---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relative to veterans' educational benefits."
description: "This measure would urge the United States Congress to revise the United States Code to remove the requirement that, to be eligible for GI benefits, a law school be accredited by a specialized accreditor and the overly broad restriction that graduates must be eligible to sit for a bar examination in any state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AJR 12"
citation: "California AJR 12 (20212022)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["Veterans' educational benefits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stone"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-04-15"
last_action: "2021-09-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74987827-7aa8-4474-a363-125db2e40653"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR12"
source_hash: "a240b7be406068c85d1f2c6bdeca93f26ed6c665e247004734f7e65eda40799d"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AJR 12 (20212022) — Relative to veterans' educational benefits.

This measure would urge the United States Congress to revise the United States Code to remove the requirement that, to be eligible for GI benefits, a law school be accredited by a specialized accreditor and the overly broad restriction that graduates must be eligible to sit for a bar examination in any state.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **04/15/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR12&version=20210AJR1299INT)
2. **09/07/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR12&version=20210AJR1297CHP)
3. **AJR12** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR12)
4. **08/27/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AJR12&version=20210AJR1298ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AJR12 Stone et al. By Borgeas — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- AJR 12 Stone Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Be adopted. Ordered to third reading — **11–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stone — primary (person)
- Borgeas — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Laird — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-04-15** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-04-16** From printer.
- **2021-04-22** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-06** Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1340.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2021-05-06** In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
- **2021-05-19** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-07-07** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to Third Reading. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-1`
- **2021-08-26** Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2114.) `amendment-passage, passage`
- **2021-08-26** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2021-09-07** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2:30 p.m.
- **2021-09-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 118, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74987827-7aa8-4474-a363-125db2e40653`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).