Bill Text: CA AB1692 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Enrolled

California Assembly Bill 1692 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Veterans: mental health.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2022-09-27 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB1692 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB1692-Enrolled.html

Enrolled August 25, 2022

Passed IN Senate August 23, 2022

Passed IN Assembly May 26, 2022

Amended IN Assembly March 29, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1692

Introduced by Assembly Members Voepel and Mathis
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Chen, Choi, and Seyarto)
(Coauthors: Senators Grove and Melendez)

January 25, 2022

An act to add and repeal Section 716 of the Military and Veterans Code, relating to veterans.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1692, Voepel. Veterans: mental health.

Existing law establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs. The department, among other services, provides veterans and their dependents and survivors with assistance in processing service-related disability claims, assistance in obtaining affordable housing, and information about health ailments associated with military service.

This bill would require the department to establish a program to fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, an academic study of mental health among women veterans in California, as specified. The bill would require the department to submit a report summarizing the findings and recommendations of the study to the Legislature no later than July 31, 2024.

This bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 31, 2024, and would repeal them as of January 1, 2025.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Section 716 is added to the Military and Veterans Code, to read:

716.

(a) The department shall establish a program to fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, an academic study of mental health among women veterans in California, to include demographics and an analysis of the stressors, risk factors, treatment modalities, barriers to access, suicide rate, and other information deemed relevant.

(b) The department shall prepare and submit to the Legislature, no later than July 31, 2024, a report summarizing the findings and recommendations of the study pursuant to subdivision (a). The report shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.