AN ACT relating to veterans.

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AN ACT relating to veterans. 1
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 2
Section 1. KRS 40.050 is amended to read as follows: 3
(1) Every person determined by the administrator to be a qualified veteran shall be paid 4
the sum of nine dollars ($9) for each month and major fraction of a month of active 5
duty, in the Armed Forces in the cont inental United States, not to exceed in all the 6
sum of three hundred dollars ($300), and the sum of fifteen dollars ($15) for each 7
month and major fraction of a month of such service outside the continental United 8
States, subject to an aggregate limit for all service in the sum of five hundred 9
dollars ($500). A veteran who served in one (1) or more of the conflict periods 10
defined in subsections (15), (16), (17), and (18) of KRS 40.010 shall be limited to a 11
maximum payment of three hundred dollars ($300) if no part of his or her total 12
service during the periods specified was served outside the continental United 13
States, or five hundred dollars ($500) if a part of his or her total service during the 14
periods specified was served outside the continental United States. 15
(2) If a person determined to have been a qualified veteran shall be deceased at the time 16
payment of the veterans' bonus would otherwise be made to him or her, the amount 17
of his or her bonus shall be paid to the first surviving beneficiary, if any, according 18
to the order of priority defined in subsection (8) of KRS 40.010 , and if there be no 19
surviving beneficiary, the bonus of such veteran shall lapse, and no payment thereof 20
shall be made. 21
(3) A beneficiary , [(]as defined in subsections (8), (9), (10 ), (11), and (12) of KRS 22
40.010,[)] of a person killed in the line of duty while on active duty in the Armed 23
Forces during the periods defined in subsections (15), (16), (17), and (18) of KRS 24
40.010, or of a person who died of service -connected injury sust ained while on 25
active duty in the Armed Forces during the conflict periods defined above , shall be 26
paid three hundred dollars ($300) if no part of his or her total service during these 27
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periods was served outside the continental United States or five hundre d dollars 1
($500) if any part of his or her total service during these periods was served outside 2
the continental United States. The provisions of subsection (1) of this section and 3
the minimum period of service for entitlement to a bonus as established by 4
subsection (2) of KRS 40.010 shall not apply to these beneficiaries. However, this 5
exception does not waive the respective maximums of three hundred dollars ($300) 6
or five hundred dollars ($500) for each veteran, person killed in the line of duty 7
while on active duty in the Armed Forces, or person who died as a result of service -8
connected injury sustained while on active duty in the Armed Forces. 9