Gov. Bob McDonnell signed 25 bills today assisting military personnel and their families.
The laws will benefit both active-duty military and veterans, as well as their families, and included exemptions for certificates of public need at veterans care centers, a law waiving one-year residency requirements to receive Virginia’s in-state tuition rates, and extension on the expiration dates of certain state licenses for spouses of service members stationed overseas.
The laws help McDonnell fulfill a campaign promise of becoming the most veteran friendly state, the governor said in a statement. Virginia is home to 327,000 active military and families, the second largest state military population in the country.
“Military members and their families are an integral part of the fabric of life in Virginia,” McDonnell said. “We must continue to work to better serve these brave Virginians who have kept our great nation safe and make it easier on them and their families to balance military and civilian life. They have served us, we must serve them.”
