BILL NUMBER: SB 663	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JANUARY 24, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JANUARY 12, 2012
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JANUARY 4, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Correa

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to add Section 89.5 to the Military and Veterans Code,
relating to veterans.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 663, as amended, Correa. Veterans:  Homeless Veterans
Advocate   homeless veterans  .
   Under existing law, the Department of Veterans Affairs has
specified powers and duties relating to various programs serving
veterans, including  duties related to the California
Interagency Council on Veterans   establishing housing
projects  .
   This bill would require the department to include specified
information in  the   its  strategic plan
 created by California Interagency Council on Veterans
 related to homeless veterans, as provided. This bill would
also require the department to transmit the strategic plan to the
Chairmen of the Assembly and Senate Committees on Veterans Affairs.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 89.5 is added to the Military and Veterans
Code, to read:
   89.5.  (a) The department shall include in  the 
 its  strategic plan  created by the Interagency
Council on Veterans Affairs  the following:
   (1) A review of the goals and objectives relating to homeless
veterans, to determine whether the methods the department uses to
plan, analyze, develop, monitor, and implement the strategic plan
will likely decrease homelessness among veterans.
   (2) A determination of the number of homeless veterans in this
state and the number of those veterans who received benefits from
state or federal programs, including, but not limited to, the number
of homeless veterans in need of multifamily or transitional housing
and the number of those veterans who received benefits for those
needs.
   (b) The department shall transmit the strategic plan to the
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs and the Chairman
of the Assembly Committee on Veterans Affairs.