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This act remained the basic Federal law for appointment preference until June 27, 1944, when the Veterans' Preference Act of 1944 was enacted. Two significant modifications were made to the 1919 Act. In 1923, an Executive Order was created which added 10 points to the score of disabled veterans and added 5 points to the scores of non-disabled ...
The G.I. Bill, formally the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). The original G.I. Bill expired in 1956, but the term "G.I. Bill" is still used to refer to programs created to assist American military veterans.
The Animal Enterprise Protection Act (AEPA) is passed. This law creates the crime of "animal enterprise terrorism" for those who damage or cause the loss of property of an animal enterprise. [36] 2002: The AWA is amended to redefine the term "animal" in the law to match the USDA regulations, i.e. to exclude birds, mice, and rats. [11] 2002
Contract Settlement Act of 1944, Pub. L. 78–395, Sess. 2, an act to provide for the settlement of claims arising from terminated war contracts December 22, 1944: Pick-Sloan Flood Control Act , Sess. 2, ch. 665, Pub. L. 78–534 , 58 Stat. 887
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Florida first began assisting military veterans when they returned from World War II in 1944, but it wasn't until 1988 that a constitutional amendment was approved by Florida's voters to create a specific agency for that purpose. The Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs was created in 1989.
Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on October 25, 1988 The Department of Veterans Affairs Act of 1988 ( Pub. L. 100–527 ) changed the former Veterans Administration , an independent government agency established in 1930, primarily at that time to see to needs of World War I , into a Cabinet-level Department of Veterans Affairs .
The President's Committee on Civil Rights was a United States presidential commission established by President Harry Truman in 1946. The committee was created by Executive Order 9808 on December 5, 1946, and instructed to investigate the status of civil rights in the country and propose measures to strengthen and protect them.