BILL NUMBER: AB 2038	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Yamada

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to amend Section 1047 of the Military and Veterans Code,
relating to veterans' homes.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2038, as introduced, Yamada. Veterans' homes: residents:
general welfare.
   Existing law requires the administrator of a veterans' home to
maintain a Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund to be used for the
general welfare of the residents of veterans' homes. Existing law
requires the fund established for the Yountville facility to maintain
a reserve in the amount of $2,000,000.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1047 of the Military and Veterans Code is
amended to read:
   1047.  (a) The administrator shall maintain a Morale, Welfare, and
Recreation Fund that shall be used, at the discretion of the
administrator and subject to the approval of the secretary, to
provide for the general welfare of the veterans, including, but not
limited to, providing for operations of the Veterans' Home Exchange,
hobby shop, motion picture theater, library, band, and any other
function that is operated for the morale, welfare, and recreation of
the veterans, and to pay for newspapers, chapel expenses, welfare and
entertainment expenses, sport activities, celebrations, and any
other activity that is for the morale, welfare, and recreation of the
veterans.
   (b) Money in the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund may not be
expended for any of the following:
   (1) Medical treatments or any other related treatment.
   (2) Maintenance of the physical plant of the home.
   (3) Any function, operation, or activity that is not directly
related to the morale, welfare, or recreation of the veterans.
   (c) Appropriations from the General Fund for the purposes
described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) may not be reduced for
the purpose of, or to have the effect of, requiring increased
expenditures from the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund for those
described purposes.
   (d) The administrator shall prepare an itemized report that is
organized by category and accounts for all expenditures made from the
Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund during the previous fiscal year
and shall submit the report on or before August 20 of each year to
all of the following:
   (1) The secretary.
   (2) The fiscal committees of the Assembly and the Senate.
   (3) The committees of the Assembly and the Senate that have
subject matter jurisdiction over veterans' affairs.
   (4) The Veterans' Home Allied Council.
   (e) The Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund for the Veterans'
Home of California, Yountville, shall maintain a reserve  in
the amount  of two million dollars ($2,000,000). The reserve
shall be invested in securities, upon the advice of the Morale,
Welfare, and Recreation Fund Advisory Committee and with the approval
of the administrator and the secretary.