MILITARY

• AB 1908 (Chávez) This bill requires that the annual financial report – which, under existing law, is required annually from veterans memorial districts (VMDs) – would include additional information about district funding distributed to providers of supportive services.

An act to amend Section 1198.5 of the Military and Veterans Code, relating to memorial districts.

• AB 2439 (Eduardo Garcia) This bill establishes the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer or Questioning (LGBTQ) Veterans Memorial at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City as the official state LGBTQ veterans’ memorial.

An act to add Section 429.4 to the Government Code, relating to state memorials.

• AB 2521 (Quirk-Silva) This bill requires a mobilized military reservist (or designee), in order to invoke the protections of the California Military Families Financial Relief Act (CMFFR Act), to deliver a written request, which may be via electronic communication, for a deferment of financial obligations to the obligor. This bill removes the existing requirements that the request be by signed letter and under penalty of perjury.

An act to amend Section 800 of the Military and Veterans Code, relating to the military.

• AB 2568 (Reyes) This bill requires county jails, upon detention of a person, to ask if the person has served in the U.S. military, document the person’s response, and make this information available to the individual, their counsel, and the district attorney.

An act to add Section 4001.2 to the Penal Code, relating to jails.

• AB 2870 (Eggman) This bill grants authority to the Adjutant General to appoint a member of the State Military Reserve (SMR), who has a bachelor’s degree in psychology or social work, to serve on State Active Duty (SAD) status as a counselor in the state’s National Guard Youth ChalleNGe program.

An act to amend Section 532 of the Military and Veterans Code, relating to the military.

• AB 3212 (Irwin) This bill expands the classes of military and state militia members who receive specified civil liability protections; extends the duration after military service of existing provisions, as specified; adds a category of debt to existing protections that cap interest rates for military members called to active duty, as specified; and expands existing provisions allowing military members who have been called to active duty to seek release from lease obligations, among other changes.

An act to amend Sections 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409.1, 409.2, 409.3, 409.4, 800, 803, 811, 821, 822, 823.5, 824, 826, and 827 of, to add Sections 409.15, 813, and 830 to, and to repeal and add Sections 400 and 409 of, the Military and Veterans Code, relating to service members.

• AB 3251 (Committee on Veterans Affairs) Authorizes the Director of General Services, with the approval of the Adjutant General, to sell specified armories throughout the state subject to these provisions, including the deposit of the sale proceeds into the Armory Fund. Specifically, this bill authorizes the Director of General Services, with the approval of the Adjutant General, to sell any of the following properties.

An act relating to armories.

• SB 1007 (Hertzberg) This bill exempts from the state and local sales and use tax specified building materials and supplies used by a qualified nonprofit organization to construct a facility used to care for military veterans.

An act to add Section 6369.7 to the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to taxation, to take effect immediately, tax levy.

• SB 1137 (Vidak) This bill requires the Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet) and the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA), in consultation with each other, to take appropriate steps to increase awareness regarding professional licensing benefits available to veterans and their spouses.

An act to add Section 714 to the Military and Veterans Code, relating to veterans.

• SB 1304 (Roth) This bill authorizes the California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet) to accept donations of personal property, including cash or other gifts, to be used to further the purposes of the state’s strategic plan for providing veterans with transitional assistance, as specified, or to reimburse the state for expenditures made by the state for these purposes.

An act to add Section 90.2 to the Military and Veterans Code, relating to veterans, and making an appropriation therefor.

• SB 1435 (Dodd) This bill updates language in one section of the Military and Veterans Code (MVC) – pertaining to California National Guard (CNG) officers – to conform to language recently modernized in an adjacent, related code section.

An act to amend Section 233 of the Military and Veterans Code, relating to the state military.

• SB 1500 (Committee on Veterans Affairs) This bill updates sections of existing law which protect military service members from discrimination in specified areas. This bill ensures that service members of all federal service branches (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard) and all components (active, reserve, National Guard) are protected.

An act to amend Section 394 of the Military and Veterans Code, relating to service members.

• SB 1501 (Committee on Veterans Affairs) This bill modernizes outdated, gender-specific references in the Military and Veterans Code (MVC) to conform to contemporary language used by the United States Armed Forces.

An act to amend Section 20282 of the Government Code, to amend Sections 182, 210, 212, 215, 223, 252, 254, 255, 257, 258, 259, 262, 263, 266, 267, 268, 269, 280, 289, 296, 321, 322, 324, 325, 326, 327, 342, 363, 364, 368, 372, 375, 395.04, 414, 422, 450.1, 455, 458.1, 463, 465, 551, 552, 562, and 648 of, and to amend the heading of Article 3 (commencing with Section 250) of Chapter 3 of Part 1 of Division 2 of, the Military and Veterans Code, and to amend Section 32177.5 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, relating to military.