Summary of California Bills 2024

Summary CALIFORNIA BILLS 2024               

AB 46 (Ramos D)   Personal income taxes: exclusion: Military Services Retirement and Surviving Spouse Benefit Payment Act.

 Status: 8/15/2024-In committee: Held under submission.    Location: 8/14/2023-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

 

   AB 284 (Patterson, Joe R) Department of Housing and Community Development: annual report: Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program.

 Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.   Location: 1/12/2024-A. DEAD

 

 AB 293 (Alanis R) Lifetime hunting and sport fishing licenses: Gold Star Family members.

  Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.   Location: 1/18/2024-A. DEAD

  AB 298 (Mathis R) Honoring Our Blind Veterans Act.

 Status: 10/4/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 299, Statutes of 2023.

 Location: 10/4/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Current law would authorize a nonprofit organization that represents blind veterans, in consultation with the Department of General Services, to plan, construct, and maintain a braille American flag to serve as a monument to the blind veterans of California and the United States in the State Capitol Building. The bill would specify duties for the Department of General Services in connection with the planning, construction, and maintenance of the monument. The bill would prohibit the construction of the monument until the Joint Rules Committee of the California Legislature approves and adopts a plan for the monument and the committee and the

Department of Finance determine that sufficient private funding is available to construct and maintain the monument. 

AB 308 (Alanis R) State parks: free day use pass: Gold Star Family members.

Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.  Location: 1/18/2024-A. DEAD

AB 322 (Mathis R) Veteran and California National Guard Supplemental Orientation Act of 2023.

 Status: 10/13/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 801, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/13/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Would, commencing no later than the 2025-26 academic year, would require each campus of the California State University and the California Community Colleges, and would request each campus of the University of California, to include within first-year student and transfer student orientations the location and contact information of the campus point of contact for students who are veterans of the Armed Forces of the United States and members of the California State Guard and the California National Guard, and their dependents, make available in hard copy form at the location of the campus point of contact a document that includes information on polices, resources, and services for these students and their dependents, as specified,

and post the document, along with other information available to these students and their dependents, on the campus's internet website.

AB 444 (Addis D)   California Defense Community Infrastructure Program.

Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/3/2023) Location: 8/15/2024-S. DEAD

AB 531 (Irwin D)   The Behavioral Health Infrastructure Bond Act of 2023.

Status: 10/12/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State -

Chapter 789, Statutes of 2023. Location: 10/12/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Would provide that projects funded by the Behavioral Health Infrastructure Bond Act of 2024 that provide housing for individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of homelessness and who are inherently impacted by or at increased risk for medical diseases or conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic or other communicable diseases and are disbursed in accordance with the Multifamily Housing Program, or projects that are disbursed in accordance with the Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program, are a use by right and subject to the streamlined, ministerial review process. The bill would define use by right for these purposes to mean that the local government’s review of the project does not require a conditional use permit, planned unit development permit, or other discretionary local government review or approval that would constitute a project subject to the approval process in CEQA. 

AB 569 (Garcia D)   California State University: Cybersecurity Regional Alliances and Multistakeholder Partnerships Pilot Program.

Status: 7/27/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 117, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 7/27/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Current law requires the office of the Chancellor of the California State University to select any number of California State University campuses, with preference given to campuses that have or are developing regional pipeline programs in cybersecurity with the California Community Colleges, to participate in the pilot program through an application and selection process. Current law requires each selected campus to create a pilot program with goals and metrics, measure the impact and results of its pilot program, and annually share the impact and results with the chancellor’s office. Current law requires the chancellor’s office to annually report the impact and results from each selected campus’s pilot program to the Legislature. This bill would require the chancellor’s office, on or before July 1, 2028, to submit a report to the Legislature on the pilot program, as provided.

AB 632 (Gipson D)   Health care coverage: prostate cancer screening.

Status: 2/12/2024-Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file. Location: 10/7/2023-A. VETOED

AB 683 (Flora R) Veterans’ organizations.

Status: 2/1/2024-Died at Desk.  Location: 1/18/2024-A. DEAD

AB 684 (Ta R) County veterans service officers: additional resources.

Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Location: 1/18/2024-A. DEAD

AB 708 (Flora R)   Prisons: veterans service advocates.

Status: 2/1/2024-Died at Desk.  Location: 1/18/2024-A. DEAD

AB 718 (Ta R) Veterans: mental health.

Status: 8/30/2024-In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate

amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.).  Location: 8/30/2024-A. ENROLLMENT

Summary: Would require the Department of Veterans Affairs 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, 2025.

 

AB 883 (Mathis R) Business licenses: United States Department of Defense SkillBridge program.

Status: 10/7/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 348, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/7/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Existing law establishes the Department of Consumer Affairs under the direction of the Director of Consumer Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties relating to the administration of the various boards under its jurisdiction that license and regulate various professions and vocations. This bill would additionally require, on and after July 1, 2024, a board to expedite, and authorize a board to assist, in the initial licensure process for an applicant who supplies satisfactory evidence to the board that the applicant is an active duty member of a regular component of the Armed Forces of the United States enrolled in the United States Department of Defense SkillBridge program, as specified, and would provide that regulations to administer those provisions be adopted in accordance with the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act. This bill contains other existing laws.

AB 941 (Waldron R) Controlled substances: psychedelic-assisted therapy.

Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was

HEALTH on 5/1/2024) Location: 7/2/2024-S. DEAD

AB 988 (Mathis R) Miles Hall Lifeline and Suicide Prevention Act: veteran and military data reporting.

Status: 10/8/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State -

Chapter 460, Statutes of 2023. Location: 10/8/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Current federal law, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020, designates the 3-digit telephone number “988” as the universal number within the United States for the purpose of the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system operating through the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, maintained by the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, and the Veterans Crisis Line, which is maintained by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Current law creates a separate surcharge, beginning January 1, 2023, on each access line for each month, or part thereof, for which a service user subscribes with a service supplier. Existing law sets the 988 surcharge for the 2023 and 2024 calendar years at $0.08 per access line per month and beginning January 1, 2025, at an amount based on a specified formula not to exceed $0.30 per access line per month. Current law authorizes the 911 and 988 surcharges to be combined into a single-line item, as described. Existing law provides for specified costs to be paid by the fees prior to distribution to the Office of Emergency Services. The Miles Hall Lifeline and Suicide Prevention Act creates the 988 State Suicide and Behavioral Health Crisis Services Fund and requires the fees to be deposited along with other specified moneys into the fund. This bill would require an entity seeking moneys from the fund to also include the number of individuals who used the service and self-identified as veterans or active military personnel in its annual expenditure and outcomes report.

AB 1143 (Chen R) Military: lending protections.

Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Location: 1/18/2024-A. DEAD

AB 1234 (Davies R) Veteran home use: reporting.

Status: 2/1/2024-From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.  Location: 1/12/2024-A. DEAD

AB 1328 (Gipson D)   Cosmetology Licensure Compact.

Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was B., P. & E.D. on 5/23/2024)

Location: 7/2/2024-S. DEAD

AB 1350 (Soria D)   Veterans: memorials.

Status: 10/10/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State -

Chapter 684, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/10/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Would create the Capitol Park Veterans Memorial Fund. The bill would continuously appropriate the fund to the Department of Veterans Affairs for the purpose of the maintenance and rehabilitation of existing memorials in the State Capitol. The bill would make the department responsible for administering the fund. The bill would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to, in consultation with the California Veterans Board, prioritize memorials that do not have formal support from another body for their maintenance, including, but not limited to, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The bill would require the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of General Services to collaborate pursuant to a memorandum of

agreement to carry out these provisions.

AB 1361 (Hoover R) Property taxation: veteran’s exemption: preliminary application.

Status: 10/8/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 473, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/8/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Current property law, pursuant to the authorization of the California Constitution, provides a disabled veteran’s tax exemption on specified property, as described. Current law sets forth procedures to claim property tax exemptions. This bill would authorize a county assessor to provide written or electronic determination of preliminary eligibility for the disabled veteran’s tax exemption. The bill would make related findings and declarations. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 205.5 of the Revenue and Taxation Code proposed by SB 82 to be operative only if this bill and SB 82 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

AB 1386 (Gabriel D)   Veterans housing: tenant referrals.

Status: 10/11/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 760, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/11/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: The Veterans Housing and Homeless Prevention Act of 2014 requires the California Housing Finance Agency, the Department of Housing and Community Development, and the Department of Veterans Affairs (referred to collectively as “the departments”) to establish and implement programs that focus on veterans at risk for homelessness or experiencing temporary or chronic homelessness, as specified. In this regard, current law requires the departments to establish and implement programs that, among other things, ensure projects combine housing and supportive services. Current law requires the departments to ensure at least 50% of funds awarded for capital development are used to provide housing to veterans with extremely low incomes, and requires that at least 60% of units funded targeting extremely low income households are supportive housing. This bill would authorize an entity tasked with making referrals of units targeted to extremely low income households to submit a petition to the departments requesting authority to lease the qualified unit to a secondary tenant, as defined, if a qualified entity is unable to locate, match, or otherwise place a qualified tenant in a qualified unit with 60 days of the unit becoming available. The bill would require a qualified unit that is leased to a secondary tenant to be redesignated to an area median income level commensurate with the income level of the secondary tenant and would require the secondary tenant to pay rent commensurate with their household income’s percentage of the area medium income. The bill would, 12 months after a petition is approved, require the next available comparable unit to be rented to a qualified tenant at 30% of the median income.

 

AB 1452 (Mathis R) State Capitol: Iraq Afghanistan Kuwait Veterans Memorial monument.

Status: 10/7/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State -

Chapter 371, Statutes of 2023. Location: 10/7/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Existing law provides for various memorials and monuments on the grounds of the State Capitol. Existing law requires the Department of General Services to maintain state buildings and grounds. This bill would authorize a nonprofit organization representing veterans of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait in consultation with the Department of General Services, to plan, construct, and maintain a monument to the veterans of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kuwait on the grounds of the State Capitol. The bill would require the nonprofit organization to submit a plan for the monument to the Joint Rules Committee for its review and approval. The bill would require the monument to be funded exclusively from private sources. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 1462 (Patterson, Jim R) Veteran overdose deaths.

Status: 10/13/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 844, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/13/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Would require the State Department of Public Health to access data within the electronic death registration system to compile a report on veteran drug overdose deaths in California and require the department to annually provide that report to the Legislature and the Department of Veteran Affairs on or before March 15 each year. The bill would require the report to include a cross-tabulation of the specified data and compare it to the data from the previous year. The bill would also require the California Overdose Surveillance Dashboard to reflect overdose deaths by veterans.

AB 1474 (Reyes D)   California Statewide Housing Plan.

Status: 10/11/2023-Approved by  Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 762, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/11/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Current law establishes the California Statewide Housing Plan, developed in cooperation with the private housing industry, regional and local housing and planning agencies, and other agencies of the state, to serve as a state housing plan. Current law requires the plan to incorporate specified segments, including, among others, a housing strategy that coordinates the housing assistance and activities of state and local agencies, including the provision of housing assistance for various population groups, including, but not limited to, elderly persons, persons with disabilities, and other specific population groups as deemed appropriate by the department. This bill would add veterans to the list of population groups included in the housing strategy described above. The bill would require the department to also consult with the Department of Veterans Affairs in developing the housing strategy, to the extent possible. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 50423 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by AB 1764 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1764 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

AB 1566 (Soria D)   Department of Veterans Affairs: veterans’ services.

Status: 10/10/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State -

Chapter 694, Statutes of 2023. Location: 10/10/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Current law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to disburse funds, appropriated to the department for the purpose of supporting county veterans service officers pursuant to the annual Budget Act, on a pro rata basis, to a county that complies with certain conditions. Current law requires the department to prepare an annual report of the activities of county veterans services officers, including the number of claims filed to receive pension benefits and a summary of other services provided by county veterans service officers. This bill would require the department’s annual report to include the composition of staff at the county office, as specified, and the annual funding of the county veterans service office by the county, as specified. This bill would authorize the department to require county veterans service officers to apply uniform measurement and workload units, claims, and other information.

AB 1605 (Gallagher R) High schools: military services: United States Space Force.

Status: 9/1/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 142, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 8/29/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Current law prohibits each school district offering instruction in any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, that provides on-campus access to employers, from prohibiting access to the military services. Existing law defines "military services" for these purposes to include the United States Army, the United States Navy, the United States Air Force, the United States Marine Corps, the United States Coast Guard, or any reserve component of those federal forces, the National Guard, the State Guard, and the active militia. This bill would additionally prohibit each county office of education and charter school offering instruction in any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, that provides on-campus access to employers, from prohibiting access to the military services. The bill would expressly include the United States Space Force in that AB 1647 definition.

AB 1665 (Soria D)   Veterans treatment courts: grant program.

Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was

PUB. S. on 6/7/2023)  Location: 7/2/2024-S. DEAD

AB 1745 (Soria D)   Veterans’ homes.

Status: 9/14/2023-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(a)(14). (Last location was INACTIVE FILE on 9/6/2023)(May be acted upon Jan 2024) Location: 9/14/2023-S. 2 YEAR

AB 1745 (Soria D)   Public postsecondary education: veterans: waiver of mandatory systemwide tuition and fees.

Status: 10/10/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 695, Statutes of 2023.

Location: 10/10/2023-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: The Donahoe Higher Education Act prohibits campuses of the segments of the public postsecondary education system in the state from charging mandatory systemwide tuition or fees to specified students who apply for a waiver, including a child of any veteran of the United States military who has a service-connected disability, has been killed in service, or has died of a service-connected disability, where the annual income of the child, including the value of any support received from a parent, does not exceed the national poverty level. This bill would instead require that the annual income of the child not exceed the state poverty level, as defined. The bill would also make non substantive changes to provisions relating to this waiver of mandatory systemwide tuition and fees. To the extent these provisions would add additional duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

 

AB 1793 (Ta R) Student financial aid: Cal Grants: Middle Class Scholarship Program: eligibility: dependents of members of the armed services stationed outside of California.

Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2024)

Location: 8/15/2024-S. DEAD

AB 1854 (Schiavo D)   Service member protections.

Status: 7/18/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 144, Statutes of 2024 Location: 7/18/2024-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Current law authorizes a member of the United States Army Reserve or the National Guard who is called to active duty, as specified, to defer payments on certain obligations while serving on active duty. Current law requires the reservist or the reservist's designee to deliver a written request for the deferral to the obligor in order to receive a deferral. This bill would require a request for deferral to be submitted not later than 90 days following the period of active duty on which the deferral is based. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

AB 1882 (Villapudua D)   Disabled veterans.

Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/8/2024)

Location: 5/16/2024-A. DEAD

AB 1884 (Ward D)   Pupil attendance: excused absences: uniformed services deployments.

Status: 8/28/2024-In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77 suspended. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 8/28/2024-A. ENROLLMENT

Summary: Current law, notwithstanding the requirement that each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences, including, among others, for purposes of spending time with a member of the pupil’s immediate family who is an active duty member of the uniformed services, and has been called to duty for, is on leave from, or has immediately returned from, deployment to a combat zone or combat support position, as specified. This bill would remove the requirement that the deployment be to a combat zone or combat support position, thereby expanding the scope of that excused absence to encompass all deployments. The bill also would make nonsubstantive changes. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on school officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

AB 1908 (Schiavo D)   Department of Veterans Affairs: internal audits.

Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was M. & V.A. on 5/29/2024) Location: 7/2/2024-S. DEAD

AB 1982 (Mathis R) Firearm safety certificate: exemptions.

Status: 7/18/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 146, Statutes of 2024

Location: 7/18/2024-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Current law requires any person who purchases or receives a firearm to possess a firearm safety certificate, with specified exemptions, including active or honorably retired members of the armed forces, as specified, where individuals in those organizations are properly identified. Under current law, proper identification includes the Armed Forces Identification Card or other written documentation certifying that the individual is an active or honorably retired member of the armed

forces. This bill would additionally include the Veteran Health Identification Card issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs as proper identification for the above provisions.

AB 1994 (Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs) Veterans: Department of Veterans Affairs.

Status: 9/3/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

Location: 9/3/2024-A. ENROLLED

Summary: Current law requires the Undersecretary of Veterans Affairs be appointed and their salary established by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs pursuant to law. Current law requires the secretary to appoint a Deputy Secretary of Women Veterans Affairs. This bill would create, and would require the secretary to appoint, a Deputy Secretary of Minority and Underrepresented Veterans Affairs.

AB2158 (Flora R) Vehicles: disabled veterans.

Status: 4/25/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(5). (Last location was

TRANS. on 2/20/2024) Location: 4/25/2024-A. DEAD

AB 2200 (Kalra D)   Guaranteed Health Care for All.

Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/15/2024)

Location: 5/16/2024-A. DEAD

AB 2289 (Low D)   Vehicles: parking placards and special license plates for disabled veterans and persons with disabilities.

Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 6/24/2024)

Location: 8/15/2024-S. DEAD

AB 2557 (Ortega D)   Local agencies: contracts for special services and temporary help: performance reports.

Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/5/2024)

Location: 8/15/2024-S. DEAD

AB 2567 (Mathis R) Public postsecondary education: student housing: data collection: veterans.

Status: 8/19/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.  Location: 8/19/2024-A. ENROLLED

Summary: Current law requires the office of the Chancellor of the California State University and the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, and requests the office of the President of the University of California, to require each of their respective campuses that provide campus-owned, campus-operated, or campus-affiliated student housing to collect and post on its external and internal internet websites, data on student housing, as specified. This bill would require the office of the Chancellor of the California State University and the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, and request the office of the President of the University of California, to require each of their respective campuses that provide campus-owned, campus-operated, or campus-affiliated student housing to include additional information regarding students who are veterans, as defined, in the above-described data on student housing. To the extent the bill imposes additional

duties on community college districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

 

AB 2713 (Hoover R) State parks: armed services: free access.

Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was

APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/8/2024)  Location: 5/16/2024-A. DEAD

AB 2736 (Carrillo, Juan D)   Veterans: benefits.

Status: 8/28/2024-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes

0.). In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. Location: 8/28/2024-A. ENROLLMENT

Summary: Current law establishes various educational benefits for dependents of veterans who were killed during military service or are totally disabled, as specified. Current law defines “dependent of a veteran” to include the spouse of a totally disabled veteran. Current law prohibits a dependent of a veteran from receiving these

educational benefits during the time the dependent is entitled to receive specified federal educational benefits or duplicate assistance from any other government source. This bill would repeal that prohibition.

AB 3134 (Chen R) Property taxation: refunds.

Status: 8/31/2024-Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.

Location: 8/31/2024-A. ENROLLMENT

Summary: Current law requires property taxes to be refunded to the taxpayer or last recorded owner under specified circumstances, as provided, and requires that a refund only be made pursuant to a claim for refund, except as provided. This bill would require the county auditor, if the cancellation of taxes will result in a refund, to either process the refund to the payer of the tax or notify the payer in writing of the requirements for obtaining a refund, as specified. The bill would require that a claim for a refund under this provision be deemed timely filed if it is filed within 60 days of the notice, as specified. This bill would also authorize an order for refund of taxes or assessments to be paid to the assessee of a property, as specified, without a claim for refund filed, if certain conditions are met, including, among other requirements, that the amount of the refund is less than $10,000.

AB 3163 (Mathis R) State parks: armed services: fee waiver.

Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was

APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/8/2024) Location: 5/16/2024-A. DEAD

AB 3290 (Committee on Higher Education) Public postsecondary education.

Status: 8/26/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.  Location: 8/26/2024-A. ENROLLED

Summary: Current law establishes uniform residency requirements for purposes of ascertaining the amount of tuition and fees to be paid by students of public postsecondary education institutions. Current law entitles a student to resident classification only for the purpose of determining tuition and fees if the student is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States stationed in the state, except a member of the Armed Forces that is assigned for educational purposes to a state-supported institution of higher education. This bill would delete that exception from resident classification, thereby extending resident classification to any student who is a member of the Armed Forces of the United States stationed in the state, regardless of whether the student is assigned for educational purposes to a state-supported institution of higher education. To the extent the bill would require community college districts to exempt more students from nonresident tuition, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

ACR 121 (Gallagher R) National Purple Heart Trail.

Status: 7/2/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 135, Statutes of 2024 Location: 7/2/2024-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Would designate the portions of State Highway Routes 20 and 99 in the City of Yuba City in the County of Sutter for inclusion in the National Purple Heart Trail. The measure would also request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost for the installation and maintenance of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, erect those signs.

 

ACR 126 (Patterson, Joe R) Sergeant Nicole Gee, United States Marine Corps Memorial Highway.

Status: 7/18/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 150, Statutes of 2024

Location: 7/18/2024-A. CHAPTERED

Summary: Would designate the portion of Interstate 80 in the County of Placer, from the Douglas Boulevard Overcrossing, 19-0079 at postmile 1.975, to the junction of State Route 65 at postmile 4.160, as the Sergeant Nicole Gee, United States Marine Corps Memorial Highway. The measure would also request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources sufficient to cover the cost, to erect those signs.

SB 73 (Seyarto R) Employment policy: voluntary veterans’ preference. Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/7/2024) Location: 8/15/2024-A. DEAD

SB 82 (Seyarto R) Property taxation: disabled veterans’ exemption: eligibility letters.

Status: 10/11/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State.

Chapter 773, Statutes of 2023.  Location: 10/11/2023-S. CHAPTERED

Summary: Current property tax law provides, pursuant to the authorization of the California Constitution, a disabled veteran’s property tax exemption for the principal place of residence of a veteran or a veteran’s spouse, including an unmarried surviving spouse, if the veteran, because of an injury incurred in military service, is blind in

both eyes, has lost the use of 2 or more limbs, or is totally disabled, as those terms are defined, or if the veteran has, as a result of a service-connected injury or disease, died while on active duty in military service. This bill would require a county assessor to accept an electronically generated letter of service-connected disability, as defined, in lieu of an original letter of service-connected disability, at the discretion of the claimant, for purposes of verifying eligibility for the above-described exemption.

 

SB 87 (Nguyen R) Mental health: involuntary commitment.

Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.  Location: 1/18/2024-S. DEAD

SB 228 (Roth D)   Civilian youth opportunities program.

Status: 10/10/2023-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State.

Chapter 703, Statutes of 2023.  Location: 10/10/2023-S. CHAPTERED

Summary: Current law authorizes the Adjutant General to conduct a civilian youth opportunities program, known as the “National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program,” consisting of a residential program and post-residential mentoring to serve at-risk teens in areas of the state, including, but not limited to, the San Joaquin Valley and

northern California, as specified. This bill would require the Adjutant General to additionally conduct that program in western Riverside County.

SB 289 (Menjivar D)   Identification cards.

Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Location: 1/12/2024-S. DEAD

SB 492 (Eggman D)   Pretrial diversion for veterans.

Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.  Location: 1/18/2024-S. DEAD

SB 679 (Grove R) Veterans: assistance.

Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Location: 2/1/2024-S. DEAD

SB 726 (Archuleta D)   Property taxation: exemption: disabled veteran homeowners.

Status: 6/24/2024-June 24 set for second hearing canceled at the request of author. Location: 6/21/2023-A. REV. & TAX

SB 783 (Archuleta D)   Veterans: suicide.

Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was M. & V.A. on 6/8/2023) Location: 7/2/2024-A. DEAD

SB 803 (Becker D)   Heal Our Heroes Act.

Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was HEALTH on 6/10/2024) Location: 7/2/2024-A. DEAD

SB 811 (Jones R) Teacher credentialing: Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact.

Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was ED. on 6/15/2023) Location: 7/2/2024-A. DEAD

SB 855 (Archuleta D)   Fair Employment and Housing Act: veterans.

Status: 2/1/2024-Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. Location: 1/12/2024-S. DEAD

SB 871 (Archuleta D)   Property taxation: homeowners’, veterans’, and disabled veterans’ exemptions.

Status: 7/1/2024-July 1 hearing postponed by committee. Location: 5/13/2024-A. REV. & TAX

SB 873 (Bradford D)   Prescription drugs: cost sharing.

Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/23/2023)

1. Location: 8/15/2024-A. DEAD

SB 910 (Umberg D)   Treatment court program standards.

Status: 8/30/2024-Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. 

Location: 8/30/2024-S. ENROLLMENT

Summary: Current law states the intent of the Legislature that drug court programs be designed and operated in accordance with specified standards developed by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals and Drug Court Standards Committee. Current law further states the intent of the Legislature that key programs of the drug court programs include, among other things, integration by drug courts of alcohol and other drug treatment services. This bill would instead require, for counties and courts that opt to have treatment court programs, that the treatment court programs be designed and operated in accordance with state and national guidelines incorporating the “Adult Treatment Court Best Practice Standards” and “Family Treatment Court Best Practice Standards” developed by All Rise, with consideration for the court system within which the program operates. The bill would revise the above-described statement of legislative intent regarding key components to be included in criminal adult treatment court programs, including requiring a system of incentives, sanctions, and service adjustments to achieve participant success.

SB 911 (Seyarto R) Income taxation: exclusion: military survivor benefits.

Status: 5/16/2024-May 16 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.  Location: 4/22/2024-S. APPR. SUSPENSE FILE

SB 916 (Seyarto R) Public postsecondary education: waiver of tuition and fees: veterans: extended education courses.

Status: 8/15/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(14). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 8/7/2024)

Location: 8/15/2024-A. DEAD

SB 920 (Seyarto R) California Purple Star School Designation Program.

Status: 9/3/2024-Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m. Location: 9/3/2024-S. ENROLLED

Summary: Would require the State Department of Education to establish a nonmonetary California Purple Star School Designation Program to reduce the burden on military-connected pupils and their families and to publicly recognize and designate public schools that meet certain requirements related to supporting military-connected pupils and their families’ unique needs, as provided. The bill would require the department to develop an annual application process and adopt application criteria for the California Purple Star School Designation Program, as specified, and require schools that earn the award to apply for recertification every 3 years.

SB 943 (Ochoa Bogh R) Civil service: veterans’ preference.

Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/6/2024)

Location: 5/16/2024-S. DEAD

SB 1012 (Wiener D)   The Regulated Psychedelic Facilitators Act and the Regulated Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Act.

Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/13/2024)

Location: 5/16/2024-S. DEAD

SB 1025 (Eggman D)   Pretrial diversion for veterans.

Status: 8/30/2024-In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 34. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. Location: 8/30/2024-S. ENROLLMENT

Summary: Current law provides for the diversion of specified criminal offenders in alternate sentencing and treatment programs. Current law provides for a pretrial diversion program for a defendant who was, or currently is, a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, who may be suffering from sexual trauma, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, or mental health problems as a result of the defendant’s military service. Current law authorizes the court, with the consent of the defendant and a waiver of the defendant’s speedy trial right, to postpone prosecution, either temporarily or permanently, of a criminal offense and place the defendant in a pretrial diversion program. This bill would add felony offenses, as specified, to the pretrial diversion program for a defendant who was, or currently is, a member of the Armed Forces of the United States and when the defendant’s condition was a significant factor in the commission of the charged offense. The bill would require the court to find that the defendant’s condition was a significant factor in the commission of the offense unless there is clear and convincing evidence otherwise and would authorize the court to consider any relevant and credible evidence in making this determination.

SB 1081 (Archuleta D)   Vehicles: driver’s license: selective service.

Status: 7/2/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(13). (Last location was TRANS. on 6/3/2024) Location: 7/2/2024-A. DEAD

SB 1097 (Laird D)   Veterans: military and veterans: gender-neutral terms.

Status: 7/15/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 129, Statutes of 2024 Location: 7/15/2024-S. CHAPTERED

Summary: Current law establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the administration of various programs providing benefits to veterans or their beneficiaries. Current law establishes the California Veterans Board, whose duties include advising the department and its secretary on policies for operations of the department. This bill would, for the purposes of these provisions, extend access to various programs and benefits to surviving domestic partners of veterans, where applicable.

SB 1124 (Menjivar D)   Deceptive practices: service members and veterans.

Status: 5/16/2024-Failed Deadline pursuant to Rule 61(b)(8). (Last location was APPR. SUSPENSE FILE on 5/13/2024)

 Location: 5/16/2024-S. DEAD

SB 1186 (Ochoa Bogh R) Fairs: free admissions.

Status: 8/26/2024-Approved by the Governor. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 206, Statutes of 2024.

Location: 8/26/2024-S. CHAPTERED

Summary: Current law governs expositions and fairs in this state, including the California Exposition and State Fair, county and district fairs, and citrus fruit fairs. Current law defines courtesy pass admission as an admission without payment of the admission charge to any state, county, district, or citrus fruit fair, except, among other things, admission of any military personnel in uniform. This bill would expand that exception to include the admission of any military personnel, regardless of whether they are in uniform. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

SCA 6 (Archuleta D)   Property taxation: veterans’ exemption.

Status: 9/12/2023-Read. Adopted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2692.) Ordered to the Assembly. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.  Location: 9/12/2023-A. DESK

SCR 3 (Nguyen R) Veterans of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces Day.

Status: 8/15/2023-Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 133, Statutes of 2023. Location: 8/15/2023-S. CHAPTERED

Summary: Would proclaim June 19, 2023, as Veterans of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces Day.

SCR 61 (Seyarto R) Suicide Prevention Week.

Status: 3/12/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 23, Statutes of 2024  Location: 3/12/2024-S. CHAPTERED

Summary: Would proclaim the week of September 4, 2023, through September 10, 2023, as Suicide Prevention Week in California.

SCR 98 (Umberg D)   Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month.

Status: 4/19/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 45, Statutes of 2024 Location: 4/19/2024-S. CHAPTERED

Summary: This measure would proclaim the month of MAR 2024 “Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month” and contains other related provisions.

 SCR 103 (Nguyen R) Veterans of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces Day.

 Status: 8/28/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State- Chapter 183, Statutes of 2024   Location: 8/28/2024-S. CHAPTERED   

Summary: Would proclaim JUN 19, 2024, “Veterans of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces Day.

  SCR 111 (Seyarto R) Purple Heart Day.

  Status: 8/13/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 159, Statutes of 2024

  Location: 8/13/2024-S. CHAPTERED   Summary: Would declare August 7, 2024, as Purple Heart Day in California.

SCR 114 (Seyarto R) Suicide Prevention Week in California.

Status: 8/13/2024-Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 160, Statutes of 2024 Location: 8/13/2024-S. CHAPTERED

Summary: Would proclaim the week of September 8 thru Sept 14, 2024, inclusive, as “Suicide Prevention Week in California.”

SR 121 (Rubio D)   Relative to Veteran Housing Insecurity Awareness Month.

Status: 8/15/2024-Read. Adopted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.)  Location: 8/15/2024-S. ADOPTED  Summary: Would resolve that the Senate hereby recognizes the month of November as Veteran Housing Insecurity Awareness Month.