California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 316

Introduced by Committee on Veterans Affairs (Muratsuchi (Chair), Chávez (Vice Chair), Atkins, Brown, Eggman, Fox, Grove, Salas, and Yamada)

February 12, 2013

An act to amend Section 951.5 of the Military and Veterans Code, relating to veteran interment.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 316, as introduced, Committee on Veterans Affairs. Veteran interment: veterans’ remains organizations.

Existing law requires the public administrator of a county to make every reasonable effort to determine if the unclaimed remains of a decedent referred to the public administrator belong to a veteran or the dependent of a veteran, and to work with specified entities to determine if the remains belong to a veteran or the dependent of a veteran.

This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this provision.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 951.5 of the Military and Veterans Code
is amended to read:

951.5.  

The public administrator of begin delete the end delete begin insert a end insert county shall make
every reasonable effort to determine if the unclaimed remains of
a decedent referred to the public administrator belong to a veteran
or the dependent of a veteran. If there is reason to believe that the
remains belong to a veteran or the dependent of a veteran, the
public administrator shall work with the county begin delete veteran end delete begin insert veterans end insert
service officer, a national veterans cemetery, the United States
Social Security Administration, the United States Department of
Veterans Affairs, or other applicable entity to determine if the
remains belong to a veteran or the dependent of a veteran.