BILL NUMBER: SB 844	CHAPTERED  09/04/02

	CHAPTER  362
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 4, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 3, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 19, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 15, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 17, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 30, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 29, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 27, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 16, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 5, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 4, 2001

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

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2001

   An act relating to veterans, making an appropriation therefor, and
declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 844, Chesbro.  Veterans' Home of California.
   The Budget Act of 2000 appropriated specified amounts for capital
outlay projects at the Veterans' Home of California, Yountville,
including the renovation of and construction at the Lincoln Theater
at the home.
   This bill would appropriate $5,790,000 to the Veterans' Home of
California, Yountville for renovation and construction projects for
the Lincoln Theater at the home.
   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.  There is hereby appropriated the sum of five million
seven hundred ninety thousand dollars ($5,790,000) in augmentation of
Item 8960-301-0001 of Section 2 of the Budget Act of 2000 (Ch. 52,
Stats. 2000), representing reimbursement authority, to the Veterans'
Home of California, Yountville, for project 80.20.271-Lincoln Theater
Renovation Construction.
  SEC. 2.  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 accelerate the delivery of a capital outlay project,
as set forth in Section 1 of this act, thereby stimulating the
creation of jobs at the earliest possible time, it is necessary that
this act take effect immediately.