CHAPTER 335

AN ACT to establish and continue the Commission on Veterans’
Affairs; to provide for the appointment of members thereof;
to prescribe its powers and duties; and to make appropriation

therefor.
[S 1389]

Approved April 5, 1950

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Commission on Veterans’ Affairs created by
House Joint Resolution 14, 1945, and continued by House Joint
Resolution 46, 1946, and Senate Joint Resolution 41, 1948, is hereby
established and continued. The Commission shall be composed of
two persons appointed by the President of the Senate from the
membership of the Senate, three persons appointed by the Speaker
of the House from the membership of the House, and two persons
appointed by the Governor from the State at large. The members
of the Commission shall hold office for terms of two years expiring
on the date of the convening of each regular session of the General
Assembly, and thereafter until their successors are appointed.

§ 2. The Commission is authorized and directed to study all
matters affecting the welfare of citizens of Virginia who are war
veterans, or dependents or survivors of such veterans; to consider
and make recommendations concerning appropriate legislation for
their benefit, and, in this connection, to keep advised as to adminis-
tration of laws heretofore or hereafter enacted concerning veterans
and their dependents. The Commission shall biennially, sixty days
prior to the convening of each regular session of the General
Assembly, make a report to the Governor, the Attorney General
of Virginia, and the General Assembly of Virginia, setting forth
its findings and recommendations.

§ 3. The members of the Commission shall receive no salary
but shall be entitled to receive their necessary traveling and other
expenses incurred in the performance of their duties, and a per
diem of $10.00 per day for each day so engaged.