AB 556 would add, and define, “Military and Veteran status” as a category protected from unfair employment practices, leading to employment discrimination, along with race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age or sexual orientation.

AB 171 Establishes the Veterans Services and Workforce Development Division within the Dept. of Veterans Affairs for the purpose of coordination and administering veterans assistance programs in the state.

AB 526 will expand the current financial protections given to military reservists serving in Iraq and Afghanistan to all reservists who are called to active duty. It will also give an additional ninety days of deferral prior to the report date for active duty and allow the deferral of utility payments as well.

AB 258 provides that every state agency that requests on any written form or written publication, or through its internet web site, whether a person is a veteran, shall request that information only in the following format: “Have you ever served in the military?”

AB 614 Establishes priority admission guidelines for admission to veterans’ home of California. Highest priority given to Medal of Honor recipients.

SB 420 expands the provisions entitling students to resident classification for the purpose of determining tuition and fees in California’s public post secondary education system by including every student who is a veteran, a member of the armed forces reserves, or a dependent child or spouse of a veteran or reserve.

ACR 36 (resolution) This resolution will put the legislature on record in support of veterans treatment courts and will avoid a governor’s veto. This measure would encourage all superior courts to consider establishing veterans treatment courts or veterans treatment review calendars to assist troubled veterans who have service-related mental health problems.

AB 1094 will expand the definition of disability-based unearned income to include veterans disability compensation and help California’s veterans get the assistance they need to care for their families and that is equal to that which not-veterans in the same circumstances would receive.

SB 106 is at the request of the Governor’s office and will clarify that when the California Department of Veterans Affairs enters into any financial agreements to receive cash advances permitted by AB 1842, both CDVA and the state will not be obligated to repay or make payments on the advances. This has to do with a veterans cemetery on the central coast of California.

AB 315 Adds purple heart recipients of any disability rating to the list of veterans eligible to receive a Distinguished Veterans Pass to state parks.

AB 303 Cal grants for veterans. Students who opt to join the military directly out of high school forego the guarantee of the Cal Grant Entitlement Program afforded to high school graduates who apply within one year of graduation. This bill is an effort to “defer” this “guarantee” for those students so it is available once they leave the military.

AB 508 Prohibits the issuance of an order for the garnishment of earnings or the levy of a bank account or the earnings of a homeless veteran for the enforcement and collection imposed by a court due to the violation of a state or local law related to loitering, curfew, violations, or illegal lodging for a period of 5 years, if the court has reason to believe that the debtor is a homeless veteran.