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Bill	Veterans' farm and home loan program.	Existing law establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is headed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Existing law requires the secretary, as head of the department and subject to the policies adopted by the California Veterans Board, to perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry out and effect all provisions vested by law in the department. Existing law defines "veteran" for the purposes of the various programs granting benefits to veterans.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 661	California SB 661 (20212022)	bill	Veterans' farm and home loan program.	enacted	Newman	5	28	7	2021-02-19	2021-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/7dbf2a9c-759b-4794-afe6-7d9252596fc1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB661	89fe38835b362b06dcb792e539289d8492b2c0f9cbec87c0af10dd1ed1172730	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 661 (20212022) — Veterans' farm and home loan program.

Existing law establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs, which is headed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Existing law requires the secretary, as head of the department and subject to the policies adopted by the California Veterans Board, to perform all duties, exercise all powers and jurisdiction, assume and discharge all responsibilities, and carry out and effect all provisions vested by law in the department. Existing law defines "veteran" for the purposes of the various programs granting benefits to veterans.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/15/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/05/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB661 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/27/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent SB661 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 661 Newman Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Newman — primary (person)
• Umberg — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-19 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
• 2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-03-03 Referred to Com. on M. & V.A. referral-committee
• 2021-03-10 Set for hearing March 17.
• 2021-03-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 534.) (March 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-03-19 Set for hearing April 5.
• 2021-04-05 April 5 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1199.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1346.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-10 Referred to Com. on M. & V.A. referral-committee
• 2021-07-06 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2524.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-26 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2021-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
• 2021-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 549, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7dbf2a9c-759b-4794-afe6-7d9252596fc1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).