Note: * Denotes Urgency or Tax Levy Legislation.
Military and Veterans' Legislation
SB 245 (Rubio-D) Military installations: retention and sustainability
Re-establishes the Office of Military Support (OMS) within the Governor's Office of Planning and Research for the purpose of serving as a clearinghouse for state activities related to the military, including base closures, and requires OMS to be the lead agency on the planning and coordination of all matters related to base retention and conversion.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 314* (Vargas-D) Military housing: property taxation
Revises the scope of the property tax "welfare exemption" to include property that is located within the former Naval Training Center in San Diego and is used exclusively for charitable purposes, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 404 (Anderson-R) Veterans: firearms: handgun safety certificates: fees
Provides that a certified instructor shall charge a fee of not more than $10 to any applicant who has been honorably discharged from the United States Armed Forces, the National Guard, or the Air National Guard, and prohibits the department from charging a fee to a certified instructor for each handgun safety certificate issued by the instructor to an applicant who has been honorably discharged from the United States Armed Forces, the National Guard, or the Air National Guard.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 546 (Correa-D) Secretary of Veterans Affairs: powers and duties
Requires, instead of authorizes, the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CDVA) to employ certain employees as may be necessary to carry out his powers and duties, and also updates an obsolete reference to the Director of CDVA, by instead referring to the Secretary.
(Died in Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)
SB 663 (Correa-D) Veterans: homeless veterans
Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to include in the strategic plan created by the Interagency Council on Veterans Affairs, specified issues of the homeless veteran community, and to transmit the strategic plan to the Legislature.
Chapter 217, Statutes of 2012
SB 807 (Correa-D) State militia
Specifies that the state active duty force consists of service members in active state service when ordered by the Governor, and specifies and revises conditions for state active duty for service members, as provided, and authorizes the Adjutant General to promulgate regulations in conformity with these provisions.
Chapter 355, Statutes of 2012
SB 812 (Senate Veterans Affairs Committee) POW/MIA flag: protocol
Establishes protocols within the State of California for the proper display of the POW/MIA flag.
(Died in Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)
SB 817 (Senate Veterans Affairs Committee) Veterans: Business Utilization Plan
Restructures the criteria for businesses to qualify as a disabled veteran business enterprise. Permits direct and indirect costs to be applied to Business Utilization Plan (BUP) goals. Expands the list of contract types for which approved BUPs must be accepted. Permits bidders to amend their BUP in the event a solicitation specifies higher participation goals than those in the bidder's original BUP.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 842 (Rubio-D) Military families: California residency: ID cards
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to develop and maintain a program for the issuance of identification cards to members of the military and family as specified, and requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to process the application forms and issue the ID cards. Upon the receipt of an identification card, the spouses, domestic partners and dependents of all non-citizen military personnel will be eligible for benefits from CalWORKs, In-Home Supportive Services, Medi-Cal, the general assistance program, and the California Food Assistance Program. Urges the Regents of the University of California to provide an exemption from non-resident tuitions for qualified undocumented families of noncitizen members of the military.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 921* (Lieu-D) Military Department: Office of the Inspector General
Creates a statutory requirement that there be a California Military Department Inspector General and specifies many of his/her responsibilities.
Chapter 731, Statutes of 2012
SB 1123 (De León-D) Disabled veterans: parking placards
Suspends for 30 days the driver's license of a person who misuses a disabled parking placard and allows cities and counties to charge disabled persons for parking at 10-hour meters, as specified.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 1184 (Corbett-D) Veterans benefits: senior insurance
Prohibits an insurance agent from providing assistance to a senior in obtaining veterans benefits through government programs, unless the agent maintains procedural safeguards designed to ensure that the agent or broker transacting insurance has no direct financial incentive to refer the policyholder or purchaser to any government benefits program.
Chapter 222, Statutes of 2012
SB 1198 (Calderon-D) Publicity of benefit programs for homeless veterans
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (CDVA) to publicize information regarding federal and state benefits available to homeless veterans via printed materials, CDVA's Web site, and other forms CDVA determines appropriate.
Chapter 408, Statutes of 2012
SB 1258 (Wolk-D) Veterans: monitoring outcomes for veterans
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish a system for monitoring outcomes for veterans including employment and employment-related earnings, incidence of suicide, higher education, and involvement with the child welfare system and with the criminal justice system.
Vetoed
SB 1287 (Harman-R) Military service members: sport fishing licenses
Adds to the list of persons eligible to receive a reduced fee annual fishing license, a recovering military service member who provides to the Department of Fish and Game a letter from his/her commanding officer or a military medical doctor stating the person's status as a recovering service member.
Chapter 409, Statutes of 2012
SB 1288 (Harman-R) Military service members: hunting licenses
Requires the Department of Fish and Game to issue a reduced fee hunting license to military personnel who are recovering service members, as defined, and who provide documentation eligibility, as prescribed.
Chapter 410, Statutes of 2012
SB 1297 (Blakeslee-R) Veterans' memorial plaque: Capitol Park
Requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to plan and construct a memorial plaque in the State Capitol Park, in consultation with the Department of General Services, to honor California veterans who have fought and served in the War in Iraq.
(Died in Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)
SB 1355 (Runner-R) Veterans: vehicles: driver's licenses
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to include the designation "VETERAN" on a driver's license or identification card issued to a veteran who requests the designation and provides specified proof of military service.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1375 (Alquist-D) Veterans: higher education students
Encourages the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California to offer oncampus counseling services for student veterans by utilizing the resources of existing campus military and veterans offices.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SB 1405 (De León-D) Military service: accountancy: practice privilege
Revises California's practice privilege statutes for the practice of accountancy to allow out-of-state licensees to practice in California with no notice or fee paid to the California Board of Accountancy, and allows certified public accountants, public accountants and public accounting firms to have their permits placed on military inactive status.
Chapter 411, Statutes of 2012
SB 1409 (Pavley-D) Military mission goals: energy efficiency
Requires the Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to identify those state agencies that develop and implement state energy and environmental policies that directly impact on the United States Department of Defense's (DoD) energy security and military mission goals. Requires those identified state agencies, when developing or implementing those state policies, to consider those direct impacts. Requires OPR to serve as a liaison to coordinate effective inclusion of the DoD in the development and implementation of state energy and environmental policy.
Chapter 617, Statutes of 2012
SB 1413 (Negrete McLeod-D) Adjutant General: support programs
Authorizes the Adjutant General to establish specified support programs for the benefit of the Military Department, its components, and its soldiers, airmen, cadets, and their family members and to establish, construct, or acquire facilities or equipment for these programs.
Chapter 412, Statutes of 2012
SB 1422 (Anderson-R) Honorably discharged veterans: handgun safety
Reduces the handgun safety certificate (HSC) fee and the HSC renewal fee for honorably discharged members of the United States Armed Forces, the National Guard, the Air National Guard, or the active reserve components of the United States.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1563 (Cannella-R) Veterans' preference: civil service examinations
Requires that a veteran who has completed acceptable training in the United States Armed Forces as a military law enforcement officer shall receive 15 preference points in an examination for an open peace officer position in state employment, and states legislative intent with regard to veterans' abilities to become state peace officers.
Chapter 768, Statutes of 2012
SB 1580 (Senate Governmental Organization Committee) Armories: state surplus property: sales
Authorizes the Director of General Services, with the approval of the Adjutant General, to sell specified armories, and requires, notwithstanding the requirement for payment of sale proceeds into the Deficit Recovery Bond Retirement Sinking Fund Subaccount, the proceeds from the sale to be deposited in the Armory Fund.
Chapter 798, Statutes of 2012
SCR 31 (Rubio-D) National Purple Heart Trail
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 223, in the County of Kern, for inclusion in the National Purple Heart Trail.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SCR 80 (Fuller-R) Lance Corporal Joseph C. Lopez Memorial Interchange
Names the Rosamond Boulevard Interchange of State Highway Route 14 in Kern County as the "Lance Corporal Joseph C. Lopez Memorial Interchange."
Resolution Chapter 89, Statutes of 2012
SCR 82 (Blakeslee-R) California veterans of the Iraq War: memorial
Commemorates and honors the service and sacrifice of the members of the United States Armed Forces who supported the operations in Iraq, and their families, as the official combat mission in Iraq draws to a close. Encourages mayors and communities across the State of California to honor veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan on 11/11/12, in Veterans Day parades, ceremonies, and other displays of our state's gratitude for their service and sacrifice. Requests that the Department of General Services work with appropriate third parties to advise and oversee the creation of a memorial for the California veterans who fought and served in Iraq and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering the design, construction, and maintenance costs and ensuring that the memorial is in the best interest of the State Capitol Park, erect that memorial, in accordance with California law, in the State Capitol Park. States the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation authorizing the creation of a larger memorial commemorating and thanking those who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Resolution Chapter 91, Statutes of 2012
SCR 90 (Anderson-R) Tuskegee Airmen Highway
Designates a three-mile portion of State Highway Route 15 between Miramar Road and Mercy Road in San Diego County as the "Tuskegee Airmen Highway."
Resolution Chapter 104, Statutes of 2012
SJR 2 (Kehoe-D) Military policy: Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue...
Urges the President, Congress, and Secretary of Defense of the United States to end the policy of levying fines on lesbian, gay, and bisexual service members discharged under the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue, Don't Harass" policy.
(Died in Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)
SJR 9 (Senate Veterans Affairs Committee) Veterans' health care
Urges the United States Congress to require the United States Department of Veterans Affairs not abrogate the desires of President Lincoln to care for those most needy and to remember the promises made to World War II veterans.
(Died in Senate Veterans Affairs Committee)
SR 36 (Kehoe-D) Navy ship naming: Harvey Milk
Urges the Department of the Navy to name the next appropriate ship after Harvey Milk as this will be a fitting tribute to Harvey Milk's support for equality, an ideal exemplified in the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
Adopted by the Senate
AB 53 (Solorio-D) Disabled veterans: insurers: procurement contracts
Requires, until 1/1/19, major California insurers to submit an annual report to the Insurance Commissioner regarding the implementation of their efforts to increase procurement from women, minority, and disabled veteran business enterprises.
Chapter 414, Statutes of 2012
AB 150 (Perea-D) Disabled veteran business enterprise participation
Allows the Department of General Services to direct minimum business participation goals for minority, women, and disabled veteran-owned businesses and small businesses in state contracts, and to monitor progress in meeting this goal, commencing 7/1/12.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 246* (Wieckowski-D) Veterans: income: corporations: hiring credit
Redefines qualified employers for purposes of the hiring tax credit to include veterans enterprise, a disadvantaged business, a microbusiness or a small business.
(Failed passage in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
AB 297 (Galgiani-D) Veterans preference: public contracts
Allows a bid preference, as provided, to a bidder of a public works contract if that bidder utilizes the Center for Military Recruitment, Assessment, and Veterans Employment's Helmets to Hardhats program, as specified. Requires that the bidder and each listed subcontractor submit a certified statement, as specified, and imposes a civil penalty, as provided, for knowingly providing false information in that statement.
(Died in Assembly Business, Professions and Consumer Protection Committee)
AB 342 (Atkins-D) Military base: revise and closure
Designates the Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR) to serve as the state liaison with the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and requires OPR to perform specified duties in this capacity, including coordinating issues of significant interest to the DoD and the state, particularly with regard to any proposed federal base realignment and closure actions.
Chapter 395, Statutes of 2012
AB 372 (Roger Hernández-D) Veterans: California community colleges: services
Requires the California Community Colleges, as part of the matriculation process, to assess prior college-level learning gained by veterans and military service personnel through non-college credit means, as specified. Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding veterans.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 445 (Carter-D) Military base reuse projects
Requires, notwithstanding anticipated proposed legislation, that a redevelopment agency shall continue in full force and effect with respect to a military base reuse project under the jurisdiction of that agency, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 487 (Cook-R) Veterans' homes: fees and charges
Restores a cap on the amount veterans pay for residence and care in the Veterans Home of California and creates an inflator to be recalculated annually to reflect changes in the United States Department of Veterans Affairs disability compensation.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 488 (Cook-R) Veterans' homes: fees and charges
Creates, what is in effect, a cap on the charges that non-veteran spouses living in a veterans' home must pay by requiring non-veteran spouses to pay the same sliding scale fees and charges as the veteran spouse.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 502 (Bonilla-D) Military bases
Exempts an Alternative Voluntary Redevelopment Program participating community from being required to remit any amounts that are calculated based on tax increment revenues received for a project area that includes within its boundaries a military base that has been closed or realigned by the federal government. In the event a community fails to make the required remittance, permits the community to continue to function, to a limited extent, if the community contains a project area that includes within its boundaries a military base closed or realigned by the federal government and one or more project areas that do not include a closed or realigned base.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 557 (John A. Pérez-D) Veteran services
Creates the California Interagency Council on Veteran Services and Programs to assess how California veterans are accessing available state and federal benefits.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 635 (Knight-R) Veterans' benefits: higher education
Specifies that, for purposes of veterans' benefits, the Trustees of the California State University, and the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges shall, and the Regents of the University of California are requested to, designate mandatory education fees as tuition.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 649 (Harkey-R) Veteran's enrollment: public postsecondary education
Extends the period of time for priority class registration enrollment, from two years to five years, to members or former members of the Armed Forces and requires that any member or former member of the Armed Forces be a California resident.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
AB 855 (Ma-D) Veterans: itinerant vendors: sales tax
Allows funds remaining in a local DNA Identification Fund to be expended by a local law enforcement agency for the costs of using an authorized, independent laboratory, other than the Department of Justice, to analyze and expedite the testing of DNA samples.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
AB 1093 (Davis-D) Military & Veterans Benefits Offices: student financial aid
Requires the California Community Colleges and the California State University, and encourages the University of California, to establish on each of its respective campuses a Military and Veterans Benefits Office and appoint a full-time Military and Veterans Benefits Advisor for each office to assist a qualified student in determining that student's eligibility for state or federal educational benefits or grants.
(Died in Assembly Higher Education Committee)
AB 1209 (Cook-R) Department of Veterans Affairs: veterans' services
Appropriates the sum of $7,300,000 from the General Fund to the Department of Veterans Affairs for disbursement to the counties to fund the activities of the county veterans service officers (CVSO) to provide for specified veterans' services. Makes specific allocations for CVSOs, grants to counties and non-profit organizations for veterans services, and for Operation Welcome Home or a successor program.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1223 (Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee) Veterans: Medi-Cal: public assistance reporting information
Requires the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to utilize the federal Public Assistance and Reporting Information System (PARIS) to identify veterans and their dependents or survivors who are enrolled in the Medi-Cal Program and assist them in obtaining federal veterans' health care benefits statewide. Repeals language making PARIS a two-year pilot program where DHCS selects three consenting counties that have in operation a United States Department of Veterans Affairs medical center to participate in the pilot.
Vetoed
AB 1224* (Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee) Veterans: veterans' farm and home purchases
Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to adopt regulations necessary to implement the Veterans' Farm and Home Purchase Act of 1974 for cooperative dwelling units in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, and revises provisions relating to forfeiture and the calculation of net gain in connection with the sale of a cooperative dwelling unit.
Chapter 396, Statutes of 2012
AB 1225 (Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee) Veteran's commemorative property: cemeteries
Prohibits any person or entity from selling, trading, or transferring veteran's commemorative property, and authorizes the sale, trade or transfer of all or any part of any veteran's commemorative property if certain conditions are met. Requires any person or entity, except a municipal corporation, as specified, that owns or controls a cemetery where veteran's commemorative property has been placed that wishes to sell, trade, or transfer veterans' commemorative property to petition the superior court in the county in which the veteran's commemorative property is located for permission to sell, trade, or transfer all or any part of the veteran's commemorative property.
Chapter 774, Statutes of 2012
AB 1505 (Pan-D) Veterans' benefits: reinstatement
Requires the state to reinstate benefits to veterans that have their benefits reinstated by the federal government if the benefits were originally denied solely on the basis of sexual orientation, and requires the Department of Veterans to distribute information regarding military discharge upgrades, as specified.
Chapter 397, Statutes of 2012
AB 1550 (Bonilla-D) Veterans' organizations vehicle license plates: fees
Increases the fees required to issue, renew, and personalize veterans' license plates.
Chapter 398, Statutes of 2012
AB 1588 (Atkins-D) Reservist licensees: fees and continuing education
Authorizes all boards, commissions, bureaus, committees, departments, divisions, examining committees, programs and agencies within the Department of Consumer Affairs to provide waivers from professional license renewal fees and continuing education requirements for active duty members of the United States Armed Forces.
Chapter 742, Statutes of 2012
AB 1592 (Olsen-R) Veterans: benefits: fee waiver
Allows a governing board of any county or city to grant financial assistance, relief, and support to disabled veterans by reducing or waiving specified fees for modifying a dwelling for the purpose of greater accessibility.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1644 (Carter-D) California Military Base Reuse and Preservation Act of 2012
Enacts the California Military Base Reuse and Preservation Act of 2012 and makes several legislative findings and declarations relating to the granting of redevelopment powers to communities affected by federal military base closures.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1652* (Olsen-R) California American Portuguese Veterans Memorial
Authorizes the construction and maintenance of a memorial in the existing All Veterans Memorial to honor California American Portuguese veterans.
Chapter 719, Statutes of 2012
AB 1725 (Bonnie Lowenthal-D) Driver's licenses: identification cards: veterans
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to print, upon request, an appropriate insignia upon the driver's license or identification card of a veteran of the armed forces.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1739 (Allen-D) Veterans' home: Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund
Allows the administrator of a veterans' home to enter into agreement with the veterans' home allied council to authorize the council to operate Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund activities such as a hobby shop, movie theater, library, band, and to pay for such things as newspapers, entertainment, sports activities, celebrations and other activities for the morale, welfare and recreation of the veterans.
Chapter 95, Statutes of 2012
AB 1805 (Huffman-D) Military or overseas voters
Establishes new voting procedures for military and overseas voters, as defined, to comply with the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act and implement the policies of that Act and the Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act adopted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State laws.
Chapter 744, Statutes of 2012
AB 1806 (Cook-R) Veteran interment: veterans' remains organizations
Refers to the public administrator if there is reason to believe that the remains belong to a veteran or a veteran's dependent, and requires the public administrator to work with the county veteran service officer, a national veterans cemetery, the United States Social Security Administration, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, or other applicable entity to determine if the remains belong to a veteran or a veteran's dependent.
Chapter 722, Statutes of 2012
AB 1823 (Yamada-D) Veterans' homes: accounting for charges
Requires the quarterly accounting statements for veteran home occupants of all charges to include information relating to payment of any outstanding charges at the time of the veteran's death, including the use of a deceased veteran's personal property or money for payment of outstanding charges, and statement advising the member to seek counsel from a legal expert to protect his/her assets.
Chapter 158, Statutes of 2012
AB 1827 (Bonilla-D) Military base reuse authority
Authorizes a military base reuse authority to form an infrastructure financing district (IFD), as specified, and allows an IFD to finance homeless accommodations. Includes in the definition of "city," for purposes of IFD law, a military base reuse authority formed pursuant to specified sections of law that establish both the Fort Ord Reuse Authority and the Military Base Reuse Authority Act.
(Died in Senate Governance and Finance Committee)
AB 1828 (Bonilla-D) Concord Naval Weapons Reuse Authority: land use
Authorizes Contra Costa County and the City of Concord to establish the Concord Naval Weapons Station Reuse Authority to plan for, finance, and manage the transition of the property formerly known as the Concord Naval Weapons Station from military to civilian use.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 1842 (Monning-D) CA Central Coast State Veterans Cemetery: Endowment Fund
Authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to use any moneys received from the State Veterans Cemetery Grant Program that are transferred to the California Central Coast State Veterans Cemetery at Fort Ord Endowment Fund for the reimbursement of those specified costs to reimburse any cash advances made to the Fund used for those costs to the extent allowed by grant requirements.
Chapter 745, Statutes of 2012
AB 1869 (John A. Pérez-D) Federal veterans health benefits: Office of Patient Advocate
Adds federal veterans' health benefits to the list of public programs that the Office of Patient Advocate will be required to include, commencing 1/1/13, in its efforts to provide outreach and education about health care coverage options.
Chapter 167, Statutes of 2012
AB 1904 (Block-D) Military spouses: expedited licensure
Requires a board, under the Department of Consumer Affairs, to expedite the licensure process for military spouses and domestic partners of a military member who is on active duty in California.
Chapter 399, Statutes of 2012
AB 1931 (Gorell-R) Department of Veterans Affairs: consolidation of services
Establishes the California Veterans Services and Workforce Development Division within the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA) for the purpose of coordinating and administering veterans' assistance programs, and transfers those programs from the Employment Development Department to the DVA.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1932 (Gorell-R) United States armed services: healing arts boards
Requires healing arts boards to issue a written report to the Department of Veterans Affairs and to the Legislature detailing the methods of evaluating the education, training, and experience obtained in military service and whether that education, training, and experience is applicable to the board's requirements for licensure, by 1/1/14.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1936 (Knight-R) Military service: state employment: inactive duty training
Adds periods of inactive duty for training to the types of duty for which it is permissible for state employees to take military leave.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1976 (Logue-R) Military training: licensure and certification requirements
Requires healing arts boards within the Department of Consumer Affairs, as well as professional licensure programs within the Department of Public Health, to accept military training towards licensure requirements, as applicable, and requires boards that accredit schools to ensure schools have procedures in place to accept military training.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2004* (Knight-R) Military veterans: personal income tax: exclusion
Excludes from gross income, combat-related special compensation and concurrent retirement and disability pay, as defined, beginning on or after 1/1/13.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2130 (Gorell-R) Military police officers
Permits the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to evaluate pertinent military police officer training previously completed by any jurisdiction's law enforcement officers for the purpose of determining whether the training meets the current training requirements prescribed by POST and authorizes POST to consider previous military police officer training as part of POST's basic course waiver process.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2133 (Blumenfield-D) Veterans: priority registration
Enacts the Combat to College Act of 2012, which authorizes a qualifying student to use the four academic years during which these institutions are required, or requested, to grant priority registration for enrollment within 15 years of his/her leaving state or federal active duty, and requests that the University of California comply with priority enrollment, as specified.
Chapter 400, Statutes of 2012
AB 2151 (Halderman-R) Veterans' homes: Redding: Fresno: funding
Appropriates $26.1million from the General Fund to the Department of Veterans Affairs for the purpose of operating the Veterans' Home of California, Redding, and the Veterans' Home of California, Fresno.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2198 (Nielsen-R) Department of Veterans Affairs: reporting requirements
Changes reporting requirements in the annual county veterans service officers' report.
Chapter 401, Statutes of 2012
AB 2202 (Block-D) Military children
Extends the sunset from 1/1/13 to 1/1/14, for provisions related to the Superintendent of Public Instruction reconvening a task force to review the impact of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children on California, its school districts and its pupils, as specified. Requires the Superintendent to issue a final report to the Legislature by 12/1/13.
Chapter 402,Statutes of 2012
AB 2248 (Cook-R) Veterans' services: state contracts
Requires the Director of General Services to establish criteria identifying state contracts for social services provided to veterans or their families and to create a process that provides a participation incentive to specified bidders for state contracts for social services provided to veterans or their families for use by all state agencies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2250 (Beth Gaines-R) Military: postsecondary education: nonresident tuition
Provides that a student, or their spouse, who served in the Armed Forces for at least 36 months and received an honorable discharge, is exempt from paying non-resident tuition for their first full year of continuous enrollment at the California Community Colleges, the California State University, and the University of California if the student files an affidavit with the college stating they intend to establish residency in California.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2329 (Olsen-R) Veterans memorials: Capitol Historic Region
Provides that contracts for the construction, enhancement, or design of any veterans' memorial, authorized by the Legislature, funded entirely through private donations, and located in the Capitol Historic Region, shall be exempt from the Public Contract Code.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 2371 (Butler-D) Veterans: criminal defendants: mental health issues
Provides restorative relief to a veteran defendant who acquires a criminal record due to a mental disorder stemming from military service.
Chapter 403, Statutes of 2012
AB 2426 (Galgiani-D) Veterans preference: public contracts
Requires state agencies, in awarding construction contracts, to provide a bid preference of up to 5% to a bidder using Helmets to Hardhats (H2H). H2H is a federal program to help veterans enter the construction industry by assessing aptitude for apprenticeship programs and hiring halls, and offering employment opportunities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2462 (Block-D) Prior military experience: public postsecondary education
Requires, by 7/1/15, the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, using common course descriptors and pertinent standards of the American Council on Education, to determine for which courses credit should be awarded for prior military experience.
Chapter 404, Statutes of 2012
AB 2470 (Nielsen-R) Northern California Veterans Cemetery: Vietnam veterans
Recognizes the Vietnam veterans sculpture, located in the Northern California Veterans Cemetery, as an official state memorial for Vietnam veterans.
(Died in Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee)
AB 2475 (Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee) Military service protections: real/personal property rights
Extends from three months to nine months the time after a servicemember's period of military service is over during which foreclosure upon the servicemember's home is prohibited, and provides that no sale, foreclosure, or seizure of property for nonpayment of any sum due under any obligation secured by mortgage, trust deed, or other security, shall be valid if made during the period of military service or within nine months thereafter, except pursuant to an agreement between the parties, unless upon an order previously granted by the court and a return thereto made and approved by the court.
Chapter 204, Statutes of 2012
AB 2476 (Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee) Service member obligations or liabilities: rate of interest
Extends the period during which mortgage interest rates are capped for military service members.
Chapter 101, Statutes of 2012
AB 2478 (Hayashi-D) Veterans: student residency requirements
Provides that a California Community College student who was a member of the Armed Forces stationed in California for more than one year immediately prior to being discharged, is exempt from paying nonresident fees for up to one year, if he or she files an affidavit with the community college stating an intent to establish California residency, as specified.
Chapter 405, Statutes of 2012
AB 2490 (Butler-D) Veterans: correctional counselors
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to develop guidance policies relative to the release of veterans who are inmates. Requires policies to be developed to assist veterans who are inmates pursuing claims for federal veteran's benefits, or establishing rights to any other privilege, preference, care, or compensation which veterans are entitled under federal or state law. States the CDCR, in developing the policies, may coordinate with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the county veterans service officer or veterans service organizations.
Chapter 407, Statutes 2012
AB 2528 (John A. Pérez-D) Military members: mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure
Requires that in order for a notice of default to be recorded, it must include a declaration stating that the mortgagee, trustee, or authorized agent contacted the borrower to determine if the borrower is an active duty servicemember, and if the borrower is an active duty servicemember, or was an active duty servicemember 90 days prior to the date the notice of default is to be recorded, that the mortgagee, trustee, or authorized agent has complied with the federal Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2534 (Block-D) Veterans education pilot program: community colleges
Requires the California Community College Chancellor's Office to establish a voluntary pilot program to authorize three to five campuses to establish and maintain a career technical education program that factors experiential learning for veterans for career technical education course credit, certificates and associate degrees, and also requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to submit a specified report.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2540 (Gatto-D) Veterans' Home of California: veterans services
Appropriates continuously, on a fiscal year basis, from the General Fund, $90 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs for the purpose of operating specified veterans' homes in California and $15 million to the Department for the purposes of funding county veterans service officers.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 2548 (Mitchell-D) California Veterans Board
Specifies that a member of the seven-member California Veterans Board must have experience in the issues of female veterans, which may include, but are not limited to, combat related disorders, sexual trauma, and homelessness.
Chapter 205, Statutes of 2012
AB 2598 (Fuentes-D) Veteran's health: B.T. Collins Veterans Health Registry
Requires the Department of Public Health to establish a statewide system, known as the B.T. Collins Veterans Health Registry, for the collection of information about veterans who have or have had a presumptive illness relating to qualifying military service, as determined by the federal Department of Veterans Affairs. Requires the Department to evaluate the sources of a presumptive illness and evaluate measures designed to eliminate, alleviate, or ameliorate its effect.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2611 (Butler-D) Veterans treatment courts
Authorizes superior courts to implement veterans treatment courts.
Vetoed
ACR 104 (John A. Pérez-D) Day of Remembrance
Declares 2/19/12 as a Day of Remembrance in order to increase public awareness of the events surrounding the internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II.
Resolution Chapter 39, Statutes of 2012
ACR 107 (Eng-D) PTSD Awareness Day
Recognizes 6/27/12 as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Awareness Day.
Resolution Chapter 34, Statutes of 2012
ACR 111 (Cook-R) Purple Heart State
Proclaims California as a Purple Heart State, honoring the service and sacrifices of our nation's men and women in uniform wounded or killed by the enemy while serving to protect the freedoms enjoyed by all Americans.
Resolution Chapter 11, Statutes of 2012
ACR 122 (Achadjian-R) Armed Forces Day
Honors and recognizes the service and sacrifice made by members of the Armed Forces and their families on the occasion of Armed Forces Day on 5/19/12.
Resolution Chapter 22, Statutes of 2012
ACR 129 (Conway-R) Corporal Jared Verbeek Memorial Overcrossing
Designates an overcrossing on State Highway Route 198 in Tulare County as the "Corporal Jared Verbeek Memorial Overcrossing."
Resolution Chapter 65, Statutes of 2012
ACR 163 (Cook-R) California Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Recognizes the 25th Anniversary of the California Vietnam Veterans Memorial in the Capitol Park, Sacramento.
Resolution Chapter 132, Statutes of 2012
AJR 6 (Ma-D) Filipino veterans
Requests that the Congress and the President of the United States enact the Filipino Veterans Fairness Act of 2011 (H.R. 210).
Resolution Chapter 42, Statutes of 2012
AJR 31 (Perea-D) 144th Fighter Wing
Requests that the United States Congress and the Department of Defense remain committed to maintaining the 144th Fighter Wing and Aerospace Control Alert mission in California in order to prevent any negative impacts to Southwest air defense operations, the California economy, and the ability of first responders to protect the residents of this state.
Resolution Chapter 9, Statutes of 2012
Index (in Measure Order)
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Note: * Denotes Urgency or Tax Levy Legislation.
| Measure and Reference | Author | Measure Title |
|---|---|---|
| SB 245 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Rubio-D | Military installations: retention and sustainability |
| SB 314* - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Vargas-D | Military housing: property taxation |
| SB 404 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Anderson-R | Veterans: firearms: handgun safety certificates: fees |
| SB 546 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Correa-D | Secretary of Veterans Affairs: powers and duties |
| SB 663 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Correa-D | Veterans: homeless veterans |
| SB 807 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Correa-D | State militia |
| SB 812 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Senate Veterans Affairs Committee | POW/MIA flag: protocol |
| SB 817 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Senate Veterans Affairs Committee | Veterans: Business Utilization Plan |
| SB 842 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Rubio-D | Military families: California residency: ID cards |
| SB 921* - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Lieu-D | Military Department: Office of the Inspector General |
| SB 1123 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | De León-D | Disabled veterans: parking placards |
| SB 1184 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Corbett-D | Veterans benefits: senior insurance |
| SB 1198 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Calderon-D | Publicity of benefit programs for homeless veterans |
| SB 1258 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Wolk-D | Veterans: monitoring outcomes for veterans |
| SB 1287 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Harman-R | Military service members: sport fishing licenses |
| SB 1288 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Harman-R | Military service members: hunting licenses |
| SB 1297 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Blakeslee-R | Veterans' memorial plaque: Capitol Park |
| SB 1355 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Runner-R | Veterans: vehicles: driver's licenses |
| SB 1375 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Alquist-D | Veterans: higher education students |
| SB 1405 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | De León-D | Military service: accountancy: practice privilege |
| SB 1409 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Pavley-D | Military mission goals: energy efficiency |
| SB 1413 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Negrete McLeod-D | Adjutant General: support programs |
| SB 1422 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Anderson-R | Honorably discharged veterans: handgun safety |
| SB 1563 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Cannella-R | Veterans' preference: civil service examinations |
| SB 1580 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Senate Governmental Organization Committee | Armories: state surplus property: sales |
| SCR 31 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Rubio-D | National Purple Heart Trail |
| SCR 80 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Fuller-R | Lance Corporal Joseph C. Lopez Memorial Interchange |
| SCR 82 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Blakeslee-R | California veterans of the Iraq War: memorial |
| SCR 90 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Anderson-R | Tuskegee Airmen Highway |
| SJR 2 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Kehoe-D | Military policy: Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue... |
| SJR 9 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Senate Veterans Affairs Committee | Veterans' health care |
| SR 36 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Kehoe-D | Navy ship naming: Harvey Milk |
| AB 53 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Solorio-D | Disabled veterans: insurers: procurement contracts |
| AB 150 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Perea-D | Disabled veteran business enterprise participation |
| AB 246* - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Wieckowski-D | Veterans: income: corporations: hiring credit |
| AB 297 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Galgiani-D | Veterans preference: public contracts |
| AB 342 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Atkins-D | Military base: revise and closure |
| AB 372 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Roger Hernández-D | Veterans: California community colleges: services |
| AB 445 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Carter-D | Military base reuse projects |
| AB 487 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Cook-R | Veterans' homes: fees and charges |
| AB 488 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Cook-R | Veterans' homes: fees and charges |
| AB 502 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Bonilla-D | Military bases |
| AB 557 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | John A. Pérez-D | Veteran services |
| AB 635 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Knight-R | Veterans' benefits: higher education |
| AB 649 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Harkey-R | Veteran's enrollment: public postsecondary education |
| AB 855 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Ma-D | Veterans: itinerant vendors: sales tax |
| AB 1093 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Davis-D | Military & Veterans Benefits Offices: student financial aid |
| AB 1209 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Cook-R | Department of Veterans Affairs: veterans' services |
| AB 1223 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee | Veterans: Medi-Cal: public assistance reporting information |
| AB 1224* - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee | Veterans: veterans' farm and home purchases |
| AB 1225 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee | Veteran's commemorative property: cemeteries |
| AB 1505 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Pan-D | Veterans' benefits: reinstatement |
| AB 1550 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Bonilla-D | Veterans' organizations vehicle license plates: fees |
| AB 1588 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Atkins-D | Reservist licensees: fees and continuing education |
| AB 1592 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Olsen-R | Veterans: benefits: fee waiver |
| AB 1644 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Carter-D | California Military Base Reuse and Preservation Act of 2012 |
| AB 1652* - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Olsen-R | California American Portuguese Veterans Memorial |
| AB 1725 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Bonnie Lowenthal-D | Driver's licenses: identification cards: veterans |
| AB 1739 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Allen-D | Veterans' home: Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund |
| AB 1805 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Huffman-D | Military or overseas voters |
| AB 1806 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Cook-R | Veteran interment: veterans' remains organizations |
| AB 1823 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Yamada-D | Veterans' homes: accounting for charges |
| AB 1827 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Bonilla-D | Military base reuse authority |
| AB 1828 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Bonilla-D | Concord Naval Weapons Reuse Authority: land use |
| AB 1842 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Monning-D | CA Central Coast State Veterans Cemetery: Endowment Fund |
| AB 1869 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | John A. Pérez-D | Federal veterans health benefits: Office of Patient Advocate |
| AB 1904 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Block-D | Military spouses: expedited licensure |
| AB 1931 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Gorell-R | Department of Veterans Affairs: consolidation of services |
| AB 1932 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Gorell-R | United States armed services: healing arts boards |
| AB 1936 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Knight-R | Military service: state employment: inactive duty training |
| AB 1976 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Logue-R | Military training: licensure and certification requirements |
| AB 2004* - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Knight-R | Military veterans: personal income tax: exclusion |
| AB 2130 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Gorell-R | Military police officers |
| AB 2133 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Blumenfield-D | Veterans: priority registration |
| AB 2151 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Halderman-R | Veterans' homes: Redding: Fresno: funding |
| AB 2198 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Nielsen-R | Department of Veterans Affairs: reporting requirements |
| AB 2202 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Block-D | Military children |
| AB 2248 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Cook-R | Veterans' services: state contracts |
| AB 2250 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Beth Gaines-R | Military: postsecondary education: nonresident tuition |
| AB 2329 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Olsen-R | Veterans memorials: Capitol Historic Region |
| AB 2371 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Butler-D | Veterans: criminal defendants: mental health issues |
| AB 2426 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Galgiani-D | Veterans preference: public contracts |
| AB 2462 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Block-D | Prior military experience: public postsecondary education |
| AB 2470 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Nielsen-R | Northern California Veterans Cemetery: Vietnam veterans |
| AB 2475 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee | Military service protections: real/personal property rights |
| AB 2476 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Assembly Veterans Affairs Committee | Service member obligations or liabilities: rate of interest |
| AB 2478 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Hayashi-D | Veterans: student residency requirements |
| AB 2490 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Butler-D | Veterans: correctional counselors |
| AB 2528 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | John A. Pérez-D | Military members: mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure |
| AB 2534 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Block-D | Veterans education pilot program: community colleges |
| AB 2540 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Gatto-D | Veterans' Home of California: veterans services |
| AB 2548 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Mitchell-D | California Veterans Board |
| AB 2598 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Fuentes-D | Veteran's health: B.T. Collins Veterans Health Registry |
| AB 2611 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Butler-D | Veterans treatment courts |
| ACR 104 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | John A. Pérez-D | Day of Remembrance |
| ACR 107 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Eng-D | PTSD Awareness Day |
| ACR 111 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Cook-R | Purple Heart State |
| ACR 122 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Achadjian-R | Armed Forces Day |
| ACR 129 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Conway-R | Corporal Jared Verbeek Memorial Overcrossing |
| ACR 163 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Cook-R | California Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
| AJR 6 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Ma-D | Filipino veterans |
| AJR 31 - Military and Veterans' Legislation | Perea-D | 144th Fighter Wing |
