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Published on: 5/3/2006
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It will cost the state $14.3 million in the next fiscal year, which begins July 1, and $10 million in fiscal 2008. ‘‘Today was a ‘Veterans Day' in Annapolis unlike anything we have seen before," said Veterans Affairs Secretary George W. Owings III, a former Calvert County delegate and decorated Vietnam War veteran.The Veterans Advocacy and Education Act of 2006 was also signed into law.It establishes college scholarships for veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and their spouses and children.It also provides a $50,000 death benefit for Marylanders killed in conflict, expands the Conroy Scholarship program and establishes an Outreach and Advocacy Program to ensure veterans and their families receive all the benefits to which they are entitled.Owings highlighted other veteran related laws.