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SB-1546 Veterans homes: nursing care.(1999-2000)



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SB1546:v98#DOCUMENT

Amended  IN  Senate  April 24, 2000

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 1999–2000 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill
No. 1546

Introduced  by  Senator Knight

February 17, 2000

An act to amend Section 1011 of add Section 1104.1 to the Military and Veterans Code, relating to veterans affairs, and making an appropriation therefor.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 1546, as amended, Knight. Veterans homes: nursing care.
The Veterans’ Homes Bond Act of 2000 requires the proceeds from the sale of the bonds issued under that act to be deposited in a newly established Veterans’ Home Fund. That act provides that upon appropriation by the Legislature, the moneys in that fund are to be allocated first to meet state funding requirements for the renovation or construction of those veterans’ homes identified by a specified statute.
This bill would continuously appropriate the moneys in the Veterans’ Home Fund, without regard to fiscal years and in an amount not to exceed $12,000,000, to meet state funding requirements for the construction of a veterans’ home, located in the City of Lancaster, that is identified by the same specified statute.

Existing law provides for the establishment and operation of the Veterans’ Home of California at various sites for aged and disabled veterans who meet certain eligibility criteria.

This bill would provide that the Veterans’ Home of California at the Lancaster site may provide skilled nursing care for up to ____ residents.

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: YES   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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


SECTION 1.

Section 1011 of the Military and

Section 1104.1 is added to the Military and Veterans Code, to read:

1104.1.
 (a) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the moneys in the Veterans’ Home Fund established by Section 1103 are, subject to the limit set forth in subdivision (b), hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, for the funding of the state’s matching requirement for the construction of the Veterans’ Home of California, Lancaster, as described in paragraph (4) of subdivision (b) of Section 1011.
(b) The total amount appropriated in accordance with subdivision (a) may not exceed twelve million dollars ($12,000,000).

Veterans Code is amended to read:

1011.

(a)There is in the department a Veterans’ Home of California Yountville, situated at Veterans’ Home, Napa County.

(b)(1)The department may establish and construct a second home that shall be situated in the County of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, or Ventura. The home may be located on one or more sites. The department shall operate the second home concurrently with the first home.

(2)The initial site is the Veterans’ Home of California, Barstow, situated in Barstow, San Bernardino County. That site may provide skilled nursing care for up to 250 residents.

(3)When completed, the second site shall be the Veterans’ Home of California, Chula Vista, situated in Chula Vista, San Diego County, pursuant to the recommendations made by the commission established pursuant to Section 1011.5.

(4)When completed, the third site shall be the Veterans’ Home of California, Lancaster, situated in Lancaster, Los Angeles County, pursuant to the recommendations made by the commission established pursuant to Section 1011.5. That site may provide skilled nursing care for up to ____ residents.

(5)When completed, the fourth site shall be the Veterans’ Home of California, Ventura, situated in the community of Saticoy, Ventura County.

(6)There shall be an administrator for, and located at, each site of the southern California home.

(7)The department may complete any preapplication process necessary with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs for construction of the second home.

(c)The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the second home is a new state function. The department may perform any or all work in operating the second home by independent contractors, except the overall administration and management of the home. Any and all actions of the department taken before September 17, 1996, that are consistent with this subdivision are hereby ratified and confirmed, it having at all times been the intent of the Legislature that the department be so authorized.