Senate Bill No. 839

Introduced by Senator Correa

January 6, 2014

An act to amend Section 999.6 of the Military and Veteran’s Code, relating to veterans.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 839, as introduced, Correa. The California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program.

Existing law establishes goals to facilitate the participation of disabled veteran business enterprises, and establishes the California Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Program for this purpose. Existing law requires an officer or agency empowered to enter into a contract, in implementing the program, to utilize existing resources, including, but not limited to, specified state and federal entities.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that resource utilization provision.

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 999.6 of the Military and Veterans Code
is amended to read:

999.6.  

In implementing this article, the awarding department
shall utilize existing begin delete resources such as end delete begin insert resources, including, but
not limited to, end insert the Office of Small Business and Disabled Veteran
Business Enterprise Services, the Department of Veterans Affairs,
the begin delete federal end delete begin insert United States end insert Department of Veterans Affairs, and the
begin insert federal end insert Small Business Administration.