The "veterans' services department" is created in the executive branch. The department is a cabinet department and includes the following divisions: A. the administrative services division; B. the field services division; C. the health care coordination division; and D. the state benefits division. History: Laws 2004, ch. 19, § 4; 2017, ch. 84, § 2. The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, created a new health care coordination division of the veterans' services department, and removed the state approving division as a division of the veterans' services department; and in Subsection C, after "the", deleted "state approving" and added "health care coordination". Compiler's notes. — Laws 2004, ch. 19, § 30, effective May 19, 2004, provided for the transfer of functions, personnel, appropriations, money, records, equipment, supplies, other property and contractual obligations of the veterans' service commission to the veterans' services department pursuant to executive order issued in accordance with Laws 2003, Chapter 403 and to provide that all statutory references to the veterans' service commission shall be deemed to be references to the veterans' services department.
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