AB 1565, as introduced, V. Manuel Pérez. Department of Veterans Affairs: state services for veterans.
Existing law establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is responsible for administering various programs and services for the benefit of veterans.
This bill would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to identify the state services most commonly used by veterans, to work with the state agencies that provide those services to develop a single application process or form for veterans to use to apply for those services, and to create a process for collecting those applications and forwarding them to appropriate state agencies.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 714 is added to the Military and Veterans
2Code, to read:
The department shall do all of the following:
4(a) Identify the state services most commonly used and sought
5by veterans, including unemployment and disability insurance
P2 1benefits and the CalWORKS program, using information gathered
2from any relevant source, including data collection efforts related
3to veterans, such as the biennial California Women Veterans
4Survey and the Los Angeles Survey.
5(b) Work with state agencies that administer the services
6identified in subdivision (a) to develop a single application process
7or form that a veteran could use to apply for those identified
8services.
9(c) Create a process for collecting applications
developed
10pursuant to subdivision (b) that are submitted by veterans, and
11forwarding those applications to the appropriate state agencies.
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