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Senate Military and Veterans Affairs Committee California State Senate
Follow its sittingsSpeaker 1
So we will go on. So now I would like to present my bill, senate bill Sure. Six twenty three. So I'll step down.
Speaker 3
I'd like to, congratulate my previous district representative Diego who was on my team for three years, and he got a huge promotion and is now a consultant with this committee. Very excited for him. Excited. He's a good man right there.
Speaker 1
Well, senator, there's also something else that we have to celebrate. Give me your hand. Give me your hand. So the old term here we are. Right?
And if you look to my left and to my right and and the entire committee, it's called diversity, and that's what California is all about. That is our strength. Thank you for bringing that up, senator.
Speaker 5
Sir Archuleta, have the only bill today, s b six twenty three. Would you now present the bill?
Speaker 1
Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Ladies and gentlemen, and committee members, we will now move on to Senate Bill six twenty three. If I may, just a moment.
I think I left the, the item on the desk. I picked up the wrong one. I apologize, mister chair. We will make that correction immediately. Here we go.
Thank you. And once again, mister chair, thank you for taking on that position for me. I'm here to present senate bill six twenty three, which makes it necessary statutorily to change and implement a senate constitutional amendment number four. SCA four seeks to provide property tax relief to veterans and their families by removing a provision in the constitution to that prevents Veterans claiming the homeowners exemption from also claiming the disabled veterans or Veterans Exemption thereby allowing eligible veterans to stack the exemptions. This would allow a veteran who qualifies for the veteran's homeowner's exemption or the disabled veteran's exemption to also receive the homeowner's exemption.
The measure would also remove property limitations that veterans must meet in order to qualify for the exemption. For these reasons I respectfully ask for your I vote.
Speaker 5
Hey. Anyone that wants to, testify in support, please approach the microphone.
Speaker 6
My name is Danielle Hall. I am a disabled veteran myself. I am the daughter of a disabled veteran, a Vietnam war veteran, Korea Air Force, and also the mother of an airman and a sailor. So a long legacy of service. I just wanted to say that I support your your bell, and I'm grateful for the provisions that you make for those of us who have served our country to be able to stack those benefits in a way that benefits us.
And I'm I'm grateful for you doing that today, sir.
Speaker 5
Good afternoon. My name is Sky Ainsworth. I'm an army veteran, resident of El Centro California, and I support the bill. Thank you. Ms.
Hi.
Speaker 7
My name is Michelle Bolton. I am the chair for the VA San Diego Health Care System Mental Health Advocacy Council. I am a Navy veteran, and I am in support of this bill.
Speaker 8
Good afternoon. I'm Tara Jones. I'm a Gulf War era veteran. I am one of the directors for the San Diego Veterans Coalition, and I am in support of this bill.
Speaker 10
Good afternoon. My name is Eric Jansen. I'm a Marine Corps combat veteran of two Afghanistan deployments, and I am in support of this bill.
Speaker 2
Good afternoon. My name is Tonya Sevice, an Air Force disabled veteran, and I support this bill.
Speaker 11
I feel like I have to come down a little bit. Oh, I can move it here. Good afternoon. My name is Janelle Gordon, and I'm a the arm army veteran. And I'm in support of this bill, six twenty three, I believe.
Thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 4
Hi. I'm Doctor. Cherilyn Lee, and I am in support of this bill. I work with veterans on who have had health care challenges in a holistic manner, with great results.
Speaker 4
Also, I'm a three time Lifetime Achievement Award from four three Presidents of The United States.
Speaker 9
William Taylor. I'm also a twenty three year army veteran in support of six two three and better access for veterans. Thank you.
Speaker 5
Afternoon. Jeffrey Rosales, Marine Corps combat veteran in support of six two three. Thank you.
Speaker 3
I am Kelly Raleigh, founder of Kindbrain, and I am in support of six two three.
Speaker 5
Thank you. Any other witnesses in support? Seeing none, are there any witnesses in opposition that wish to voice that opposition? Seeing none, I'm gonna bring this to the committee and see if any many, of the committee wishes to make statement. Seeing none, my observation is I presided over the revenue tax committee this morning, and we heard this bill and had a tremendous support and comments.
I wanna thank the senator Archuleta for your dedication to this issue and to all the veterans' issues. I I know that veterans across the state appreciate the work that you've done, and they look forward to hearing this bill and other bills that you'll be producing and that most of us on the committee will be supporting. With that, do you have closing statements?
Speaker 1
Yes, I would like to thank you and again thank veterans in the room and certainly Tom Umberg who is our army veteran and then the committee members who served in the United States Navy. I appreciate it. But especially to the audience who represent all branches of service, thank you for coming forward today to support this bill. Obviously, 06/23 is something that we've all been waiting for. Those veterans are fortunate enough to own a piece of property now can joint venture together with the county and and the state and everyone else to be recognized and, bring those two opportunities together.
So they call it stacking, but, we call it recognition of our veterans. So I wanna thank you for that and with that I ask for an I vote.
Speaker 5
Do I hear a motion? So moved. Motion to move. Will the secretary call the roll?
Speaker 2
Senator Archuleta, aye. Senator Groves? Oh, this motion is due passed to the committee of appropriations. Senator McNerney?
Speaker 1
Okay. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna hold ladies and gentlemen, we're gonna hold the hold the roll open until senator Menjibar gets back from her committee, and then we'll have the full committee vote, and we'll go from there. So I understand those of you who have other things to do, you're, you're welcome to leave. And those who'd like to stick around for the very end, please stay with me. And, I wanna thank the committee, thank the veterans once again.
This is a big, big step for our veterans and, those who own a piece of property to receive that tax exemption. So with that, I think, we're ready to do we're gonna just hold off. So we're not gonna adjourn. We'll just take a a time out. Alright?
Thank you so much. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for your patience. We're gonna open the row in the senate committee on military and veteran affairs, and we are going to, we gave everyone an opportunity to to vote. And I know that some of the senators that are out in the committees can't break away. But we do have a, a quorum.
We were able to establish that, and we're able to establish the vote to move it out of committee. So with that, I'm gonna go ahead and call the meeting to, an adjournment, and I will tell everyone to our veterans thank you. This bill is, vital for our veterans, and I really appreciate the support on senate bill, six twenty three. So with that, thank you for your service, everyone. Meeting adjourned.
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