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          Date of Hearing:   June 15, 2010

                       ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS
                                 Paul J. Cook, Chair
                 SB 1003 (Wiggins) - As Introduced:  February 9, 2010

           SENATE VOTE  :   34-0
           
          SUBJECT  :   Veterans' Home of California.

           SUMMARY  :   Updates definitions referring to the Veterans' Home  
          of California located in Chula Vista, the Veterans' Home of  
          California located in Lancaster, the Veterans' Home of  
          California located in Ventura, and the Veterans' Home of  
          California located in West Los Angeles.

           EXISTING LAW  :

          1)Provides for the establishment and operation of the Veterans'  
            Home of California at various sites, and for an administrator  
            for each home or homesite. 

          2)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.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   No fiscal effect.

           COMMENTS  :   The author as taken recent amendments to included  
          references to the newly opened Veterans' Home of California  
          located in West Los Angeles.

          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 and 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, an additional southern California home was  








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          made part of the Greater Los Angeles and Ventura County project  
          (GLAVC), enabling the addition of the West Los Angeles home.   
          The end of 2009 saw the opening of the Ventura and Lancaster  
          GLAVC homes.  The third GLAVC home in West Los Angeles opened  
          June 14, 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 remaining homes which have been completed and are  
          now operational.


           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :

           Support 
           
          None on file.
           
            Opposition 
           
          None on file.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Eric Worthen / V. A. / (916) 319-3550