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                      SENATE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS
                             JEFF DENHAM, CHAIRMAN
                                             


          Bill No:        SB 1003
          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
                                         
             a)   Add the Chula Vista home to the definition of  
               California Veterans' Homes.

             b)   Add the Lancaster home to the definition of  
               California Veterans' Homes.

             c)   Add the Ventura home to the definition of  
               California Veterans' Homes.

             d)   Add the Barstow home administrator to the  
               definition of administrator for the veterans' home  
               system. 

             e)   Add the Chula Vista home administrator to the  
               definition of administrator for the veterans' home  
               system. 

             f)   Add the Lancaster home administrator to the  
               definition of administrator for the veterans' home  
               system. 

             g)   Add the Ventura home administrator to the  
               definition of administrator for the veterans' home  
               system. 












                           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 1990's it was decided that a home system should be  
          created.  In 1996 a 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.

          MVC code section 1010 defines the home when referring to  
          the veterans' home system as "the Veterans' Home of  
          California, Yountville" and "the Veterans' Home of  
          California, Barstow." 


                                     COMMENT
                                         
             1.   This bill is a companion bill to AB 1002 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  

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