Baton Rouge, Louisiana (AP) - The governor, legislators and soldiers' councils'Families hoping to change given an unequal system of special services
Member of National Guard troops from Louisiana killed
active duty.
Benefits for Guard was founded in 2007. A
Proposal to expand the program began in 2001, the
The families of 32 soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2001
and 2007.
The members of the state Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs pushed
on the nature of the law provided last year, said they had failed
Military families, they had to contain. Budgetary problems
derailed the proposal of $ 8,000,000.
Governor Bobby Jindal announced support of the measure in the
next legislative period beginning in April and is also
money in his budget proposal.
