Last night at midnight, our legislative session ended.
Since taking office, 36 bills I’ve authored have been signed into law.
I now have 6 more bills on the Governor’s desk awaiting his action, on issues ranging from mental health to transportation to criminal justice reform:
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1. #SB855 is a major piece of legislation to expand access to mental health & addiction care in California. It requires insurance companies to cover far more mental health & addiction care. It will be the strongest such legislation in the country.
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2. #SB592 is a major piece of criminal justice reform & anti-racism legislation. It will make California juries more diverse & representative of the community by dramatically expanding our jury pools to include anyone who files a tax return,.
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4. #SB132 protects transgender people in prison, by allowing them to be housed where they‘re safest, instead of automatically being placed in the facility corresponding to their birth-assigned gender. Trans women are frequently brutalized in men’s prisons.
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5. #SB288 expedites approval of sustainable transportation projects, including bike lanes, pedestrian safety upgrades, dedicated bus lanes & light rail. It will move CA toward a more sustainable future & help stimulate the economy by accelerating projects.
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Seems expensive and won't succeed. Howsabout spending public money to not build more prisons in California for California's growing incarcerated population who make outrageous demands even though they are the criminals.
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