BILL NUMBER: AB 1739	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  95
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 13, 2012
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 13, 2012
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 2, 2012
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 17, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 17, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Allen

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2012

   An act to amend Section 1047 of the Military and Veterans Code,
relating to veterans.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1739, Allen. Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund: Veterans'
Home Allied Council: operation of facilities and activities.
   Existing law establishes a Veterans' Home Allied Council for each
home pursuant to the constitution of the Allied Council, Veterans'
Home of California, comprised of members of the home, as an advisory
body to the administrator of the home. Existing law requires the
administrator to maintain a Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund that
shall be used to provide certain operations and activities relating
to the general welfare of the veterans.
   This bill would authorize the administrator to enter into an
agreement with an allied council that authorizes that council to
operate facilities and activities described above. The bill would
require the agreement to be in the form and manner as specified by
the administrator.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1047 of the Military and Veterans Code is
amended to read:
   1047.  (a) The administrator shall maintain a Morale, Welfare, and
Recreation Fund that shall be used, at the discretion of the
administrator and subject to the approval of the secretary, to
provide for the general welfare of the veterans, including, but not
limited to, providing for operations of the Veterans' Home Exchange,
hobby shop, motion picture theater, library, band, and any other
function that is operated for the morale, welfare, and recreation of
the veterans, and to pay for newspapers, chapel expenses, welfare and
entertainment expenses, sport activities, celebrations, and any
other activity that is for the morale, welfare, and recreation of the
veterans.
   (b) Money in the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund may not be
expended for any of the following:
   (1) Medical treatments or any other related treatment.
   (2) Maintenance of the physical plant of the home.
   (3) Any function, operation, or activity that is not directly
related to the morale, welfare, or recreation of the veterans.
   (c) Appropriations from the General Fund for the purposes
described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) may not be reduced for
the purpose of, or to have the effect of, requiring increased
expenditures from the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund for those
described purposes.
   (d) The administrator shall prepare an itemized report that is
organized by category and accounts for all expenditures made from the
Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund during the previous fiscal year
and shall submit the report on or before August 20 of each year to
all of the following:
   (1) The secretary.
   (2) The fiscal committees of the Assembly and the Senate.
   (3) The committees of the Assembly and the Senate that have
subject matter jurisdiction over veterans' affairs.
   (4) The Veterans' Home Allied Council.
   (e) The Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund for the Veterans'
Home of California, Yountville, shall maintain a reserve in the
amount of two million dollars ($2,000,000). The reserve shall be
invested in securities, upon the advice of the Morale, Welfare, and
Recreation Fund Advisory Committee and with the approval of the
administrator and the secretary.
   (f) The administrator may enter into an agreement with an allied
council that authorizes that council to operate facilities and
activities authorized pursuant to this section. The agreement shall
be in the form and manner as specified by the administrator.