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type: "Bill"
title: "Memorial districts."
description: "Existing law provides for the formation of veterans memorial districts and provides for their powers and functions in constructing, acquiring, and operating halls, buildings, meeting places, and other facilities for the use of veterans and veterans' organizations and by persons and organizations other than veterans when their use does not interfere with the use of the facilities by veterans. Existing law additionally authorizes veterans memorial districts to provide funding to providers of supportive services that improve the quality of life for veterans and their families. Existing law requires the secretary of every memorial district to annually prepare a financial report containing specified information from the preceding year, including, among other things, disbursements of any kind and the purposes thereof. Existing law requires local agencies and special districts to report specified information on an annual basis to certain entities, including to the county auditor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1908"
citation: "California AB 1908 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Memorial districts."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chávez"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-22"
last_action: "2018-08-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54805389-7e37-497c-8bf2-e8fcb12cd5fa"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1908"
source_hash: "0064647ea76b8d8e8d1285c67e06148185388eb6739a55b74a8de1a91a8e21e8"
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 AB 1908 (20172018) — Memorial districts.
Existing law provides for the formation of veterans memorial districts and provides for their powers and functions in constructing, acquiring, and operating halls, buildings, meeting places, and other facilities for the use of veterans and veterans' organizations and by persons and organizations other than veterans when their use does not interfere with the use of the facilities by veterans. Existing law additionally authorizes veterans memorial districts to provide funding to providers of supportive services that improve the quality of life for veterans and their families. Existing law requires the secretary of every memorial district to annually prepare a financial report containing specified information from the preceding year, including, among other things, disbursements of any kind and the purposes thereof. Existing law requires local agencies and special districts to report specified information on an annual basis to certain entities, including to the county auditor.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/22/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1908&version=20170AB190899INT)
2. **05/14/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1908&version=20170AB190898AMD)
3. **08/24/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1908&version=20170AB190896CHP)
4. **AB1908** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1908)
5. **08/10/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1908&version=20170AB190897ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1908 CHÁVEZ Assembly Third Reading — **720** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **50** (pass) · upper
- AB 1908 CHÁVEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **780** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB1908 — **360** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **80** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Chávez — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-01-23** From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
- **2018-02-05** Referred to Com. on V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-03-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 4432.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-04-19** Referred to Com. on V.A. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-14** 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. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-06-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-06-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4878.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-06-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6200.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2018-08-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-08-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 183, Statutes of 2018.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54805389-7e37-497c-8bf2-e8fcb12cd5fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).