California Military and Veterans Code CHAPTER 1 - Veterans’ Home of California

• Section 1010.
  As used in this chapter:(a) “Home” means any facility operated by the department for the provision of long-term care, assisted living, adult day health, independent living,...
• Section 1011.
  (a) There is in the department a Veterans’ Home of California system, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1010.(b) There shall be an administrator for each...
• Section 1012.
  (a) Except as provided in Section 1012.4, veterans’ homes are for aged or disabled persons who served in the Armed Forces of the United States of...
• Section 1012.1.
  (a) Prior to the admission of a veteran, spouse, or domestic partner as a member of a home, and at any time during which a veteran,...
• Section 1012.2.
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, any member of the home who is receiving an aid and attendance allowance from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs...
• Section 1012.3.
  (a) Members of a home, including members who are nonveteran spouses or domestic partners, shall pay fees as determined by the department to cover room and...
• Section 1012.4.
  Notwithstanding Section 1012, the department may arrange by contract or any other form of agreement with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to do...
• Section 1013.
  All property conveyed to and accepted by the State under the provisions of Chapter 101, Statutes of 1897, and any other property conveyed to and...
• Section 1023.
  (a) The department may sue and be sued in any of the courts of this state. All property held by the department for a home shall...
• Section 1025.
  The home shall be open at any time to the inspection of the Secretary of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs or his or...
• Section 1030.1.
  The department may enter into contracts with the United States or any agency thereof, any governmental agency, any person, or any corporation for the performance...
• Section 1030.2.
  The department may enter into contracts with the United States or any agency thereof and any other governmental agency for the purpose of providing courses...
• Section 1031.
  All moneys received by the state from the United States for the use of a home shall be placed to the credit of and shall...
• Section 1032.
  The department shall fix a schedule of wages for members who are employed at a home, subject to the approval of the Director of Finance.(Amended...
• Section 1033.1.
  (a) The department may pay the premiums on behalf of its members who are required to participate in eligible coverage, including medical assistance provisions contained in...
• Section 1034.
  Except money received from this state for disbursement, all moneys received by a home, or by an officer of a home, including pension and other...
• Section 1035.
  (a) (1) All moneys and other personal property of any member held by a home, or by its authority, or left by the member upon the premises...
• Section 1035.05.
  (a) (1) All moneys and other personal property of any member other than that described in Section 1035 shall, upon the death of the member, first be...
• Section 1035.1.
  (a) (1) A will executed by a member who was a member of a home at the time of death, whether executed prior or subsequent to January...
• Section 1035.2.
  Any personal property held by a home pursuant to Section 1035 that the administrator determines to be of no substantial monetary value may be immediately...
• Section 1035.3.
  (a) (1) If no will or heir is discovered within two years after the death of the member, any moneys not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) held...
• Section 1035.4.
  (a) All personal property held or received by a home pursuant to Section 1035, other than moneys or property described in Section 1035.2, which is unclaimed...
• Section 1035.5.
  (a) The administrator shall provide to the heirs or devisees of every deceased member who became a member of a home on or after January 1,...
• Section 1035.6.
  (a) The administrator shall provide each member of a home with a quarterly statement or accounting of all charges for the costs of care rendered to...
• Section 1035.7.
  (a) Upon admission to a home, the administrator of each home shall provide written notice to the member informing him or her of costs of care...
• Section 1036.
  The members may voluntarily deposit money with a home, which the home shall receive and keep without charge as a trust fund.(Amended by Stats. 2017,...
• Section 1037.
  The money belonging to a member and voluntarily deposited with a home may be withdrawn, in whole or in part, at the will of the...
• Section 1038.
  All money deposited with a home for a member shall be paid to him or her on demand, upon his or her discharge or voluntary...
• Section 1038.1.
  All personal property other than money left at a home by a member at the time of his or her discharge or voluntary departure therefrom,...
• Section 1038.5.
  Any money deposited with a home by a member shall be credited with interest in compliance with applicable federal law and regulation, and shall be...
• Section 1039.3.
  The administrator, subject to the approval of the secretary, may accept cash donations or other gifts to be used for the welfare of the members....
• Section 1042.
  All accrued interest on money turned over to the administrator and retained by him or her under this chapter shall be accounted for by the...
• Section 1042.1.
  If any check is drawn upon any trust fund of a home, except checks drawn by members of the home on their own accounts, and...
• Section 1043.
  With the exception of officers and employees and their families, no person shall be admitted to reside in a home who is not eligible under...
• Section 1044.
  The secretary may adopt rules and regulations governing the admission of applicants and may prescribe the conditions upon which they may enter and remain with...
• Section 1044.5.
  (a) A member of a home has the right to complain and otherwise exercise the freedom of expression and assembly guaranteed by the Sections 2 and...
• Section 1045.
  This chapter does not prevent the state from transferring the property and management of a home to the United States for a home of similar...
• Section 1046.
  (a) If it appears necessary or proper that a guardian or conservator of the estate of a member be appointed, the court, in its discretion, upon...
• Section 1047.
  (a) (1) The Veterans’ Home Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Special Fund (MWR Fund) is hereby created in the State Treasury. Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code,...
• Section 1048.
  (a) A Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Operating Fund (MWRO Fund) shall be maintained by the administrator of each home to administer quality of life activities for...
• Section 1049.
  (a) Moneys in the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Fund maintained under subdivision (a) of Section 1047 may be used, subject to approval by the secretary, to...
• Section 1050.
  Veterans’ Home Allied Councils, which are established pursuant to the constitution of the Allied Council, Veterans’ Home of California, for each home, and which are...
• Section 1051.
  (a) On or before January 1, 2019, the department shall create a transparent admissions and waiting list process for admission to the homes.(b) On or before January...

Last modified: October 22, 2018