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                      SENATE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS
                             JEFF DENHAM, CHAIRMAN
                                             


          Bill No:        SB 1002
          Author:         Wiggins
          Version:        As Introduced February 9, 2010
          Hearing Date:   April 13, 2010
          Fiscal:         No
          Consultant:     Donald E. Wilson




                                 SUBJECT OF BILL
                                         
          Military and Veterans' Code (MVC) Clean up language.
                                         
                                  PROPOSED LAW
                                         
          Change MVC section 1011 from the future tense to the  
          present tense.
             a)   Change from "when completed" to "there is" a  
               Barstow veterans' home.

             b)   Change from "when completed" to "there is" a Chula  
               Vista veterans' home.

             c)   Change from "when completed" to "there is" a  
               Lancaster veterans' home.

             d)   Change from "when completed" to "there is" a  
               Ventura veterans' home.

            e) Various grammatical and numbering changes for the new  
            list of homes to fit in the present code section.

                           EXISTING LAW AND BACKGROUND
                                         
          In 1884 land in Yountville was given to the state to  
          establish a home for Civil War and other veterans.  This  
          was the extent of California's involvement in veterans'  
          homes for over a century.

          In the 1990s it was decided that a formal veteran's home  









          system should be created.  In 1996 a new veterans' home was  
          opened in Barstow followed by the Chula Vista Home in 2000.

          Proposition 16 of 2000 sought to raise money for two homes  
          - one in Ventura and one in Lancaster.  It was later  
          decided the home system should ultimately be expanded to  
          eight homes.  Eventually, with the help of the Federal  
          Government, the two new southern California homes were made  
          part of the Greater Los Angeles and Ventura County project  
          (GLAVC) and a home in West Los Angeles was added at an  
          extreme cost of over $180 million or over four times the  
          cost of the Ventura and Lancaster homes put together.

          The end of 2009 saw the opening of the Ventura and  
          Lancaster GLAVC homes.  The third GLAVC home, Los Angeles,  
          is expected to be completed in the summer of 2010.

                                     COMMENT
                                         
             1.   This bill cleans up language in MVC section 1011 by  
               addressing the out of date nature of the California  
               Military and Veterans Code.

             2.   This is a new bill.  There are no previous votes.

                                     SUPPORT  
          None received

                                      OPPOSE  
          None received














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