These are free townhall meetings for the public where you will:
Thursday, June 6th, 5 – 6:30PM
Downey City Hall
11111 Brookshire Ave.
Downey, CA 90241
(City Council Chambers)
Thursday, June 6th, 7 – 8:30PM
Bell Gardens City Hall
7100 Garfield Ave.
Bell Gardens, CA 90201
(City Council Chambers)
Saturday, June 8th, 11AM – 12:30PM
Artesia City Hall
18747 Clarkdale Ave.
Artesia, CA 90701
(City Council Chambers)
For more information or to RSVP, please contact the office at (562) 402-4893.
Affordable Healthcare Act: Constituent Information Workshop
Schurr High School
820 N. Wilcox Ave.
Montebello, CA 90640
9AM-1PM
Community Walk & Talk*
Cerritos Park East
13234 E. 166th St.
Cerritos, CA 90703
Meeting Point: Center Gazebo
8AM-9AM
*Encouraged to donate clean, unused socks/underwear & toiletries
Community Walk & Talk*
Holifield Park
12500 Excelsior Dr.
Norwalk, CA 90650
8AM-9AM
*Encouraged to donate clean, unused socks/underwear & toiletries
Affordable Healthcare Act: Constituent Information Workshop*
Pico Rivera Senior Center
9200 Mines Ave.
Pico Rivera, CA 90660
10AM-11:30AM
*For Seniors Only
(Sacramento) – On a resounding, bipartisan 68 –1 vote, the State Assembly has past Assembly Bill 256, authored by Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens).
Current law defines bullying as harassment or threats that are used to intimidate students, disrupt the classroom, invade the right of the students and create a hostile educational environment. Students in grades 4-12 who engage in such behavior can be suspended or expelled, if the bullying occurs while traveling to and from school, on campus during school hours or during or traveling to a school sponsored activity.
(Sacramento) – In order to provide a critical update to state law and close loopholes dealing with student cyber- bullying, Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) has announced that her measure, Assembly Bill 256, will be heard in the Assembly Judiciary Committee on May 8th.
(Sacramento) – The Assembly Judiciary Committee, on a unanimous vote, passed Assembly Bill 849, legislation that will extend provisions in state law to protect victims of elder abuse from their abusers.
The measure, authored by Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D) – Bell Gardens, will allow a victim of elder abuse or dependent adult abuse to enroll in California's address confidentiality program, "Safe at Home," to shield their home address from their abusers. Currently the same protection is available only to victims of sexual abuse, domestic violence and stalking.
(Sacramento) -- In response to the multiple Guilty Verdicts found against former City of Bell Councilmembers, Oscar Hernández, Teresa Jocobo, George Cole, Victor Bello and George Mirabal, Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) has released the following statement:
“After a long, painful ordeal that has taken its toll on the City of Bell and its residents, I am cautiously optimistic. I am happy that justice has prevailed and that these public officials must finally pay the price for their criminal activity.”
Dear Friends,
As someone who is concerned about education in California, I wanted to let you know about an upcoming hearing in the Assembly Budget Committee.
During this hearing, the members of the education subcommittee will be discussing Governor Brown's education budget proposals.
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Governor's 2013-14 Budget Proposals:
Adult Education
Proposition 39
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Governor's 2013-14 Budget Proposal:
K-12 Technology-based online instruction
If you cannot make it to the hearing in Sacramento, you can always tune in via the Assembly website at: http://assembly.ca.gov/audiotv. Below are links to the related education committees:
Budget Subcommittee #2
Assembly Higher Education Committee
Assembly Education Committee
For questions of comments, please contact my office at (916) 319-2058.
(Montebello, CA) - Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) held a swearing-in ceremony recently in Montebello at the Armenian Cultural Center to celebrate her election as the representative from the 58th Assembly District, which includes the cities of Cerritos, Artesia, Montebello, Pico Rivera, Commerce, Bell Gardens, Downey, Norwalk, and Bellflower. Special guests Assembly Speaker John Pérez and Assemblymember Anthony Rendon joined dozens of supporters to mark Garcia’s new role as an Assembymember.
SACRAMENTO – The Legislative Women's Caucus honored eleven remarkable California women who have broken barriers in their respective fields at a floor ceremony in the Assembly Chambers on Monday afternoon.
Assemblymember Cristina Garcia along with Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva had the honor of escorting Dr. Mildred Garcia, the First Latina President of CSU Fullerton.