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This act remained the basic Federal law for appointment preference until June 27, 1944, when the Veterans' Preference Act of 1944 was enacted. Two significant modifications were made to the 1919 Act. In 1923, an Executive Order was created which added 10 points to the score of disabled veterans and added 5 points to the scores of non-disabled ...
The Veterans' Preference Act was enacted in the United States, requiring the federal government to favor returning war veterans when hiring new employees. Died: Milan Hodža, 66, Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938
The G.I. Bill, formally the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). The original G.I. Bill expired in 1956, but the term "G.I. Bill" is still used to refer to programs created to assist American military veterans.
August 24 – President Truman releases a memorandum about the Veterans' Preference Act of 1944. [79] August 25 – President Truman issues a statement concerning the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [80]
The Department of Veterans Affairs Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100–527) changed the former Veterans' [29] Administration, an independent government agency established in 1930 into a Cabinet-level Department of Veterans Affairs. It was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on October 25, 1988, but came into effect under the term of his successor ...
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In addition to increasing the state’s annuity to service disabled veterans by $500 up to $2,500 a year, the HERO Act would bring the state's definition of individuals who can be defined as ...
Veterans Paralympic Act of 2013; Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014; Veterans' Land Board scandal; Veterans' Memorials, Boy Scouts, Public Seals, and Other Public Expressions of Religion Protection Act of 2006; Veterans' Preference Act; Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act