BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 1003
Author: Wiggins (D)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SENATE VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE : 4-0, 4/13/10
AYES: Denham, Correa, Negrete McLeod, Cedillo
NOES: Wyland
SUBJECT : Veterans Home of California
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill updates a section of the Military and
Veterans Code relating to the Veterans Home of California
to include all of the homes which are now completed and
operational.
ANALYSIS : Existing law provides for the establishment
and operation of the Veterans' Home of California at
various sites, and for an administrator for each home or
homesite. Existing law defines "home" to mean the
Veterans' Home of California, Yountville, and the Veterans'
Home of California, Barstow. Existing law also defines
"administrator" to mean the Administrator of the Veterans'
Home of California, Yountville, and the Administrator of
the Veterans' Home of California, Barstow. These
definitions do not reference the Veterans' Home of
California located in Chula Vista, the Veterans' Home of
California located in Lancaster, or the Veterans' Home of
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California located in Ventura.
This bill:
1. Adds the Chula Vista home to the definition of
California Veterans' Homes.
2. Adds the Lancaster home to the definition of California
Veterans' Homes.
3. Adds the Ventura home to the definition of California
Veterans' Homes.
4. Adds the Barstow home administrator to the definition of
administrator for the veterans' home system.
5. Adds the Chula Vista home administrator to the
definition of administrator for the veterans' home
system.
6. Adds the Lancaster home administrator to the definition
of administrator for the veterans' home system.
7. Adds the Ventura home administrator to the definition of
administrator for the veterans' home system.
Comments
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 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
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GLAVC homes. The third GLAVC home, Los Angeles, is
expected to be completed in the summer of 2010.
Section 1010 of the Military and Veterans Code defines the
home when referring to the veterans' home system as "the
Veterans' Home of California, Yountville" and "the
Veterans' Home of California, Barstow." This bill updates
that definition to also refer to the three remaining homes
which have been completed and are now operational.
Related Legislation
SB 1002 (Wiggins) is a companion measure which also updates
Section 1010 of the Military and Veterans Code to reflect
the current Veterans' Homes of California which are all
completed and operational.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
TSM:mw 4/15/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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