BILL NUMBER: AB 1594	CHAPTERED  09/22/05

	CHAPTER  342
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 22, 2005
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 22, 2005
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 29, 2005
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 22, 2005
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 14, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Umberg

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2005

   An act to add Section 852 of the Military and Veterans Code,
relating to military, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring
the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1594, Umberg  Military service: California National Guard
Surviving Spouses and Children Relief Act of 2004:  death benefits.
   Existing law requires the state to pay a $10,000 death benefit to
the surviving spouse or designated beneficiary of any member of the
California National Guard, State Military Reserve, or Naval Militia
who dies or is killed after March 1, 2003, in the performance of
duty, as determined by the Military Department. Existing law
provides, however, that those provisions will become operative upon
an appropriation by the Legislature for the purpose of funding the
payments of those military benefits.
   This bill would appropriate the sum of $130,000 from the General
Fund to the Military Department for the purpose of paying those death
gratuity benefits, as prescribed, to the families of those members
who died or were killed after March 1, 2003, in the performance of
duty.
  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 852 is added to the Military and Veterans Code,
to read:
   852.   There is hereby appropriated the sum of one hundred thirty
thousand dollars ($130,000) from the General Fund to the Military
Department for the purpose of paying death benefits, as prescribed by
this chapter, to the families of members of the California National
Guard, State Military Reserve, or Naval Militia who have lost their
lives in the performance of duty, as determined by the Military
Department.
  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 implement Chapter 547 of the Statutes of 2004 that
requires the state to pay a $10,000 death gratuity benefit to the
surviving spouse or designated beneficiary of any member of the
California National Guard, State Military Reserve, or Naval Militia
who died or was killed in the performance of duty, as specified, and
to immediately help those families that qualify for those benefits,
it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.