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Bill	Veterans: military and veterans: gender-neutral terms.	Existing law establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the administration of various programs providing benefits to veterans or their beneficiaries. Existing law establishes the California Veterans Board, whose duties include advising the department and its secretary on policies for operations of the department.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 1097	California SB 1097 (20232024)	bill	Veterans gender-neutral terms military and veterans	enacted	Laird	6	24	6	2024-02-13	2024-07-15	openstates	ocd-bill/4c6cfbf2-63fb-45d9-86b9-87119424e591	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1097	e4c2fbde8e411af58de00ffa91529a3c324a98718f65a8f90e17ca4ba042176f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1097 (20232024) — Veterans: military and veterans: gender-neutral terms.

Existing law establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the administration of various programs providing benefits to veterans or their beneficiaries. Existing law establishes the California Veterans Board, whose duties include advising the department and its secretary on policies for operations of the department.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/15/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/15/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB1097 (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/01/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1097 Laird Senate Third Reading By Schiavo — 65–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Laird — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-02-14 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15.
• 2024-02-21 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2024-03-18 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 Re-referred to Coms. on M. & V.A. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2024-04-12 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2024-04-15 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
• 2024-04-16 Set for hearing April 23 in JUD. pending receipt.
• 2024-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3703.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3725.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2024-05-13 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4019.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-21 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-06-03 Referred to Com. on M. & V.A. referral-committee
• 2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-06-27 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 6089.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-06-27 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2024-07-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2024-07-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-07-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 129, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c6cfbf2-63fb-45d9-86b9-87119424e591. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).