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AB-2015 Veterans’ Home of California.(1995-1996)

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Assembly Bill No. 2015
CHAPTER 336

An act to add Section 15819.92 to the Government Code, relating to veterans, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

[ Filed with Secretary of State  August 19, 1996. Approved by Governor  August 17, 1996. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 2015, Knight. Veterans’ Home of California.
Existing law establishes a Veterans’ Home of California, Yountville, located in Napa County. Existing law authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish and construct a 2nd veterans’ home to be located on one or more sites in one of several specified counties in southern California, and states the intent of the Legislature to authorize the department to begin preliminary work on 2 additional veterans’ homes in southern California.
Existing law, the State Building Construction Act of 1955, authorizes the State Public Works Board to acquire or construct public buildings and to issue revenue bonds, negotiable notes, and negotiable bond anticipation notes to finance that construction.
Existing law requires that the controller make a loan from the General Fund of up to $1,680,000 to the department, subject to certain conditions, for certain purposes relating to construction of the second and third sites of the southern California home and requires that the loan be repaid from bond funds authorized in subsequent legislation, or if no bond funds are authorized, from the support appropriation for the department in future budget acts.
This bill would appropriate $144,000 from the General Fund to the department for allocation to the California Veterans Home Project Team and to the Governor’s Commission on a Southern California Veterans Home.
This bill would be operative only if SB 1382 is enacted and takes effect. This bill would declare that it shall take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Appropriation: YES  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 15819.92 is added to the Government Code, to read:

15819.92.
 In addition to any funds made available through Section 15819.90, the sum of one hundred forty-four thousand dollars ($144,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of Veterans Affairs for allocation as follows:
(a)  Fourteen thousand dollars ($14,000) to the Governor’s Commission on a Southern California Veterans Home.
(b)  Sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) to the California Veterans Home Project Team.
(c)  Sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) to the California Veterans Home Project Team, only if an application for federal matching funds from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs is approved for funding.

SEC. 2.

 This bill shall not become operative unless Senate Bill 1382 of the 1995–96 Regular Session is enacted and takes effect on or prior to January 1, 1997.

SEC. 3.

 This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order that the construction of essential homes for veterans be commenced and completed at the earliest possible time, it is necessary for this act to take effect immediately.