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Bill	Department of Veterans Affairs: reporting requirements.	Existing law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to disburse funds, appropriated to the department for the purpose of supporting county veterans service officers pursuant to the annual Budget Act, on a pro rata basis, to counties that comply with certain conditions. Existing law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to annually determine the amount of new or increased monetary benefits paid to eligible veterans by the federal government attributable to the assistance of county veterans service officers, and requires the department to prepare and transmit its determination for the preceding fiscal year to the Department of Finance and the Legislature on or before January 1 of each year.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2198	California AB 2198 (20112012)	bill	Department of Veterans Affairs: reporting requirements.	enacted	Nielsen	7	24	6	2012-02-23	2012-09-20	openstates	ocd-bill/ce8d4cf4-304a-4167-b41d-08ace3a95a88	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2198	2eb2db75c7f8d99487928e6a5c5e9cddd8f473ae8400e3e2cb6dda9ddf22c443	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2198 (20112012) — Department of Veterans Affairs: reporting requirements.

Existing law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to disburse funds, appropriated to the department for the purpose of supporting county veterans service officers pursuant to the annual Budget Act, on a pro rata basis, to counties that comply with certain conditions. Existing law requires the Department of Veterans Affairs to annually determine the amount of new or increased monetary benefits paid to eligible veterans by the federal government attributable to the assistance of county veterans service officers, and requires the department to prepare and transmit its determination for the preceding fiscal year to the Department of Finance and the Legislature on or before January 1 of each year.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/10/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/11/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/16/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/20/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2198 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/29/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2198 Nielsen By La Malfa — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2198 NIELSEN Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2198 NIELSEN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Nielsen — primary (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2012-03-12 Referred to Com. on V.A. referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-25 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-26 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-03 From consent calendar.
• 2012-05-03 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-05-10 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4773.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4816.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-24 Referred to Com. on V.A. referral-committee
• 2012-06-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on V.A. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-25 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-16 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4643.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6244.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 401, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ce8d4cf4-304a-4167-b41d-08ace3a95a88. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).