An emergency health information card can help first responders know important medical and contact information for you.
Download, print and fill out an emergency contact card located at
https://department.va.gov/integrated-service-networks/wp-
content/uploads/sites/24/2024/04/HealthInfoCard.pdf
Make multiple copies to keep in your emergency supply kit, car, wallet or purse or wheelchair pack.

Florida Veteran Legislation Signed by Gov DeSantis on June 26, 2026

Three veteran related Bills that were signed by Governor DeSantis on June 26th 2026:

HB 0199 Veterans Affairs by Maney

06/12/2026 Approved by Governor; Chapter No. 2026-128
Veterans Affairs; Revises admissions process for veterans treatment court programs; authorizes court, in
consultation with multidisciplinary team, to determine eligibility for veterans treatment court programs; requires
court to consider recommendation of state attorney when making eligibility determination; authorizes sentencing
courts to divert defendants to veterans treatment court programs under certain circumstances; requires certain
notice be provided to defendants; provides for disposition of probation or community control violations by program
participants.

HB 0253 Veterans Dental Care Grant Program by Edmonds

06/25/2026 Approved by Governor
The bill expands eligibility for the Veterans Dental Care Grant Program established within the Florida Department of
Veterans’ Affairs. The bill effectively requires veterans to have an income of up to 400 percent of the federal
poverty level to be eligible for the program. The department set the current program eligibility to veterans with
incomes up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level by administrative rule.

SB 1602 Housing for Veterans by Wright

06/11/2026 Approved by Governor; Chapter No. 2026-125
The bill creates the “Homes for Veterans Property Management Incentive Pilot Program” within the Florida Housing
Finance Corporation for Broward, Escambia, Hillsborough, and Santa Rosa counties. The bill directs the Florida
Housing Finance Corporation, in consultation with the local public housing authority and case managers assigned to
veterans by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, to establish and oversee the document requirements
and all processes of the pilot program.

https://www.flhouse.gov/sections/bills/bills.aspx

By Pat Green
Friends, Happy 250th Birthday to you!
I hope you have all received and read the special collaboration of Surviving Spouse topics of
interest that was sent to you. There is another quite lengthy booklet that is available to you on
the MOAA website. The publication is “The Day After Calls”.
When I needed this information, it had not yet been compiled. But a dear friend used it last
year, when her father-in-law died. Even though both she and her husband and father-in-law
are retired Army officers, she found it invaluable. It is lengthy, but might come in very handy.
Thinking about what to write about concerning Independence Day, I came across an
interesting book review “Founders in Sync” by Meghan Cox Gurdon, in the Wall Street
Journal. The book she reviewed is A PERFECT COINCIDENCE by Jim Rasenberger. It’s a
story of a very unlikely coincidence. Meghan describes the book as “a delight, a sparkling
work of narrative nonfiction that acquaints the reader with the thoughts and doings of two
giants of American democracy, while telling the story of the founding of our fractious country”.
The book is published by Scribner and 496 pages and makes the case for the Divine Hand in
the moving of American affairs,
Mr. Rasenberger writes of the on-off-on again friendship of Thomas Jefferson and John
Adams. They meet in Philadelphia in 1775 and collaborate on the Declaration of
Independence. Then they become Ambassadors and great friends. During a Presidential
campaign, their relationship crumbles. They are enemies for a decade. As their age
advances, they rediscover their friendship. Both die on the 50th anniversary of the
Declaration. Oddly, another great contributor to our freedom, James Monroe died on July 4,
1831, five years later. A coincidence?