What changed

State veteran benefits move all year: legislatures pass new exemptions, agencies change dollar figures, forms get replaced. We recheck every state on a rolling cycle, and this page is the dated log of every substantive update to our state pages, newest first, each with its official source. Corrections to our own pages are listed too; we would rather show our work than pretend the site was always right.

Found something we missed or got wrong? Email [email protected] and we will check it against the primary source.

October 2026

• Oct 29 · Louisiana · property tax
  Louisiana gives disabled veterans a property-tax break: at a 100% VA rating, your home is exempt from essentially all property tax. We previously told readers that "certain municipal assessments" might still apply, without saying which ones or how much. The state Attorney General has now clarified exactly what that means: every Louisiana homeowner gets a base $7,500 homestead exemption, and that first $7,500 of your home's assessed value can still be charged city (municipal) property tax if your city has one. It is only the additional veteran exemption above that $7,500 that is fully exempt from municipal tax too. So if you live inside city limits, expect a small municipal-tax line tied to just that first $7,500 to still show up on your bill even at 100% disabled, while everything above it stays tax-free. Nothing to file or do differently, this is just a clearer explanation of your existing benefit, worth knowing so the bill doesn't surprise you. (official source)
• Oct 26 · New Hampshire · property tax
  New Hampshire gives a veteran with a total and permanent service-connected disability a $700 credit off the property tax bill, and lets each town or city vote to raise that credit as high as $5,000 a year. We had already told you about the $5,000 option. What we had not told you: the state law says that if your town has adopted that bigger optional credit, it REPLACES -- rather than adds on top of -- two other veteran tax breaks (the standard Veterans Tax Credit and the full exemption for a VA-adapted or Specially Adapted Housing home). So if you might qualify for the full exemption instead of the dollar credit, do not assume the bigger-sounding $5,000 number is the better deal. Ask your town assessor which benefit actually applies to you before you file. (official source)
• Oct 25 · Kentucky · health & veterans homes
  Kentucky runs state veterans' homes that provide nursing-home-level care for eligible veterans, each operated by the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs. The newest one, a 60-suite facility in Bowling Green, had finished construction but wasn't yet open or taking residents the last time we checked. It has now opened and begun admitting veterans, as of early October 2026, becoming Kentucky's fifth operating veterans' home. If you're a Kentucky veteran who needs skilled nursing care, you can apply at the Bowling Green location now -- call its admissions contact, Deb Gatto, at 270-535-2346, and have your DD-214 and proof of Kentucky residency ready. (official source)
• Oct 19 · Alabama · vehicles & recreation
  Alabama veterans who qualify for the state's 100% Physically Disabled hunting and fishing license category can now buy a lifetime version of that license instead of renewing it every year. Before this law, that group had to renew an annual hunting license (about $7.50/year) and a $1/year fishing license every single year. As of October 1, 2026, a new state law (House Bill 271) lets them instead pay once for a lifetime hunting license, a lifetime freshwater fishing license, and/or a lifetime saltwater fishing license -- $50 each if you are under 50, $30 each if you are 50 or older, plus a $1 issuance fee per license. If you qualify for this license category and plan to keep hunting or fishing in Alabama for more than a few more years, ask about the lifetime option the next time you renew, through Outdoor Alabama or your local Probate Judge's office -- it replaces the annual renewal for good. (official source)
• Oct 18 · Tennessee · health & veterans homes
  Updated the Tennessee Arlington veterans home status from a postponed ribbon-cutting with no new date to the now-confirmed December 1, 2026, 11 a.m. CST ribbon-cutting ceremony. (official source)
• Oct 18 · Ohio · education
  Ohio has a benefit for veterans who want to become teachers that this page hadn't covered before: the Ohio Military Veteran Educators Program (OMVEP). It fully waives the fee for an Ohio educator license, permit, or certificate -- including renewals and all license types -- for any honorably discharged veteran or current service member; spouses of active-duty service members qualify too. There's also a limited voucher covering the testing fee for certain educator licensing exams, though that part has narrower eligibility rules. If you're an Ohio veteran pursuing a teaching or other educator license, set up your OHID account and upload your discharge paperwork through the state's CORE licensure system to claim the fee waiver. (official source)
• Oct 18 · North Dakota · other benefits
  North Dakota runs a Housing Assistance Program Grant for veterans facing a housing emergency, like rent, a deposit, or an urgent housing-related bill. We'd previously found that this benefit existed, but the state hadn't published exact dollar limits, so our page just told readers to ask a Veteran Service Officer for the numbers. The state's own policy documents, in effect since November 2025, now give exact figures: up to $7,500 per calendar year, available once every three years, with your household's monthly net income capped between about $2,977 and $7,728 depending on household size, and cash assets capped at $10,000. If you're facing a housing emergency, bring your discharge paperwork and income and asset documentation to your County Veteran Service Officer to apply. (official source)
• Oct 18 · North Dakota · health & veterans homes
  Resolved the North Dakota Veterans Home's bed-count figures: the Home's own official site confirms 52 skilled-nursing beds and 98 basic-care beds (150 total), replacing the page's earlier hedge about conflicting published counts. (official source)
• Oct 18 · North Carolina · property tax
  Added House Bill 1122 (filed April 2026, referred to House Rules) to the pending-legislation disclosure -- it would exclude the entire appraised value of a qualifying disabled veteran's primary residence from property tax, going further than every other pending NC bill. Not enacted; no change to the live $45,000 exclusion. (official source)
• Oct 17 · South Carolina · health & veterans homes
  South Carolina operates six state-run Veterans' Homes offering nursing care to qualifying veterans. A new 2026 law, Act No. 153, exempts these state-owned homes from South Carolina's Certificate of Need review process -- a state approval previously required before expanding or adding health-care facilities. This doesn't change who can get in or what it costs today; it just removes a regulatory step that could have slowed the state from building or expanding a veterans' home in the future. There's nothing for a veteran to do now, but it's a sign the state may have an easier path to adding veterans'-home capacity. (official source)
• Oct 17 · Puerto Rico · health & veterans homes
  Added a new mention of the Junta Asesora de Asuntos de la Mujer Veterana, a standing Puerto Rico advisory board (Ley 234-2018, updated by Ley 27-2025) that coordinates health, housing, workforce-reintegration, and suicide-prevention services specifically for women veterans, which this page did not previously mention. (official source)
• Oct 17 · Puerto Rico · vehicles & recreation
  Puerto Rico gives every veteran a free first special veteran license plate (tablilla de veterano), and charges a small fee for any additional plate beyond the first. This page previously said that additional-plate fee was a single $10 stamp, based on DTOP's own official application form. CESCO's current fee listing now shows the real total is $13, made up of two separate internal-revenue stamps ($11 plus $2) -- the application form itself has not been updated since 2013 and still only prints the old $10 figure. If you are applying for a second or later veteran plate in Puerto Rico, budget for roughly $13 in stamps rather than $10, but confirm the exact current total with the CESCO counter before you pay, since the discrepancy between the form and the fee listing has not been formally reconciled. (official source)
• Oct 17 · Pennsylvania · vehicles & recreation
  Pennsylvania gives disabled veterans free or reduced-cost hunting and fishing licenses, and two things about this just got better. First, a 100%-rated veteran's free fishing license is now explicitly a one-time lifetime license under a 2025 law (Act 21), so it no longer needs to be renewed every year. Second, that same law dropped an old requirement that a veteran's disability (for the 60-99% reduced-fee fishing license) had to be connected to a war or armed conflict -- previously only combat-era veterans in that disability range qualified, and now any service-connected disability in the 60-99% range qualifies, at the same roughly $3 fee. If you are a Pennsylvania veteran rated 60-99% whose disability was not combat-related, you may now qualify for this discounted fishing license where you did not before; if you are rated 100%, you can stop renewing your fishing license every year. (official source)
• Oct 17 · Pennsylvania · education
  Pennsylvania's Postsecondary Educational Gratuity Program (PEGP) pays up to $500 per term, for up to four years, directly to the school of a qualifying child of a 100% permanently disabled (or service-deceased) veteran. The individual per-student award has not changed, but the state just increased the total yearly pool of money behind the whole program from $350,000 to $400,000 in the 2026-27 state budget, after the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs reported applications have roughly doubled over the past two years. Nothing to do differently today, but if your child may qualify, apply through your County Director of Veterans Affairs promptly each year -- a larger but still limited pool means less cushion before funds run out. (official source)
• Oct 16 · Oklahoma · vehicles & recreation
  Oklahoma gives a reduced $5 vehicle registration fee to disabled veterans rated 50% or more, and this page did not previously mention that a veteran's surviving spouse qualifies too. Service Oklahoma's own page confirms the surviving spouse of a qualifying disabled veteran can register one vehicle at that same discounted rate, proven with a letter of eligibility from the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs (ODVA) rather than the veteran's own C599 card. The benefit is limited to one vehicle per surviving spouse and is not available for online renewal, same as the veteran's own discount. If you are the surviving spouse of a qualifying Oklahoma disabled veteran, request this ODVA letter of eligibility and bring it when you register or renew a vehicle in person or by mail; other Oklahoma surviving-spouse veteran benefits require you to remain unremarried, so confirm with ODVA whether that condition applies here as well. (official source)
• Oct 16 · Louisiana · property tax
  Louisiana gives disabled veterans a property-tax exemption on their home that grows with VA rating, reaching a full exemption at 100%. Until now it was unclear whether a veteran who co-owns the home with a spouse under Louisiana's community-property rules got the full exemption or only half, since the title is jointly held. Louisiana Attorney General Opinion No. 25-0070 (March 23, 2026) confirms the full exemption applies to the entire value of the property, not just the veteran's undivided half-interest. This matters because a parish assessor who was only exempting half the home's value was shortchanging a married, co-owning veteran. If your assessor is prorating the exemption for this reason, you can now point them to this opinion. (official source)
• Oct 16 · Hawaii · property tax
  Confirmed via the actual Kauai County ordinance text (Sec. 5A-11.8(d)) that the under-80%-disabled-veteran property-tax exemption has no minimum rating floor; the page's 'ask the office' hedge was replaced with this confirmation. (official source)
• Oct 16 · Florida · education
  Corrected the contact email for Florida's Scholarships for Children and Spouses of Deceased or Disabled Veterans program from a stale [email protected] to the correct [email protected], and added FDVA's document-submission portal for faster processing. (official source)
• Oct 16 · California · employment & hiring
  California's state hiring preference for veterans does not require any minimum VA disability rating -- it never did, but this site's page and comparison table previously said a veteran needed a rating of 10% or more to qualify. The correct rule, read directly off the state's own application form (CalHR 1093), is that any veteran discharged under conditions other than dishonorable who has never held permanent civil-service status qualifies, regardless of disability rating; the 100%-disabled threshold applies only to a separate route for military spouses. This matters because a veteran with no rating, or a rating under 10%, may have wrongly assumed they were ineligible and skipped applying for this valuable top-of-the-list hiring preference. Nothing about how to apply changed -- only the eligibility description was wrong and is now fixed. (official source)
• Oct 16 · California · education
  Governor Newsom signed AB 2203 on September 28, 2026, which will require California's community colleges and CSU campuses (and asks the UC to do the same) to give priority class registration to students using the CalVet College Fee Waiver or federal GI Bill benefits. (official source)
• Oct 16 · California · income tax
  SB 1407, a bill that would have expanded California's military-retirement-pay tax exclusion, did not pass the Legislature this session and is not law; the page's prior wording wrongly implied a vote was still imminent. (official source)
• Oct 15 · New Mexico · vehicles & recreation
  New Mexico's free Disabled Veteran license plate program, for veterans with a 50% or greater VA disability rating, has always covered up to two vehicles at no cost. We'd previously described it as capped at two vehicles with no mention of a further option. A 2023 law (NMSA 66-3-412(B)) that had not been reflected on the page clarifies that the Motor Vehicle Division will issue additional Disabled Veteran plates beyond the first two, as long as the veteran pays the standard plate and registration fees on those extra vehicles. If you have a third vehicle (or more) and assumed only two could carry the DV plate, you can now register additional vehicles with the same plate design for the normal fee. (official source)
• Oct 15 · Missouri · other benefits
  Missouri created a new bid preference for businesses owned by honorably discharged veterans. Before this law, only businesses owned by a veteran with a service-connected disability got a bidding edge on state and local government contracts. As of August 28, 2026, a new law (RSMo 34.069, created by House Bill 2593) extends that edge to any honorably-discharged-veteran-owned business: a 3-point bonus when bids are scored, plus a statewide goal that 3% of government contracts go to veteran-owned businesses. If you own a business and are an honorably discharged veteran, even without a disability rating, you can now ask the contracting agency how to claim this preference when you bid on state or local work. (official source)
• Oct 15 · Missouri · income tax
  Fixed an internal citation error in our state-comparison data: the effective date for Missouri's full exemption of military retirement pay from state income tax was listed as 2016, but the correct effective date is tax year 2021. The underlying benefit itself (100% of military retirement pay excluded from Missouri taxable income) is unchanged and was already stated correctly on the Missouri benefits page -- only this one cross-reference field had the wrong year. (official source)
• Oct 14 · New Hampshire · health & veterans homes
  The New Hampshire Veterans Home in Tilton is the state's long-term care facility for veterans, providing skilled nursing and custodial care. We'd previously said admission required an honorably discharged veteran of the armed forces, reserves, or NH National Guard. As of August 31, 2026, a state law (RSA 119:1, amended by Chapter 252) broadened who qualifies: you can now also be admitted with a general discharge under honorable conditions, or an uncharacterized discharge tied to a service-connected injury, illness, or disability -- not just a fully honorable discharge. If a general or other non-honorable discharge previously kept you from applying to the NH Veterans Home, it's worth checking again under this wider standard. (official source)
• Oct 14 · Mississippi · other benefits
  Mississippi's 2026 law protecting veterans from predatory paid benefits consultants was enacted under a different final name than our page listed: the "PLUS Act" (Preserving Lawful Utilization of Services for Veterans Act, Chapter 453), not the "SAVE Act" title it carried earlier in the legislative process. The consumer protections themselves are unchanged -- no upfront fees, no fee in your first year post-discharge unless you waive free VSO help, and no guaranteed-outcome promises. We also added a detail that was missing before: a paid consultant's fee is capped at the lesser of five times your monthly benefit increase or $12,500, whichever is less. If you're ever approached by a paid veterans-benefits consultant in Mississippi, you can now cite the correct law by name and know the dollar ceiling on what they can legally charge you. (official source)
• Oct 13 · Maine · vehicles & recreation
  Added the 10,000 lb vehicle-weight limit that applies specifically to Maine's amputee/blind vehicle-registration fee waiver route (the separate 100%/P&T route has a higher 26,000 lb limit) -- a clarifying detail, not a change to the benefit. (official source)
• Oct 13 · Connecticut · vehicles & recreation
  Connecticut veterans can now get two DMV fees waived for free: the $84 fee for a first driver's license and the $28 fee for a state ID card, plus 90 days (instead of 60) after leaving the military to renew your license, registration, or get an emissions inspection done without a late fee. This law had already passed, but it hadn't taken effect yet -- our page said it was 'coming' and that the normal fees still applied. As of October 1, 2026, it's now in effect: any veteran the DMV verifies as a veteran qualifies, no disability rating needed. If you're a Connecticut veteran getting a license or ID card, ask the DMV clerk for the waiver under Public Act 26-35 (the Hero Act) -- the DMV's own public fee page hadn't listed it yet as of this writing, so you may need to point the clerk to the law. (official source)
• Oct 13 · Connecticut · employment & hiring
  Fixed the source link for Connecticut's veteran hiring-preference citation, which pointed to a DOL page that doesn't name the DVOP program, swapping in the DOL page that actually describes it -- no change to the benefit itself. (official source)
• Oct 12 · Iowa · vehicles & recreation
  Iowa offers qualifying disabled veterans a steeply discounted lifetime fur harvester (trapping) license instead of the regular annual trapping fee. Our page previously could not tell you the exact price because two official state sources disagreed: the application form said $7, while the state's own administrative fee-schedule rule said $59.50. A 2026 law (Iowa Code 483A.24(17), as amended by 2026 Iowa Acts ch. 1161, effective July 1, 2026) settles it at $5 plus any processing fee. The application form and the old fee-schedule rule haven't caught up to the new law yet, so call Iowa DNR Customer Service at (515) 725-8200 to confirm the exact counter price before you apply -- but $5 is now what the law actually sets. (official source)
• Oct 12 · Iowa · other benefits
  Iowa's Dept. of Veterans Affairs renamed the $5,000 Home Ownership Assistance Program to the Military Homeownership Assistance Program on its website; no change to eligibility or dollar amount. (official source)
• Oct 12 · Colorado · income tax
  Colorado lets certain veterans subtract income from their state tax return under the 'Reacquisition of Colorado Residency During Active Duty Military Service' subtraction. This benefit wasn't on our Colorado page before -- we hadn't found it yet. It applies if Colorado was your home of record, you established residency in another state while on active duty, and you later moved back and became a Colorado resident again: you can subtract the income you earned while a resident of that other state from your Colorado taxable income. If this describes your situation, claim it on Form DR 0104AD, documenting the 'left' period (DD Form 2058, out-of-state W-2, or voter registration) and the 'reacquired' period (Colorado voter registration, a property purchase, vehicle titling, or a new will). (official source)
• Oct 10 · Colorado · property tax
  Added a missing late-filing relief path to the property-tax exemption deadline note: C.R.S. 39-3-206 (eff. 1/1/2024) lets a county assessor accept a late application through August 1 for good cause, with a decision mailed by August 25 -- the page previously implied the only option after missing the July 1 deadline was re-applying the following year. (official source)
• Oct 10 · Arkansas · property tax
  Corrected the page's note on Arkansas DFA's homestead-credit webpage lagging the current $675/year law (Act 174 of 2026) -- DFA's page is actually further behind than previously thought, still showing the superseded $500/'up to $600' language rather than the $600 interim figure, let alone $675. No change to the actual $675 figure, which was already correct on the page. (official source)
• Oct 8 · Wyoming · vehicles & recreation
  Clarified that W.S. 31-3-101(b)(xv) gives a 50%+ rated veteran holding the Disabled Veteran plate an automatic full vehicle-registration-fee exemption on one vehicle, independent of and stackable with the separate $6,000 home-or-vehicle assessed-value exemption election -- the page previously implied these were a single either/or choice. (official source)
• Oct 8 · Wyoming · vehicles & recreation
  Confirmed via W.S. 23-2-306 that the $21/yr (or $185 lifetime) conservation stamp is waived for both the 50%+ disabled-veteran fishing license and the 100%/Purple Heart license -- replacing a prior hedge that told readers to confirm with WGFD. (official source)
• Oct 8 · Wisconsin · vehicles & recreation
  Added the $12 issuance fee for the Disabled Veteran (VET) parking plate, previously unstated. (official source)
• Oct 8 · Wisconsin · education
  Corrected the citation for the Wisconsin GI Bill dependent residency rule (2023 Wisconsin Act 104, not 'AB12') and added 2025 Wisconsin Act 155: when the veteran was not a WI resident at entry, the dependent must independently have 3 consecutive years of WI residency before their own enrollment. (official source)
• Oct 8 · Wisconsin · education
  Added a previously entirely-missing benefit: Wis. Stat. 36.27(3p) grants any qualifying veteran (no disability rating required) full remission of nonresident tuition plus academic/segregated fees for up to 128 credits/8 semesters, independent of the Wisconsin GI Bill. (official source)
• Oct 8 · Wisconsin · employment & hiring
  Added a previously-missing employer incentive: Wis. Stat. 71.07(6n), a DOR income/franchise tax credit for hiring a 50%+ disabled veteran ($4,000+$2,000/yr x3=$10,000 full-time or $2,000+$1,000/yr x3=$5,000 part-time), separate from and in addition to WDVA's existing direct Employment Grant. (official source)
• Oct 8 · West Virginia · vehicles & recreation
  HB4437 (eff. 6/12/2026) extended the Gold Star Family license-plate registration-fee waiver from spouses only to also cover Gold Star parents. (official source)
• Oct 8 · West Virginia · vehicles & recreation
  SB467 (eff. 6/8/2026) created escalating misdemeanor penalties ($200/$300/up to $500) for parking in a space designated for Purple Heart recipients. (official source)
• Oct 8 · West Virginia · health & veterans homes
  Added mention of the planned (not yet open) Charles Calvin Rogers State Veterans Nursing Facility in Beckley -- groundbreaking was Oct. 2023 but construction has not yet started pending federal VA construction-grant funds. (official source)
• Oct 8 · Washington · income tax
  Washington enacted its first-ever state personal income tax (ESSB 6346, signed 3/30/2026) -- 9.9% on individual/joint AGI over $1,000,000, starting tax year 2028, with a pending constitutional challenge. Added a hedged caveat since the page previously stated Washington has no state income tax at all. (official source)
• Oct 8 · New York · property tax
  NY did not publish a separate RP-458-a-SDV form for the new 100% P&T full property-tax exemption (RPTL 458-a(11)) -- it revised the existing Form RP-458-a (Sept 2026 revision) to add a new Line 8. Claims can now actually be filed. (official source)
• Oct 8 · Maryland · employment & hiring
  Clarified the Military Personnel & Veteran-Owned Small Business Loan Program (MPVOLP) runs in discrete application rounds, not a fixed annual cycle -- the July-Aug 2026 window is closed and no 2027 round has been announced; readers should email the program contact rather than wait for a posted date. (official source)
• Oct 7 · Virginia · vehicles & recreation
  Documented for the first time Virginia's actual (narrow) toll exemption: Code of Virginia Sec.33.2-613(D) requires a severe permanent upper-limb mobility/dexterity impairment, not a general 100%/P&T rating. The page previously had a 'tolls' heading with no toll content. Also noted HB731 (would have broadened this to all 100% P&T veterans) died in a House subcommittee 2026-01-27. (official source)
• Oct 7 · Vermont · vehicles & recreation
  2026 Act 88 (H.917), effective 7/1/2026, added a new statewide benefit: a vehicle displaying a Disabled Veteran plate from any state may park free at Vermont parking meters. Previously undocumented on the page. (official source)
• Oct 7 · Utah · property tax
  Corrected the page's 'genuinely unsettled' framing on annual refiling: Utah Code Sec.59-2a-502(6) is current law and sets a statewide one-time-filing default -- once a county issues the exemption it may not require reapplication except for six specific triggers (rating change, veteran's death, change of home ownership/occupancy, switching which property is exempted, or a change in claimant for a deceased veteran's exemption). This existed independent of H.B. 124's 2026 failure. (official source)
• Oct 7 · Texas · employment & hiring
  Corrected a factual error: the page previously said Texas hiring preference is a tiebreaker only, 'not the numeric points system used in federal hiring.' Texas Government Code Sec.657.003(c) actually adds 10 points to a veteran's score (15 for a veteran with a disability) when a state agency fills a job via a competitive civil-service exam, in addition to the general tiebreaker preference. (official source)
• Oct 7 · Texas · vehicles & recreation
  Added a previously undocumented plate: Surviving Spouse of a Disabled Veteran plate (Form VTR-425), separate from the standard DV plate application (VTR-615). (official source)
• Oct 7 · Texas · education
  Added precision to the Hazlewood Act service requirement: more than 180 days of active duty (excluding training), per Texas Education Code Sec.54.341 -- previously the page only said 'qualifying service.' (official source)
• Oct 7 · Texas · health & veterans homes
  Named all 10 Texas State Veterans Homes by name and city (previously listed 8 with 'and others'); added the two missing: Fort Worth (The Tuskegee Airmen TSVH) and Houston (Richard A. Anderson TSVH). (official source)
• Oct 6 · Louisiana · education
  Added Act 355 of 2026 (eff. 8/1/2026): any honorably discharged LA veteran can use a DD-214 as proof of eligibility for TOPS-Tech, bypassing usual academic/test-score requirements. General-veteran benefit, not disability-rating-gated. (official source)
• Oct 6 · Louisiana · employment & hiring
  Added Act 160 of 2026 (eff. 8/1/2026): municipal fire/police civil-service 5-point veterans' preference (R.S. 33:2491(E)/33:2551(5)) expanded to cover 180+ days of peacetime service, not just wartime. General-veteran benefit, not disability-rating-gated. (official source)
• Oct 6 · Delaware · income tax
  Strengthened the SB219 domicile-duration-gate hedge: the actual enacted statutory text (30 Del. C. Sec.1106(b)(3)(f)(4)) writes the new 3yr/5yr domicile test against the whole (b)(3) subtraction, which on its face includes the current $12,500 military-pension exclusion (through TY2026), not just the new TY2027+ tiers. DOR has issued no guidance confirming administration either way; still NEEDS REVIEW, not a resolved fact change. (official source)
• Oct 6 · Delaware · vehicles & recreation
  Added House Bill 295 (signed 9/6/2026, effective 3/6/2027): requires Delaware's Office of Management and Budget to designate reserved veteran parking spaces at state buildings. General-veteran benefit, not disability-rating-gated; framed as a forward note since not yet effective. (official source)
• Oct 6 · Alabama · property tax
  HB77 (tentative P&T exemption certificate pre-closing) and HB155 (annual mail-verification excused for VA-determined P&T veterans) both took effect 10/1/2026 as scheduled; verbatim enrolled-act text confirms both self-executing. Flipped page from forward-looking to present-tense. (official source)
• Oct 6 · Alabama · property tax
  Resolved standing NEEDS REVIEW: the general P&T homestead exemption (Code of Alabama Sec.40-9-21, Route 1) has no surviving-spouse continuation provision, unlike the SAH route (Sec.40-9-20). Two bills to add one (HB397 2026, HB226 2025) both died. A surviving spouse must independently qualify to keep any exemption. (official source)
• Oct 6 · Alabama · health & veterans homes
  Adkins (Enterprise) State Veterans Home has reopened: first 32 evacuated residents returned 9/28/2026 after the April 2025 fire; new-admission intake from the waitlist expected by end of October 2026 pending VA operations certification, reopening in phases toward the 174-bed capacity. (official source)
• Oct 6 · Alabama · other benefits
  North Alabama State Veterans Cemetery (Madison County) federal grant funding increased from $13.5M to $18.9M (additional $5.4M awarded ~9/19/2026). Cemetery still not open for burials; construction still targeted for fall 2026. (official source)
• Oct 6 · Alabama · vehicles & recreation
  Refined the unconfirmed freshwater disabled-veteran fishing license fee estimate from a stale $3.30-$3.55 range to $3.60 (matching the confirmed saltwater fee for the same license category); still flagged unconfirmed at the primary source, not a resolved figure. (official source)
• Oct 6 · Alabama · employment & hiring
  Three general-veteran/Guard 2026 laws (not disability-rating-gated) took effect 10/1/2026 as scheduled: HB182 (military medical training counts toward EMS licensure), SB149 (Military Veteran Temporary Teaching Certificate), HB233 (Guard Education Assistance Program expanded to workforce-development training, pending a program-designation step). Page flipped from forward-looking to present-tense. (official source)
• Oct 5 · Ohio · vehicles & recreation
  Fixed incomplete SB223 activation from the 9/7 pass: the park-services 25% discount's dollar/scope facts were already correct, but the sentence itself still read in future tense ("Effective September 7, 2026: a newly enacted law raises...") a month after the effective date. Corrected to plain present tense; no scope/fact change. (official source)
• Oct 4 · Ohio · other benefits
  Added concealed-handgun-license (CHL) fee waiver for honorably discharged/active-duty veterans: $67 initial / $50 renewal fee waived by county sheriff, subject to a $1.5M statewide annual cap (ORC 2923.125). New content addition, not a correction. (official source)
• Oct 4 · North Dakota · other benefits
  Added previously-undocumented ND DVA Hardship Assistance Grant programs to the Other section: general Hardship Assistance Grant ($5,000/yr, confirmed via Policy 412/413 asset limit $5,500 cash / income limit $1,413.75-$3,060.54/mo by household size), IMPACT Hardship Assistance Grant ($5,000/yr, $7,000 lifetime, Policy 612 asset limit $10,000 cash), and Housing Assistance Program Grant (deposits/rent, unpublished 'reasonable' limits). Confirmed via Policy 410 (N.D.C.C. 37-14-01.1 veteran definition) that none of the three is gated on a VA disability rating -- eligibility is veteran-status + 1-yr ND residency + income/asset limits + documented need, so framed as a general (not disability-specific) benefit. (official source)
• Oct 4 · North Carolina · employment & hiring
  NC state employment preference expanded to spouses of active-duty service members effective 10/1/2026 (S.L. 2026-40 / SB1041, Public Workforce Modernization Act); preference statute recodified at G.S. 126A-57.3. (official source)
• Oct 4 · North Carolina · property tax
  Added two previously-untracked pending bills (HB299: raise $45k exclusion to $54k; SB143: remove the dollar cap entirely for a full-value exemption) to the page's pending-legislation disclosure. Both remain stalled in committee since March 2025 -- no change to the live $45,000 exclusion. (official source)
• Oct 3 · Tennessee · property tax
  Added advisory note: the VALOR Act (HB0052/SB0473), which would have given 100% P&T veterans full property-tax reimbursement with no $175,000 cap plus a free hunting/fishing license and a vehicle-registration exemption, died at 114th GA sine die (4/23/26) without a floor vote in either chamber. Not law; informational note only, no benefit change. (official source)
• Oct 3 · Tennessee · education
  Corrected Helping Heroes Grant spring-term application deadline from February 1 to March 1, per TSAC current collegefortn.org program page (resolves 2026-09-20 watch-list conflict). (official source)
• Oct 3 · Tennessee · health & veterans homes
  Updated Arlington (6th state veterans home) status: the targeted December 1, 2026 ribbon-cutting has been postponed with no new opening date announced; added facility detail and admissions-eligibility note (veterans, spouses, Gold Star parents). (official source)
• Oct 3 · South Dakota · health & veterans homes
  Veterans Home admissions phone number corrected from stale 605-745-5127 to current 605-519-5445; also fixed a residual internally-inconsistent admission-requirements sentence (flat one-year-residency/income language) to match the already-verified per-diem/preference/no-income-test facts. (official source)
• Oct 3 · South Carolina · property tax
  Clarified Route 1 property-tax exemption standard using verbatim S.C. Code §12-37-220(B)(1): disability test is functional (inability to perform substantial gainful employment), not a numeric VA %, and closely tracks TDIU -- resolves prior open question on whether Individual Unemployability qualifies. (official source)
• Oct 2 · Puerto Rico · property tax
  Added a previously undocumented fact that changes the real total benefit: every PR homeowner (veteran or not) already gets a $15,000 reduction in assessed value under the general residential exemption (Codigo Municipal de PR, Ley 107-2020, Art. 7.035), which stacks on top of the veteran-specific routes -- so Route 1 alone nets $15,000+$5,000=$20,000 off assessed value, not just $5,000 as the page previously implied. Also narrowed the page's retroactivity note (previously presented as applying to all three routes) to Route 1 only, per CRIM's own AS-38 form. (official source)
• Oct 2 · Puerto Rico · income tax
  Replaced a vague 'verify current-year forms' hedge with concrete, confirmed filing mechanics for the military-pension income-tax exemption: claim it on Anejo H Individuo, with Form 1099-R and DD-214 (and W-2 if applicable) attached, per Hacienda's own filing instructions for the tax-year-2025 return. (official source)
• Oct 2 · Oklahoma · health & veterans homes
  Added a previously undocumented favorable rule: veterans rated 70% or greater service-connected disability receive full cost of care at no charge at any Oklahoma Veterans Center, effective since June 1, 2009 (the page previously only described a vague income-tied sliding scale). (official source)
• Oct 1 · New York · property tax
  The RPTL 458-a(11) full ($0) exemption for P&T veterans now applies to assessment rolls dated on/after today (10/1/2026) in jurisdictions that adopted it; wording flipped from forward 'coming' framing to present tense. The application form (RP-458-a-SDV) is still unpublished (tax.ny.gov still 'in process' as of today), so no claim can actually be filed yet -- no change to eligibility facts, a timing/wording update only. (official source)
• Oct 1 · Florida · vehicles & recreation
  Chapter 2026-39 (SB 488), Sec. 10 took effect today: a disabled veteran who already holds a permanent DV license plate can now keep the same unique alphanumeric plate designation across reissuance, renewal, or transfer to another vehicle they own. Flipped from a forward 'coming' note to live language. (official source)

September 2026

• Sep 30 · North Dakota · health & veterans homes
  Corrected the North Dakota Veterans Home's skilled-nursing bed count from 38 to 52, confirmed via a direct Medicare.gov Care Compare lookup (a primary federal certification source) that independently matches the home's own operating site; the separate basic-care (domiciliary) bed count remains a genuine unresolved conflict across sources (98-112 published) and stays hedged on the page. (official source)
• Sep 30 · New Mexico · education
  Added a previously entirely-undocumented standing benefit: a veteran (or their family, if deceased) who left a New Mexico high school before graduating to serve in WWII, the Korean War, or the Vietnam War can get an honorary high school diploma from their local school board (NMSA 22-5-4.9, 22-5-4.10, 22-5-4.14), applied for through DVS Form 12. (official source)
• Sep 30 · New Mexico · other benefits
  Sharpened the veteran-owned-business procurement preference from a vague 'additional preference' to the actual verbatim figures: a 10% bidding preference on state contracts, capped at $10 million in preference value statewide per year (GSD FAQ + NMSA 13-1-21/13-1-22). (official source)
• Sep 30 · California · property tax
  SB 296 confirmed chaptered as Chapter 727, Statutes of 2026 (approved and chaptered 9/28/26) -- a citation/bookkeeping update to the material SB296 finding already logged 2026-09-29; no change to the previously-disclosed dollar figures, dates, or terms. (official source)
• Sep 29 · Montana · vehicles & recreation
  Added a confirmed benefit: VA hospital patients and state-institution residents (except the state penitentiary) get a free on-site fishing permit, no separate license needed. Independently confirmed in the FWP 2026 Fishing Regulations booklet and MVAD's State Benefits page (previously only in the internal KB, not found on FWP's disabled-licenses webpage). (official source)
• Sep 29 · Florida · health & veterans homes
  Added the VA's separately-listed Barrancas National Cemetery Annex (Pensacola) to the burial section's cemetery list, confirmed via cem.va.gov. (official source)
• Sep 29 · California · property tax
  SB 296 (Archuleta) signed by Gov. Newsom 9/28/26 per official gov.ca.gov press release; adds Rev. & Tax. Code S205.5.1, replacing the fixed-dollar Disabled Veterans' Exemption with a percent-of-value model for lien dates 1/1/2027-1/1/2032 only: 50% of assessed value exempt (cap $1,000,000) for 100%-rated/IU veterans, or 100% exempt (same cap) if household income <= about $83,474 as adjusted. The current fixed-dollar exemption stays in effect through the 2026 lien year and resumes after 1/1/2032. Chapter number not yet posted on leginfo as of 9/29/26. (official source)
• Sep 28 · Mississippi · education
  Confirmed the non-resident tuition waiver for veterans and Title-38-benefit-entitled dependents/spouses is system-wide by statute (Miss. Code Ann. Section 37-103-25, covering every IHL university and community/junior college), not a Mississippi State University-specific program; re-sourced from MSU's own page to the statute's current enrolled text. (official source)
• Sep 28 · Minnesota · income tax
  Switched the Schedule M1M step-in-page link from a dated-folder PDF (which MN Revenue re-uploads several times a year) to the evergreen military-pension-subtraction landing page to stop the recurring link breakage. (official source)
• Sep 28 · Connecticut · employment & hiring
  CT DOL's veterans-services page reconfirmed to explicitly name DVOP Specialists tonight via raw-HTML fetch, resolving a contradictory 2026-09-14 zero-match finding; 2026 law (PA 26-12) also adds a Troops-to-Trades veteran-employment outreach mandate. (official source)
• Sep 28 · Connecticut · income tax
  Connecticut added a state income-tax exemption for honor-guard funeral-detail compensation starting tax year 2026, and (not yet effective) for National Guard active-service call-up pay starting tax year 2027. (official source)
• Sep 28 · Connecticut · vehicles & recreation
  Connecticut extended the post-activation grace period for renewing a driver's license, vehicle registration, or emissions test from 60 to 90 days, effective October 1, 2026 (not yet in effect). (official source)
• Sep 28 · Connecticut · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected the citation and application instructions for Connecticut's free veteran bus pass to its actual enabling law (PA 26-21, Sec. 8) and added a separate, previously unlisted $2.5 million DOT discounted-transit-fare program for veterans. (official source)
• Sep 28 · Connecticut · health & veterans homes
  A 2026 Connecticut law limits treatment at UConn Health's planned Center of Excellence for Neuromodulation Treatments to disabled veterans; the center is not yet open and the Veterans Dental Care Access Program's total statewide cost cap ($1 million/fiscal year) was confirmed. (official source)
• Sep 27 · Maine · employment & hiring
  Added PL 2025 c.634 (effective 2026): Maine's guaranteed-interview and layoff-retention preference under 5 MRS S7054-B now also cover spouses of active-duty/Reserve/National Guard members, not just veterans and Gold Star spouses. (official source)
• Sep 27 · Maine · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected: Maine's free lifetime state-park day-use pass (37-B MRS S8) is veteran-only and does not extend to spouse/children; added the separate amputee/blind free-registration pathway, the 3-vehicle cap on the registration-fee waiver, and the no-fee disability placard under 29-A MRS S523. (official source)
• Sep 27 · Maine · property tax
  Enhanced the existing 2027 property-tax-restructure callout with verbatim-confirmed detail: the new law's disability tiers key off actual VA schedular rating (no IU catch-all), and current exemption holders are presumed eligible for the 2027 equivalent without reapplying. (official source)
• Sep 27 · Kentucky · health & veterans homes
  Kentucky's fifth state veterans center (Bowling Green) has completed construction but is not yet accepting admissions; page now reflects current status and interest-list contact. (official source)
• Sep 27 · Kentucky · employment & hiring
  Removed an unsupported claim that a tied/most-qualified veteran must be offered the job; KRS 18A.150 and current Personnel Cabinet guidance only guarantee an interview, not the hiring outcome. (official source)
• Sep 27 · Kentucky · education
  Added the KRS 164.512 tuition-waiver eligibility pathway (child disabled, e.g. spina bifida, due to the veteran's own service), previously missing from the enumerated routes. (official source)
• Sep 27 · Kentucky · vehicles & recreation
  Updated the Disabled Sportsman's License how-to: KDFWR no longer issues a physical disability-authorization card; veterans now self-print via their online MyProfile account. (official source)
• Sep 27 · Colorado · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected DV license plate eligibility in the compare dataset from an inaccurate combined '50%+ rating plus mobility impairment' test to the actual statutory alternative paths (50%+ rating, OR loss of use of feet/hands, OR blindness) per C.R.S. 42-3-304(3)(a). (official source)
• Sep 27 · Colorado · education
  Confirmed HB26-1386 (signed 6/1/2026, effective 7/1/2026) only shifts the Colorado National Guard tuition waiver's state-reimbursement share from 100% to 50%, with the student's full waiver unchanged, and tightened DTAP's confirmed scope to exclude dependents who qualify solely on a parent's VA disability rating. (official source)
• Sep 27 · Colorado · property tax
  Clarified the disabled-veteran property tax exemption's 24-month active-duty service requirement (confirmed via the state's own current FAQ) and added confirmed reapplication guidance (no reapply needed unless VA status changes). (official source)
• Sep 27 · Colorado · health & veterans homes
  Corrected the compare dataset to name all 5 current Veterans Community Living Centers (Fitzsimons, Bruce McCandless/Florence, Homelake, Rifle, Spanish Peaks/Walsenburg) instead of listing only 3. (official source)
• Sep 27 · Arkansas · income tax
  Corrected a standing page error: Arkansas's military-retirement income-tax exemption does NOT stack with the separate $6,000 general retirement/IRA exclusion (Act 358 of 2023 only lets you claim the shortfall if the military exemption is under $6,000); page previously said the two no longer offset, which verbatim statute text (Ark. Code 26-51-307(f)) and DFA's own instructions contradict. (official source)
• Sep 26 · New York · education
  Corrected MERIT Scholarship (Education Law S668-e) eligibility description: removed a stale 'on/after August 2, 1990' service-date cutoff not present in the current codified statute (verified at nysenate.gov, cross-checked against an independent FindLaw codified mirror current as of 1/1/2026, and HESC's own MERIT page); broadened to children/spouses/financial dependents, added MIA as a qualifying status, clarified coverage as cost-of-attendance capped at average SUNY state-operated-campus COA. (official source)
• Sep 26 · Kansas · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected the sales-tax exemption's surviving-spouse rule from a mischaracterized 'continuation' mechanic to the actual KDOR rule: spouse qualifies only if the veteran died on or after July 1, 2026; does not qualify if the veteran died before that date. (official source)
• Sep 26 · Iowa · property tax
  Added DIC-or-CPD (Compensation and Pension Death) letter requirement for surviving spouses who change homesteads or whose home didn't already carry the credit during the veteran's life; reverses a 2026-07-24 'CPD not real' finding now contradicted by revenue.iowa.gov's own live FAQ. (official source)
• Sep 26 · Iowa · vehicles & recreation
  Pinned the general annual veteran hunting/fishing license to its actual $5 fee (IAC 571-15.10(1)(jj)/(kk)); added a hedged Lifetime Fur Harvester License lead flagging a $7 (DNR Form 542-1412) vs $59.50 (IAC 571-15.10(1)(aa)) unresolved conflict between two current primary sources. (official source)
• Sep 26 · Iowa · employment & hiring
  Added Iowa Code Section 400.10 as a citation - the actual source of the 5%/5% veterans-preference point figures (Chapter 35C itself has no numeric points, cross-references Section 400.10). Citation-only, no fact change. (official source)
• Sep 25 · Illinois · vehicles & recreation
  Added Public Act 102-0524 (SB 1533) trapping-license fee exemption for veterans rated 10%+ service-connected disabled or receiving a total disability pension, previously undocumented on the page. (official source)
• Sep 25 · Illinois · health & veterans homes
  Tightened comparison data to confirm domiciliary/independent living and spouse admission are offered only at Anna and Quincy homes, not all five state veterans homes. (official source)
• Sep 25 · Idaho · property tax
  Property Tax Reduction (Circuit Breaker) program rolled to the 2027 cycle: income limit rises from $39,130 (2025 income) to $40,030 (2026 income), application window now Jan 1-Apr 15, 2027. (official source)
• Sep 25 · Idaho · health & veterans homes
  Boise State Veterans Home's residential-care/domiciliary program was discontinued (IDAPA rulemaking effective 2026-07-01); Boise is now an 80-bed skilled nursing facility with a 17-bed special-care/memory-care unit only. (official source)
• Sep 25 · Arizona · income tax
  Corrected military retirement pay income-tax exemption effective year from 2020 to 2021 in the state comparison data, matching primary source. (official source)
• Sep 25 · Arizona · health & veterans homes
  Added Arizona State Veteran Home Tucson's bed count (120: 90 long-term-care + 30 memory-care) to the page and comparison data. (official source)
• Sep 25 · Arizona · property tax
  No statutory change; watch-listed a Cochise County assessor income-test miscommunication that left about 92 veterans owing 2026 property tax after being told they were exempt. (official source)
• Sep 24 · Michigan · health & veterans homes
  Added a note that a new replacement D.J. Jacobetti Home for Veterans is under construction in Marquette Township (expected ~2027), after which the current Fisher Street facility is expected to close. (official source)
• Sep 24 · Massachusetts · property tax
  Expanded the pending-legislation list from 6 to 9 named bills sitting in study order this session, including 3 previously untracked bills that would change eligibility conditions (H.3016 adds hemiplegia/wheelchair-use as a qualifying condition; H.3131 would shorten Clause 22H's residency test; H.3175 would bar re-demanding proof at renewal) rather than just dollar amounts. None are law. (official source)
• Sep 24 · Georgia · vehicles & recreation
  Added a caution note that the printed MV-9W form (rev. 06-2021) still shows a fee for a second Disabled Veteran plate, contradicting the current statute and narrative guidance that both plates are free - advised confirming at the county tag office. (official source)
• Sep 24 · Georgia · education
  Updated the HERO Scholarship source link from the superseded 2026-2027 regs document to the current in-force 2026-2027 award-year document. (official source)
• Sep 24 · Georgia · health & veterans homes
  Added a note that Georgia War Veterans Home - Milledgeville is transitioning to a new operator, HMR Veterans Services, Inc., effective October 1, 2026. (official source)
• Sep 23 · Wyoming · vehicles & recreation
  Removed a stale "the fillable form is currently broken" caveat on the 100%-disabled free lifetime hunting/fishing license - WGFD's application PDFs (100%, 50%, Purple Heart, disabled-veteran permit) all resolve live today. (official source)
• Sep 23 · Wisconsin · vehicles & recreation
  2025 Wisconsin Act 207 (eff. 4/10/2026) lets a former reservist or National Guard member who meets federal VA home-loan eligibility get the "Veteran" driver-license/ID designation even without meeting the state's standard veteran definition, though only for that indicator, not other benefits. (official source)
• Sep 23 · Wisconsin · other benefits
  Corrected a hedge about WDVA's veteran loan programs: WDVA's own 2022 Blue Ribbon Commission report confirms new originations were suspended under a December 2011 moratorium and the remaining loan portfolio was sold to WHEDA in 2018 - the programs are closed, not merely undocumented. (official source)
• Sep 23 · West Virginia · employment & hiring
  Tightened the Military Incentive Program description: the largest employer-credit tier (30% of first $5,000 wages) is statutorily limited to Vietnam-era/Korean-conflict economically disadvantaged veterans, not all veterans generally; disabled veterans of any era and Guard/Reserve hires have their own separate credit tiers. (official source)
• Sep 22 · Virginia · income tax
  Confirmed via Virginia LIS primary records that HB137 (Feggans, 2026), which would have phased out the $40,000 military-benefits income-tax subtraction cap by 2030, died in House Appropriations on 2026-02-18; page now names it alongside HB2700/HB588. (official source)
• Sep 22 · Vermont · vehicles & recreation
  Vermont's 2025 Act 66 broadened the vehicle-registration fee waiver from 'honorably discharged' to any veteran discharged under other than dishonorable conditions and extended it to the annual emissions fee and EV infrastructure fee, and added a 'veteran' designation option on driver's licenses/IDs, both effective July 1, 2025. (official source)
• Sep 22 · Vermont · vehicles & recreation
  H.288 (reduced veteran vehicle registration fees) and H.43 (broader military-retirement tax exemption) both died with the Vermont legislature's May 29, 2026 sine die adjournment ending the 2025-2026 biennium; neither was enacted. (official source)
• Sep 21 · Maryland · employment & hiring
  Confirmed via verbatim statute text that Maryland's state-job hiring preference includes a flat 5-point credit for any ADA-qualifying disability, stacking with (separate from) the 10-point veteran / 2-point POW credits. (official source)
• Sep 21 · Maryland · education
  Corrected the compare-table JSON, which wrongly said Maryland's Conroy Scholarship never reaches the veteran directly; a 25%+ disabled veteran who has exhausted federal VA education benefits qualifies too. (official source)
• Sep 21 · Maryland · property tax
  Updated three disabled-veteran property-tax exemption form links to SDAT's current-revision URLs. (official source)
• Sep 21 · Maryland · other benefits
  Added a working, confirmed-live online application link for the Maryland Veterans Trust Fund grant. (official source)
• Sep 21 · Maryland · property tax
  Ch.646/HB1611 (2026) raised the Tax-Property 9-265 local veteran property-tax credit's default income cap from a flat $100,000 to $150,000 (individual)/$300,000 (joint) federal AGI, effective 6/1/2026 for tax years after 6/30/2026, though a county may set its own income criteria instead. (official source)
• Sep 21 · Louisiana · property tax
  Updated the SB180 (Nov 2026 ballot measure) callout to note it would also remove the surviving spouse's current occupy-and-own requirement and take effect for the 2027 assessment year if voters approve it. (official source)
• Sep 21 · Louisiana · health & veterans homes
  Added the actual monthly cost of a Louisiana State Veterans Home for veterans rated below 70% ($2,424/mo) and for spouses/Gold Star parents/Guard-Reserve members ($5,500/mo), where the page previously only said care is free at 70%+. (official source)
• Sep 21 · Delaware · health & veterans homes
  Corrected the Delaware Veterans Home residency requirement from 3 years to the actual 1 year, per the Home's own current admissions packet. (official source)
• Sep 21 · Delaware · vehicles & recreation
  Swapped a stale/superseded DAV-plate application form link for the current Rev. 4/2025 version and fixed an internally inconsistent JSON field that said the plate fee was unknown despite the page text already stating a $10 fee. (official source)
• Sep 21 · Alabama · health & veterans homes
  Firmed up the Enterprise (Adkins) State Veterans Home fire-recovery status with a September-October 2026 reopening/admissions timeline, per a named ADVA official's September 2026 statement. (official source)
• Sep 21 · Alabama · vehicles & recreation
  Clarified that Alabama State Parks' 15% military lodging discount excludes the three premium Lodges and cannot stack with other rates. (official source)
• Sep 21 · Alabama · employment & hiring
  Corrected a wrong statute citation for the state hiring-preference points in the compare-table JSON (was citing the private-employer-preference statute instead of the actual civil-service exam-preference statute, Ala. Code 36-26-15). (official source)
• Sep 20 · Tennessee · vehicles & recreation
  Added a previously-undocumented, more generous state-parks benefit specific to 100% service-connected disabled veterans: a flat 50% year-round discount on camping/cabin lodging, versus the standard 25%/50%-seasonal discount available to all TN-resident veterans. (official source)
• Sep 20 · Tennessee · property tax
  Added SB0681/HB1009, a second dead bill that would have raised the property-tax-relief cap to $250,000, alongside the already-tracked SB1798/HB1687 ($200,000 version). (official source)
• Sep 20 · Tennessee · health & veterans homes
  Added a brief mention of the 6th state veterans home under construction in Arlington (126 beds, 28.5 acres, late-2026 target) and that its admissions waitlist is now open. (official source)
• Sep 20 · South Dakota · property tax
  Added a direct citation to SDCL 10-4-41 for the surviving-spouse $200,000 property-tax exemption, which is codified as its own statute rather than merely sharing the veteran's exemption. (official source)
• Sep 20 · South Carolina · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected an overstated claim that 100% P&T veterans are exempt from SC's Infrastructure Maintenance Fee on a vehicle purchase; a direct read of the IMF statute (S.C. Code Sec. 56-3-627) shows no such carve-out exists, so the page now warns readers not to assume the exemption applies. (official source)
• Sep 20 · South Carolina · property tax
  Added H.4600, a second pending bill proposing a proportional property-tax exemption for below-100% veterans, alongside the already-tracked H.4700. (official source)
• Sep 20 · Rhode Island · property tax
  Tiverton's local totally-disabled-veteran property-tax credit doubled from $200 to $400 and now extends to the unmarried surviving widow/widower (P.L. 2026, ch. 325, signed 6/23/2026), resolving a 3-pass open question. (official source)
• Sep 20 · Rhode Island · property tax
  Middletown enacted new local veteran property-tax credits/exemptions in 2026 (P.L. 2026, ch. 29), including one open to any honorably-discharged veteran regardless of era. (official source)
• Sep 20 · Rhode Island · employment & hiring
  Confirmed the 10-point disabled-veteran civil-service credit has no ratings floor beyond 0% (IU and any rating qualify), but flagged that the underlying statutory 'war veteran' definition has not been updated since 1989 and does not by name cover the Gulf War/Iraq/Afghanistan/GWOT era. (official source)
• Sep 19 · Puerto Rico · education
  Corrected the attribution of the Veterans' Education Trust's creation to Ley 203-2007, not Ley 110-2024. (official source)
• Sep 19 · Puerto Rico · vehicles & recreation
  Added the primary-law citation (Ley 203-2007 Art. 4(G)) for the existing 10% state-parks discount. (official source)
• Sep 19 · Puerto Rico · other benefits
  Narrowed an overstated priority-service/reserved-parking claim - the express-line duty reaches government/municipal/publicly-funded entities, not ordinary private businesses; reserved parking is government/public-corp/municipal only. (official source)
• Sep 19 · Puerto Rico · other benefits
  Added the Ley 48-2022 citation for the existing municipal free-burial benefit. (official source)
• Sep 19 · Oregon · health & veterans homes
  Added detail that Roseburg National Cemetery proper is closed to new interments while the Roseburg Annex remains open. (official source)
• Sep 19 · Oregon · vehicles & recreation
  Upgraded the DV plate fee citation from unconfirmed to a verbatim statutory confirmation ($15 flat fee, no renewal required). (official source)
• Sep 19 · Oklahoma · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected an inaccurate claim that vehicle registration is free for 100%-rated veterans - the flat $5 DV registration rate applies to any 50%+ rating, and only the driver's license/ID is free at 100%. (official source)
• Sep 19 · Oklahoma · vehicles & recreation
  Added the exact DAV plate/registration fee breakdown ($6.50 picked up / $13.10 mailed), the 2-vehicle limit, and the no-online-renewal caveat, per Form 751-J. (official source)
• Sep 19 · Oklahoma · other benefits
  Fixed a stale Veteran Benefits/Registry link to the current live URL. (official source)
• Sep 19 · Oklahoma · health & veterans homes
  Synced the compare-JSON veterans-homes roster to the current 7 homes (removed the long-closed Talihina home) to match the already-correct HTML page. (official source)
• Sep 18 · Ohio · property tax
  Ohio disabled-veteran homestead exemption has a second surviving-spouse eligibility pathway (ORC 323.151(L)(2), enacted by SB43, eff. 2023-10-27) for spouses of veterans who died before the VA approved their 100%/IU rating - not previously documented on the page. (official source)
• Sep 18 · North Dakota · health & veterans homes
  Added ND State Veterans Cemetery exact address/phone, discharge-eligibility language, and Guard/Reserve headstone-fee nuance to north-dakota.html's burial section. (official source)
• Sep 18 · New Hampshire · property tax
  SB448/Chapter 252 (eff. 8/31/2026) broadened the veteran-definition/discharge standard for RSA 72:35 (disability credit) and RSA 72:36-a (full VA-adapted-home exemption) to the RSA 21:50 veteran definition - not just the RSA 283:4 hiring statute as a prior pass had concluded. (official source)
• Sep 18 · New Hampshire · property tax
  RSA 72:28 optional veterans' credit ceiling verbatim-confirmed rising $750 to $1,000 eff. 4/1/2027 (HB1494/Chapter 96) - forward note added, current figure unaffected. (official source)
• Sep 18 · New Hampshire · employment & hiring
  RSA 283:4 verbatim text shows both Part I and Part II now key off the RSA 21:50 veteran definition; the true distinguishing factor between them is Part I's added 90-day wartime-service requirement, not discharge type. (official source)
• Sep 18 · New Hampshire · vehicles & recreation
  Removed a stale statewide peddler's/hawker's-license veteran fee waiver claim - RSA 320 and RSA 321 were both fully repealed eff. 9/1/2023; licensing is now local-only under RSA 31:102-a. (official source)
• Sep 17 · Nevada · education
  NRS 396.540(2)(j) bars NSHE from charging the non-resident tuition surcharge to any honorably discharged veteran regardless of current residency (5-year window requirement removed by AB165/2021) - the page previously stated flatly that no Nevada tuition benefit runs to a living disabled veteran, which was wrong; corrected. (official source)
• Sep 17 · Nevada · vehicles & recreation
  Added a previously-missing no-fee 'Veteran Annual Entrance' state-park permit (any veteran, any rating, entrance-only) alongside the existing $30 Disabled Veteran permit (which also covers camping/boat-launch). (official source)
• Sep 16 · Montana · property tax
  Rolled the Montana Disabled Veteran (MDV) Assistance Program income bands from Tax Year 2026 to Tax Year 2027 figures, matching the Dept. of Revenue's own already-updated program page (e.g. single-filer full-benefit ceiling $48,152 to $49,654); updated the page, the property-tax calculator dataset, and all three partial-tier notes. (official source)
• Sep 16 · Montana · income tax
  Removed a stale claim that the Dept. of Revenue's Working Military Retirement Exemption page hadn't caught up with the law's 2033-sunset repeal -- the agency's page has since been corrected and now agrees with the statute; also added the statute's nonresident-forfeiture clause (MCA 15-30-2120(9)(c)). (official source)
• Sep 16 · Montana · education
  Resolved the previously vague Purple Heart Scholarship reference into concrete, sourced terms under MCA 10-2-118: $1,000/year, renewable annually, open to any combat medal at or above Purple Heart, public MT university/vo-tech/tribal college, statute requires a 2.5 GPA (MVAD's own page still says 2.0); also tightened the War Orphans Waiver's eligibility wording to match the verbatim MUS text (killed in action or died of a combat-related injury/disease/disability, not simply "died in service"). (official source)
• Sep 16 · Montana · health & veterans homes
  Hedged an overstated "no out-of-pocket cost" claim for 70-100%-rated veterans at Montana's state veterans homes -- Glendive's Skilled Care level actually runs on a Medicare/copay structure (VA assists with the copay) rather than a blanket full-coverage waiver like Butte's. (official source)
• Sep 16 · Montana · other benefits
  Added a previously-missing eligibility gate to the Montana Military Family Relief Fund description: the activated service member's pay grade must be O-3/W-3 or below. (official source)
• Sep 16 · Missouri · property tax
  Added HB 2362 (Rep. Schmidt), a fourth 2026-session bill that would have given a straight percentage property-tax exemption matching VA disability rating, to the page's enumeration of died 2026 veteran property-tax bills -- confirmed dead via direct house.mo.gov bill-status read (Reported Do Pass 3/25/26, never calendared for a floor vote). (official source)
• Sep 16 · Missouri · vehicles & recreation
  Added a previously-missing, currently-effective benefit: equipment purchased to modify a vehicle for a disability (hand controls, wheelchair lifts, etc.) is exempt from Missouri sales tax under RSMo 144.030.2(18), even though the vehicle itself is not exempt. (official source)
• Sep 16 · Missouri · vehicles & recreation
  Added the annual "Hero Hunt" managed deer hunt (Missouri State Parks + Missouri Veterans Commission) at Mark Twain and Gen. Crowder State Parks -- a free, all-inclusive program for veteran/active-duty/Guard/Reserve MO residents that was entirely absent from the page. (official source)
• Sep 16 · Missouri · other benefits
  Replaced a vague, unsourced bullet with two properly sourced benefits: the RSMo 302.188 veteran designation on a Missouri driver's license/ID, and the RSMo-authorized CDL skills-test waiver (Form 5140) for qualifying military CMV experience. (official source)
• Sep 16 · Florida · employment & hiring
  Replaced a hedged veterans'-preference description with the verified point breakdown: 20 points (disabled veteran or spouse of a totally/permanently disabled veteran), 15 points (wartime veteran, surviving spouse of service-connected death, or KIA family member), 10 points (other veteran or current Guard/Reserve member), per Fla. Stat. 295.07/295.08. (official source)
• Sep 16 · District of Columbia · vehicles & recreation
  Added a previously-missing eligibility door on the Combat Wounded Veteran (Purple Heart) DMV tag: an unmarried surviving spouse of a Purple Heart recipient can also qualify, using the veteran's discharge documents plus a death certificate and current DC license/registration. (official source)
• Sep 15 · Mississippi · other benefits
  Added concrete burial plot-fee figures (~$950 per veteran/spouse/dependent plus $115 niche-cover or $445 casket/in-ground) for the National Guard/Reservist population that pays a fee under the 2024 federal Burial Equity Act, replacing a generic "confirm with the cemetery" hedge. (official source)
• Sep 15 · Mississippi · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected a real error in the state-comparison dataset: park_pass claimed a blanket free state-park-entry benefit with no rating required, but MDWFP's own fee page shows this is actually a 15% camping/lodging discount (which the HTML page already stated correctly) -- fixed the JSON to match. (official source)
• Sep 15 · Minnesota · property tax
  Added a previously-missing 5th route to the $300,000 market-value exclusion: a surviving spouse of a service member who died of a service-connected cause on active duty (DD Form 1300/2064), verbatim-confirmed in Minn. Stat. Sec.273.13 subd. 34(d), separate from the existing veteran, DIC, and caregiver routes; also corrected the one-subsequent-home portability note to cover all 3 surviving-spouse paths, not just one. (official source)
• Sep 15 · Minnesota · health & veterans homes
  Added a newly-effective (~August 2026) state-veterans-cemetery eligibility expansion to veterans of the Secret War in Laos, found in the same 2026 law (Ch.96) as the already-tracked, not-yet-effective Guard/Reserve expansion. (official source)
• Sep 15 · Michigan · health & veterans homes
  Corrected the D.J. Jacobetti Home for Veterans (Marquette) admissions phone number, which was actually the facility's Main Line; the real Admissions number is 906-225-6889. (official source)
• Sep 15 · Michigan · employment & hiring
  Rewrote the state hiring-preference paragraph, which cited the wrong law and misstated who qualifies for the 10-point vs 5-point preference under the actual source, Civil Service Commission Rule 3-8 -- Purple Heart status and spouses of active-duty members are not their own preference category, and surviving-spouse tiering depends on a qualifying child. (official source)
• Sep 15 · Michigan · education
  Fixed a mismatched source link: the occupational/professional license fee-waiver claim was citing LARA's business-filing fee-waiver page (a different program) instead of the correct occupational-code fee-waiver page. (official source)
• Sep 15 · Massachusetts · property tax
  Added 4 previously-untracked property-tax bills to the pending-legislation note (H.3115, reached a third reading; S.2046 and S.2073, both still alive in Senate Ways and Means; H.3009/H.3245, also shelved) alongside the already-cited H.3222/H.3836. (official source)
• Sep 14 · Utah · vehicles & recreation
  Resolved the Purple Heart plate fee-bundle question: DMV's own fee schedule lists it as an Honor Special Group (Part 4) plate with $0 contribution, structurally incompatible with Part 16 Sponsored plates' $25 minimum -- a plate issued today gets only the base plate-fee exemption, not the broader registration/driver-ed/uninsured-motorist/corridor fee bundle. (official source)
• Sep 14 · Indiana · vehicles & recreation
  Added a previously-missing benefit: DNR designates specific free-hunting days each year for catastrophically disabled veterans (Sept. 5-6 and Nov. 28-29 for 2026) on private and open public land with no license or stamp required. (official source)
• Sep 14 · Indiana · other benefits
  Added a previously-missing benefit: an honorably discharged veteran can get a free vending/hawker/peddler license (Indiana Code 25-25-2-1) in any Indiana county, city, or town, waiving a fee a local ordinance would otherwise charge. (official source)
• Sep 14 · Connecticut · property tax
  Synced a stale JSON-only figure: the property-tax calculator's Connecticut note still cited the prior grand-list year's income thresholds ($45,200/$55,100) for the 200% income-add-on; updated to the current $46,300/$56,500 already published on the live connecticut.html page. (official source)
• Sep 14 · Colorado · vehicles & recreation
  Clarified the Columbine Pass eligibility test (total-and-permanent disability plus fixed/limited income due to the disability, not a VA rating percentage) and softened the August/Veterans-Day free-entry note now that CPW publishes it as a standing line rather than an annual one-off release. (official source)
• Sep 14 · Colorado · employment & hiring
  Added Colo. Const. art. XII Sec.15 as a backup citation for the 5/10-point veterans' hiring preference, since careers.colorado.gov's own page was rewritten and no longer states the numeric point values. (official source)
• Sep 13 · Illinois · other benefits
  Fixed a citation error in the Specially Adapted Housing assistance description: the correct cite is 330 ILCS 65/2 and 65/2.1, not 30 ILCS 65/2 and 65/2.1 as previously printed; dollar figures ($15,000 acquisition/$3,000 remodel cap) are unchanged. (official source)
• Sep 13 · Illinois · employment & hiring
  Fixed a citation error for the 4-day VA medical-appointment state-employee leave benefit: the correct cite is 20 ILCS 415/8b.20 (Sec. 8b.20, added by PA 104-136), not 20 ILCS 415/8b as previously printed; the benefit's substance (4 days/year, any provider, exam or treatment, service-connected condition) is unchanged. (official source)
• Sep 13 · Arizona · education
  Added a previously-missing 4th eligibility door for the ADVS State Tuition Waiver: a former Arizona National Guard member medically discharged due to an injury/disability suffered on federal (Title 10) orders, in weekend/annual training status, or while responding to a Governor-declared emergency qualifies with no Purple Heart required -- the page previously described only 3 doors (Purple Heart+50%, National Guard post-9/11 Purple Heart, surviving dependent). (official source)
• Sep 13 · Arizona · other benefits
  Corrected the ADVS headquarters address, stale since a 2024 office move: 3839 N 3rd St, Phoenix AZ 85012 (former HQ) to 1688 W. Adams Street, Phoenix AZ 85007 (current), per dvs.az.gov's own site-wide footer. (official source)
• Sep 13 · Arizona · property tax
  Tightened the non-veteran widow/widower/disabled-person assessed-value cap from an approximate range ($36,450-$36,900) to the precise TY2026 figure ($36,865) per Maricopa County's assessor. (official source)
• Sep 12 · Illinois · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected the DV-plate certifier-expansion attribution: the physician/PA/APRN certifier language and 5-year permanent-disability recertification actually came from Public Act 103-843 (eff. 1/1/2025), not Public Act 104-88 (eff. 1/1/2026) as the page previously said -- PA 104-88's only contribution was adding physical therapists to the certifier list. (official source)
• Sep 12 · Idaho · property tax
  Rolled the 100% Disabled Veterans Property Tax Benefit application-cycle language from 2026 to 2027 per tax.idaho.gov (the $1,500 cap and no-income-limit rule are unchanged; the separate Circuit Breaker program has not rolled over and stays at 2026). (official source)
• Sep 12 · Idaho · other benefits
  Softened the Joining Forces Idaho emergency-relief grant description after current primary sources no longer state the previously-cited $1,500 cap, 90-day window, or Chief Administrator waiver -- the program now reads as a multi-source referral/coordination model rather than a single fixed-dollar IDVS grant. (official source)
• Sep 12 · Arizona · property tax
  Found a real, previously-missed enacted law: HB4168 (Chapter 140, Laws 2026, signed 6/13/2026) amends A.R.S. 42-11111 effective TY2027 -- Individual Unemployability newly qualifies for the full property-tax exemption, and the income test is removed for both veteran exemption routes (it will apply only to the separate non-veteran disabled-person category). Added as a forward-looking page callout and JSON future_note; current TY2026 rules (no IU, income test applies) are unchanged and still correctly shown as current. (official source)
• Sep 11 · Maine · income tax
  Added the TY2026 pension income deduction figure ($49,824, up from $48,216 for TY2025) and the TY2026 Property Tax Fairness Credit veteran-doubled increase (base credit for filers under 65 rises $2,000→$3,000 under PL 2025 c.650, Part CCCC; the 65+ figure of $4,000 is unchanged). (official source)
• Sep 11 · Kentucky · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected the POW free-camping benefit's sourcing -- the exemption card is issued by the Kentucky Department of Parks (KRS 148.0211) upon submission of discharge/VA documentation plus proof of residency, not issued directly by the VA as the page previously stated. (official source)
• Sep 11 · Kentucky · employment & hiring
  Removed leftover '10-point' preference language from the hiring how-to steps that contradicted the page's own corrected description of KRS 18A.150 as a guaranteed-interview system with no numeric point score. (official source)
• Sep 11 · Kansas · property tax
  Added the previously entirely-missing K-40H Homestead Refund (up to $700, income cap $43,389 for TY2025) as an independent qualifying route for 50%+ disabled veterans, alongside the existing K-40SVR freeze/refund; only one of K-40H/K-40PT/K-40SVR may be claimed per household. Also added a 'watch for 2027' note for HB2044 (income-tax subtraction + appraised-value-cap protection; passed both chambers but vetoed 4/27/2026). (official source)
• Sep 11 · Kansas · other benefits
  Corrected an inaccurate description of HB2274's homeless-veteran ID card benefit -- the standard $14/$10 nondriver ID fee is NOT waived (only a birth/death-certificate copy fee is); added the real benefits the bill provides (the ID card never expires, expanded acceptable proof documents) and a separate, previously-missing 'VETERAN' designation available to any honorably discharged veteran via DD-214/NGB-22 submission to KOVS. (official source)
• Sep 11 · Iowa · vehicles & recreation
  Added two previously-missing, currently-effective disabled-veteran benefits to the Recreation section: a Disabled Veteran Any-Deer License (one extra any-sex deer tag for any VA service-connected disability rating, $33, Iowa Code §483A.8D, available since 8/15/2025) and a Disabled Veteran Lifetime Trout License (statutory base $63, rising to $66 effective 12/15/2026 under a statewide DNR fee-schedule update, IAC 571—15.10(1)). (official source)
• Sep 11 · Iowa · property tax
  Logged a second dead proportional disabled-veteran homestead credit bill, SF2124 (91st GA), to the admin_note alongside the previously-tracked HF912 -- both died without a floor vote; no benefit change. (official source)
• Sep 10 · Indiana · property tax
  Corrected a real accuracy gap: the page described the new 2027 full ($0) property-tax deduction for totally-disabled veterans as requiring a 'service-connected' disability. Per DLGF's 2026 Veterans Deductions FAQ, IC 6-1.1-12-14 does NOT require service-connection -- a VA pension certifying total disability, a compensation award, or an IDVA certificate of eligibility all qualify (only the separate $350 credit requires a service-connected 10%+ rating). This could have wrongly discouraged a non-service-connected 100%-VA-pension veteran from applying. (official source)
• Sep 8 · Maryland · vehicles & recreation
  Added a previously-missing, currently-effective fact: MVA waives the standard $20 substitution/replacement plate fee for the disabled-veteran plate in the 50-99% disability band, effective 10/1/2024 under Ch.472/473 of 2024 (HB178/SB55). (official source)
• Sep 8 · Louisiana · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected the Disabled State Park Pass application channel -- Louisiana State Parks' own current page directs veterans to apply through their Parish Veterans Service Office, not directly through the Office of State Parks as the page previously said. (official source)
• Sep 8 · Georgia · vehicles & recreation
  Clarified the free Disabled Veteran license plate is not limited to 100%/IU veterans -- Form MV-9W's own eligibility boxes show any veteran with a compensable VA rating (10%+) or drawing a VA non-service-connected pension qualifies for the free plate, distinct from the narrower 100%/IU threshold for the property-tax and TAVT exemptions. (official source)
• Sep 7 · Wisconsin · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected the vehicle sales-tax framing: Wisconsin's actual exemption covers 'mobility-enhancing equipment' (adaptive equipment/accessories enabling vehicle entry/operation/exit) for any qualifying disabled person regardless of who paid for it (1989 Act 238, 1991 Act 39) -- broader than the prior page text, which implied the exemption only reached vehicles adapted via a VA adaptive-equipment grant. Exempts the equipment, not the base vehicle price. (official source)
• Sep 7 · Wisconsin · employment & hiring
  Corrected the hiring-preference description: Wis. Stat. 230.25(1g)'s mandatory top-3-certification of 70%+ disabled veterans and their spouses is not textually limited to 'promotional' positions as the page previously stated -- the statute applies whenever a certification list is produced for any vacancy in the classified service. (official source)
• Sep 7 · Wisconsin · health & veterans homes
  Fixed a wrong phone number for the Union Grove Wisconsin Veterans Home: page showed 262-878-6700 (actually the separate Southern WI Veterans Memorial Cemetery's number in the same town); corrected to 262-838-6700 per WDVA's own veterans-homes page. (official source)
• Sep 7 · Wisconsin · other benefits
  Added previously-unpublished dollar figures for the Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemeteries' dependent fees (no charge to the eligible veteran unless a private vault is used; spouse/dependent fees $1,700 burial, $978 cremains, $1,400/$700 disinterment, $2,200 private vault), replacing a vague 'a fee may apply for dependents' placeholder. (official source)
• Sep 7 · Wisconsin · other benefits
  Corrected the wrong source URL for the 'Veterans Assistance Grant' (subsistence aid) -- the cited employment-grants URL now hosts a different, previously-undocumented benefit, the Veterans Employment Grant (pays an employer, not the veteran, $5,000 full-time/$2,500 part-time for hiring a 50%+-rated veteran, in two installments at 6 and 12 months). Added the real Subsistence Aid ($3,000/12mo) and Health Care Aid (dental/vision/hearing sub-caps, $7,500 combined lifetime cap) figures from their correct URL, plus a newly-found adjacent benefit, Aid to Military Families (emergency assistance for a KIA veteran's surviving spouse/dependents or an activated Guard member's family). (official source)
• Sep 7 · Ohio · vehicles & recreation
  SB223's flat 25% ODNR park-services-and-rentals discount for all veterans/active-duty (up from 10%) took effect today, 9/7/2026; page flipped from a forward 'coming' note to live language, and the scope confirmed via enrolled bill text to cover rentals (camping/cottages) too, not just base park services (merchandise excluded). (official source)
• Sep 7 · Delaware · income tax
  SB 219 as actually signed (via Senate Amendment No. 1) added a new domicile-duration eligibility gate for filers age 60+ claiming a retirement-income exclusion: 3 years' DE domicile if resident before 1/1/2027, 5 years if becoming resident on/after 1/1/2027 -- previously undocumented on the page. Whether this reaches the currently-effective $12,500 military-pension exclusion for existing 60+ filers, or only the new TY2027+ dollar tiers, is unconfirmed pending DOR guidance. (official source)
• Sep 7 · Alabama · health & veterans homes
  Softened a stale Adkins State Veterans Home (Enterprise) reopening claim -- the specific 'September 13, 2026' ceremony date and '~30 residents' figure traced back to 2024 grand-opening coverage, not any verified 2026 source; the most recent (April 2026) primary reporting only supports a 'Fall 2026, late-September move-in target' with no confirmed date or resident count yet. (official source)
• Sep 5 · Utah · property tax
  CORRECTION: a prior pass wrongly applied 2026 H.B. 124 as enacted law establishing statewide one-time filing for the disabled-veteran property-tax exemption. Confirmed via le.utah.gov's own 2026 passed-bills list, governor.utah.gov's signed-bills list, and BillTrack50 (died 3/6/2026) that H.B. 124 never passed. Page and dataset corrected to state that refiling cadence is unsettled/county-dependent rather than asserting a one-time-filing rule, and to stop advising readers to cite H.B. 124 to their assessor. (official source)
• Sep 5 · Tennessee · other benefits
  Resolved a long-standing $0-vs-$700 conflict over the state veterans' cemeteries' dependent burial fee: 2026 Public Chapter 839 rewrote Tenn. Code Ann. Sec.46-6-107 to confirm a veteran's most recent spouse and minor/dependent-incapacitated children are buried at no charge; also expanded cemetery eligibility to Guard/reserve members with 8+ years' service or anyone called to state active duty. (official source)
• Sep 5 · Tennessee · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected the State Parks veteran discount: it is NOT limited to 100%-rated disabled veterans as previously stated -- every Tennessee-resident veteran gets standing year-round discounts (25% off campsites/cabins, 50% off Dec-Feb, 25% off Lodges, 20% off golf), per the park system's own current veterans page. (official source)
• Sep 5 · South Dakota · other benefits
  Added a previously-undocumented, currently-effective consumer-protection law (SDCL 33A-2-37 to 33A-2-42, HB1238/SL 2025 ch 133): bars upfront/nonrefundable fees and outcome guarantees by paid non-accredited VA-claims consultants, requires a signed written disclosure agreement, caps compensation at 5x the monthly benefit increase, and lets the Attorney General fine violators up to $5,000 per violation. (official source)
• Sep 3 · North Carolina · property tax
  Added House Bill 39 (filed 2/3/2025, still pending in House Finance Committee) to the pending-legislation callout as a third bill that would exempt a 100%-rated veteran's vehicle from property tax; not enacted, no benefit change. (official source)
• Sep 3 · New Hampshire · vehicles & recreation
  Added a new benefit finding: veterans holding the free special disabled-veteran plate qualify for a DMV walking-disability placard without additional VA proof, per RSA 261:88 as amended by 2025 Chapter 213 (SB12), effective 9/13/2025 and already in force. (official source)
• Sep 1 · Wisconsin · employment & hiring
  Reworded a page bullet that still implied a numeric veterans preference-points system to match the rest of the page's already-correct tiebreaker/certification description; verbatim statute read confirmed no factual error existed. (official source)
• Sep 1 · New Hampshire · employment & hiring
  SB448 (2026), effective 8/31/2026, broadened who counts as a veteran for STATE-employer hiring preference under RSA 283:4 Part II to the wider RSA 21:50 definition (not just a strictly honorable discharge); confirmed this does NOT reach the property-tax exemption programs, resolving a prior open question. (official source)
• Sep 1 · Maryland · education
  Posted the 2026-2027 application window (January 15, 2026 - October 15, 2026) for the Douglas J.J. Peters VAIC Scholarship, replacing a placeholder that said MHEC had not yet posted the new dates. (official source)
• Sep 1 · Delaware · health & veterans homes
  Confirmed the Delaware Veterans Home's $320/day semi-private rate is still current (not stale) via an April 2026 admissions packet, and added the $355/day private-room rate that wasn't previously on the page. (official source)

August 2026

• Aug 27 · Maine · income tax
  Added a caveat that Maine's non-military pension income deduction ($48,216/person for TY2025) now phases out for higher earners starting tax year 2025, while confirming the separate military-retirement-pay exemption remains uncapped and unaffected. (official source)
• Aug 27 · Kansas · other benefits
  Added a previously-undocumented, currently-effective benefit: a homeless veteran can get a no-charge Kansas non-driver ID card without meeting the standard address/proof-of-residency requirement, using a discharge document filed with KOVS; also noted Kansas's official Purple Heart State/Purple Heart Day designation. (official source)
• Aug 26 · Indiana · property tax
  Added a previously-undocumented eligibility fact: a surviving spouse who inherits the full 100% property-tax deduction loses eligibility upon remarriage. (official source)
• Aug 26 · Indiana · property tax
  Added the specific wartime-period date ranges (WWII/Korea/Vietnam/Gulf War) that qualify a veteran for the $24,960 property-tax deduction, previously referenced but never defined on the page. (official source)
• Aug 26 · Indiana · other benefits
  Corrected a likely-stale claim that a surviving spouse's burial at the Indiana Veterans Memorial Cemetery requires an opening-and-closing fee -- IDVA's current page no longer lists any spouse-specific charge (moderate confidence; readers told to confirm with the cemetery). (official source)
• Aug 26 · Indiana · other benefits
  Fixed a citation error: the CVSO-must-be-accredited-after-6/30/2026 requirement is Senate Enrolled Act 433 (2025), not House Enrolled Act 1343 (2026) as previously cited; the $1,000 county burial allowance is a pre-existing statute (IC 10-17-10-1) unrelated to either bill. (official source)
• Aug 26 · Florida · education
  Added a previously-missing, currently-effective benefit: Fla. Stat. 295.011 waives the gap between a 100% P&T veteran's Post-9/11 GI Bill benefit and full tuition/fees at state universities, Florida College System institutions, and career/technical centers. (official source)
• Aug 26 · Florida · other benefits
  Added the Veterans Dental Care Grant Program (295.157/F.A.C. 55-15.003): free/reduced dental care up to 400% FPL for veterans rated less than 100% service-connected disabled (100%-rated veterans are excluded and already have VA dental eligibility). (official source)
• Aug 26 · Florida · vehicles & recreation
  Added a forward note: starting October 1, 2026 (Chapter 2026-39, Sec. 10), a disabled veteran may keep their DV plate's unique alphanumeric designation across reissuance, renewal, or transfer to another vehicle. (official source)
• Aug 26 · Florida · employment & hiring
  Corrected a sourcing error: the disabled-veteran hiring-preference category (Fla. Stat. 295.08) adds 20 points to exam scores, not the 15 points previously stated in the comparison table. (official source)
• Aug 26 · Connecticut · education
  Added two previously-undocumented, currently-effective benefits from Public Act 25-95 (eff. 7/1/2025): a 100% tuition waiver at Charter Oak State College for wartime veterans/Guard members, and a requirement that 'extension fees' for summer/winter/intersession courses at community colleges, CSU, and UConn be waived for qualifying veterans (school-published guidance still lags the statute -- flagged on the page). (official source)
• Aug 26 · Connecticut · other benefits
  Added a previously-undocumented, currently-effective benefit: since 7/1/2025 (Public Act 25-95), DSS must disregard a veteran's or surviving spouse's VA non-service-connected pension, Aid and Attendance, and Housebound benefits when determining income eligibility for HUSKY, Medicare Savings, energy assistance, TFA, and other state assistance programs. (official source)
• Aug 24 · Arkansas · property tax
  Added a previously-undocumented, currently-effective fact: the property-tax homestead exemption covers up to 160 acres of contiguous land (raised from 40 acres by 2025 Act 407), and a county that later finds an exemption was granted erroneously can bill up to 3 years of back taxes plus penalties/interest (2025 Act 876). (official source)
• Aug 23 · Illinois · employment & hiring
  State employees who are veterans get 4 days/year of paid leave for VA-authorized medical care (any provider, exam or treatment) for a service-connected condition, not charged against sick leave -- newly documented, previously absent from the page and comparison table. (official source)
• Aug 22 · New York · education
  Added a previously entirely-missing benefit: NYS Regents Awards for Children of Deceased and Disabled Veterans, up to $450/year, for a child of a veteran with a 40%+ service-connected disability (or KIA/MIA/POW). (official source)
• Aug 22 · Maryland · employment & hiring
  Added DBM's Certified Disabled Veteran non-competitive appointment threshold (30%+ VA-rated service-connected disability) to the hiring section; the page previously named the pathway with no rating threshold at all. (official source)
• Aug 22 · Maryland · health & veterans homes
  Added Charlotte Hall Veterans Home's VA per-diem rule: veterans rated 70%+ service-connected get the full cost of skilled nursing care paid by the VA. (official source)
• Aug 22 · Louisiana · income tax
  Replaced an unconfirmed hedge with the confirmed out-of-state active-duty pay exclusion: up to $50,000/year for 120+ consecutive days of active duty performed outside Louisiana (R.S. 47:293(9)(e)). (official source)
• Aug 22 · Louisiana · education
  Filled three missing Title 29 eligibility gaps: the dependent-child age floor (16, not just the 25 ceiling), the surviving spouse's 10-year use-it window and remarriage bar, and the veteran's own Louisiana residency requirement (entirely absent previously). (official source)
• Aug 22 · Louisiana · employment & hiring
  Added the 'un-remarried' qualifier for a surviving spouse's civil-service exam preference eligibility. (official source)
• Aug 22 · Alaska · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected a factual error: Alaska does have one toll facility (the Whittier Tunnel); it carries no veteran/disability discount so the practical 'no toll benefit' conclusion is unchanged, but the prior 'no toll roads or bridges at all' premise was wrong. (official source)
• Aug 22 · Alaska · health & veterans homes
  Corrected the Palmer Veterans' and Pioneers' Home admission age from an unconfirmed '65+' to the primary-sourced '60+ years of age' (plus one year continuous Alaska residency). (official source)
• Aug 19 · Vermont · income tax
  Corrected the 'claim only one retirement exemption' rule: Vermont's Act 71 (2025) exempts military retirement/SBP as a separate exclusion from the Social Security/Civil Service Retirement System/Other Retirement System group, so it stacks on top of whichever of those a veteran also claims, effective tax year 2025. (official source)
• Aug 19 · Vermont · vehicles & recreation
  Added a previously-missing benefit: Vermont sets aside up to 10% of annual moose permits (capped at 6) in a priority drawing for any resident veteran with active-duty service and a non-dishonorable discharge, regardless of disability rating. (official source)
• Aug 19 · Utah · education
  Corrected the Purple Heart graduate tuition waiver: S.B. 220 (2026, effective 5/6/2026) raised the graduate-level cap from $10,000 to $15,000 and repealed the prior 10-year-from-undergraduate-completion application deadline; the statute was also renumbered to Utah Code 53H-11-303. Undergraduate tuition remains full and uncapped. (official source)
• Aug 19 · Utah · vehicles & recreation
  Sharpened the Purple Heart plate fee-waiver scope: Utah's own DMV plate classification and Part 16's statutory definition list both indicate a Purple Heart plate is an Honor (Part 4) plate, not a Part 16 Sponsored Special Group plate, so a plate issued today most likely does not reach the broader post-2023 fee bundle beyond the base plate-fee exemption. (official source)
• Aug 19 · Utah · property tax
  Added a caution that some counties' own public-facing instructions (e.g. Duchesne County) haven't caught up to H.B. 124's 2026 switch to one-time filing and still tell applicants to refile annually. (official source)
• Aug 18 · Tennessee · vehicles & recreation
  Added three previously-missing vehicle tax breaks: the first Disabled Veteran plate is free for a 100% P&T veteran or specific lower-rating disabilities (Tenn. Code Ann. 55-4-256); a VA-grant vehicle gets its own county motor-vehicle-privilege-tax exemption (5-8-102(d)(6)); and adaptive equipment plus a VA-grant vehicle purchase are exempt from sales/use tax (67-6-353). (official source)
• Aug 18 · Tennessee · other benefits
  Softened the state veterans' cemetery dependent-burial-fee claim from an unqualified 'no cost' to a flagged conflict (a TDVS-sourced citation elsewhere states $700), pending direct primary-source confirmation. (official source)
• Aug 18 · South Dakota · property tax
  Added two 2026 laws strengthening the missed-deadline safety net: HB1193 requires counties to retroactively abate/refund (up to 4 years) a veteran's $200,000 exemption once a pending VA permanent-and-total claim is approved, and SB12 lets veterans petition for a discretionary refund if they missed the paraplegic-exemption or owner-occupied-classification deadline. (official source)
• Aug 18 · South Dakota · health & veterans homes
  Corrected the State Veterans Home admission criteria: current law and the Home's own application process key eligibility to VA per-diem payment eligibility, with no separate income test — a previously cited ~$1,000-above-VA-Improved-Pension-rate income limit is stale and not part of current admission criteria. (official source)
• Aug 18 · South Carolina · other benefits
  Added the newly enacted South Carolina Safeguarding American Veterans' Benefits Act (Act No. 211/S.695, effective 5/19/2026), which bans upfront fees and outcome guarantees by paid veterans'-claims consultants and caps any contingency fee at the lesser of 5x the monthly benefit increase or $12,500. (official source)
• Aug 17 · Rhode Island · property tax
  Corrected the Gold Star parents' exemption per-town dollar examples, which had been conflated with unrelated exemption categories (base-wartime and full-SAH figures): corrected to the state's own per-town report figures (Cumberland $25,377, Westerly $43,068, Narragansett $20,000). (official source)
• Aug 17 · Rhode Island · income tax
  Affirmatively confirmed (previously an open hedge) that a surviving spouse receiving Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuity payments qualifies for the same military-retirement income-tax modification. (official source)
• Aug 17 · Rhode Island · vehicles & recreation
  Added detail to the State Parks disability pass: it requires annual renewal (unless VA re-evaluation is waived) and corrected State Parks Headquarters' seasonal office hours. (official source)
• Aug 17 · Puerto Rico · property tax
  Corrected the property-tax page's temporary-elevation history: the Route 1 ($5,000) veteran exemption was never itself elevated (that was a separate, non-veteran general homestead exemption raised to $150,000); the Route 2 ($50,000-to-$500,000) elevation ran only FY2009-10 through 2011-12 (three years), not through 2018-19, per CRIM's own AS-38 form. (official source)
• Aug 17 · Puerto Rico · health & veterans homes
  Added a previously-missing Casa del Veterano rental-subsidy benefit (Ley 313-2000 as amended by Ley 146-2024): up to $600/mo domiciliary or $800/mo nursing care, income-scaled and regulation-set (not a fixed statutory amount). (official source)
• Aug 17 · Puerto Rico · health & veterans homes
  Corrected the Atlantic Garden Veterans Cemetery (Aguadilla) address from Carr. 110 Km 29.8 to the correct Carr. 110 Km 6.6, Bo. Montana, per OPV's own page; and added a newly enacted law (Ley 145-2026) requiring government housing/property notices to disclose the veteran preference. (official source)
• Aug 17 · Oregon · education
  Added a previously-missing state-law tuition waiver (ORS 350.285) for spouses/children of veterans who died on active duty, died of a service-connected disability, or are certified 100% disabled, and for children of Purple Heart recipients - covers up to 180 credits/6 terms at Oregon public universities and OHSU, and stacks with federal DEA benefits. (official source)
• Aug 17 · Oregon · vehicles & recreation
  Added two minor completions: a VA Summary of Benefits Letter now counts alongside a DD-214 as proof of veteran status for the recognition-plate program (HB 2559, 2025), and resident disabled veterans can buy a reduced-price ($29) elk tag through ODFW. (official source)
• Aug 16 · Utah · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected the Purple Heart plate fee-waiver scope: Utah Code 41-1a-1211(12) gives any Purple Heart recipient an undated exemption from the base license-plate fee regardless of when the plate was issued; the broader exemption (special-group fee, registration, driver-ed, uninsured-motorist, county corridor fees) is confirmed under 41-1a-1211(10)(b) but limited to plates issued on/before 12/31/2023 or under the Part 16 Sponsored Special Group program, and whether today's Purple Heart plates fall under Part 16 remains unconfirmed. (official source)
• Aug 16 · Ohio · education
  Updated the War Orphans & Severely Disabled Veterans' Children Scholarship (WOS) to the newly-approved AY2026-2027 funding levels: private-institution flat award rose from $6,330 to $6,397 (public-institution rate stays 77% of tuition/fees). (official source)
• Aug 16 · North Dakota · vehicles & recreation
  Removed a stale caution that ND Game and Fish's own licensing page still showed the old 100% disability threshold for the combined hunting license; the agency page has since been corrected to the current 50%-or-greater threshold, matching our page and the 2025 law (HB1147). (official source)
• Aug 15 · New Mexico · income tax
  Corrected a stale claim that the $30,000 military-retirement income-tax exclusion expires after tax year 2026; a 2024 law (Ch.67, Laws of 2024 / HB252) removed the sunset and extended eligibility to surviving spouses, effective for tax years beginning on/after 1/1/2025 - the exclusion is now ongoing, not set to lapse. (official source)
• Aug 15 · New Jersey · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected mis-cited state park admission benefit: general free entry requires being 62+, totally disabled, or an active NJ Guard member with completed IADT (not any-degree VA rating alone); the any-degree standard applies only to the beach-vehicle-permit fee (13:1L-12), not the statute previously cited (13:1L-12.1, which actually covers veterans'-organization events and Gold Star Family ID holders). (official source)
• Aug 15 · Nevada · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected Disabled Veteran plate eligibility: NRS 482.0962 requires a 100% combined VA rating OR a lower rating that independently meets NRS 482.384's mobility/medical criteria (certified by a licensed medical professional) - not any VA-rated disability as the page and compare-JSON previously implied. (official source)
• Aug 15 · Nevada · education
  Corrected a hedge implying a living NV Guard member's tuition waiver could be transferred to a spouse/child; NSHE's actual family fee waiver is death-triggered only (Guard member killed on duty), same 10-year window as the POW/MIA family waiver. (official source)
• Aug 14 · Nebraska · vehicles & recreation
  Added that a denied disabled-veteran motor-vehicle tax exemption applicant can appeal to their county board of equalization within 20 days (Neb. Rev. Stat. 60-3,189(1)) — Sarpy County used this route to reverse all of its first-year deadline denials on 7/7/2026. (official source)
• Aug 14 · Montana · property tax
  Added the honorably-discharged and 7-months-primary-residence qualifiers to the MDV property-tax exemption's eligibility list on the page (already correctly modeled in the calculator dataset, just missing from the HTML text) — sourced to MCA 15-6-301/15-6-311. (official source)
• Aug 14 · Missouri · employment & hiring
  Corrected the sourcing for Missouri's 5/10-point veterans' hiring preference — the figures live on the state employment application (Form MO 300-0739), not in RSMo 36.220 as previously cited; the statute itself only sets a tie-breaker and training-credit preference. (official source)
• Aug 14 · Mississippi · other benefits
  Corrected the Mississippi VA headquarters street address (War Memorial Building, 120 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39201) — the page had a stale/wrong address (660 North Street). (official source)
• Aug 14 · Mississippi · other benefits
  Added the newly enacted SAVE Act of 2026 (HB1076/Ch.453, eff. 7/1/2026), which bans referral fees, upfront fees, and outcome guarantees by paid veterans'-benefits consultants and caps contingent fees at 5x the monthly benefit increase secured. (official source)
• Aug 14 · California · income tax
  Refreshed SB1407's status on the page — remained under submission at its 8/13/2026 Assembly Appropriations suspense-file hearing (not yet disposed); no dollar-figure change ($40,000 cap TY2026-2036 already correct). (official source)
• Aug 13 · Connecticut · other benefits
  Pinned the exact statutory vehicle for the free veteran bus pass to Public Act 26-68 (SB1, the FY2027 budget act signed 5/26/2026) — previously the page described the benefit but the underlying bill (SB-237) had been confirmed dead with no PA number; the budget-bill vehicle's own PA number is now cited directly. (official source)
• Aug 12 · Kansas · vehicles & recreation
  Added that a surviving spouse who was already receiving the 100% P&T/TDIU sales-tax exemption may keep using it until remarriage, per KDOR's own exemption page (previously only stated for the K-40SVR property-tax refund). (official source)
• Aug 12 · Indiana · property tax
  Added a third surviving-spouse qualifying door to the new $250 property-tax credit: spouses of veterans who died while serving on inactive duty training now also qualify, per the Indiana DVA's own current page (previously the page listed only killed-in-action or died-on-active-duty). (official source)
• Aug 11 · Utah · vehicles & recreation
  Tightened the Purple Heart plate fee-waiver description to the statutorily-confirmed fees (plate issuance + special-group fee under Utah Code 41-1a-1211(11)(b)); flagged the broader fee-waiver claim as unconfirmed pending direct statute verification. (official source)
• Aug 11 · Maryland · health & veterans homes
  The Maryland Veterans Trust Fund reopened Aug 1, 2026 after a pause and now runs on a normal monthly (1st-15th) application cycle. (official source)
• Aug 11 · Maryland · employment & hiring
  Added the Military Personnel & Veteran-Owned Small Business Loan Program (MPVOLP): no-interest loans $1,000-$100,000 for veteran-owned small businesses, on an application-window cycle. (official source)
• Aug 11 · Louisiana · health & veterans homes
  New law (Act 558/HB609) exempts a veteran from medical-records fees when requesting records to support a VA or LDVA disability claim, once per veteran, effective Aug 1, 2026. (official source)
• Aug 11 · Hawaii · property tax
  Confirmed Hawaii County's annual minimum property tax at $200/year (previously unconfirmed on the page, with conflicting $100-$300 secondary-source claims), per the county's own rates page. (official source)
• Aug 11 · Connecticut · vehicles & recreation
  CT DVA now provides veterans a free bus pass, funded starting FY2027 (July 2026). (official source)
• Aug 10 · District of Columbia · employment & hiring
  Confirmed via DSLBD's own CBE Certification Document Checklist that the DSLBD Veteran-Owned Business Enterprise (VOB) subcategory requires a DD Form 214 as proof of veteran status; added to the page and sources (previously only sourced from a secondary aggregator). (official source)
• Aug 10 · California · income tax
  Refreshed SB1407's (military retirement pay exclusion cap increase) procedural status on the page -- placed on the Assembly Appropriations suspense file 8/5/2026, hearing set 8/13/2026 -- still not enacted, dollar figures unchanged. (official source)
• Aug 5 · Wisconsin · employment & hiring
  Corrected a stale claim that WI adds 10-20 civil-service preference points by disability rating; that numeric table was repealed by 2015 Act 150 and replaced by an equal-qualifications tiebreaker plus guaranteed promotional-register certification for 70%+ disabled veterans. (official source)
• Aug 5 · Wisconsin · health & veterans homes
  Added the actual federal citation (38 CFR 51.41) for the rule that a 70%+ (or IU) veteran's state-veterans-home nursing care is paid in full by the VA with no separate charge, replacing an uncited hedge. (official source)
• Aug 5 · West Virginia · property tax
  TSD-455 guidance PDF confirmed reprinted January 2026 but still carries the pre-SB194 stale 90-100% P&T standard; page note sharpened to flag the cosmetic-only reprint. (official source)
• Aug 5 · Alabama · health & veterans homes
  Adkins State Veterans Home reopening (9/13/2026) confirmed on track with full bed-count detail (174 beds, 28 memory-care); noted ADVA's own site is stale and does not reflect the fire/reopening. (official source)
• Aug 4 · Washington · property tax
  Clarified that Washington's 2027+ veteran/senior/disabled property-tax relief CDI deduction options are mutually exclusive: the $7,500 (+$7,500 spouse) standard deduction replaces itemizing medical expenses, while the $6,000/year room-rental-income deduction is only available if itemizing -- per DOR's own Q&A, an applicant cannot claim both in the same year. Page and JSON previously read as if both could be combined. (official source)
• Aug 3 · Maryland · vehicles & recreation
  Corrected the vehicle-registration section: Maryland Transportation Art. §13-903 provides a real registration-FEE exemption (not just a free plate) for veterans VA-classified as having lost use of a hand/arm/leg, as totally disabled, or with a specific vision impairment - the prior page said registration fees were owed in all cases pending confirmation, and the compare-table detail overstated it as a blanket 100%-rating rule. (official source)