2005 California Government Code Sections 15819.60-15819.65 CHAPTER 3.3. FINANCING OF CALIFORNIA VETERANS\' HOMES

15819.60.  (a) The Department of General Services, on behalf of the
Department of Veterans Affairs, may acquire, design, equip,
construct, and establish additional veterans' homes to be located in
Lancaster, Saticoy, West Los Angeles, Fresno County, and Shasta
County.
   (b) The Department of General Services, on behalf of the
Department of Veterans Affairs, may design, equip, construct, and
renovate the veterans' homes at Yountville, Barstow, and Chula Vista,
as needed and justified.
   (c) The Department of General Services, on behalf of the
Department of Veterans Affairs, may design, equip, construct, and
expand the homes proposed to be built at Lancaster, Saticoy, and West
Los Angeles, as needed and justified.
   (d) The construction of veterans' homes in Fresno County and
Shasta County may not commence until the veterans' homes in
Lancaster, Saticoy, and West Los Angeles have been fully funded.
   (e) The veterans' homes to be constructed in Fresno County and
Shasta County may be built concurrently. However, the construction of
the veterans' homes in Redding and Fresno shall be treated as
separate public works projects that are subject to separate bids.
   (f) The Department of General Services, on behalf of the
Department of Veterans Affairs, may acquire, design, equip,
construct, and establish the veterans' homes to be constructed in
Fresno and Shasta Counties using the design-build construction
procurement process in accordance with Section 14661.
15819.65.  (a) (1) The State Public Works Board may issue
lease-revenue bonds, notes, or bond anticipation notes in the amount
of one hundred sixty-two million dollars ($162,000,000) pursuant to
Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 15830) to finance the acquisition,
design, construction, establishment, equipping, renovation, or
expansion of the veterans' homes specified in Section 15819.60.
   (2) This amount shall be available, in addition to any federal
funds or other state funds available for the acquisition, design,
construction, establishment, equipping, renovation, or expansion of
the veterans' homes specified in Section 15819.60.
   (3) The issuance of bonds or notes under this section is
contingent upon a commitment from the federal government to pay for
the federal matching share of the cost of the design, construction,
equipping, renovation, or expansion of the veterans' homes specified
in Section 15819.60.
   (b) Notwithstanding Section 13340, funds derived from the
financing methods pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section
15830) for the veterans' homes specified in Section 15819.60 are
hereby continuously appropriated to the board on behalf of the
Department of Veterans Affairs for the acquisition, design,
construction, establishment, equipping, renovation, expansion, or
refinancing of the veterans' homes so financed.
   In addition to the funds appropriated pursuant to this section,
the federal matching funds available pursuant to the State Veterans'
Home Assistance Improvement Act of 1977 (38 U.S.C. Sec. 8131 et
seq.), are hereby continuously appropriated to the board on behalf of
the Department of Veterans Affairs for the purposes of design,
construction, equipping, renovation, expansion, or repayment of any
loan related to the projects of the veterans' homes specified in
Section 15819.60.
   (c) In anticipation of federal matching share funding available
pursuant to the State Veterans' Home Assistance Improvement Act of
1977 (38 U.S.C. Sec. 8131 et seq.), the board and the Department of
Veterans Affairs may obtain interim financing for the project costs
authorized in Section 15819.60 from any appropriate source,
including, but not limited to, the Pooled Money Investment Account
pursuant to Sections 16312 and 16313.
   (d) The Department of Veterans Affairs is authorized and directed
to execute and deliver any and all leases, contracts, agreements, or
other documents necessary or advisable to consummate the sale of
bonds or otherwise effectuate the financing of the scheduled
projects.
   (e) In the event that the bonds authorized for projects in Section
15819.60 are not sold, the Department of Veterans Affairs shall
commit a sufficient portion of its support appropriation, as
determined by the Department of Finance, to repay any interim
financing.  It is the intent of the Legislature that this commitment
be made until all interim financing is repaid either through the
proceeds from the sale of bonds or from an appropriation.
   (f) The board shall not itself be deemed a lead or responsible
agency for purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act
(Division 12 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources
Code) for any activities under the State Building Construction Act of
1955 (commencing with Section 15800 of this code).  This subdivision
does not exempt any participating agency or department from the
requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act, and is
intended to be declarative of existing law.