DES MOINES, IOWA (AP) -- Gov. Chet Culver has signed into law measures aimed at helping military families.
Culver signed the bill Tuesday, saying Iowa is the first state to meet Pentagon standards for helping soldiers and their families.
He says the Department of Defense asked all states to address 10 quality of life issues related to military families.
The measures Culver signed include protecting parental rights of deployed soldiers, offering educational benefits for families of deployed soldiers, banning utilities from disconnecting service while a soldier is deployed and informing state workers of their rights and benefits while deployed.
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