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                      SENATE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS
                             JEFF DENHAM, CHAIRMAN
                                             


          Bill No:        SB 419
          Author:         Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee
          Version:        As Introduced
          Hearing Date:   April 14, 2009
          Fiscal:         No
          Consultant:     Donald E. Wilson


                                 SUBJECT OF BILL 
          Clean up language for Military and Veterans Code Section  
          972.1  
           
                                   PROPOSED LAW  
          Change the number $5 million to $11 million to reflect  
          present budget reality.
                                         
                          EXISTING LAW AND BACKGROUND  
          County Veteran Service Officers (CVSO)s are a joint venture  
          of different levels of government to help veterans claim  
          their benefits.

          California has an agreement with counties to pay fifty  
          percent of the cost.  At the time the agreement was made,  
          fifty percent equaled five million dollars.  Now that  
          percentage equals eleven million dollars.

          Code section 972.1 still contains the five million dollar  
          figure.  Last year SB 1778 (Senate Veterans Committee) was  
          a consent calendar item but was vetoed by the governor  
          because of the budget impasse.

                                     COMMENT  
             1.   This bill is code cleanup.
              
             2.   There is no appropriation in the bill.
            
             3.   Fifty percent of costs used to be five million  
               dollars but is now eleven million dollars.  This bill  
               changes the number five to number eleven.

          There is no reason to believe that having been a consent  









          calendar item last year that the bill should not become law  
          this year.

                                     SUPPORT  
          American Legion, Department of California
          American Federation of State, County and Municipal  
          Employees
          AMVETS, Department of California

                                      OPPOSE  
          None received

































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