Bill Text: CA AB1488 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Veterans: Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB1488 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1488-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1488	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Obernolte

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 1049 of the Military and Veterans Code,
relating to veterans.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1488, as introduced, Obernolte. Veterans: Morale, Welfare, and
Recreation Fund.
   Existing law provides for the establishment of veterans' homes and
requires the administrator of a veterans' home to maintain a Morale,
Welfare, and Recreation Fund to be used, subject to the approval of
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to provide certain operations and
activities relating to the general welfare of the veterans, as
provided. Moneys in the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund may be
used to establish or operate a Veterans' Home Exchange that may
conduct any lawful endeavor that, in the judgment of the
administrator, will benefit the veterans, except as prohibited.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1049 of the Military and Veterans Code is
amended to read:
   1049.  Moneys in the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund
maintained under subdivision (a) of Section 1047 may be used to
establish or operate a Veterans' Home Exchange that may conduct any
lawful endeavor  which,   that,  in the
judgment of the administrator,  will benefit  
benefits  the veterans, except as prohibited under subdivision
(b) of Section 1047. The administrator may establish the Veterans'
Home Exchange to operate at a profit.