Current through 2024 Session Acts Chapter 111 and 2024 Special Session Acts Chapter 4
Section 73-1244 - [Documentation requirements to determine eligibility for benefits derived from service-connected disability](a) As used in this section:(1) "Service-connected disability" means, regarding disability or death, that such disability was incurred or aggravated, or that such death resulted from a disability incurred or aggravated, in the line of duty in the active military, naval, air or space service; and(2) "veteran" means a person who served in the active military, naval, air or space service and was discharged or released therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable.(b) No state agency or municipality, as defined in K.S.A. 12-105a, and amendments thereto, shall request or demand any other document or improvise an authentication procedure to determine eligibility for any benefit derived from a service-connected disability suffered by a Kansas veteran, except the following: (1) A United States passport as defined in 22 C.F.R. 53.1;(2) an unexpired real I.D. state driver's license as defined in 6 C.F.R. 37 ;(3) a veterans health identity card issued by the United States department of veterans affairs;(4) a veterans identification card issued under the authority of 38 U.S.C. § 5706;(5) a common access card issued by the United States department of defense; or(6) any department of defense identity cards listed in 32 C.F.R. 161(b).Added by L. 2024, ch. 84,§ 4, eff. 7/1/2024.