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FROM: Phil Batchelor Contra
County Administrator Costa
DATE: May 20, 1987 County
SUBJECT:
Legislation: Assembly Bill 1807 (Longshore)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(.S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION-
Adopt a position of support for AB 1807 by Assemblyman Longshore
which expands the availability of the services provided by the
Veterans Services Office to veterans and requires all agencies to
serve veterans on the same basis as they do any other client
eligible for their services.
BACKGROUND:
Existing law authorizes county veterans services officers to
assist veterans of any war in pursuing claims for federal and
state veterans' benefits arising out of war service. This can be
interpreted as precluding a veterans services officer from
assisting a veteran in presenting a claim for veterans ' benefits
that did not arise from specified war service. Assemblyman
Longshore has introduced AB 1807 which would repeal the
requirement that the claim arise out of war service thereby
authorizing veterans services officers to provide service to
veterans in presenting claims regardless of whether or not they
arose from war services.
AB 1807 would also require every state and local public agency to
provide its benefits or assistance to every veteran on the same
basis as it would to any other eligible client. AB 1807 also
directs all state and local agencies to refer to the county
veterans services officer any situation in which the cost of the
services it provides are reimbursable from the Veterans
Administration so that the veterans services officer can present
the claim to the Veterans Administration on behalf of the state
or local agency.
Veterans increasingly have claims they wish to pursue which do
not arise from specified declared war services. In addition,
existing law does not clearly authorize a veterans services
officer to present a claim to the Veterans Administration on
behalf of a state or local agency which has provided reimbursable
services to a veteran.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE; /y z4l/e
X RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BCOARD COMMITTEE
_X APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S):
ACTION OF BOARD ON May 26, 1987 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
1 HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT �— ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
cc:
County Administrator ATTESTED _ MAY 2 6 1987
Veterans Services officer
Jackson/Barish & Associates PHIL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
CSAC Director SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Assemblyman Longshore
M382/7-83 BY DEPUTY
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Since AB 1807 would make services more readily available to
veterans regardless of their war service and would authorize a
veterans services officer to present claims on behalf of county
departments in an effort to recover costs from the federal
government, the County Veterans Services Officer recommends that
the Board support AB 1807 . This office concurs in that
recommendation.