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CONSENT
Bill No: AB 1969
Author: Jeffries (R)
Amended: 3/25/10 in Assembly
Vote: 21
SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE : 3-0, 6/9/10
AYES: Kehoe, DeSaulnier, Price
NO VOTE RECORDED: Cox, Aanestad
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 69-0, 4/15/10 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Elsinore Valley Cemetery
SOURCE : Elsinore Valley Cemetery District
DIGEST : This bill allows the Elsinore Cemetery District
to use the part of its cemetery formerly known as Home of
Peace for up to 536 interments of people who meet the
area's burial criteria, but are nonresidents, if certain
criteria are met.
ANALYSIS : Generally, cemetery districts can bury only
residents, former residents, property taxpayers, former
taxpayers, certain eligible nonresidents, and their family
members. Responding to an Attorney General's opinion, the
Legislature allowed the Oroville Cemetery District (Butte
County) to inter up to 100 nonresidents in a former Jewish
cemetery which the District had acquired (SB 1906, Johnson,
Chapter 1039, Statutes of 1982). When it revised the
Public Cemetery District Law, the Legislature retained
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Oroville's special provision (SB 341, Senate Local
Government Committee, Chapter 57, Statutes of 2003).
This bill allows the Elsinore Cemetery District to use the
part of its cemetery formerly known as Home of Peace for up
to 536 interments of people who meet the area's burial
criteria, but are nonresidents if:
1.The trustees determine that the cemetery has adequate
space for the foreseeable future.
2.The District has an endowment care fund that charges at
least the minimum required payments.
3.The District requires the statutory nonresident fee.
This bill contains legislative findings to justify its
special provisions.
Comments
Responding to a special request nearly 30 years ago, the
Legislature allowed the Oroville Cemetery District to bury
nonresidents, if three conditions existed. Subject to the
same conditions, this bill provides a similar exemption for
the Elsinore Valley Cemetery District.
In 1995, the Elsinore Valley Cemetery District (Riverside
County) acquired a former Jewish cemetery called the Home
of Peace. Although there is no other suitable cemetery in
the area, some Jewish families who live outside the
District, but want to bury their dead in the District's
cemetery, can't because of the limits on interring
nonresidents. The District wants to allow limited
nonresident burials, like Oroville's special legislation.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/10/10)
Elsinore Valley Cemetery District (source)
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ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Ammiano, Anderson, Arambula, Bass, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Blumenfield,
Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Caballero, Charles
Calderon, Carter, Chesbro, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De
La Torre, De Leon, Emmerson, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong,
Fuentes, Fuller, Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani, Garrick,
Gilmore, Hagman, Harkey, Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill, Huber,
Huffman, Jeffries, Knight, Lieu, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal,
Ma, Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Nava, Nestande, Niello,
Nielsen, V. Manuel Perez, Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Silva,
Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Audra Strickland, Swanson,
Torlakson, Torres, Villines, Yamada, John A. Perez
NO VOTE RECORDED: Adams, Block, DeVore, Evans, Hall,
Jones, Norby, Portantino, Torrico, Tran
AGB:nl 6/10/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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