BILL NUMBER: SB 612	CHAPTERED  08/31/01

	CHAPTER  221
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  AUGUST 31, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  AUGUST 30, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JULY 23, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  MAY 21, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Soto

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2001

   An act to amend Section 161 of the Military and Veterans Code,
relating to the military.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 612, Soto.  Office of Adjutant General.
   Existing law specifies the membership of the office of the
Adjutant General.
   This bill would specifically include an officer who may be of the
rank of brigadier general who is the Deputy Adjutant General, Joint
Staff Division, within that membership.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 161 of the Military and Veterans Code is
amended to read:
   161.  The office of the Adjutant General consists of one officer
of the rank of lieutenant general who is the Adjutant General, one
officer of the rank of brigadier general who is the Assistant
Adjutant General, one officer who may be of the rank of brigadier
general who is the Deputy Adjutant General, Army Division, one
officer who may be of the rank of brigadier general who is the Deputy
Adjutant General, Air Division, one officer who may be of the rank
of brigadier general who is the Deputy Adjutant General, Joint Staff
Division, and other officers as are prescribed by the laws or
regulations of the United States.  No person is eligible for
appointment as the Assistant Adjutant General unless he or she had
not less than a total of five (5) years of commissioned service in
the National Guard of the United States, of which at least three (3)
years shall be service as a field grade officer in the California
National Guard within the preceding 10-year period prior to the date
of appointment and of which at least three (3) years shall have been
in command of Army or air troops at the battalion or equivalent or
higher command level or three (3) years as a staff officer at brigade
or equivalent or higher staff level.  The Assistant Adjutant General
is subordinate only to the Governor and the Adjutant General.