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VETERANS
BENEFITS, CONTINUED
Filing a claim, continued....
Chapter Note: While an "event" such as
being injured, etc. is easy to determine for claim purposes and
ongoing treatment....any illnesses caused by your time in the
service such as diabetes, PTSD, etc. still must have clear evidence and
a diagnosis.
If you are thinking about filing a claim and have never
filed one before, seriously consider requesting your entire military
file first. (Your 201 file) If you file a claim first, the
medical records that reflect treatment while in the service will be
taken out of your file by the Veterans Benefits Administration to
develop your claim.
2011-2012 LEGISLATIVE RESULTS, CONT.
►►AB 636 - Knight - Military Service:
Benefits - Amends existing law that provides specified institutions
that grant a student military leave of absence make arrangements to
reasonably accommodate and assist the student in meeting coursework
requirements missed due to military service, credit the student's
tuition and fee charges toward a subsequent academic term. Revises
the conditions for a tuition and fees refund to remove the requirement
of the student's withdrawal by a specified date. Relates to the amount
of the required refund.
►►AB 713 - Block - Military Service: Legal Benefits -
Provides that a dependent of a military service member is entitled to
the benefit that no obligation or liability bearing interest at a rate
in excess 6% per year incurred by the dependent before the service
members entry into service, during any part of the period of service,
bear interest at a rate in excess of 6% per year. Clarifies that a
member may apply for relief to the court for a specified period.
Clarifies the court may grant relief unless the member can comply with
the terms of the obligation.
►►AB 754 - Fletcher - Elective Office: Military Service -
Permits a person who is deployed on active military service outside of
the state to have a declaration of candidacy, nomination paper, or any
other paper necessary to run for office, filed by an attorney-in-fact
who is commissioned and empowered in writing for the purpose through a
power of attorney.
►►AB 882 - Cook - Veterans and Military: Public Post-Secondary
Education - Amends state law to conform with federal law granting a
member of the Armed Forces, or his or her dependent entitlement to
resident classification for so long as he or she is continuously
enrolled in a public institution of higher education. Requests the
Regents of the University of California to establish the same residency
requirements as those established by this bill for students enrolled at
the University.
►►AB 905 - Pan - Disposition of Remains: Authorized Agent -
Specifies that the designation of a person authorized to direct
disposition on a U.S. Department of Defense Record of Emergency Data, DD
Form 932, or its successor form, shall take first priority and be used
to establish an agent who has the right and duty of disposition for a
descendant who died while on duty in any branch or component of the
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2011-2012
LEGISLATIVE RESULTS, CONT.
►►AB 1084 - Davis - Veterans Farm and
Home Purchases: Shared Equity - Expands the
definition of cooperative housing corporation under the CalVet
Home Loan program and the definition of home under the Veterans
Farm and Home Purchase Act of 1974 to include a shared equity
cooperative. Repeals the National Guard Members' Farm and
Home Purchase Act of 1978 and the related bond revenue act
within 30 days after the effective date. Relates to
property appraisement. Authorizes another form of security
to secure a loan. Authorizes adding specified costs to a
property's selling price.
►►SB 10 - Evans - Military and Veterans: Veterans' Home
Council - Provides for the establishment of a Veterans' Hoe
Allied Council for each veterans' home. Permits each
council to represent veterans who reside in the veterans' home
in matters before the Legislature if each council, in the course
of providing that representation complies with specified
requirements.
►►SB 180 - Corbett - Consumer Transactions: Public
Social Services - Amends the existing Consumers Legal
Remedies Act prohibiting a person from charging or receiving an
unreasonable fee to prepare, aid or advise certain persons in
procuring, maintaining, or securing public social services.
Includes activities and functions administered or supervised by
the United States or State Departments of Veterans Affairs,
including pension benefits, as public social services for
purposes of that prohibition.
►►SB 537 - Correa - State Cadet Corps - Authorizes the
organization of a Cadet Corps at each college, community
college, or school where there is not currently a J.R.O.T.C. or
R.O.T.C. program under such rules and regulations as the
governing body and Adjutant General may prescribe.
Authorizes the Adjutant General to appoint needed personnel in
support of the Corp. authorizes academy instructions to be
commissioned in the Corps. Authorizes National Guard
facilities use. Requires inspections of the Corps.
►►SB 720 - Runner S. - Vehicles: Drivers' Licenses:
Military Personnel - Amends existing law requiring a state
driver's license held by a person who enters the United States
Armed Forces to continue in full force and effect, so long as
the service continues and the person remains absent from this
state. Extends that benefit to the spouse of the person
who enters or is in the United States Armed Forces.
►► SB 805 - Senate Veterans Affairs Committee - Sales
Use Taxes: Consumers: Veterans:
Itinerant Vendor - Amends existing law that provides that a
qualified itinerant vendor is a consumer, and not a retailer, of
tangible personal property owned and sold by the qualified
itinerant vendor, except for alcoholic beverages or items sold
for more that $100, so that the retail sale subject to tax is
the sale of tangible personal property to the qualified
itinerant vendor. Extends the repeal date of these
provision of existing law.
►►There are a few more which we will post in the next issue.
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