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CALIFORNIA UGISLATURL'- -- 2013 -14 REGULAR SL'SSION <br />ASSEMBLY BILL No. 1453 <br />Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk -Silva <br />January 9, 2014 <br />An act to add Chapter 9.9 (commencing with Section 1410) to <br />Division 6 of the Military and Veterans Code, relating to veterans, and <br />making an appropriation therefor. <br />lXGISLATIVB COUNSEL'S IMMT <br />AB 1493, as introduced, Quirk - Silva. Southern California Veterans <br />Cemetery. <br />The Department of Veterans Affairs is created instate government <br />and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs is the head of the department. <br />Under existing law, the Department of Veterans Affairs, in voluntary <br />cooperation with the Shasta County Board of Supervisors and the boards <br />of supervisors of specified northern California counties, is required to <br />design, develop, and construct a state -owned and state- operated Northern <br />California Veterans Cemetery. <br />This bill would require the department, in voluntary cooperation with <br />the Orange County Board of Supervisors and city councils of other <br />participating southern California cities, to design, develop, and construct <br />a state -owned and state- operated Southern California Veterans <br />Cemetery. The bill would make all honorably discharged veterans and <br />their spouses and children eligible for interment in the cemetery. The <br />bill would impose a fee of 4_ for each spouse or child interred in <br />the cemetery. <br />The bill would create the Southern California Veterans Cemetery <br />Master Development Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, and would <br />require all moneys received for the design, development, and <br />99 <br />55D -27 <br />