Bill Text: CA AB585 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Department of Veterans Affairs: use of real property.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 641, Statutes of 2014. [AB585 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB585-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 585	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fox

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to add and repeal Section 713 of the Military and Veterans
Code, relating to veterans, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 585, as introduced, Fox. Homeless veterans' assistance pilot
program.
   Under existing law, the Department of Veterans Affairs has
specified powers and duties relating to various programs serving
veterans, including establishing housing projects. Existing law
requires the department to include specified information in its
strategic plan related to homeless veterans.
   This bill would establish, until January 1, 2018, the Homeless
Veterans' Housing Assistance Pilot Program, in up to 4 counties that
agree to participate. The bill would provide that the pilot program
would be administered at the state level by the Department of
Veterans' Affairs, in consultation with the Department of Housing and
Community Development, and would prescribe the department's
responsibilities in this regard. This bill would require the
department to provide $100,000 to each county for purposes of the
pilot program, from which the county would provide a monthly stipend
of $500 to eligible homeless veterans. The bill would appropriate
$5,000,000 from the General Fund to the Homeless Veterans' Housing
Assistance Fund, which the bill would create, for purposes of the
pilot program.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 713 is added to the Military and Veterans Code,
to read:
   713.  (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the
Homeless Veterans' Housing Assistance Pilot Program.
   (b) The department in consultation with the Department of Housing
and Community Development, shall establish a four-year pilot program
in up to four counties, to provide assistance to homeless veterans as
provided in this section. Under the program, each county that agrees
to participate in the program shall provide a monthly housing
stipend of five hundred dollars ($500) to eligible veterans
identified by the county.
   (c) The department shall serve as the lead agency for the pilot
program. The department's responsibilities shall include, but shall
not be limited to, all of the following:
   (1) Development of criteria for the selection of the pilot program
counties.
   (2) Selection of the pilot program counties to participate in the
pilot program.
   (3) Providing, or arranging for, technical assistance to
participating counties.
   (4) Development of specific performance outcome measures by which
the program can be evaluated.
   (d) (1)The sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) is hereby
appropriated from the General Fund to the Homeless Veterans' Housing
Assistance Fund, which is hereby created, to implement the pilot
program created by this section. Moneys in the fund shall be
allocated by the department as provided in paragraph (2).
   (2) Of the funds appropriated pursuant to this section, one
hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) shall be allocated to each
participating county for the purposes of providing the housing
stipend described in subdivision (b).
   (e) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2018, and as of that date is repealed.