VETERANS HOME MAY BE DELAYED.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer LANCASTER - California officials are worried that a proposed federal moratorium on grants for building new state veterans homes will further delay a long-planned home in Lancaster. The moratorium for veterans home construction funding in 2006 has been passed by the House of Representatives and is awaiting Senate concurrence CONCURRENCE, French law. The equality of rights, or privilege which several persons-have over the same thing; as, for example, the right which two judgment creditors, Whose judgments were rendered at the same time, have to be paid out of the proceeds of real estate bound by them. Dict. de Jur. h.t. , state officials said. The Lancaster veterans home is not scheduled to get federal funding until 2007, but California officials fear if other states' homes are stalled by the 2006 moratorium, they will take federal aid from the Lancaster home the next year. ``I think it's an issue to keep an eye on to watch. - Shak. See also: Eye ,'' said state Sen. George Runner George C. Runner, Jr. (born March 25 1952 in Scotia, New York) is a Republican California State Senator, who represents the 17th Senate District, which includes portions of Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County and Ventura County. , R-Lancaster, who was among the lawmakers briefed by California Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs is a term of the business that deals with the relation between a government and its veteran communities, usually administered by the designated government agency. officials Tuesday in Sacramento on progress on five proposed veterans homes. Runner, whose wife, Assemblywoman Sharon Runner, R-Lancaster, also attended the briefing, said he will work with California's congressional delegation about making sure the California homes stay on schedule. Other than the funding concern, state officials said the Lancaster home is progressing on schedule to meet its late 2008 completion goal. First proposed in 1991, the Lancaster home for years was delayed by opposition from former Gov. Gray Davis. It is to be built on land donated by the city of Lancaster The City of Lancaster (2002 population: 133,914) is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. Its main town is Lancaster, from which it obtained its city status. Other towns in the district include Morecambe, Heysham, Slyne, and Carnforth. at Avenue I and 30th Street West. The Lancaster home, to be named for the late state Sen. William J. ``Pete'' Knight, is scheduled to start construction in July 2007 and be completed in December 2008. A home in Ventura County is scheduled to be completed at the same time, and a larger home in West Los Angeles
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