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Veterans Legislation Wins
Final House Approval
WASHINGTON - The House
of Representatives recently ap-
proved agreements with the Sen-
ate bn three legislative measures
to iferease benefits for U.S. mili-
tary veterans: the Homeless Vet-
erans Assistance Act, the
Veterans Benefits Act and the
Vetera1 Education and Benefits
Expansion Act. Congressman
Chit Edwards, a member of the
House Appropriations Commit-
tee, cosponsored the original
House measures.
“As we remember the tragic
events of Sept. 11 which necessi-
tated sending American service-
men and women into harm’s way
to fight in the war on terrorism,
H is important to keep in mind
that they are the next generation
df military veterans," Edwards
said. “They will be joining the
ranks of those who answered the
call in World Whr I, World War II,
Korea, Vietnam, and the Gulf
War, Central and South America,
the Middle East, Central Europe,
and Africa. We owe an immeasur-
able debt of gratitude to everyone
who has served in uniform. The
legislation we approved this
tjreek is a small payment on that
The Homeless Veterans Assis
tance Act calls for the elimination
Of chronic homelessness among
veterans within 10 years. The
measure expands low-income
housing vouchers, authorizes in-
creased funding for VA-spon-
sored homeless programs, a
homeless veter-
»e workforce, and
i for homeless veter-
ans with special needs, including
older veterans, women, sub-
stance abusers, and those with
posttraumatic Stress disorder.
“On any given night during the
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Judge Zander Completes
20-Hour Seminar In Tyler
CLIFTON — Judge James
(Jamie) Zander, Bosque County
Pet. 2 justice of the peace, Was cer-
tified at the 20-hour Justice of the
Peace Seminar held Dec. 11-4 in
Tyler. The seminar was sponsored
by the Texas Justice Court Thun-
ing Center, a division of Southwest
Texas State University, with of-
fices in Austin.
The seminar is one of five held
for elected justices of the peace so
they can fulfill their continuing ju-
dicial education requirements as
set forth in Article 27.005 of the
Texas Government ode.
Topics addressed at the seminar
included judicial ethics, creating a
bias-free court, civil versus small
claims, traffic laws, inquests, fam-
ily violence, magistrate duties,
probable cause and search war-
rants, department of transporta-
tion regulations, landlord/tenabt
issues, minor in possession, attor-
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Monday Is Deadline For Submissions
Of Info For Next Calendar Of Events
By David Anderson
RECORD ASSOCIATE EDITOR
CLIFTON—The Clifton Record
is seeking listings for its monthly
calendar of events The next calen-
dar is scheduled for publication in
the Friday, Dec. 28, edition. Fbr en-
tries to be included in that edition
of the calendar, submissions must
be received by the newspaper no
later than 12 noon Monday, Dec. 24.
Information about events in
January in particular well as
throughout the new year are
needed. Organizations and groups
with events already planned in 2002
are encouraged to submit informa-
tion about those events now so they
may be included as soon as pos-
sible.
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monthly as a public service by The
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aged to submit their events, activi-
ties, celebrations, and fund-raisers
as early as possible, so inclusion in
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clude all pertinent dates, times, and
locations, admission or other re-
lated costs if applicable, and a name
and contact information.
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Calendar of Events, contact The
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675-4090, or submit via e-mail
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year, as many as 275,000 U.S. mili-
tary veterans across the country
sleep in doorways, alleys, or
cardboard boxes — more than
15,000 in Texas alone,” said
Edwards. “This is both tragic and
shameful. These people have
served their nation. Now, their
nation needs to remember
them.”
Earlier versions of the Home-
less Veterans Assistance Act
would have added other benefits,
including dental care, at VA facili-
ties. These, however, were not in-
cluded in the final bill.
The Veterans Benefit Act, also
cosponsored by Edwards, autho-
rizes a 2.6-percent cost of living
increase for service-connected
disability compensation.
“The legislation authorizes an
annual cost of living increase for
benefits equal to the Social Secu-
rity COLA. This is good news for
veterans who have seen their
benefits diminished by the rising
cost of living. I am disappointed,
however, that the Senate deleted
provisions in our House bill
which provided additional medi-
cal help for Gulf War veterans.
Men and women who served in
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia will be
denied disability compensation
for a range of multi-symptom
Gulf War illnesses. They deserve
better.”
The Veterans Education and
Benefits Expansion Act, cospon-
sored by Edwards in the House, in-
creases education assistance for
full-time college study under the
Montgomery GI Bill from $650 per
month to $985 over three years.
The bill also protects members of
the National Guard and Reserves
called to active duty since Sept. 11
against the loss of GI benefits from
the interruption in their education.
AUSTIN—There is good news for
those who get a lot of phone cafls
from salespersons asking them to
change their long distance service
or open new cretin card accounts.
A new law takes effect Jan. 1,2002,
which provides several important
protections for consumers. Soon,
there will be a way to stop such calls.
One of these protections is the
Texas no-call list. This list, main-
tained by the Public Utilities Com-
mission, will contain names,
addresses, and phone numbers of
persons who do not want to be con-
tacted by telemarketing firms. Be-
ginning in January 2002, anyone can
contact the PUC directly to add his
or her name and phone number to
the list, which will be updated every
three months.
The PUC may charge a fee of up
to three dollars for each telephone
number included. Listings will au-
tomatically expire after three yeans,
but can be renewed at any time. |
After a person’s name has been
on the no-call list for 60 day^,
telemarketing firms are generally
prohibited from calling that person.
However, there are some exceptions
that allow certain telemarketing
recipient can call during business
hours to be removed from the so-
licitation list.
Once someone asks to have his or
her fax number removed, the per-
son who sent the solicitation has 24
hours to send him or her a letter or
fax acknowledging that request. Af-
ter that, that person may not send
other messages to that fax machine.
If a telemarketer keeps calling or
sending faxes after the person has
signed up for the no-call list, then
he or she may file a complaint
against the telemarketer or the
sender of the faxed solicitation.
Complaint forms can be re-
quested by calling the Attorney
General’s consumer protection hot-
line toll-free inside Texas at 1-800-
621-0508. Complaints can also be
filed on-line at the OAG’s website
(www.oag.state.tx.us).
If the complaint involves a pro-
vider of long distance phone ser-
vices, the consumer may want to
contact the PUC first. In the case of
Unsolicited faxes, the recipient can
also file a complaint with the Fed-
eral Communications Commission.
Interested persons can get more
information through that website
firms to call a person even if his on, (www.fcc.gov). •>.* ,
her name is on the no-call list.' The ,, For more information on the no-
no-call provisions do not apply
opinion polls, calls on behalf of non-
profit organizations,, and calls re-
questing political support, as long
no attempt is made to sell some-
thing to the person who answers the
phone.
The no-call provisions also do not
apply to the companies with which
the person who has the phone num-
ber had a business relationship in
the past 12 months. However, if the
person receives a telephone solici-
tation from someone covered by one
of the exceptions, he or she can then
ask that telemarketer to put his or
her name on that company’s no-call
list.
Many people also get unsolicited
faxes. Several years ago “junk
faxers” began calling one man’s
home in the middle of the night —
even though he didn’t have a fax
machine. Over and over the phone
would ring, with only the screech of
a fax machine at the other end. Un-
solicited faxes are prohibited by a
federal law called the Telephone
Consumer Protection Act- In addi-
tion, Texas HB 472, which takes ef-
fect Jan. 1, 2002, contains further
protections against fax advertise-
ments sent within the State.
Under HB 472, fox solicitations
sent in Texas must include the com-
plete name and street address of the
person or business sending the fox.
The fox must also include a toll-free
or local phone number where the
Flood-Damaged
Vehicle Database
Now Available
AUSTIN — The floodwaters from
Topical Storm Allison in June have
long since receded from Southeast
Texas, but flood-damaged vehicles re-
main, and they have spread well be-
yond Texas. The Texas Department of
Tansportation (TxDOT) has cpmpiled
a listing of nearly 30,000 vehicles that
have been branded as flood-damaged.
The listing is available on TxDCrTs
website (www.dot.state.tx.us). Users
dick on the “Vehicles” link and then
select “Flood Damage Database.”
The database is searchable by
model year, make of vehicle and ve-
hicle identification number, allowing
users to determine if a salvage certifi-
cate or title has been issued. The title
number and date the salvage title was
issued is also posted The site can only
be used to identify vehicles that re-
ceived “Flood Damaged" titles in
Texas.
Consumers who bought a vehicle
with a “Flood Damaged" title, and that
information was not disclosed prior to
the purchase, are urged to contact the
Attorney General’s office in the state
of purchase. Citizens needmgmfonna-
tion about vehicle titles and registra-
tion in Texas should check with then-
county tax assessprcoflector. Tb ask
questions, call the TxDOT help line at
(512)465-7611.
call list, after Jan. 1, contact the
PUC toll-free at 1-888-782-8477 or
visit its website (www.puc.state.
tx.us).
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