BILL NUMBER: AB 2087	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Torres

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2010

   An act to amend Section 1012.1 of the Military and Veterans Code,
relating to veterans.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2087, as introduced, Torres. Veterans homes: financial status
investigations.
   Existing law provides for the establishment and operation of the
Veterans' Homes of California, for aged and disabled veterans who are
eligible for hospitalization or domiciliary care in a veterans'
facility in accordance with federal rules and regulations. The homes
are under the management and control of the Department of Veterans
Affairs. Existing law authorizes the department to investigate a
veterans' financial status to ensure that the veteran is unable to
pay for necessary hospital or domiciliary care outside of the home,
as specified.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
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 1012.1 of the Military and Veterans Code is
amended to read:
   1012.1.  Prior to the admission of a veteran as a member of the
home, and at any time during which a veteran is a member of the home,
the department may investigate the veterans' financial status to
 insure   ensure  that the veteran is
unable to pay for necessary hospital or domiciliary care outside of
the home. The department may contract with any other state agency to
conduct  such  an investigation in its behalf.