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Bill	Veteran: acquisition of home: interest of record.	The Veterans' Farm and Home Purchase Act of 1974 authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to assist veterans in acquiring homes and farms by generally providing that the department may purchase a farm or home which the department then sells to a purchaser, as defined. Existing law prohibits the department, except in limited circumstances, from acquiring a home in which the veteran has an interest of record.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 697	California AB 697 (20112012)	bill	Veteran: acquisition of home: interest of record.	enacted	V. Manuel Pérez	6	26	8	2011-02-17	2011-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/f28b7771-3d2f-4e4f-a24e-671dab39510f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB697	f268238394225169e1f051d70d6f0720e6c86dfc210256ace8b20d9773f508b0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 697 (20112012) — Veteran: acquisition of home: interest of record.

The Veterans' Farm and Home Purchase Act of 1974 authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to assist veterans in acquiring homes and farms by generally providing that the department may purchase a farm or home which the department then sells to a purchaser, as defined. Existing law prohibits the department, except in limited circumstances, from acquiring a home in which the veteran has an interest of record.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/04/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/04/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB697 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/02/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB697 V. Manuel Pérez By Correa — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 697 PÉREZ, V.M. Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Housing and Community Development. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• V. Manuel Pérez — primary (person)
• Block — coauthor (person)
• Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
• Bonnie Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
• Chesbro — coauthor (person)
• Cook — coauthor (person)
• Dickinson — coauthor (person)
• Huffman — coauthor (person)
• Jeffries — coauthor (person)
• Monning — coauthor (person)
• Nielsen — coauthor (person)
• Runner — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2011-03-31 Referred to Coms. on V.A. and H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2011-04-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on V.A. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on V.A. referral-committee
• 2011-04-25 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1044.)
• 2011-04-25 (H. & C.D. committee)
• 2011-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-05-12 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1451.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on V.A. referral-committee
• 2011-06-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-21 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2011-07-11 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2011-08-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2168.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-31 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2011-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2011-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 368, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f28b7771-3d2f-4e4f-a24e-671dab39510f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).