BILL NUMBER: SB 1773	CHAPTERED  08/14/02

	CHAPTER  219
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 14, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 14, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 8, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 1, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 1, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 25, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 13, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 30, 2002

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Chesbro
   (Principal coauthor:  Assembly Member Wiggins)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2002

   An act to add Section 1104.2 to the Military and Veterans Code,
relating to veterans, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring
the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1773, Chesbro.  Veterans' homes:  renovation.
   The Veterans' Homes Bond Act of 2000 requires the proceeds from
the sale of the bonds issued under that act to be deposited in a
newly established Veterans' Home Fund.  That act provides that upon
appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in that fund are to be
allocated to the Department of Veterans Affairs first to meet state
funding requirements for the renovation or construction of those
veterans' homes identified by a specified statute.
   This bill would continuously appropriate, without regard to fiscal
years, an amount not to exceed $15,000,000 from the Veterans' Home
Fund to the department for the renovation of the Veterans' Home of
California, Yountville.
   This bill would continuously appropriate, without regard to fiscal
years, certain remaining funds from the Veterans' Home Fund for
these renovations, and would also continuously appropriate certain
federal matching funds for related purposes.
   This bill would provide that it would become operative only if AB
2559, AB 2953, and SB 1234 are enacted and become effective on or
before January 1, 2003.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Appropriation:  yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 1104.2 is added to the Military and Veterans
Code, to read:
   1104.2.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code,
an amount, not to exceed the sum of fifteen million dollars
($15,000,000), is hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to
fiscal years, from the Veterans' Home Fund to the Department of
Veterans Affairs, subject to the approval of the Department of
Finance, for the state's matching share for the design and renovation
of the Veterans' Home of California, Yountville, as described in
Section 1011.
   (b) Excluding any funds required to pay for costs associated with
issuing and administering general obligation bonds, any remaining
general obligation bond funds available in the Veterans' Home Fund
created under Section 1103 after funding the design, construction, or
renovation of the Lancaster, Saticoy, or West Los Angeles veterans
homes, the renovation of the veterans' home at Yountville, and
projects funded through any Budget Act, are, notwithstanding Section
13340 of the Government Code, hereby continuously appropriated
without regard to fiscal years to the Department of Veterans Affairs,
subject to the approval of the Department of Finance, to fund the
state's matching share for renovations at Yountville consistent with
the purposes established in subdivision (a) of Section 1104.
   (c) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, in
addition to the funds appropriated pursuant to this section, the
federal matching funds available pursuant to the State Veterans' Home
Assistance Improvement Act of 1977 (38 U.S.C. Sec. 8131 et seq.),
are hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years,
to the Department of Veterans Affairs, subject to the approval of
the Department of Finance, for the purpose of design, construction,
renovation of, or expansion or repayment of any loan related to the
projects specified in this section.
  SEC. 2.  This act shall become operative only if AB 2559, AB 2953,
and SB 1234 are enacted and become effective on or before January 1,
2003.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to meet the filing date for the eligibility list to
receive federal funds from the United States Department of Veterans
Affairs for the renovation of the Veterans' Home of California,
Yountville, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.