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Created by the Texas Legislature in 1946, the board was established to make land available to veterans returning from World War II. Today, the organization finances land, home loans and home improvement loans for Texas veterans and active military members who are eligible under VLB requirements. The board is composed of a Chair and two governor ...
The Texas Legislature enacted the Veterans Land Act in November 1946 which created the Texas Veterans Land Board as a division of the General Land Office (GLO). The measure called for issuing $25 million in bonds , the proceeds of which would be used by the state government to purchase land and resell it to veterans of World War II at 3% ...
After World War II, Giles conceived of a plan to reward Texas' veterans with the ability to buy land at low interest rates subsidized by the taxpayers. In 1946, the voters amended the state constitution to authorize $100 million in public funds to enable veterans to buy land, creating the Texas Veterans Land Board. Under the program, qualified ...
Apr. 12—AUSTIN — Friday, Texas Land Commissioner and Veterans Land Board (VLB) Chairwoman Dawn Buckingham, M.D. introduced the next series installment highlighting the VLB's Voices of Veterans ...
Sep. 5—AUSTIN — Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, M.D. announced Thursday the Texas Veterans Land Board's (VLB) veterans-only land sale is now open for bidding. Five tracks in four ...
Aug. 15—AUSTIN — Texas Land Commissioner and Texas Veterans Land Board (VLB) Chairwoman Dr. Dawn Buckingham announced Thursday that the Lamun-Lusk-Sanchez Texas State Veterans Home (TSVH) in ...
The facility, located at 4614 E. 50th St., will be the fifth Texas state veterans cemetery built and run by the Texas Veterans Land Board — the first in more than a decade. Currently, the ...
Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, 576 U.S. 200 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that license plates are government speech and are consequently more easily regulated/subjected to content restrictions than private speech under the First Amendment.