Bill Summary: This proposal changes the law regarding military families and personnel and also allows the Veterans’ Commission to issue $1 million annually (up from $750,000 currently) in matching grants for veterans’ service officer programs.

ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON GENERAL REVENUE FUND
FUND AFFECTED	FY 2008	FY 2009	FY 2010

Total Estimated Net Effect on General Revenue Fund	$0	$0	$0

ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON OTHER STATE FUNDS
FUND AFFECTED	FY 2008	FY 2009	FY 2010
Veterans Commission Capital Improvement Trust	($250,000)	($250,000)	($250,000)

Total Estimated Net Effect on Other State Funds	($250,000)	($250,000)	($250,000)

ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON FEDERAL FUNDS
FUND AFFECTED	FY 2008	FY 2009	FY 2010


Total Estimated Net Effect on All Federal Funds	$0	$0	$0

ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON FULL TIME EQUIVALENT (FTE)
FUND AFFECTED	FY 2008	FY 2009	FY 2010


Total Estimated Net Effect on FTE	0	0	0

☐ Estimated Total Net Effect on All funds expected to exceed $100,000 savings or (cost).

☐ Estimated Net Effect on General Revenue Fund expected to exceed $100,000 (cost).

ESTIMATED NET EFFECT ON LOCAL FUNDS
FUND AFFECTED	FY 2008	FY 2009	FY 2010
Local Government	$0	$0	$0

Officials from the Department of Public Safety - Office of Adjutant General, Director’s Office and the State Emergency Management Agency each assume the proposal would not fiscally impact their respective agencies.

Officials from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education assume the proposal would not fiscally impact their agency.

Officials from the Office of the Secretary of State (SOS) state that many bills considered by the General Assembly include provisions allowing or requiring agencies to submit rules and regulations to implement the act. The Secretary of State’s office is provided with core funding to handle a certain amount of normal activity resulting from each year’s legislative session. The fiscal impact for this fiscal note to Secretary of State’s office for Administrative Rules is less than $2,500. The Secretary of State’s office recognizes that this is a small amount and does not expect that additional funding would be required to meet these costs. However, we also recognize that many such bills may be passed by the General Assembly in a given year and that collectively the costs may be in excess of what our office can sustain with our core budget. Therefore, we reserve the right to request funding for the cost of supporting administrative rules requirements should the need arise based on a review of the finally approved bills signed by the governor.

Officials from the Missouri Veterans Commission assume this would result in an annual cost of $250,000 to the Veterans Commission Capital Improvement Trust Fund.

According to the Department of Public Safety’s budget request for 2008, the Veterans Service Officer Grants had the following expenditures in the recent past:

Therefore, Oversight will assume that raising the annual appropriation from $750,000 to $1,000,000 will result in an increased expenditure from the Veterans Commission Capital Improvement Trust Fund of $250,000 annually.

No direct fiscal impact to small businesses would be expected as a result of this proposal.

This proposal raises the amount of annual matching grants to be made for veterans' service officer programs by the Missouri Veterans' Commission from seven hundred fifty thousand to one million dollars.

This legislation is not federally mandated, would not duplicate any other program and would not require additional capital improvements or rental space.

FISCAL IMPACT - State Government	FY 2008 (10 Mo.)	FY 2009	FY 2010

VETERANS COMMISSION CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT TRUST FUND

Cost - increase of annual grants from $750,000 to $1,000,000 for veterans’ service officer programs	($250,000)	($250,000)	($250,000)

ESTIMATED NET EFFECT TO THE VETERANS COMMISSION CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT TRUST FUND	($250,000)	($250,000)	($250,000)