. 30
Relates to imposition, rate, computation, and exemptions regarding income taxes; provides deductions in determining individual and corporate taxable net income for certain purchases which may be treated as expenses under federal law; authorizes taxpayers to make contributions through the income tax payment and refund process to the Georgia National Guard Foundation. |
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H.R. 65
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution so as to authorize the General Assembly to provide by law for financial assistance grants to families of residents of this state who are members of the National Guard or reserve forces or reserve components of the armed forces of the United States and who have been engaged in military duty for extended periods and the creation and administration of a nonlapsing trust fund for such purpose; to provide for the submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection. |
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S.B. 60
Relates to pay, pensions, and allowances for military personnel, so as to provide for financial assistance grants to families of residents of this state who are members of the Georgia National Guard or reserve forces or reserve components of the armed forces of the United States and who have been engaged in military duty for extended periods for the defense and protection of the United States and the state of Georgia; defines certain terms; creates the Commission on Helpful Economic Relief for Our Exceptional Soldiers (HEROES) and provides for its members, powers, and duties; creates the Helpful Economic Relief for Our Exceptional Soldiers (HEROES) Trust Fund and provides for its sources of funding and administration; provides for applications on behalf of minor family members; provides for rules and regulations; provides a contingent effective date; provides for contingent refund of voluntary contributions; provides for contingent automatic repeal. |
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S.R. 38
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution so as to authorize the General Assembly to provide by law for financial assistance grants to families of residents of this state who are members of the National Guard or reserve forces or reserve components of the armed forces of the United States and who have been engaged in military duty for extended periods and the creation and administration of a nonlapsing trust fund for such purpose; to provide for the submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection. |
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S.R. 334
Passed Senate 3/31/05
Urges private persons to make financial contributions to the Georgia National Guard Family Support Foundation, Inc. |
| Hawaii |
H.B. 111
Establishes the Hawaii military family relief special fund and an income tax check off to fund it. Provides economic relief to families of Hawaii National Guard and reserve members. |
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H.R. 185
Requests that the federal government waive combat income when considering the eligibility of military dependents for income-based school lunch programs. |
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S.B. 1827
Establishes the Hawaii military family relief special fund and an income tax check off to fund it. Provides economic relief to families of Hawaii National Guard and reserve members. |
| Illinois |
S.B. 328
Signed by governor 6/15/05, Public Act 94-35
Establishes the Helping Heroes Child Care Program for the purpose of providing vouchers for child care to Illinois families who have one or more parents deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan by the armed services. Provides for the program to be administered by the Department of Human Services, but only if federal funding is made available for that purpose. |
| Indiana |
S.B. 243
Establishes the military family relief trust fund to provide grants to the families of Indiana residents who: (1) are members of the Indiana National Guard or the armed forces reserves; and (2) have been called to active duty after September 11, 2001. Allows the Veterans' Affairs Commission to establish the eligibility criteria and application and selection procedures for the grants. Funds the fund by taxpayer designation on a state income tax return of: (1) a contribution; or (2) all or part of a state income tax refund. |
| Iowa |
H.F. 629
Creates the military family relief fund under the control of the Department of Public Defense. Moneys in the fund are appropriated to the Department of Public Defense. Moneys in the fund are to be used to make grants to families of persons who are members of the Iowa National Guard or residents who are members of the army reserves and who have been called to active duty as a result of the September 11, 2001, attacks. The bill also creates a military family relief fund income tax checkoff. Moneys collected from the checkoff are to be credited to the fund. Provides that the limitation on the number of checkoffs allowed on the Iowa individual income tax return does not apply to the military family relief fund checkoff. The provisions of the bill relating to the military family relief fund checkoff apply retroactively to the tax year beginning January 1, 2005. |
| Kentucky |
H.B. 252
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to assess a surcharge against individual income tax, to be removed when American troops deployed in Iraq fall below 25,000; creates new sections of KRS Chapter 36 to establish and fund the Military Family Medical and Dental Trust Fund, directs that funds are to be used to reimburse Kentuckians on active military duty for out of pocket medical expenses. |
| Louisiana |
S.B. 216
Signed by governor 6/28/05, Act 151
Creates Louisiana Military Family Assistance Fund and Louisiana Military Family Assistance Board, and provides for donations to fund and distribution of amounts. |
| Maine |
L.D. 1396
Carried over to next session 6/18/05
Authorizes the issuance of a special registration plate for members of the Maine National Guard that will help fund the Maine Military Family Relief Fund. The license plates issued are for past and present members of Maine National Guard only. |
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L.D. 1606
Repeals, beginning with income tax year 2006, all income tax donation checkoffs except for the checkoffs for the Companion Animal Sterilization Fund and the Maine Military Family Relief Fund, which, due to their relative newness, are repealed beginning with income tax year 2007. |
| Maryland |
H.B. 416
Establishes the Maryland Military Family Relief Fund within the Department of Veterans Affairs to be used to provide grants to specified military families; requiring the secretary of Veterans Affairs to adopt specified regulations and to establish specified eligibility criteria; requiring the secretary to submit a specified report each year to the General Assembly on the administration of the fund; requires the comptroller to include a checkoff on individual income tax return forms for voluntary contributions to the fund. |
| Massachusetts |
H.B. 4417
Requires the secretary of Administration and Finance to create an expendable trust, to be known as the Massachusetts Military Family Relief Fund, to help members of the Massachusetts National Guard and Massachusetts residents who are members of the reserves of the armed forces of the United States and who were called to active duty after September 11, 2001, and their families, to defray the costs of food, housing, utilities, medical services, and other expenses. The fund will consist of all revenues received by the commonwealth under the provisions of section 6J of chapter 62, from public and private sources as gifts, grants, and donations to further the purposes of said fund. All revenues credited to said fund under this section shall remain in said fund, not subject to appropriation, for application to said purposes. The state treasurer shall not deposit said revenues in, or transfer said revenues to, the General Fund or any other fund other than the Massachusetts Military Family Relief Fund. The state treasurer shall deposit monies in said fund in accordance with the provisions of section 34 and 34A of chapter 29 in such manner as will secure the highest interest rate available consistent with safety of the fund and with the requirement that all amounts on deposit be available for immediate withdrawal at any time. All revenues received for the Military Family Relief Fund shall be directly paid to the Friends of Massachusetts National Guard and Reserve Families by the Military Division through the established expendable trust. |
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S.B. 2009
Creates the military family relief fund. |
| Michigan |
H.B. 5091
Amends the Income Tax Act to create a tax checkoff program beginning with the 2005 tax year to permit taxpayers to designate a contribution of $2 or more to the Michigan Higher Education Assistance Authority for the Children of Veterans Tuition Program. The contribution would be subtracted from a taxpayer's refund or added to the taxpayer's tax liability. An amount equal to the total amount of contributions would be appropriated from the general fund to the Children of Veterans Tuition Program and distributed under to the Children of Veterans Tuition Act. |
| Minnesota |
H.F. 229
S.F. 946
Provides an income tax checkoff to fund grants to members of the National Guard and reserves who have incurred financial need as the result of being ordered to federal active service since 9/11; authorizes administration by the adjutant general; appropriates money. |
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H.F. 811
S.F. 659
Relates to military affairs; creates a military assistance trust fund and specifying uses of the fund; authorizes rulemaking; appropriates money. |
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H.F. 869
S.F. 658
Relates to military affairs; proposes an amendment to the Minnesota Constitution by adding a section to Article XI; creates a military assistance trust fund; authorizes rulemaking; appropriates money. |
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S.F. 1008
Relates to taxes; conforms to the Military Family Tax Relief Act of 2003. |
| Mississippi |
H.B. 4, Second Extraordinary Session
Died in committee 5/28/05
Provides for the Mississippi Military Family Relief Fund. |
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H.B. 7, Second Extraordinary Session
Died in committee 5/28/05
Provides for the Mississippi Military Family Relief Fund. |
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H.B. 8, Second Extraordinary Session
Died in committee 5/28/05
Provides for the Mississippi Military Family Relief Fund. |
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S.B. 2005, Second Extraordinary Session
Signed by governor 6/14/05, Chapter 6
Creates the Mississippi Military Family Relief Fund; provides that money in the fund be used to make grants to families that experience financial hardship as a result of a family member who is a member of the National Guard or Reserves being called to active duty as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks; provides that the Adjutant General establish eligibility requirement for receipt of the grants; authorizes individual taxpayers to designate a portion of their tax refund for deposit in the fund. |
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S.B. 3035
Passed Senate 2/3/05
Creates the Mississippi Military Family Relief Fund; providea that money in the fund shall be utilized to make grants to families that experience a financial hardship as a result of a family member who is a Mississippi resident and who is a member of the Mississippi National Guard or the reserves of the armed forces of the United States being called to active duty as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; provides that the adjutant general shall establish eligibility requirements for receipt of the grants and the amount of the grants by rule; authorizes resident individual income taxpayers to designate any portion of their tax refund for deposit into the Mississippi Military Family Relief Fund. |
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S.C.R. 548
Passed both houses 2/4/05
Suspends the deadlines for the purpose of requesting the drafting, introduction, consideration and passage of a bill entitled "an act to create the Mississippi Military Family Relief Fund; provides that money in the fund shall be utilized to make grants to families that experience a loss in family income as a result of a family member who is a Mississippi resident and who is a member of the Mississippi National Guard or the reserves of the armed forces of the United States being called to active duty as a result of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; provides that the adjutant general shall establish eligibility requirements for receipt of the grants and the amount of the grants by rule; authorizes resident individual income taxpayers to designate any portion of their tax refund for deposit into the Mississippi military family relief fund. |
| Missouri |
H.B. 437
Approved by lieutenant governor 6/28/05
Creates the Missouri Military Family Relief Fund to be administered by the Adjutant General. The adjutant general will make, subject to appropriations, grants from the fund to families of persons who are members of the Missouri National Guard or Missouri residents who are members of the reserves of the armed forces of the United States and have been called to active duty as a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and establish the eligibility criteria. In addition to state appropriations, in each taxable year beginning January 1, 2005, Missouri residents and corporations can designate a minimum contribution of $1 on a single return or $2 on a combined return to be credited to the fund from their refund amount or by separate payment. The Director of the Department of Revenue is required to transfer the contributions on a monthly basis to the State Treasurer for deposit into the fund. Any moneys remaining in the fund at the end of the biennium will not revert to the credit of the General Revenue Fund. The provisions of the bill will expire six years from the effective date. |
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H.B. 535
Creates the Missouri Military Family Relief Fund which will be administered by the Adjutant General. Grants from the fund, subject to appropriations, will be made to families of persons who are members of the Missouri National Guard or Missouri residents who are members of the reserves of the armed forces of the United States and have been called to active duty as a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The adjutant general is required to establish the eligibility criteria. In addition to state appropriations, in each taxable year beginning January 1, 2005, Missouri residents and corporations can designate a minimum contribution of $1 on a single income tax return or $2 on a combined return to be credited to the fund from their refund amount or by a separate payment. The director of the Department of Revenue is required to transfer the contributions on a monthly basis to the state treasurer for deposit into the fund. Any moneys remaining in the fund at the end of the biennium will not revert to the credit of the General Revenue Fund. An educational grant program is established for survivors of veterans who died in combat while on active duty after March 1, 2003. Up to 25 grants may be given annually, with the option to petition the General Assembly for more grants if the waiting list exceeds 50. The grants may be used for programs at public Missouri colleges or universities leading to a certificate, associate, or first bachelor's degree. When combined with other financial aid, the grants will pay for up to 100 percent of the tuition and fees. The Coordinating Board for Higher Education will administer the program. Survivors will be certified as eligible by a state veterans service officer or a Veterans Administration medical authority, depending on the circumstances of the veteran's death. Surviving children are eligible to receive the grant until the age of 25. The provisions of the bill will expire six years from the effective date. |
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S.B. 13
Creates a $1 check-off on the Missouri income tax return. The money designated by the check-off will be deposited into the Missouri Military Family Relief Fund, to be administered by the adjutant general and distributed to the families of Missouri residents who are members of the National Guard or the reserves and have been called to duty as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The check-off of $1 is primarily for taxpayers who are to receive a refund. However, taxpayers who owe taxes may also contribute to the fund and any taxpayer may elect to contribute more than $1. |
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S.B. 295
Creates a $1 check-off on the Missouri income tax return. The money designated by the check-off will be deposited into the Missouri Military Family Relief Fund, to be administered by a member of the National Guard, a member of the reserves and a representative of the Missouri Veteran's Commission. The money shall be distributed to the families of Missouri residents who are members of the National Guard or the reserves and have been called to duty between September 11, 2001 and December 31, 2010. The check-off of $1 is primarily for taxpayers who are to receive a refund. However, taxpayers who owe taxes may also contribute to the fund and any taxpayer may elect to contribute more than $1. The act shall sunset in six years. |
| Nebraska |
L.B. 561
Provides students of deployed members of the National Guard and reservists, who are deployed for greater than 90 days, breakfast and lunch free, and for these students to be included in the fee waiver policy of The Public Elementary and Secondary Student Fee Act, 79-2,133. Provides that the state of Nebraska will reimburse school districts the actual amount of funds that school districts do not collect from students of deployed members of the National Guard and reservists, deployed for greater than 90 days, for breakfast and lunches served. School districts will be required to provide waivers of all school district fees found in The Public Elementary and Secondary Student Fee Act. The school districts will not be reimbursed for any fees that are not paid by students of deployed members of the National Guard and reservists. Students of deployed members of the National Guard and reservists, who do not otherwise qualify for breakfast and lunch free, may not be counted as poverty students in the annual financial report that school districts submit to the Nebraska Department of Education for calculating state aid. |
| New Jersey |
A.B. 3330
S.B. 2423
Establishes the "NJ Military Family Relief Fund" and provides for a designation on the State gross income tax return that will permit taxpayers to make voluntary contributions to the fund. This fund will provide for monetary grants to members of the NJ National Guard and U.S. Armed Forces reserve components and their families. These monetary grants are intended to help members and their families defray the costs of food, housing, medical services, and other expenses that have become difficult to afford when a wage-earner has temporarily left civilian employment to be placed on active military duty. The members and their families shall apply to the NJ Department of Military and Veterans Affairs for the monetary grants. |
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A.B. 3838
S.B. 2434
Provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on gross income tax returns for New Jersey National Guard members and their families in need of assistance. |
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A.C.R. 201
Memorializes Congress to pass legislation and appropriate full funding for loans, grants and other programs that would provide financial assistance to reservists and National Guard members who have been activated by the President of the United States in the war on terror. This resolution further calls upon Congress to provide tax relief for these soldiers and their families and to consider additional actions that may be warranted. In response to terrorist attacks against our nation, the President of the United States has called upon the reserves of the armed forces of the United States and members of the National Guard to protect America's citizens and her freedoms. The General Accounting Office reported to Congress that reservists and National Guard personnel mobilized to active duty experienced significant income problems that have resulted in financial hardship for soldiers and their families. |
| New Mexico |
H.B. 484
Signed by governor 4/6/05, Chapter 220
Creates an optional designation for a personal income tax contribution for assistance to members of the New Mexico National Guard activated for service in the global war on terrorism and to their families. |
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H.B. 1029
Relates to armed forces; creates the military family assistance fund; provides for loans to New Mexico residents who are members of the armed forces of the United States serving on active duty or to their spouses; makes an appropriation. |
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S.B. 490
Relates to armed forces; creates the military family assistance fund; provides for loans to New Mexico residents who are members of the armed forces of the United States serving on active duty or to their spouses; makes an appropriation. |
| New York |
A.B. 4245
Provides for corporate franchise tax and personal income gifts for the Helping Our Military in Emergencies fund to help families encountering financial emergencies while their loved ones are serving in a combat zone. |
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A.B. 4303
Exempts military personnel serving in the “War on Terrorism” from income tax on military pay and makes provision relating to the timing of filing of tax returns. |
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A.B. 5767
S.B. 444
Establishes the New York military family relief fund to provide grants to members of a force of the organized militia or a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States who are called to active military service of the United States for a period of not less than 30 consecutive days. |
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A.B. 7042
Establishes the military family relief fund; provides taxpayers a method by which they may contribute to the fund. |
| North Carolina |
H.B. 844
Provides space on the income tax return for individuals to make donations to the North Carolina national guard soldier and airman assistance fund for families of deployed members of the North Carolina National Guard. |
| Ohio |
H.B. 230
Establishes a voluntary program; provides discounts for merchandise and services for military personnel; exempts compensation received by members of the organized militia for active duty service within the state; permits taxpayers to make contributions to family members of active duty personnel; reimburses National Guard members for premiums for federal service members’ group life insurance; eliminates exemptions for investments bullion and coins to provide tuition waivers to spouses of armed forces killed. |
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H.B. 278
Allows taxpayers to donate a portion of their income tax refunds to injured military personnel and permits a state employee aggrieved under the federal "Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act" to file a claim against the state in the Court of Claims. |
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H.B. 373
Amends section 5901.08 of the Revised Code to establish a shorter residency qualification for financial assistance from a county veterans service commission for veterans, active-duty armed forces members, and certain of their immediate family members relocating to and residing in a county of this state following the recognition by the President of the United States of an emergency situation as a result of a natural disaster. |
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S.B. 182
Authorizes a county veterans service commission to waive the residency requirement for financial assistance under certain circumstances. |
| Oklahoma |
H.B. 1780
Signed by governor 6/2/05
Creates the Oklahoma National Guard Relief Program, creates an income tax checkoff for the program. |
| Oregon |
H.B. 2602
Creates the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Relief Program and the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Relief Fund. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Relief Fund. |
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H.B. 2684
Creates the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Relief Program and the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Relief Fund. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Relief Fund. |
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H.B. 2737
Creates Oregon Military Family Relief Program in Oregon Military Department. Directs Department of Revenue to establish charitable checkoff on personal income tax return forms or instructions for checkoff contributions to Oregon Military Family Relief Program. Establishes Oregon Military Family Relief Program Checkoff Contribution Account for checkoff contributions. Continuously appropriates checkoff contributions to Oregon Military Department for Oregon Military Family Relief Program. |
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H.B. 2845
Creates the Oregon Military Child Care Grant Program. Creates the Oregon Military Child Care Grant Fund. Appropriates moneys from the general fund to the Oregon Military Department for the grant program. |
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H.B. 2860
Creates Oregon Military Transition Assistance Program; appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Military Department for program. |
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H.B. 2864
Creates the Oregon Veterans' Emergency Financial Assistance Program to provide financial assistance to veterans and their families. Establishes the Oregon Veterans' Emergency Financial Assistance Fund. |
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H.B. 3333
Creates the Wounded Soldier Relief Program in the Oregon Military Department. Directs the Department of Revenue to establish a charitable checkoff on personal income tax return forms or instructions for checkoff contributions to Wounded Soldier Relief Program. Establishes the Wounded Soldier Relief Program Checkoff Contribution Account for checkoff contributions. Continuously appropriates checkoff contributions to Oregon Military Department for Wounded Soldier Relief Program. Modifies provisions relating to how eligible entities may qualify for charitable contribution checkoff listing on tax return forms. Modifies provisions relating to listing of entities and designation of amounts contributed. Applies to biennial years beginning on or after effective date of Act. |
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H.B. 3504
Signed by governor 9/2/05, Chapter 831
Removes certain limitations on eligibility for educational aid for veterans. Increases the monthly benefit payable by state. Creates the Oregon Veterans' Emergency Financial Assistance Program to provide financial assistance to veterans and their families. Establishes the Oregon Troops to Teachers program within the Oregon Student Assistance Commission. Provides that the program shall pay resident tuition costs of veteran, provided veteran agrees to teach in a high poverty area for three years or in subject of mathematics, science or special education for four years. Allows the Oregon Military Department to reimburse active members of the armed forces of the United States and certain retirees from armed forces for the cost of resident annual hunting licenses and resident annual angling licenses. |
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S.B. 8
Creates the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Relief Program and the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Relief Fund. Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Military Department for the program. |
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S.B. 762
Creates the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Relief Program and the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Relief Fund. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Relief Fund. |
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S.B. 1100
Signed by governor 9/2/05, Chapter 836
Directs the director of Veterans' Affairs to establish a program to enhance and expand services provided by county veterans' service officers. Authorizes the director to establish by rule certification process for officers. Requires that the director adopt by rule a funding distribution formula for disbursement of moneys to county governing bodies. Establishes conditions under which a county governing body may reduce the amount of moneys appropriated by a county governing body to county veterans' service officers. Creates the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Assistance Program and the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Assistance Fund. Directs the Department of Revenue to establish a charitable checkoff on personal income tax return forms or instructions for checkoff contributions to the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Assistance Program. Directs that contributions shall be deposited in the Oregon Military Emergency Financial Assistance Fund. Extends to a student at a community college, state institution of higher education or the Oregon Health and Science University who is member of reserves of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps or Coast Guard of the United States or a member of the National Guard of a state other than Oregon the same rights given to a student who is member of the Oregon National Guard when student is ordered to active duty. Applies to 2004-2005 academic year and subsequent academic years. |
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S.B. 5629
Signed by governor 8/29/05, Chapter 793
Appropriates moneys from the general fund to the Director of Veterans' Affairs, Oregon Military Department and Oregon Military Emergency Financial Assistance Fund for certain biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including miscellaneous receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal funds, collected or received by the Oregon Military Department. |
| Pennsylvania |
H.B. 34
Provides for contributions to military family relief through individual income tax returns. |
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H.B. 176
Signed by governor 7/7/05, Act 40
Amends the Tax Reform Code of 1971; provides for income tax contributions to the Olympics and military family relief funds. |
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H.B. 220
Passed House 3/29/05
Provides for contributions to military family relief through individual income tax returns. |
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H.B. 615
Provides for contributions to military family relief through individual income tax returns. |
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H.B. 1179
Establishes the Military Family Relief Fund and its operation. |
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H.B. 1180
Passed House 5/4/05
Provides for contributions to the Military Family Relief Assistance Fund on individual income tax return forms through checkoff boxes. |
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H.B. 1277
Establishes the Pennsylvania Military Child-Care Assistance Program and its operation. |
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S.B. 43
Provides for contributions for National Guard and reserve families; and establishes the Help National Guard and Reserve Families Fund. |
| Rhode Island |
H.B. 5140
Became law without governor’s signature 7/13/05, Chapter 260
Authorizes the Division of Motor Vehicles to make available an American flag license plate decal whenever someone registers or renews their registration, for the benefit of the Rhode Island Military Family Relief Fund. |
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S.B. 297
Became law without governor’s signature 7/13/05, Chapter 255
Authorizes the Division of Motor Vehicles to make available an American flag license plate decal whenever someone registers or renews their registration, for the benefit of the Rhode Island Military Family Relief Fund. |
| Texas |
H.B. 2691
Amends the Education Code and the Government Code to provide education assistance to members of the Texas National Guard, financial assistance to members of the Texas National Guard deployed on federal active duty, and a compensation benefit to the surviving heirs of a member of the Texas National Guard who died while on federal active duty. |
| Vermont |
H.B. 476
Adds a line to the Vermont income tax return for a National Guard trust fund checkoff. |
| West Virginia |
H.B. 2506
Creates the West Virginia Military Family Relief Fund; establishes an income tax checkoff on individual tax returns for contributions; provides that subject to appropriation the Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety has the power to make grants from the West Virginia Military Family Relief Fund to families of persons who are members of the West Virginia National Guard and to West Virginia residents who are members of the reserves of the United States armed forces and who have been called to active duty; and authorizes legislative rule to establish criteria for grants. |
| Wisconsin |
A.B. 192
Creates an income tax checkoff for designations to the military family relief fund. Under the bill, an individual who has an income tax liability, is due a refund, or is required to file a return may designate any amount of additional payment, or any amount of a refund due, to the military family relief fund on his or her income tax return. If an individual’s designation exceeds the amount of his or her refund, he or she must include a check with his or her tax return for the difference between the amount of the designation and the amount of the refund. If an individual who makes a contribution has a tax liability or has no tax liability and is due no refund, he or she must include a check for the amount of the designation with his or her tax return. Requires that an amount equal to the total amount of designations received, less the total cost of administering the income tax check-off procedure, be deposited in the military family relief fund. Requires the Department of Military Affairs (DMA) to use the money from the military family relief fund to provide financial aid to the immediate family of members of the national guard or reservists who are serving in active duty in the U.S. armed forces. The DMA is required to promulgate rules establishing eligibility criteria and the amount of the financial aid. |
| Wyoming |
H.B. 36
No report prior to committee of whole cutoff 2/16/05
Makes an appropriation to the Military Assistance Trust Fund. |
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