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          Date of Hearing:   August 8, 2012

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                     SB 807 (Correa) - As Amended:  June 21, 2012

          Policy Committee:                             Veterans 
          AffairsVote: 9-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              

           SUMMARY  

          This bill formalizes the operating procedures and business 
          practices of the State Active Duty (SAD), clarifies existing 
          Military and Veterans Code language, and codifies administrative 
          rules that already exist in the Military Department's internal 
          regulations. These reforms are meant to make recent abuses less 
          likely. SB 807 does not expand the staff or the responsibilities 
          of SAD. 

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          SB 807 creates no additional costs for the state or the Military 
          Department. The Military Department anticipates that in the 
          long-run the bill will make the full-time state military force 
          more efficient, and therefore more cost effective.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Background and Purpose.  State Active Duty is a personnel 
            system that governs California's 600 full-time servicemembers. 
            Those servicemembers are California's first responders 
            whenever California has a variety of military and/or emergency 
            needs. They also manage California's 22,000-member part-time 
            military force, which is engaged less frequently.

            The purpose of the bill is to clarify an antiquated Military 
            and Veterans Code section as it pertains to SAD. The authors 
            report that the entire code needs to be reorganized and 
            rewritten, and that SB 807 is the first of several steps 
            toward that goal. As such, much of the language of SB 807 is 
            simply a rewording and reorganizing of current law, with some 








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            new language to codify administrative regulations that already 
            exist internal to the Military Department.

            This bill comes in response to recent reports of misconduct 
            and financial improprieties within California's armed services 
            and is designed, in part, to prevent that misconduct in the 
            future.

           2)Support and Opposition.  This bill is sponsored by the Brown 
            Administration. There is no known opposition. 



           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jonathan Stein / APPR. / (916) 319-2081