(20 ILCS 2805/2b) (from Ch. 126 1/2, par. 67b)
Sec. 2b. Persian Gulf Conflict Veterans Fund.
(a) There is created within the State Treasury a fund to be known as the Persian Gulf Conflict Veterans Fund. All moneys received from any income tax checkoff for the Persian Gulf Conflict Veterans Fund as provided in Section 507H of the Illinois Income Tax Act shall be deposited into the fund.
(b) All moneys in the Persian Gulf Conflict Veterans Fund, together with any other excess amounts appropriated for bonus payments to war veterans and peacetime crisis survivors as allocated by the Department, shall be used to compensate persons who served on active duty with the armed forces of the United States on or after August 2, 1990. Every person who served in the Persian Gulf Conflict is entitled to receive compensation of $100, payable from funds appropriated for the payments of bonuses to veterans, if the person:
(1) was a resident of Illinois for at least 12 months
immediately preceding his or her period of service;
(2) is still in active service, is honorably
separated or discharged from the service, has been furloughed to a reserve, or has been retired; and
(3) has received the Southwest Asia Service Medal for
service in the Persian Gulf Conflict.
(c) The widow or widower, child or children, mother, father, person standing in loco parentis, brothers and sisters, in the order named, of any deceased person shall be paid the compensation that the deceased person would be entitled to receive under subsection (b) of this Act. Where the deceased person would have qualified for compensation under subsection (b) except for his or her death and his or her death was connected with that service and resulted from that service during the time specified in subsection (b), his or her survivors, in the order named in this subsection, shall be paid 10 times the amount the deceased person would have received under subsection (b).
(d) The Department shall establish rules and regulations to govern the provisions of this Section.
(Source: P.A. 87-119; 87-895; 88-11.)
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