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SALINAS- In downtown Salinas on Monday — joined by several dozen Central Coast elected officials, law enforcement leaders, business owners and local and state lawmakers — Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) championed historic new retail theft laws...

Assemblymember Alex Lee introduced legislation to celebrate and recognize the contributions of Filipino Americans in California. House Resolution 112, which passed the State Assembly, recognizes October 2024 as Filipino American History Month and...

SAN JOSE– Today the Governor signed AB 3209, authored by Assemblymember Marc Berman (D-Menlo Park) and Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas), which creates the first-of-its-kind Retail Crime Restraining Order. The bill authorizes a court to impose a Retail...

SAN JOSE, CA— Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas joined community and business leaders, law enforcement officials and state legislators and community leaders in San Jose on Friday to sign new laws that will improve public safety and hold accountable people who...

SACRAMENTO: Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin is pleased to announce the Governor’s signing of AB 1779, which restores a lapsed jurisdictional law (Penal Code 786.5) allowing county prosecutors to charge related incidents of Organized Retail Theft (ORT) in a...

SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, six of Assemblymember Damon Connolly’s (D-San Rafael) bills passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee and will be heard on the Senate floor. The State Legislature now has two weeks to hear and vote on each bill, and each...

SACRAMENTO, CA — Today, the following seven (7) bills by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel passed out of the California Senate Appropriations Committee:

AB 2918, a bill aimed at improving equity in K-12 curriculum, is being held to allow additional time for authentic engagement and open discussion leading to policy that is inclusive of all students.