Digest: Makes ODVA create more positions and hire staff. Makes ODVA create pilot programs on suicide prevention and workforce training. Makes ODOT accept an ID issued by USDOD or USDVA. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Requires an appropriation to the Department of Veterans' Affairs from the General Fund to be in an amount not less than $10,000,000 in 2015 dollars, adjusted for inflation.
Requires the Director of Veterans' Affairs to add additional full-time positions within the department.
Allows the director to appoint a deputy director, subject to approval by the Governor. Requires the director and deputy director to be a veteran who has received a discharge or release under other than dishonorable conditions.
Directs the department to develop and implement one or more pilot programs for suicide prevention and workforce training and preparation. Allows moneys in the Veterans' Services Fund to be used for the pilot programs.
Requires the Department of Transportation to accept, for issuing a driver license, an identification card issued by the United States Department of Defense or the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 406.020, 807.040