RCW 43.60A.151
Veterans conservation corps—Employment assistance—Agreements for educational benefits—Receipt of gifts, grants, or federal moneys.
(1) The department shall assist veterans enrolled in the veterans conservation corps with obtaining employment in conservation programs and projects that restore Washington's natural habitat, maintain and steward local, state, and federal forestlands and other outdoor lands, maintain and improve urban and suburban stormwater management facilities and other water management facilities, and other environmental maintenance, stewardship, and restoration projects. The department shall consult with the workforce training and education coordinating board, the state board for community and technical colleges, the employment security department, and other state agencies administering conservation corps programs, to incorporate training, education, ecotherapy, and certification in environmental restoration and management fields into the program. The department may enter into agreements with community colleges, private schools, conservation districts, state or local agencies, or other entities to provide training, internships, and educational courses as part of the enrollee benefits from the program.
(2) The department may receive gifts, grants, federal funds, or other moneys from public or private sources, for the use and benefit of the veterans conservation corps program. The funds shall be deposited to the veterans conservation corps account created in *RCW 43.60A.153.
[ 2017 c 185 § 4; 2012 c 229 § 820; 2007 c 451 § 3.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 43.60A.153 was repealed by 2022 c 157 § 23.
Effective date—2012 c 229 §§ 101, 117, 401, 402, 501 through 594, 601 through 609, 701 through 708, 801 through 821, 902, and 904: See note following RCW 28B.77.005.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 43 - State Government—Executive
Chapter 43.60A - Department of Veterans Affairs.
43.60A.020 - Department created—Powers, duties, and functions.
43.60A.030 - Director—Qualifications—Salary—Vacancy.
43.60A.040 - General powers and duties of director.
43.60A.050 - Deputy director—Assistant directors.
43.60A.060 - Delegation of powers and duties.
43.60A.070 - Additional powers and duties of director.
43.60A.075 - Powers as to state veterans' homes.
43.60A.080 - Veterans affairs advisory committee—Created—Membership—Terms—Powers and duties.
43.60A.100 - Counseling services—Veterans, including national guard and reservists.
43.60A.101 - Peer-to-peer support program—Report to the legislature.
43.60A.110 - Counseling—Coordination of programs.
43.60A.120 - Counseling—Priority.
43.60A.130 - Counseling—Posttraumatic stress disorder and combat stress program.
43.60A.140 - Veterans stewardship account.
43.60A.150 - Veterans conservation corps—Created.
43.60A.152 - Collaboration with departments implementing the Washington conservation corps.
43.60A.154 - Agreements with federal entities for projects.
43.60A.155 - Cooperation with the salmon recovery funding board regarding project work.
43.60A.160 - Veterans innovations program.
43.60A.175 - Receipt of gifts, grants, or endowments—Rule-making authority.
43.60A.185 - Veterans innovations program account.
43.60A.190 - Certified veteran-owned businesses.
43.60A.195 - Veteran-owned business certification—Rules—Outreach.
43.60A.200 - Awards of procurement contracts by state agencies to veteran-owned businesses.
43.60A.210 - Donations to disabled veterans assistance account.
43.60A.215 - Disabled veterans assistance account.
43.60A.220 - Helmets to hardhats program.
43.60A.230 - Veterans service officer program.
43.60A.235 - Veterans service officer fund.
43.60A.240 - Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer coordinator—Created—Duties—Report.
43.60A.245 - Military spouse liaison—Created—Duties.
43.60A.250 - Purple heart state—Signage—Account.
43.60A.260 - Suicide prevention community-based services grant program.
43.60A.270 - Veterans and military members suicide prevention account.
43.60A.280 - Mental health, well-being, and suicide prevention resources.
43.60A.903 - Certification when apportionments of budgeted funds required because of transfers.
43.60A.906 - Collective bargaining units or agreements not altered.