Bill Text: CA SB815 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 815 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Emergency assistance: military: Civil Air Patrol.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-31 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB815 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB815-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 815	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Veterans Affairs (Senators Correa
(Chair), Berryhill, Calderon, Cannella, La Malfa, Negrete McLeod, and
Rubio)

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act relating to civil air patrol.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 815, as introduced, Committee on Veterans Affairs. Emergency
assistance: military: Civil Air Patrol.
   Existing federal law provides that the Civil Air Patrol is a
federally chartered nonprofit corporation that is a volunteer
civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force whose purposes,
among others, include providing an organization of private citizens
with adequate facilities to assist in meeting local and national
emergencies and assisting the United States Department of the Air
Force in fulfilling its noncombat programs and missions.
   This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to recognize and clarify the role of Civil Air Patrol as
an organization that assists the California Emergency Management
Agency or the National Guard with respect to state emergencies.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to recognize and clarify the role of Civil Air Patrol as
an organization that assists the California Emergency Management
Agency or the National Guard with respect to state emergencies.