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WI Stat § 45.095 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.095 - Donation of abandoned vehicles.

45.095  Donation of abandoned vehicles. A nonprofit organization that provides financial assistance or other services to veterans and their dependents that receives a vehicle donated under s. 342.40 shall use at least 50 percent of the proceeds obtained through the donation to serve the needs of active duty service members, veterans, or the families of veterans.History:  2015 a. 106.
WI Stat § 45.10 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.10 - Veteran appearances.

45.10  Veteran appearances. The department may reimburse any veteran who incurred travel expenses relating to an appearance that occurred at the request of the state, subject to the following: (1) A veteran seeking reimbursement shall submit to the department documentation of travel expenses incurred. (2) Notwithstanding ss. 16.53 (12) (c) and 20.916 (8) and (9), the department may reimburse all documented travel expenses but reimbursement shall not exceed $2,000 annually per veteran. History:  2015 a. 55.
WI Stat § 45.12 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.12 - Wisconsin veteran-owned business logotypes.

45.12  Wisconsin veteran-owned business logotypes. (1) In this section:(a) “Disabled veteran-owned business" means a business certified by the department of administration under s. 16.283 (3).(b) “Veteran-owned business" means each of the following:1. A disabled veteran-owned business.2. A business that is certified by the department for purposes of s. 16.75 (4).3. A business not included under subds. 1. and 2. that the department certifies for purposes of this section as being at least 51 percent owned by one or more veterans. (2) The department shall design an official logotype appropriate for use by veteran-owned businesses in this state. The logotype design shall contain the words “Wisconsin Veteran-Owned Business." (2m) (a) The department shall certify each farmer who applies to the department to use the logotype under par. (b) if the farmer is one of the following:1. A veteran.2. An immediate family member of a veteran under s. 45.01 (12) (g) to (i).(b) The department, in consultation with the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection shall design an official logotype appropriate for use on agricultural products produced by persons certified under par. (a). (3) The department may design an official logotype, in addition to the one designed under sub. (2), appropriate for use by disabled veteran-owned businesses in this state. The logotype design shall contain the words “Wisconsin Disabled Veteran-Owned Business." (4) The department shall consult with the department of administration to design the official logotype under sub. (2) and the official logotype under sub. (3), if any.History:  2015 a. 384; 2017 a. 121; 2017 a. 364 s. 49.
WI Stat § 45.21 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.21 - Retraining assistance program.

45.21  Retraining assistance program. (1) Amount and application. The department may pay a veteran not more than $3,000 for retraining to enable the veteran to obtain gainful employment. The department shall determine the amount of the payment based on the veteran's financial need. A veteran may apply for aid to the county veterans service officer of the county in which the veteran is living. The department may, on behalf of a veteran who is engaged in a structured on-the-job training program and who meets the requirements under sub. (2), make a payment under this subsection to the veteran's employer. (2)  Eligibility. The department may provide aid under this section if all of the following apply:(a) The veteran is enrolled in a training course in a technical college under ch. 38 or in a proprietary school in the state approved by the department of safety and professional services under s. 440.52, other than a proprietary school offering a 4-year degree or 4-year program, or is engaged in a structured on-the-job training program that meets program requirements promulgated by the department by rule.(b) The veteran meets the financial assistance criteria established under sub. (3) (c).(c) The veteran is unemployed, underemployed, as defined by rule, or has received a notice of termination of employment.(d) The veteran requesting aid has not received reimbursement under s. 45.20 for courses completed during the same semester for which a grant would be received under this section.(e) The department determines that the veteran's proposed program will provide retraining that could enable the veteran to find gainful employment. In making its determination, the department shall consider whether the proposed program provides adequate employment skills and is in an occupation for which favorable employment opportunities are anticipated. (3)  Rules. The department shall promulgate rules for the distribution of aid under this program, including all of the following:(a) Standard budgets for single and married veterans.(b) Selection procedures.(c) Uniform need determination procedures.(d) Application procedures.(e) Coordination with other occupational training programs.(f) Other provisions the department deems necessary to assure uniform administration of this program. (4)  Report. The department shall include in its biennial report under s. 15.04 (1) (d) information relating to the veterans retraining assistance program, including the number of veterans obtaining gainful employment after receiving aid and a description of the veterans receiving aid, including their sex, age, race, educational level, service-connected disability status, and income before and after obtaining gainful employment. This information may be based on a valid statistical sample. History:  2005 a. 22, 25; 2017 a. 59.
WI Stat § 45.43 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.43 - Veterans assistance program.

45.43  Veterans assistance program. (1) The department shall administer a program to provide assistance to persons who served in the U.S. armed forces or in forces incorporated as part of the U.S. armed forces and who were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable. The department shall provide assistance under this section to persons whose need for services is based upon homelessness, incarceration, or other circumstances designated by the department by rule. The eligibility requirements under s. 45.02 (2) do not apply to a person applying for assistance under this section. The department shall designate the assistance available under this section, which may include assistance in receiving medical care, dental care, education, employment, single room occupancy housing, and transitional housing. The department may provide payments to facilitate the provision of services under this section. (2) The department may charge fees for single room occupancy housing, transitional housing, and for other assistance provided under this section that the department designates. The department shall promulgate rules establishing the fee schedule and the manner of implementation of that schedule. History:  2005 a. 22; 2007 a. 20; 2009 a. 28; 2013 a. 20.
WI Stat § 45.437 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.437 - Veterans employment and entrepreneurship grant program.

45.437  Veterans employment and entrepreneurship grant program. (1) Definition. In this section, “disabled veteran" means a veteran who is verified by the department to have a service-connected disability rating of at least 50 percent under 38 USC 1114 or 1134. (2)  Grants. (a) From the appropriation under s. 20.485 (2) (qm), the department may award up to $500,000 annually in grants to veterans, employers, and nonprofit organizations under this section.(b) The department may not award a grant under par. (a) unless the department determines that the grant is likely to improve employment outcomes for veterans in this state. Subject to that limitation, the department may award grants to assist veteran entrepreneurs, to give employers in this state incentives to hire veterans, especially disabled veterans, to help fund employment training for veterans, especially disabled veterans, and for other programs or purposes as determined by the department by rule. (3)  Annual report. Annually, the department shall submit a report to the governor and to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature for distribution to the legislature under s. 13.172 (2) that includes all of the following:(a) The number of grants awarded under this section.(b) The amount of each grant awarded under this section.(c) The purpose of each grant awarded under this section.(d) The outcomes attributable to each grant awarded under this section. (4)  Rules. The department shall promulgate rules implementing this section. The rules promulgated under this subsection shall include rules establishing the specific goals grant recipients must meet and requiring that those goals be met before any grant moneys are disbursed.History:  2015 a. 385.
WI Stat § 45.46 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.46 - Grants to nonprofit organizations that serve veterans and their families.

45.46  Grants to nonprofit organizations that serve veterans and their families. From the appropriation under s. 20.485 (2) (th), the department may make grants of up to $250,000 annually to nonprofit organizations, as defined in s. 108.02 (19), and no more than $25,000 to each grant recipient, to provide financial assistance or other services to veterans and their dependents.History:  2015 a. 383; 2017 a. 59.
WI Stat § 45.47 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.47 - Record-keeping and audit requirements for grant programs administered by the department.

45.47  Record-keeping and audit requirements for grant programs administered by the department. (1) Definition. In this section, “grant recipient" means a county, American Indian tribe or band, nonprofit organization, or other person that is not an individual and that receives a grant from the department under this chapter. (2)  Requirements. Each grant recipient shall maintain records as required by the department concerning the grant recipient's expenditure of grant moneys. Each grant recipient shall give the department access to those records upon request of the department, and the department may audit those records to ensure compliance with applicable grant requirements. (3)  Reduction, suspension, or termination of grant. If a grant recipient fails to comply with sub. (2), the department may, in addition to any other legal remedy available to the department, reduce, suspend, or terminate a grant the department made to the grant recipient. History:  2013 a. 190.
WI Stat § 45.48 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.48 - Veterans outreach and recovery program.

45.48  Veterans outreach and recovery program. (1) To be funded from the appropriation under s. 20.485 (2) (qs), the department shall administer a program to provide outreach, mental health services, and support to individuals who reside in this state, who may have a mental health condition or substance use disorder, and who meet one of the following conditions:(a) Are serving in the national guard of any state or a reserve component of the U.S. armed forces.(b) Served on active duty in the U.S. armed forces, forces incorporated as part of the U.S. armed forces, a reserve component of the U.S. armed forces, or the national guard of any state and were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable. (1m) The department shall expend at least $100,000 annually under sub. (1) to promote suicide prevention and awareness by providing outreach, mental health services, and support to individuals who are members of a traditionally underserved population, including minority groups and individuals who reside in rural areas of the state. The department may enter into contracts to provide services under this subsection. (2) The eligibility requirements under s. 45.02 do not apply to an individual receiving services under sub. (1). (3) The department may provide payments to facilitate the provision of services under sub. (1).History:  2019 a. 9; 2021 a. 58.
WI Stat § 45.55 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.55 - Notes and mortgages of minor veterans.

45.55  Notes and mortgages of minor veterans. Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or any other law to the contrary, any minor who served in the active armed forces of the United States at any time after August 27, 1940, and the husband or wife of such a minor may execute, in his or her own right, notes or mortgages, as defined in s. 851.15, the payment of which is guaranteed or insured by the U.S. department of veterans affairs or the federal housing administrator under the servicemen's readjustment act of 1944, the national housing act, or any acts supplementing or amending these acts. In connection with these transactions, the minors may sell, release or convey the mortgaged property and litigate or settle controversies arising therefrom, including the execution of releases, deeds, and other necessary papers or instruments. The notes, mortgages, releases, deeds and other necessary papers or instruments when so executed are not subject to avoidance by the minor or the husband or wife of the minor upon either or both of them attaining the age of 18 because of the minority of either or both of them at the time of the execution thereof. History:  1971 c. 41 s. 8; 1971 c. 228 s. 36; Stats. 1971 s. 880.32; 1989 a. 56; 1997 a. 188; 2005 a. 387 s. 457; Stats. 2005 s. 45.55.
WI Stat § 45.57 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.57 - Veterans homes; transfer of funding.

45.57  Veterans homes; transfer of funding. The department may transfer all or part of the unencumbered balance of any of the appropriations under s. 20.485 (1) (g), (gd), (gk), or (i) to the veterans trust fund. The department shall notify the joint committee on finance in writing of any balance transferred under this section.NOTE:  This section was renumbered from s. 45.57 (1) by the legislative reference bureau under s. 13.92 (1) (bm) 2.History:  2013 a. 20; 2017 a. 369; 2019 a. 9; s. 13.92 (1) (bm) 2.
WI Stat § 45.58 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.58 - Grants to local governments.

45.58  Grants to local governments. From the appropriation under s. 20.485 (1) (kj), the department may make up to $300,000 each fiscal biennium in grants to cities, villages, and towns that provide services to veterans homes and other facilities for veterans. A city, village, or town may not expend grant moneys it receives under this section for any purpose other than providing fire and emergency medical services to veterans homes and other facilities for veterans.History:  2015 a. 55; 2017 a. 59 ss. 739r, 2265m, 9449.
WI Stat § 45.60 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.60 - Military funeral honors.

45.60  Military funeral honors. (1) Program. (a) The department shall administer a program to coordinate the provision of military funeral honors in this state to all of the following:1. Military personnel on active duty.2. Former military members who served on active duty and were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable. 3. Members of the selective service. 4. Former members of the selected reserve and national guard who served at least one term of enlistment or period of initial obligated service and were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable.5. Former members of the selected reserve or national guard who were discharged due to a service-connected disability or for a disability subsequently adjudicated to have been service-connected.(b) Military funeral honors may be provided by local units of member organizations of the council on veterans programs, by local units of veterans organizations certified by the department to provide military funeral honors, by members of the Wisconsin national guard activated under s. 321.04 (2) (e), or by staff of the department.  (2)  Stipends. From the appropriation under s. 20.485 (2) (sm), the department shall reimburse a local unit of a member organization of the council on veterans programs or a local unit of a veterans organization certified by the department to provide military funeral honors for the costs of providing military funeral honors in this state to a person described in sub. (1). The reimbursement may not exceed $50 for each funeral for which military honors are provided. (3)  Tuition voucher. (a) The department shall create a tuition voucher form to be used by funeral directors under par. (b). The department shall distribute copies of the tuition voucher form, plus an explanation of the form's use, to every operator of a funeral establishment. The department may not charge a fee for the tuition voucher form or for the distribution of the form.(b) A funeral director may issue a tuition voucher in the amount of $25 to an individual who sounds “Taps" on a bugle, trumpet, or cornet during each funeral for which military honors are held in this state for a person described in sub. (1) and who is a student in grades 6 to 12 or at an institution of higher education, as defined under s. 895.515 (1) (b). The tuition voucher may be used at any time for the payment of tuition and required program activity fees at a University of Wisconsin System institution as provided under s. 36.27 (3r) or a technical college as provided under s. 38.24 (6). The department shall encourage private institutions of higher education to accept the vouchers. The vouchers are not transferable.History:  2005 a. 22, 25; 2007 a. 200; 2013 a. 20; 2015 a. 55.
WI Stat § 45.62 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.62 - Burial places compiled.

45.62  Burial places compiled. (1) The department may compile a record of veteran's burial places located within the state that may, so far as practicable, indicate all of the following information:(a) The deceased veteran's name.(b) The service in which the deceased veteran was engaged.(c) The appropriate designation of the deceased veteran's armed forces unit.(d) The deceased veteran's rank and period of service.(e) The name and location of the cemetery or other place in which the deceased veteran's body is interred.(f) The location of the deceased veteran's grave in the cemetery or other place of interment.(g) The character of the headstone or other marker, if any, at the deceased veteran's grave. (2) The department may prepare blank forms for the transmission to the department of the information required for the record under sub. (1). The department may distribute the forms to county veterans service officers. A county veterans service officer within whose county any cemetery or other burial place is located in which deceased veteran's bodies are interred shall submit the facts required for the record under sub. (1) to the department on the forms provided by the department, if so requested by the department.History:  2005 a. 22.
WI Stat § 45.70 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.70 - Veterans memorials.

45.70  Veterans memorials. (1b) Establishment and modifications of memorials.  (a) The board may approve, recommend, and veto any proposed plans, modifications, and changes or policies with respect to established state memorials and any future veterans state memorials, and may recommend the creation and establishment of future veterans state memorials.(b) The board may act under par. (a) only if the department estimates that the cost of implementing the proposal for an established or future state memorial will exceed $25,000. (2)  Camp Randall memorial. (b) No structures, other than memorials approved by the board, and no walks, roads, or subterranean footings may be placed or erected upon Camp Randall Memorial Park, Madison, Wisconsin, as described in par. (c), unless authorized by the legislature; nor shall the park be used for any purpose other than a memorial park.(c) Camp Randall Memorial Park, Madison, Wisconsin, is established and described as follows: beginning on the west line of Randall Avenue 96.6 feet north of the center line of Dayton Street extended; thence west at right angles to Randall Avenue 370 feet; thence south parallel to Randall Avenue 722 feet; thence west at right angles to Randall Avenue 235 feet; thence south parallel to Randall Avenue 205 feet to the north line of Monroe Street; thence north 50 degrees 14 minutes east along the north line of Monroe Street approximately 780 feet to the west line of Randall Avenue; thence north along the west line of Randall Avenue 429 feet to the place of beginning.History:  2005 a. 22; 2013 a. 20; 2017 a. 59.
WI Stat § 45.71 (2021)
2021 Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations|Chapter 45 - Veterans.|45.71 - Catalog of memorials.

45.71  Catalog of memorials. The department shall prepare a catalog of memorials, describing each memorial and giving its location and condition. The department shall periodically update that catalog. History:  2005 a. 22.