Reeves attends Military & Veterans Task Force meeting in Seattle, gets bills passed at home

Final week, Reeves was in Seattle for the primary in-person assembly in two years of the Nationwide Convention of State Legislators Army & Veterans Activity Power, of which he’s Co-Chairman. A number of the group’s greater focuses are strengthening Nationwide Guard recruitment, resiliency, and retainment, the state senator stated within the replace.

“On the nationwide degree, we tackled combatting veterans suicide and the way we will facilitate higher consciousness and psychological well being remedy on the state degree,” Reeve stated within the replace.

He participated in a dialogue on the assembly on veteran suicide prevention, 988 disaster hotline implementation, and associated matters with Rep. Tina Orwall, a Washington Democrat, and Codie Marie Garza, suicide prevention program supervisor at Washington Dept. of Veteran Affairs.

There was additionally an summary of State Applications to Help Girls Veterans as girls make up 11% of the nation’s 17 million veterans, in line with NCSL.

That is anticipated to extend as girls now comprise 20% of recent recruits, 15% of active-duty army and 18% of the guard and reserve forces, in line with ncsl.org.

The state senator bought to go to Naval Base Kitsap whereas in Washington State. Attendees took the Seattle Ferry to Bremerton and have been picked up by Base personnel.

Kitsap is the third-largest U.S. Navy set up in the US, house to a spread of strategic missions, together with all varieties of submarines, two Nimitz-class plane carriers, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the biggest gasoline depot within the Continental U.S., in line with ncsl.org.

There have been wins again at house in Virginia not too long ago as properly, Reeve stated within the replace. Youngkin signed two of his payments into regulation on Friday—SB529 and SB768.

SB768 amends the definition of “certified survivors and dependents” beneath the Virginia Army Survivors and Dependents Schooling Program to incorporate {that a} little one who’s a stepchild of a deceased army service member shall obtain all Program advantages, in line with the legislative replace.

The training program is a key recruiting instrument to entice veterans to stay in Virginia, Reeves stated. It offers tuition and charge waivers for veterans with extreme disabilities and for households of army members who died on energetic responsibility.

The truth of contemporary households is such that some veterans could have been the step-parent of a kid since start however by no means legally adopted the kid. Senate Invoice 768 fixes this.

The state senator stated SB529 was one other huge win for energetic responsibility members.

“The Pentagon has been highlighting how essential it’s, operationally, for constant and reasonably priced little one look after energetic responsibility service members. This invoice is an enormous first step in easing entry to little one look after all energetic responsibility members in our Commonwealth,” Reeves stated.

The state senator is one in every of six Republican congressional candidates searching for the Republican nomination in June to run in opposition to two-term incumbent Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Seventh. Reeves, energetic in veterans causes and laws, is a former Military Ranger who additionally labored as a narcotics detective.