BILL NUMBER: AB 34	CHAPTERED  09/20/02

	CHAPTER  728
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 20, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 20, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 31, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 29, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 29, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 20, 2002
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 14, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 31, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 4, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Runner
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Bates, Cogdill, La Suer, Leach,
Robert Pacheco, Strickland, Wyland, and Wyman)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Johannessen, Knight, and Murray)

                        DECEMBER 4, 2000

   An act to amend Section 1104.1 of 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


   AB 34, Runner.  Veterans' Home of California.
   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 first to meet state funding requirements for the renovation
or construction of those veterans' homes identified by a specified
statute, and then to fund any additional homes established pursuant
to the bond act.
   Existing law continuously appropriates the moneys in the Veterans'
Home Fund, without regard to fiscal years and in an amount not to
exceed $31,000,000, to meet state funding requirements for the
construction of veterans' homes, located in the City of Lancaster and
in the community of Saticoy, that are identified by the same
specified statute, and a veterans' home located in West Los Angeles,
that is an additional home established pursuant to the bond act.
   This bill would provide that this appropriation is subject to the
approval of the Department of Finance.  The bill would also
continuously appropriate, without regard to fiscal years, certain
federal matching funds, as specified.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature in enacting
these provisions.
  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 1104.1 of the Military and Veterans Code, as
added by Section 3 of Chapter 216 of the Statutes of 2002, is amended
to read:
   1104.1.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code,
the moneys in the Veterans' Home Fund established by Section 1103
are, subject to the limit set forth in subdivision (b), 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 funding of the state's matching
requirement for the construction of all of the following:
   (1) The Veterans' Home of California, Lancaster, as described in
paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 1011.
   (2) The Veterans' Home of California, Saticoy, as described in
paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of Section 1011.
   (3) The Veterans' Home of California, West Los Angeles, as
provided for in subdivision (a) of Section 1104.
   (b) The total amount appropriated in accordance with subdivision
(a) may not exceed the sum of thirty-one million dollars
($31,000,000).
   (c) The homes specified in subdivision (a) may care for veterans
with substance abuse disorders.
   (d) 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.  It is the intent of the Legislature that the veterans'
homes specified in Section 1104.1 of the Military and Veterans Code
are built in a manner consistent with Section 1011 of the Military
and Veterans Code.
  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 matching federal funds from the United States Department of
Veterans Affairs for the construction of the veterans' homes at
Lancaster, Saticoy, and West Los Angeles, it is necessary that this
act take effect immediately.