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                      SENATE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS
                             JEFF DENHAM, CHAIRMAN
                                             


          Bill No:        AB 702
          Author:         Salas
          Version:        As amended June 1, 2009
          Hearing Date:   June 23, 2009
          Fiscal:         Yes
          Consultant:     Donald E. Wilson

                                 SUBJECT OF BILL  
          Veterans' housing and assistance fund.

                                   PROPOSED LAW  
          Create a veterans' preference within the Emergency Housing  
          and Assistance Fund that guarantees a certain amount of the  
          money in the fund will be targeted towards homeless  
          veterans.

                           EXISTING LAW AND BACKGROUND  
             1.   Existing law created the Emergency Housing and  
               Assistance Fund.

             2.   Within the housing and assistance fund is a minimum  
               20% set aside for rural counties.
                                         
                                    COMMENT  
             1.   Requires the Department of Housing and Community  
               Development to partner with the California Department  
               of Veterans' Affairs to annually determine the  
               percentage of veterans in the homeless population.

             2.   This bill directs that the percentage of veterans  
               within the homeless population be used as the  
               percentage of the fund to be allocated to veterans  
               only homeless projects.

             3.   The annual changing percentage of homeless  
               veterans, and subsequently the percentage of the fund  
               set aside for homeless veteran only projects, may  
               fluctuate so as not to be conducive for consistent  
               project planning.

             4.   It is unclear when exactly during the fiscal year  









               it will be determined that the homeless veteran only  
               funds are "not exhausted" and made available to  
               non-homeless veteran projects.


                                     SUPPORT  
          None received

                                      OPPOSE  
          None received


































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