Assembly Standing Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism

Good morning and welcome to the Arts and Entertainment Committee here March 212023. I'd like to convene the first Bill hearing of the Assembly Committee on Arts, Entertainment, Sports and Tourism for the 2023-24 legislative session. I'm Assembly Member Sharon Quirk-Silva, chair of the Committee, and we'd like to welcome our new Members to the Committee. Some of them are coming in as we're speaking. We have several new Members as they come in. We'll introduce them.

Before we get started, there are a few housekeeping items that I'd like to cover for the Committee's hearings this session. We will only be accepting in person testimony and witnesses in support or opposition when there are bills being presented in Committee. Each will have a maximum of two primary witnesses in support and two primary witnesses in opposition with a limit of two minutes per witness.

After we have heard from the primary witnesses, Members of the public that are in the room will have an opportunity to state their name, the organization they represent, if any, and position on the Bill. Additional comments will not be allowed. I want to note that we are also accepting written testimony through the position letter portal on the Committee's website. When we can establish a quorum, the Committee secretary will take attendance. We're not ready for that yet and we will wait till we get a quorum.

As was noted in the opening remarks, we do have new Members to the Committee. I'd like to welcome our Vice Chair, Mr. Wallis, Greg Wallis.

Thank you.

And if you have any opening comments, we'll put you on the spot before we take roll.

Well, good morning. I'm happy to be here. I represent the 47th Assembly District which is home to the Palm Springs area. So I feel like it's appropriate to be on this Committee. I'm looking forward to the work we're doing together this year.

Thank you. Welcome. And we also have new to the Committee, Assembly Member Mike Fong. Would you like to make any remarks?

Thank you so much, Chair Quick-Silva. Look forward to working with you and the team here on the Arts sports media Entertainment Committee and look forward to a great session. Thank you so much.

And we'd be remiss if we did not ask our longtime Member, Assembly Member Laura Friedman, would you like to make remarks?

Looking forward to your leadership, Madam Chair.

Thank you. All right, it looks like we have a quorum, Madam Secretary. Would you like to call Roll.

[Roll Call]

As we are beginning new session, we will be doing the adoption of Committee rules as this is our first meeting of a new legislative session, we have rules to adopt. Is there a motion to adopt? We have a motion by Assembly Member Fong and a second by Assembly Member Wallace.

[Roll Call]

With that, our rules are adopted and we have a very exciting consent agenda today with three bills on the agenda which are all proposed for consent. And we have file item AB 245 by McKenna High School Athletics California High school coaching education and training program which is a do pass to Assembly, third reading.

[Roll Call]

Item two, AB 1327 by Weber Interscalastic Scholastic Athletics California Interscholastic Federation hate violence do pass as amended to the Assembly Committee on Education.

[Roll Call]

And then finally today we have file item three, AB 1467 Alanist I think it's spelled Alunis Alanis. All right, I got to work on that. And this is Youth Sports Safety act and it's a do pass as amended to Assembly, third reading.

[Roll Call]

Need to do this since we voted on them individually? No. Okay. All right. Well, that is the end of our robust agenda and we will leave the roll open for five minutes till 9:15 for other Members to add on. And with that we will be adjourning the hearing. Thank you all. Thank you for welcome, Mr. Lackey. Thank you.

Yes, Madam Secretary, can you call the. Roll on AB 245? Mckinnon do pass to Assembly third reading Lackey aye AB 1327 Weber do pass is amended to education Lackey Aye AB 1467 Alanice do pass to Assembly third reading Lackey thank you. With that, we are adjourning our meeting. You're right. Yes. We need to approve the new session rules. On the Committee rules. Thank you and welcome. All right. With that we will be adjourning our meeting.