BILL NUMBER: AB 2561	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 12, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Veterans Affairs

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 1457 of the Military and Veterans Code,
relating to military and veterans, and making an appropriation
therefor.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2561, as amended, Committee on Veterans Affairs. 
Veterans'   Veterans cemeteries.
   Existing law provides for the design, development, and
construction of a state-owned and state-operated  veterans'
  veterans  cemetery at the site of the former Fort
Ord. Existing law establishes the California Central Coast State
Veterans Cemetery at Fort Ord Endowment Fund, which is available upon
appropriation by the Legislature for design, construction, and
maintenance costs of the cemetery. Existing law authorizes the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs to accept donations to be used for the
maintenance or beautification of the  veterans' 
 veterans  cemetery. Existing law further requires that
those donations be deposited in the endowment fund.
   This bill would establish the California Central Coast Veterans
Cemetery Project Donation Fund, and would require that donations for
the cemetery  for a purpose specified by the donor instead 
be deposited in the fund, and be expended for the 
maintenance and repair of the cemetery or for a specified veterans
cemetery maintenance or beautification project.  
specific veterans cemetery maintenance or beautification project
designated by the donor.  This bill would continuously
appropriate the fund to the department for these purposes.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1457 of the Military and Veterans Code is
amended to read:
   1457.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11005 of the Government Code,
the veterans cemetery administrator may, subject to the approval of
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, accept donations of personal
property, including cash or other gifts, to be used for the
maintenance or beautification of the veterans cemetery. 
   (b) Donations in the form of cash shall be deposited in the
California Central Coast Veterans Cemetery Project Donation Fund,
which is hereby created in the State Treasury, and shall be expended
for the maintenance and repair of the veterans cemetery or for a
specified veterans cemetery maintenance or beautification project
designated by the donor.  
   (b) Donations in the form of cash that do not have a purpose
specified by the donor shall be deposited in the Endowment Fund, and
shall be expended for the maintenance and repair of the veterans
cemetery upon appropriation by the Legislature.  
   (c) Donations in the form of cash for a purpose specified by the
donor shall be deposited in the California Central Coast Veterans
Cemetery Project Donation Fund, which is hereby created in the State
Treasury, and shall be expended for the specified veterans cemetery
maintenance or beautification project designated by the donor. 

   (c) 
    (d)  Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government
Code, donations deposited to the credit of the California Central
Coast Veterans Cemetery Project Donation Fund as authorized by
 this section   subdivision (c)  shall be
continuously appropriated to the department, without regard to fiscal
year.