Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 38. MILITARY, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, AND VETERANS AFFAIRS · Chapter 4. VETERANS AFFAIRS · Article 2. VETERANS BENEFITS · Part 2. WAR VETERANS HOME

38-4-50. ‘‘War veterans’’ defined.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

As used in Code Sections 38-4-51 and 38-4-52, the term ‘‘war veterans’’ means any veterans who were discharged under other than dishonorable conditions and who served on active duty in the armed forces of the United States or on active duty in a reserve component of the armed forces of the United States, including the National Guard, during wartime or during the period beginning January 31, 1955, and ending on August 1, 1990, or during the period beginning January 1, 1947, and ending on June 26, 1950.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1955, Ex. Sess., p. 18, § 3; Ga. L. 1968, p. 1247, § 1; Ga. L. 2017, p. 719, § 1/HB 322; Ga. L. 2020, p. 355, § 1/HB 907. The 2020 amendment, effective July 29, 2020, added ‘‘, or during the period beginning January 1, 1947, and ending on June 26, 1950’’ at the end.

Editor's notes

This section originally referred to the ending date as the date determined by presidential proclamation declaring a cessation of the Vietnam era, which date was declared to be May 7, 1975. See Presidential Proclamation No. 4373, May 7, 1975, 40 F.R. 20257. See also 38 U.S.C. § 101(29).

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