LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 469, as amended, Aanestad. Veterans' cemeteries: fees.
Existing law provides for the establishment and operation of
certain state-owned and operated veterans' cemeteries. Existing law
authorizes honorably discharged veterans and their spouses and
children to be interred atthese at these
cemeteries, and provides for a fee to be charged for each
spouse or child interred at the cemetery, as specified.
This bill would authorize the fee for the interment of the spouses
and children of honorably discharged veterans in these cemeteries to
be waived if the cemetery administrator determines that the families
of the spouses or children do not have sufficient means to pay for
the costs of interment, and would require any costs for these
interments to be paid from nonstate funds. This bill would require
the cemetery administrator to seek reimbursements, as specified, and
would authorize the cemetery administrator to solicit private
donations, to offset any fees lost as a result of this fee waiver.