Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 43 State Government -- Executive - Chapter 43.60A Department Of Veterans Affairs
- 43.60A.010 Definitions
As used in this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "Department" means the ...
- 43.60A.020 Department created -- Transfer of powers, duties, and functions to department
There is hereby created a department of state government to be known as the department of veterans affairs. All powers, duties, and functions now or ...
- 43.60A.030 Director -- Qualifications -- Salary -- Vacancy
The executive head and appointing authority of the department shall be the director of veterans affairs. The director shall be an honorably discharged or retired ...
- 43.60A.040 General powers and duties of director
The director of the department of veterans affairs shall have the power and it shall be the director's duty: (1) To conduct, control, and supervise ...
- 43.60A.050 Assistants -- Executive staff -- Deputy
The director may appoint such assistants and executive staff as shall be needed to administer the department, all of whom shall be veterans. The director ...
- 43.60A.060 Delegation of powers and duties
The director may delegate any power or duty vested in or transferred to the director by law or executive order to a deputy director or ...
- 43.60A.070 Additional powers and duties of director
In addition to other powers and duties, the director is authorized: (1) To cooperate with officers and agencies of the United States in all matters ...
- 43.60A.075 Powers as to state veterans' homes
The director of the department of veterans affairs shall have full power to manage and govern the state soldiers' home and colony, the Washington veterans' ...
- 43.60A.080 Veterans affairs advisory committee -- Created -- Membership -- Terms -- Powers and duties
(1) There is hereby created a veterans affairs advisory committee which shall serve in an advisory capacity to the governor and the director of the ...
- 43.60A.100 Counseling services -- War-affected veterans
The department of veterans affairs, to the extent funds are made available, shall: (1) Contract with professional counseling specialists to provide a range of direct ...
- 43.60A.110 Counseling -- Coordination of programs
The department shall coordinate the programs contained in RCW 43.60A.100 with the services offered by the department of social and health services, local mental health ...
- 43.60A.120 Counseling -- Priority
The department of veterans affairs shall give priority in its counseling and instructional programs to treating state veterans located in rural areas of the state, ...
- 43.60A.130 Counseling -- Posttraumatic stress disorder and combat stress program
The department of veterans affairs shall design its posttraumatic stress disorder and combat stress programs and related activities to provide veterans with as much privacy ...
- 43.60A.140 Veterans stewardship account
(1) The veterans stewardship account is created in the custody of the state treasurer. Disbursements of funds must be on the authorization of the director ...
- 43.60A.150 Veterans conservation corps--Created
(1) The Washington veterans conservation corps is created. The department shall establish enrollment procedures for the program. Enrollees may choose to participate in either or ...
- 43.60A.151 Veterans conservation corps -- Employment assistance -- Agreements for educational benefits -- Receipt of gifts, grants, or federal moneys -- Report
(1) The department shall assist veterans enrolled in the veterans conservation corps with obtaining employment in conservation programs and projects that restore Washington's natural habitat, ...
- 43.60A.152 Collaboration with agencies implementing the Washington conservation corps -- Report
(1) The department shall collaborate with the state agencies implementing the Washington conservation corps, created in chapter 43.220 RCW, to maximize the utilization of both ...
- 43.60A.153 Veterans conservation corps account
The veterans conservation corps account is created in the state treasury. All moneys appropriated to the account or directed to the account from other sources ...
- 43.60A.154 Agreements with federal entities for projects -- Report
(1) The department shall seek to enter agreements with the national park service, the United States forest service, the United States fish and wildlife service, ...
- 43.60A.155 Cooperation with the salmon recovery funding board regarding project work -- Report
(1) During calendar years 2007 and 2008 the salmon recovery funding board shall cooperate with the department of veterans affairs to inform salmon habitat project ...
- 43.60A.160 Veterans innovations program
There is created in the department a veterans innovations program, which consists of the defenders' fund and the competitive grant program. The purpose of the ...
- 43.60A.165 Defenders' fund -- Eligibility for assistance
The defenders' fund is created to provide assistance to members of the Washington national guard and reservists who served in Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi ...
- 43.60A.170 Competitive grant program -- Veterans innovations program board -- Travel expenses
The competitive grant program is created to fund innovative initiatives to provide crisis and emergency relief, education, training, and employment assistance to veterans and their ...
- 43.60A.175 Receipt of gifts, grants, or endowments -- Rule-making authority
(1) The department may receive gifts, grants, or endowments from public or private sources that are made from time to time, in trust or otherwise, ...
- 43.60A.180 Conflicts of interest
In addition to other applicable provisions of law pertaining to conflicts of interest of public officials, no board member, appointive or otherwise, may participate in ...
- 43.60A.185 Veterans innovations program account
The veterans innovations program account is created in the state treasury. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. Expenditures from the account ...
- 43.60A.190 Veteran-owned businesses
(1) The department shall: (a) Develop and maintain a current list of veteran-owned businesses; and (b) Make the list available on the department's public web ...
- 43.60A.900 Transfer of personnel of department of social and health services engaged in veterans' services -- Rights preserved
All employees and personnel of the department of social and health services directly engaged in services to veterans shall, on June 25, 1976, be transferred ...
- 43.60A.901 Transfer of property, records, funds, assets of agencies whose functions are transferred to department
All reports, documents, surveys, books, records, files, papers, or other writings in the possession of all departments and agencies of state government concerned with veterans ...
- 43.60A.902 Rules and regulations, pending business, contracts, of agencies whose functions are transferred to department to be continued -- Savings
All rules and regulations, and all pending business before the departments and agencies or divisions thereof affected by this chapter pertaining to matters transferred by ...
- 43.60A.903 Certification when apportionments of budgeted funds required because of transfers
If apportionments of budgeted funds are required because of the transfers authorized by this chapter, the director of financial management shall certify such apportionments to ...
- 43.60A.904 Federal programs -- Rules and regulations -- Internal reorganization to meet federal requirements -- Construction to comply with federal law -- Conflicting parts inoperative
In furtherance of the policy of the state to cooperate with the federal government in all of the programs included in this chapter, such rules ...
- 43.60A.905 Savings -- 1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 115
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect any existing rights acquired under RCW 43.17.010, 43.17.020, 43.61.030, 43.61.040, or 43.61.070, as now or hereafter ...
- 43.60A.906 Collective bargaining units or agreements not altered
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to alter any existing collective bargaining unit or the provisions of any existing collective bargaining agreement until ...
- 43.60A.907 Liberal construction -- 1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 115
The rule of strict construction shall have no application to this chapter and it shall be liberally construed in order to carry out the objective ...
- 43.60A.908 Severability -- 1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 115
If any provision of this amendatory act, or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act, or the ...
Last modified: April 7, 2009