Bill Text: CA SB469 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered

California Senate Bill 469 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Veterans' cemeteries: fees.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)

Status: (Passed) 2009-10-11 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 589, Statutes of 2009. [SB469 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB469-Chaptered.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 469	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  589
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 11, 2009
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 11, 2009
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 17, 2009
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  JULY 9, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 15, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 22, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Aanestad
   (Coauthors: Senators Cogdill, Cox, and Maldonado)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bill Berryhill, Block, DeVore, and
Huffman)

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act to add Chapter 10.5 (commencing with Section 1480) to
Division 6 of the Military and Veterans Code, relating to veterans.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 469, Aanestad. Veterans' cemeteries: fees.
   Existing law provides for the establishment and operation of
certain state-owned and operated veterans' cemeteries. Existing law
authorizes honorably discharged veterans and their spouses and
children to be interred at these cemeteries, and provides for a fee
to be charged for each spouse or child interred at the cemetery, as
specified.
   This bill would authorize the fee for the interment of the spouses
and children of honorably discharged veterans in these cemeteries to
be waived if the cemetery administrator determines that the families
of the spouses or children do not have sufficient means to pay for
the costs of interment, and would require any costs for these
interments to be paid from nonstate funds. This bill would require
the cemetery administrator to seek reimbursements, as specified, and
would authorize the cemetery administrator to solicit private
donations, to offset any fees lost as a result of this fee waiver.


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

  SECTION 1.  Chapter 10.5 (commencing with Section 1480) is added to
Division 6 of the Military and Veterans Code, to read:
      CHAPTER 10.5.  STATE VETERANS CEMETERIES FEE WAIVER


   1480.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the fee for the
interment of the spouses or children of eligible veterans in a
cemetery operated under this division may be waived if the cemetery
administrator determines that the families of the spouses or children
do not have sufficient means to pay for the costs of interment.
   (b) Any costs for the interment of the spouses or children of
eligible veterans who received a waiver pursuant to subdivision (a)
shall be paid from nonstate funds.
   (c) The cemetery administrator shall seek reimbursements, if any
are available, from federal, county, and other local agencies to
offset any fees lost as a result of the waiver authorized pursuant to
subdivision (a).
   (d) The cemetery administrator may solicit private donations to
offset any fees lost as a result of the waiver authorized pursuant to
subdivision (a).