Assembly Floor

The Assembly is now in session. Assembly Member Flora notices the absence of a quorum. The Sergeant at arms will prepare the chamber and bring the absent Members. The Clerk will call the role.

Addis, Aguiar-Curry, Alanis, Alvarez, Arambula Bains, Bauer-Khan, Bennett, Berman, Boerner, Bonta, Bryan, Calderon, Carrillo, Cervantes, Chen, Connolly, Dahle, Davies, Dixon, Essayli, Flora, Mike Fong, Vince Fong, Friedman, Gabriel, Gallagher, Garcia, Gipson, Grayson, Haney, Hart, Holden, Hoover, Irwin, Jackson, Jones-Sawyer, Karla, Lackey, Lee, Lowenthal, Maienschein, Mathis, McCarty, McKinnor, Muratsuchi, Nguyen, Ortega, Pacheco, Papan, Jim Patterson, Joe Patterson, Pellerin, Petrie-Norris, Quirk-Silva, Ramos, Reyes, Luz Rivas, Robert Rivas, Rodriguez, Rubio, Sanchez, Santiago, Shiavo, Soria, Ta, Ting, Valencia, Villapudua, Waldron, Wallis, Ward, Weber, Wicks, Wilson, Wood, Zbur, Mr. Speaker.

Members. A quorum is present. We ask our guests and visitors in the rear of the chamber and in the gallery to please stand for the prayer and the flag salute. Today's prayer will be offered by Assembly Member Ramos. Assembly Member Ramos.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. It's an honor to do do a prayer. Traditional prayer in Serrano song. The song would say Pomara mara is the world. The world as we know it. And our clan yohavi at them. You'll hear Pomara yohavi at them in it that we're still here. Just like our invited guests here. The four tribal chairs that are here representing the state of California. Even though things have come our way through prior legislatures trying to exterminate our people here in California, we're still here.

And that's what this song represents. Bomara Mara. The world as we know it. Yohavi at them. We're still here. Omara chamkachi a chamkachi omara. Omara chamkachi a chamkachi omara Omara Chamkachi a chamkachi Omara Cham chamkachi Bomara Yohaviya Thumb Bomara yohaviya Thomara Bomara yohaviya Thumb yohaviya Thumb Bomara Bomara Yohaviya Thumb yohaviya Thumb. Bomara Yohaviya thumb. Bomara Yohaviya Thomara Bomara yo Aviatam yohaviya Thumb Bomara Mara Yohaviyatam Yohaviyatam Omara Yohaviyatam Omara Yohaviyatam omara. Omara Yohaviyatam yohaviyatam omara. Omara Yohaviyatam yohaviyatam omara. Omara Yohaviyatam amatuna piva. I hope so.

Assembly Member Papan will lead us in the pledge.

Reading of the previous day journal. Assembly Chamber, Sacramento, Wednesday, June 28, 2023. The Assembly met at 07:00 A.m.. The Honorable Freddie Rodriguez, Assembly Member 50.

Mr. Bryan Moves and Mr. Flora seconds that the reading of the previous day journal will be dispensed with presentations and petitions. There are none. Introduction and reference of bills will be deferred. Reports of committees will be deemed read and amendments deemed adopted. Messages from the Governor, there are none. Messages from the Senate. There are none. Moving to motions and resolutions, the offices of the day for personal business Assembly Member Jim Patterson, Assembly Member Bryan, you are recognized for your procedural motions.

Thank you, Madam Speaker, I request unanimous consent to suspend Assembly Rule 45.5 to allow Assembly Members Vince, Fong and Gibson to speak on adjournment memory today.

Without objection, such shall be the order.

I request unanimous consent to suspend Assembly Rule 118A to allow Assembly Members Ramos and Lowenthal to have photographers and guests on the floor today.

Without objection, such shall be the order.

Madam Speaker, I request unanimous consent to rescind the action whereby on September 1, 2023 SB 428 Blakespear was read a third time and passed. Please order the Bill back to the third reading file.

Without objection, such shall be the order.

I further request unanimous consent to rescind the action whereby on August 20 Eigth, 2023 SB 639 Limon was read a third time and passed to the Senate. Please order the Bill back to the third reading file.

Without objection. Such shall be the order.

Madam Speaker, I request unanimous consent to return item 212 AB e872 by the Education Committee to the Senate.

Such shall be the order.

And lastly, Madam Speaker, I moved to suspend Assembly rule 69 to allow Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry to take up late amendments on item one, ACA One today.

Seconded by Assembly Member Hart. This rule suspension is not debatable. The Clerk will open the roll. The Majority Leader is asking for an aye vote on this procedural motion. Mr. Flores asking for a no vote. Majority Leader is asking for an aye vote on this procedural motion. Mr. Flores is asking for a no vote. The Clerk will close the roll and tally the vote. ayes 43 no. 16. The motion carries. The rule is suspended. Assembly Member Flora. You are recognized.

Thank you. Madam Speaker, I move to suspend the Rules and withdraw ACA Twelve from Rules Committee and take it up on the Floor immediately without reference to file.

Assembly Member Flora is asking to suspend the Rules to take up ACA Twelve without reference to a committee or file. The motion is seconded by Assemblymember. Sanchez. This is a procedural vote and it is not debatable. Mr. Majority Leader. For what purpose?

Parliamentary inquiry.

State your parliamentary inquiry.

Madam speaker, isn't it true that there are several bills related to the sale, distribution, accountability, and network around Fentanyl still to be dealt with on this Floor by September 14? And, in fact, this body has passed more legislation related to Fentanyl than any legislative body in California's history?

That is correct, Mr. Majority Leader. Members, this procedural motion is not debatable. The Clerk will open the roll. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. Mr. Flora is asking for an aye vote. Majority Leader Bryan is asking for a no vote on his procedural motion. Majority Leader Bryan is asking for a no vote on this procedural motion. Mr. Flora is asking for an aye vote. The Clerk will close the roll and tally the vote. ayes 18, noes 42. The motion fails. Moving on to the business on the Daily File second reading, the Clerk will read.

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All bills will be deemed read and all amendments will be deemed adopted. We're moving into concurrence and Senate Amendments. File number 2117, ACR 17. The Clerk will read.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution 17 by Assembly Member Ramos and others relative to California Native American Day and the California Indian Cultural Awareness Conference.

Assembly Member Ramos. You are recognized.

Thank you. Thank you, Madam Speaker. Today I rise to request your aye vote for ACR 17, which recognizes the importance of California Native American Day and the annual California Indian Culture Awareness Conference. California Native American Day is celebrated the fourth Friday in September and this year falls on September 22. For generations, California's first people have endured genocide, forced assimilation, denial of civil rights, and other grave injustices. But we have also survived and prevailed with resiliency with the resiliency of our ancestors.

Today, we call on the state of California to learn more about the California Indian tribes in the regions that we represent as a state Legislature, true traditional culture and history and attributes to the state. As many roads were once Indian trails and waterways were first protected by California's first people, there still is a lot of work to be done.

So let's stand united as a state and a people to be able to come against the institutions in the state of California that still harbor the remains of our ancestors. Let's bring our ancestors back for proper reburial, learning true history and culture, that is, knowledge that builds bridges to understand one another. The California Indian Culture Awareness Conference will be how to provide a resource to our teachers. We salute the efforts of all California Indian people.

California Indians have been blessed with elders who, despite many obstacles, work to preserve language, songs and stewardships of natural resources. We owe our elders and our ancestors a debt of gratitude for saving, for saving, for saving what was ours. In the light of all these atrocities, we have a lot to celebrate, but we also have a lot of work to do as a state Legislature.

And together we will be able to start to work together to bring the true history of California's first people to light in education, but also to make sure that the remains of our ancestors come home for proper reburial. I ask that the first row be open for co authors.

Thank you, Assemblymember Ramos. Assembly Member Waldron, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker and Members. I am honored to rise in support of ACR 17. Let's take this moment to acknowledge and celebrate the significant positive impact California's Native Americans have had on our state's history. My Assembly district is home to more tribal governments than any other district in the state.

Tribal issues have always been important to me, especially the safety of their communities, their prosperity, and most importantly, their sovereignty. Over the past few years, this body has seen major legislation focused on recognizing and empowering our Native American communities, but there is still so much left to be done.

Observing September 22 as Native American Day is a celebration that resonates in the hearts of tribes and communities across this amazing state. We cannot thank our Native Americans enough for what they've contributed to our country and this great state of California. Many tribes in my district are acknowledged for their achievements in education, economics and agriculture. They have contributed to California's economy by generating income, creating jobs, providing educational opportunities to residents and tourists, and enhancing community safety.

Tribal governments are great regional partners supporting local charities and assisting local governments both through planning and mutual aid. I ask for your aye vote in acknowledging the enduring contributions of California's Native American communities to our great state. Thank you.

Thank you. Assemblymember Waldron. And Assemblymember Garcia, you're recognized.

Thank you, Madam Chair and colleagues. I stand as a proud co author of Assembly Concurrent Resolution 17 and on behalf of Chair of the Latino Caucus to speak on this resolution. I also want to acknowledge the work of our colleagues who has introduced this resolution who has just shed light on a long list of issues that historically in this chamber had not been discussed.

The issues of repatriation, the strong need for educational integration into our curriculums throughout the state of California and many other issues that are pending to be addressed. But before we continue with our remarks, I want to honor and acknowledge the native people of this area: The Nisenan, Foothills and southern Maidu, Valley and Plains Miwok, Miwok and Potwin Winton people of this area. Those are original and traditional stewards of the land here in Sacramento County.

Members, this house and representatives of Californians, 40 million Californians who call our state home have a special responsibility to ensure that the Native and Indigenous communities of California are not forgotten. Our state is home to the largest number of both Native people and federally recognized tribes in our country. The Native people inhabited and cared for the lands that we now call California for thousands and thousands of years before Europeans ever set foot in North America.

Native people continue to make innumerable and invaluable contributions to the culture and the economy of California. While it is certainly our duty to celebrate and honor the native peoples who call California home, we must also recognize our state's deeply checkered past when it comes to the treatment of Native people. We must acknowledge the history and the atrocities and the attempts at compelled assimilation committed at boarding schools the native children were forced to attend in past decades and centuries.

We must continue to address the ongoing state issues of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls throughout California on and off the reservations. We must confront the history of state sponsored genocide and armed military assaults that occurred in earlier parts of California's history.

While we must continue to celebrate and educate ourselves about the history of Native and Indigenous peoples here in California, including celebrating California Native American Day and the California Indian Cultural Awareness Conference, we must continue to acknowledge the work we have ahead of us on behalf of our Native peoples. I'd like to just close by saying that our interests in the issues up and down the state of California in regards to Native people come from.

And we have these debates and discussions on this floor, from the teachings of ethnic studies classes at the middle school level. That's the place where we've had an opportunity to learn about the history, the checkered history that I make reference to. And we now have an opportunity collectively to change that course of history. And I'm very grateful to the work of our colleague from Highland who again has shed light to many issues that historically have not been brought up and discussed in this chamber. So with that, respectfully ask for an aye vote for ACR 17.

Thank you, Assembly Member Garcia. Assembly Member Gipson, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Madam Speaker, Members. I rise in support and also as a proud co author of ACR 17 and on behalf of the California Legislative Black Caucus. We stand in solidarity by supporting this ACR. And I want to thank my colleague from San Bernardino for being bold and continue to raise the awareness and the conscious level not only in this floor, but also in California in terms of the work and the history of the Native Americans.

ACR 17 would recognize the importance of California's Native American Day and the annual California Indian Culture Awareness Conference that's coming up that my colleagues made mention of. California's Native American Day is not just another day on the calendar. This day, this ACR is the start to the ending of the long history of the paper, the paper genocide that Native Americans as well as African Americans have endured in this country.

The eradication of our being here and our existence through the white through the white paper or the paper genocide, it is something that we face as different cultures in this country. And let me simply say that maybe this may be the first time you have actually heard of the paper genocide in this country. Well, it does exist. It is the international destruction of documents and records related to a particular people like the Native Americans, like the African Americans in the United States of America.

It was used as a ploy to destroy the history of the Native Americans as well as the African Americans culture and create a serious generational trauma in both communities. Our ancestors had to give up and relinquish their identity and also their culture or face violence.

And so by again elevating this very important ACR in this country, we stand in solidarity as a caucus standing in solidarity to say never to repeat the atrocity has taken place in our culture towards also the Native Americans. And we stand in solidarity with our brother from San Bernardino and ask for a strong aye vote on ACR 17.

Thank you, Assembly Member Gipson. Assembly Member Gabriel, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. I rise today as co chair of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus and as a proud co author of ACR 17 recognizing California Native American Day, which will be celebrated later this month on September 22. I also want to extend my thanks to our colleague for San Bernardino, for his tremendous leadership in this body, in this house and throughout the state of California on raising our consciousness and representing the first peoples of the state of California.

California Native American Day is an opportunity to celebrate our state's first people. Tribes and communities across this state will come together to recognize a shared history and the great impact that the Native people of California have had in shaping our state. We will also reflect on the injustices perpetrated against California's Native American communities and the long and ongoing struggle to heal the deep wounds left by generations of violence and discrimination.

It has now been five years since our state formally apologized for the acts of discrimination and violence committed against California Indian tribes. In that time, we have just begun to scratch the surface of what can be done to rebuild bridges and to rectify the relationship between our state and California's tribes in the Jewish community. We share a great sympathy for the struggle of Native Americans in the state of California.

Our commitment to Tikun Alam, to repairing the world, and to supporting oppressed peoples obligates us to support California's first people. We stand in strong solidarity with all of California's tribes and California Indian people and commit to working with tribal nations to rectify the many injustices that have been committed in that spirit. And on behalf of the Legislative Jewish Caucus, I respectfully request an aye vote on ACR 17.

Thank you, Assembly Member Gabriel. Assembly Member Ward, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Members, I rise today on behalf of the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus in support of ACR 17, which recognizes the importance of California Native American Day and the annual California Indian Cultural Awareness Conference. This day and associated conference are vital to California as they provide the avenue for educators to receive critical resources as well as provide the opportunity for kids to gain an understanding of the history of Native American tribes.

As history shows, European colonization of Native Americans not only devastated each community as a whole, but also uprooted the ceremonial roles of LGBTQ and Two Spirit Natives. Colonizers were calculating in their campaign to impose anti Indigenous values, using violence and coercion to not only replace Native traditions, but also to erase significant stories and knowledge that had previously been passed down through future generations.

As such, tribes lost generational stories of LGBTQ and Two Spirit natives who held special standing or were revered as holy beings and LGBTQ and two spirit Native Americans were forced into hiding. There are still those today who often wish we could simply erase the dark stains from our history. But if we do not acknowledge the full truth of it and take preventative measures, we run risk of allowing those mistakes to happen again.

California Native American Day and its associated conference is a time to deal with the trauma of the past and put back together the lost history and stories of California's tribes. We must acknowledge history. We must convey the accuracies of it, and we must learn from it in order to become a fully better society that does not shy away from diverse traditions and identities, but rather embraces them.

On behalf of the Legislative LGBTQ Caucus, I'm proud to stand with the chair of our Legislative Native American Caucus in highlighting the importance of Native American culture and history and recognizing our inseparable intersectionality. I respectfully ask for your aye vote on ACR 17.

Thank you, Assembly Member Ward. Assembly Member Gallagher, you are recognized.

Yes, thank you, Madam Speaker, Members I also rise in support of ACR 17 as a proud representative and having the great honor to work with the Maidu and the Nomlaki and the Nissanon people in my district and last year to have authored and helped pass in this Legislature. And I was glad to have bipartisan support in that effort to ensure that Native peoples and tribes would be able to actually take over and take on conservation easements.

This is something that came to my attention as I represent the area of Chico. And Chico State actually ran and operated a conservation easement in the district and was not able to transfer that to the Native peoples, the Mechoopda tribe, to manage and operate that because under California law, that wasn't permitted. We changed that last year.

And I'm proud of that work and proud to work with the author who has done many things to help ensure that we recognize the great contributions of Native Americans to this state. I also know we have a lot more work to do, and we recognize this earliest year of missing Native American women and the terrible things, atrocities that have been done that we need to do more about.

And I know the author has been doing a lot of work on that front, proud to stand with him. This is a bipartisan effort, Republicans and Democrats coming together to work with the first people. I also think of wildfire prevention and the work that's been done in the area, prescribed fire and how Native peoples are stepping up to do a lot of that work that they've known.

This is things that we have needed to relearn that they already knew. And so the work that we've done with so many across the state, native tribes and peoples, thankful for that work. And I'm proud to support this resolution today. Thank you.

Thank you, Assembly Member Gallagher. Assembly Member Lee, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I just wanted to rise and join my colleagues in supporting ACR 17 on behalf of the Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus. Certainly the impacts of imperialism and colonialism have also impacted so many within the Asian American diaspora that have ended up here to be able to share and learn so much from our first civilizations.

And I want to recognize how important it is, especially the work of the author, especially on establishing feather alert, which many of our API colleagues have been very helpful in getting together and really want to stress the importance of celebrating California Native American Day and bringing more culture awareness for California Indian Americans as also spotlighting murdered and missing Indigenous women as well. Thank you.

Thank you, Assembly Member Lee. Assembly Member Ramos, would you like to close?

Thank you, Madam Speaker. And thank you to my colleagues in different caucuses that spoke. We have worked together in this Legislature to tackle the missing and murder indigenous women, creating Feather Alert for the first time in the state of California. We also did move together as a body and started to rename an institution in San Francisco that no longer bears the name of someone that committed genocide against the Yuki Indian people. Now that institution is called College of the Law, San Francisco.

Together in this Legislature, we are correcting a wrong. A wrong in the history of the state of California. We also did move forward on a piece of legislation that deals with working within the educational system to learn more about California Indian people. In the third and fourth grades and in the middle school and high school, we have worked together to work on repatriation, repatriation items that come back to tribes for reburial.

And just recently, we had a hearing that identified the Cal State universities have over 700,000 Native American remains. We still have a lot of work to do, but we start by acknowledging September 22 as California Native American Day and stand united side by side to uplift the California's first people, the California Indians of the state of California. I ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Ramos. Clerk, open the roll. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. Clerk, close the roll. Ayes 73. Nos zero. We'll take a voice vote on the resolution. Senate amendments are concurred in.

On behalf of Assemblymember Ramos, please welcome tribal chairpersons who are at the rear of the chamber. From the Wilton Rancheria, welcome Jesus Tarongo. From the Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians, welcome Janet K. Bill. And from the Pala Band of Mission Indians, welcome Robert Smith.

And Members, let's also welcome Boma SETI. Thank you for attending today. And Members also welcome Russell Buster Attebery the chairman of the Karuk tribe. Thank you so much for attending today. Members, we are on file 2116, AB 1445. Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1445 by Assembly Member Arambula in public schools.

Yes. Assembly Member Arambula, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker and Members, today I rise to present AB 1445, the Nang Tao Drowning Prevention Act, which is named in honor of a constituent of the 31st Assembly District. Nang was an 18 year old senior preparing to graduate as valedictorian at Edison High School in Fresno when he tragically drowned in a local river in 2017.

In a year just like this, when our rivers are so full, by increasing awareness of swim safety and drowning prevention at an early age, AB 1445 can help save lives of Californians. Senate amendments apply provisions of the Bill to all public schools instead of public elementary schools. Thank you, Members, and I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Arambula. Seeing no debate or discussion. Clerk open the roll. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote Clerk close the roll. Aye 63. No. Zero. Senate amends are concurrent. Members, we have a special guest that's in the back of the chamber, congressman Garcia. Welcome Congressman Garcia to the Assembly Floor. Members, we are going to move to Assembly Third Reading Pass and Retain on items 220 to 226.

Moving on to file number 252, SB 91. Clerk will read.

Senate Bill 91 by Senator Umberg and act relating to environmental quality.

Assembly Member Lowenthal, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker and colleagues, on behalf of Senator Umberg, pleased to present SB 91, which seeks to permanently exempt projects which convert motels into supportive or transitional housing from the California Environmental Quality Act, also known as CEQA. California's homeless and housing crisis has only become more dire over the past few years. In 2018, the city of Los Angeles established an interim motel conversion ordinance to allow for motel conversions on a temporary 15 year basis by entering into a contract with homeless service providers.

While many of these motels are ideal sites for affordable housing, the secret process often leads to unnecessary costs ranging from $100,000 up to a million dollars. In addition to potential administrative and litigation delays, in 2019, the Legislature passed SB 450, which exempted motel conversions for homeless projects from Sequa until January 1, 2025. Along with project homekey, SB 450 has helped streamline at least 804 units of motel conversions within Southern California.

Due to the success that SB 450 has had in bringing critically needed housing online to house homeless populations, SB 91 is necessary to indefinitely extend this CEQA exemption. Members, I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Lowenthal. Let's see. Seeing no discussion or debate, Clerk will open the roll. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. Clerk close the roll. Ayes 65. Nos zero. Measure passes. Moving on to file number 255, SB 335.

The Senate Bill 335 by Senator Cortese and others. And I believe it's taxation.

Assembly Member Bennett, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I rise today to present Senator Cortese's SB 335. This bill would grant the county of Santa Clara temporary authority to give voters the option to raise local taxes until December 2028. Existing law allows local jurisdictions, including cities, counties and certain special districts, to collectively levy local sales taxes up to 2% limit. The bill does not increase the tax itself. That discretion continues to remain with the voters.

The bill was also recently amended to add cleanup language to my AB 2453 from last year. I respectfully asked for an aye vote.

Seeing no discussion or debate, Clerk will open the roll. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. Clerk, close the roll. Ayes: 47. Noes: 15. Measure passes. Moving on to item number 256, SB 537. Clerk will read.

Clerk will read.

Senate Bill 537 with amendments by Assembly Member Hart.

Assembly Member Hart, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I rise to present amendments to SB 537 by Senator Becker. The amendment includes suggestions from the Clerk officials and address chaptering out conflicts. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Hart. I see no discussion or debate. This is without objection. We will take a voice vote. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? No. The amendments are adopted. The Bill goes out to print and back on file. Moving on to file number 257, SB 33.

33, Clerk will read.

The Senate Bill 33 with amendments by Assemblymember Dixon.

Assemblymember Dixon, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker and members, I rise on behalf of my colleague, Senator Glazer, to amend SB 33. The amendments are technical in nature and bring most opposition to a neutral position. I respectfully ask for your aye vote on these amendments.

Seeing no discussion or debate, without objection, we will take a voice vote. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? You guys, your ayes are really weak today. Come on. The amendments are adopted. The bill goes out to print and back on file. We're moving on to file number 260, SB 372.

Clerk will read.

Senate Bill 372 by Senator Menjivar and others in accolade in the professions and vocations.

Assembly, Members Zbur, you are recognized.

Good morning, Madam Speaker. Members, I rise to present SB 372 on behalf of Senator Menjivar. SB 372 is a bipartisan authored Bill that aims to protect the privacy and ensure the safety of transgender and nonbinary Californians by eliminating the use of dead names at the Department of Consumer Affairs for licensed professionals who have changed their legal names. For those of you who may not know, when transgender and non binary people transition or come out, they may choose to legally change their name to affirm their identity.

Their original or birth name is then referred to as their dead name. This Bill also aims to protect folks who change their legal names for other reasons, including for safety reasons. For example, if someone has experienced domestic violence and is registered with the Secretary of State's Safe at Home Program. The Department of Consumer Affairs provides licenses for a range of folks, from manicurists to social workers.

Currently, anyone licensed by the DCA who legally changes their name still has their dead name or birth name visible on the DCA's online licensing platform. If a licensee's former name is still visible on the DCA's online system, it can unintentionally also out a licensee as trans without their consent. Trans people experience high rates of discrimination already, with almost half of the people surveyed in the most recent U. S. Trans survey reporting verbal harassment, and close to a third experiencing discrimination in the workplace.

By using and only displaying a DCA's licensee's current legal name, the state can protect both the privacy and safety of its licensed professionals. This Bill will not change any other documents affiliated with a licensee's former name or their license number, and requires that DCA establish a process to identify a licensee who has changed their name if necessary for purposes of a complaint. It strikes a balance between consumer protection and licensee privacy and only affects a previous name upon request.

SB 372 takes a simple step to protect DCA licensees, including trans, as well as gender nonconforming licensed professionals at a time when these protections are more important than ever. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Seeing no discussion or debate, Clerk will open the roll. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote Clerk will close the roll. Ayes 55. Nos five, measure passes. Moving on to file number two six two, SB 389.

389. Clerk will read.

Senate Bill 389 by Senator Allen and others, an act relating to water.

Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan. You are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker and members. On behalf of Senator Allen, I rise to present SB 389, which provides the State Water Resources Control Board with the ability to verify the existence and scope of claims to senior water rights. Through recent amendments worked on in conjunction with the bill's original opposition, the opposition coalition is now moved to neutral. California has a complicated history when it comes to water rights, and those who claim to hold pre-1914 rights are exempted from the scrutiny given to post-1914 counterparts.

Amidst water resource uncertainty caused by climate change, it has become increasingly more challenging for the board to manage our precious water systems, given the need to account for diversions and lack of sufficient information about them. By providing the board ability to ask for proof of these rights and relevant information, the board is able to make more informed decisions, a benefit to all holders in the system, regardless of their kind of right. SB 389's primary focus is information gathering.

I want to be clear that no new enforcement mechanisms are created through this bill. Members, the bill is not an overhaul of our water rights system. Instead, the measure is aimed at ensuring our system is operating the way it is supposed to before we run out of time to fix it. With that, I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Seeing no discussion or debate, clerk will open the roll. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Ayes 50, noes 17. Measure passes. Moving to file number 277, SB 743.

Clerk will read.

Senate Bill 743 by Senator Nguyen in accolade to insurance.

Member Chen, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. SB 743 is a non controversial technical measure dealing with fraud disclosures requirements on insurance documents. I respectfully ask for aye vote.

Seeing no discussion or debate, Clerk will open the roll. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote, all those vote who desire to vote, Clerk close the roll. Aye 73 no zero measure passes. Moving on to file number two seven nine, SB 332 Clerk will read.

Senate Bill 332 by Senator Cortese and others act relating to employment, declaring the urgency thereof to take effect immediately.

Assembly Member Haney, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker and Members, I rise to present SB 332 on behalf of Senator Cortese, which I am proud to be a principal coauthor. SB 332 reflects months long negotiations and a historic agreement between minor league Baseball Players Association and major league baseball, and is the first ever nationwide collective bargaining agreement for minor league players. There are nine California minor league teams comprised of 362 minor league baseball players.

SB 332 would exempt these players from certain wage, overtime, rest period, record keeping, and meal periods as long as there is a valid collective bargaining agreement. This language recognizes that applying wage and hour statutes to minor league baseball would dramatically alter how players are utilized and how games are played in California's nine major league venues.

SB 332 would ensure minor league baseball players across California will receive a significant new increase in regular season salary and benefits, plus the addition of spring training and offseason pay. The Bill has no opposition and strong bipartisan support, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote on behalf of Senator Cortese.

Thank you, Assembly Member Haney. Seeing no discussion or debate, this is a 54 vote Bill. Clerk will open. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Ayes 71. Nos one. On the urgency. I lost. Ayes 71. Nos one on the Bill. Measure passes. Members returning to item 32, SB 314 by McCarty. On second reading for purpose of amendments.

The Clerk will read.

Senate Bill 314 with amendments by Assembly Member McCarthy.

Assembly Member McCarty, you are recognized on your amendments.

Thank you, Madam Speaker, on behalf of my colleague, Senator Ashby, also from Sacramento presenting these amendments technical in nature, addressing some chaptering issues related to our county independent redistricting respectfully ask for your aye vote for these amendments. Thank you.

Members, I rise to present technical amendments to ACA One which address a drafting error and adds co authors who were inadvertently left off. Amendments taken in Appropriations Committee. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you. Assemblymember McCarty, is there any objection to taking a voice vote on the amendments? Seeing none. Seeing, hearing none. All those in favor say aye. Aye. That's better. Opposed? Say no. The ayes have it. The amendments are adopted. The Bill is out to print and back on file. Members, returning to item one, ACA One by Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry for the purpose of amendments.

The Clerk will read.

Assembly constitutional amendment one, with amendments by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry.

Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry, you are recognized on your amendments at my desk.

Seeing no others wishing to speak on this item. Is there any objection in taking a voice vote on the amendments? No objection. Seeing and hearing no. All those in favor indicate by saying aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. The amendments are adopted and back on file.

Without objection, we will move back to motions and resolutions to allow Majority Leader Bryan to make a motion. Mr. Majority Leader. You are recognized.

Thank you. Madam Speaker, I request the author please move file item 255, ACR 85 Villapudua to the enactor file.

The Clerk will note. Members moving back to file file number 263, SB 463. Clerk will read.

Senate Bill 463 by Senator Wahab and others, an act relating to juveniles.

Assembly Member Gipson, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Madam Speaker, Members, I rise to present SB 463 by Senator Wahab which removes the automatic presumption that the inability of a parent to fulfill a court order treatment program is enough to deny reunification of parents and children. There are many reasons unrelated to fitness or children's safety that a parent or guardian might not be able to fulfill particular treatment programs.

One being inability to--sorry--inability to take off work, lack of treatment programs, long listed or waitlist illness and inability to afford the program. Child welfare research and recent legislative trends suggest current risk to children should always be analyzed, not a parent's level of competence. Mainly, people in poverty are fearful and receive generational or generational trauma around the welfare system.

Lastly, SB 463 requires a court prioritizing children's situation, not the parents. This Bill strengthens judicial discretions and allow the courts to make a holistic determination when a decision for family reunification is to be granted. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Assembly Member Gipson seeing no discussion or debate, Clerk will open the roll. All those vote who desire to vote all those vote who desire to vote all those vote who desire to vote. Ayes 40. Clerk close the roll. Ayes 50. Nos 10. Measure pass.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. I request unanimous consent to rescind the action whereby SB 91 Umberg was read a third time and passed today.

Without objection. Such shall be the order.

I move to suspend Assembly Rules 63 and 77 to allow Assemblymember Bryan to take up his AB 421 for concurrence and Senate amendments.

Assembly Member Sanchez.

Assembly Member Sanchez is withholding unanimous consent. Assembly Member Hart moves, Assembly Member Gipson seconds to suspend the rules. Open the roll. This is not debatable. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote majority Leader ask for aye. Assemblymember Sanchez asks for a no. Takes 41. Clerk, close the roll. Aye is 53, no 17. The rules are suspended. Assembly Member Bryan, you are recognized.

Thank you. Madam speaker. We withhold consent and ask for a roll call vote.

Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 421 by Assembly Member Bryan and others, an act relating to elections and declaring the urgency thereof to take effect immediately.

Assembly Member Bryan. You are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Colleagues, AB 421 is back on concurrence from immediate transmittal from the Senate. AB 421 is an important elections measure that passed out of this House with 60 votes during House of origin. It does three really simple and clean things.

One, it lets the voters across California know who is paying for a referendum by putting that information in a voter guide. Second, it allows the proponents of a referendum to pull back that referendum if there is a legislative fix or some other remedy in the making.

And lastly, it clarifies the yes or no question, which is extremely confusing. Often voters don't know that a no may mean a yes. That double negative was designed to be confusing over a hundred years ago. This clarifies it really quickly: Keep the law or change the law. Again, it just left with the Senate with urgency. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Assemblymember Essayli, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this Bill, which makes it harder for the people of this state to exercise their constitutional right of referendum over this body. Under the Constitution, the people of this state have a right to check the power of the Legislature and to reverse a flawed or bad law. A power the people of this state have exercised consistently.

In fact, more often, more recently, whether it was with AB Five, where Uber and Lyft was able to successfully repeal it, or the fast food industry when a Bill was passed to raise fast food costs through the roof, which Californians can't afford. This Bill is designed to make it harder for the people of this state to pass a referendum, to qualify, and to pass it. That is wrong, and it is an attack on our democracy. That's what this Bill is.

I urge my colleagues to reject this, allow the people their right to check this body. That's their right. I know you don't like it, but that's their right, and that's their power. And we should not make it harder for them to qualify a referendum on the ballot. So for that, I will be strongly opposing it.

Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Essayli. Assembly Member Joe Patterson, you're recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. This measure seeks several reforms in the initiative process and that are worth discussion in each of their own rights. But it is missing one massive part, and that's the fact that the ballot title summary are written by a completely biased elected official and not an independent source that fundamentally flaws our initiative process in California. With that, I ask for a no vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Patterson. Assembly Member Bryan, would you like to close?

Yes. Colleagues, when this Bill first came before us, it was incredibly ambitious. It did seek to address timelines. It did seek to ensure that volunteers were out doing signature gathering instead of this pay for play bounty hunter business that we have now. It was incredibly ambitious. It has been pared back tremendously. It doesn't touch timelines. It doesn't touch signature gatherings. It has nothing to do with how hard it is to get something on the referendum ballot.

In fact, it should be hard to undo the work of a Legislature that has more women than it's ever had before, that has more black folks than it's ever had before, that has an LGBTQ caucus at parity with the state. If you're going to undo the people's house, now that the people finally represent this house, that should take an effort driven by the people in the communities, and they should do it in an honest way. The current process is confusing.

As my colleague from Corona mentioned, this process has flaws. He knows those flaws because in the elections committee, he himself did not know whether a no or a yes meant a no or a yes. We are clarifying. We are cleaning this up. We are doing it the right way, and we are doing it for the people of California. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Clerk will open the roll. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. Clerk, close the roll. Excuse me. Open the roll. This is urgency. We need a vote of 54. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. Members, we need 54 votes. All those vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Ayes 54. Nos 17.

On the urgency. Ayes 54, Nos 17 on the Bill. Senate amendments are concurred in. Moving to the consent calendar. Before we vote, we will first take up the resolutions on the consent calendar. For the purpose of adding co authors, the Clerk will read the resolutions on the consent calendar.

Assembly concurrent resolution 115 by Assembly Member Waldron relative to disc golf. House resolution 56 by Assembly Member Rodriguez relative to 911 for Kids Safety Education Month. Senate Concurrent Resolution 60 by Senator Seyarto relative to Service Dog Appreciation Month.

Senate Concurrent Resolution 70 by Senator Seyarto and others relative to Peachcon Puesque Mountain Day. Senate Concurrent Resolution 82 by Senator Wahab and others, relative to California Firefighter Appreciation Month and California Firefighters Memorial Day. Senate Concurrent Resolution 84 by Senator Alvarado-Gil relative to California Runaway and Homeless Youth Prevention Month. And Senate Concurrent Resolution 85 by Senator Leo relative to Ostomy Awareness Day.

Clerk will open the roll to allow any Member to add on as a co author to the resolutions. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote Clerk will close the roll. Ayes 72. No zero. There are 72 co authors moving to the vote on the consent calendar. Does any Member wish to remove an item from the consent calendar? Seeing and hearing none, the Clerk will read the second day consent calendar.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution 115 by Assembly Member Waldron relative to disc golf.

The Clerk will open the roll on the consent calendar. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote, Clerk will close the roll. Ayes 77, Nos zero. The consent calendar is adopted. The Clerk will read the remaining items on the consent calendar.

House Resolution 56.

Ayes 77, Nos zero.

Senate Concurrent Resolution 60.

Ayes 70, Nos zero.

Senate Concurrent Resolution 70.

Ayes 70. Nos zero.

Senate Concurrent Resolution 82.

Ayes 70. Nos zero.

Senate Concurrent Resolution 84.

Ayes 70. Nos zero.

And Senate Concurrent Resolution 85.

Ayes 70. Nos zero. Members, the quorum call is still in place. Please take your seats. We will now be moving to adjournments in memory. Please give your respectful attention to those who were granted prior permission to speak on the adjournment in memory. Assemblymember Gipson, you are recognized.

Thank you very much. Madam Speaker, Members, I rise to ask this body to adjourn in the memory of former California State Assembly Member Gerald Nicholas Jerry Ferlando, who was born on December the 29th, 1935 in San Pedro, California to Nicholas and Winifred Ferlando. Mr. Ferlando unfortunately passed away on August 23, 2023 at the young age of 88 years of age after two quick, unexpected, health related episodes.

Mr. Ferlando grew up in San Pedro, and after graduating, he joined the United States Coast Guard, where he was trained in sonar equipment operator. Upon his enlistment, inspired in the Coast Guard, he enrolled at the University of Southern California School of Dentistry and graduated in the early earlier in 1960. He practiced dentistry until 1978 when he decided to successfully run for the California State Assembly.

He championed efforts related to fishermen's, commercial sports, elderly persons dealing with vision issues, and those who have been challenged with developmental disabilities. Upon his retirement from politics, Assembly Member remained active in his native community of San Pedro, serving both as a Board Member and a life Member of the Dalmatian American Club in San Pedro and the ethnic social club of the Croatian descendants to which his family has affiliated themselves for generations.

He will be remembered by his family, his healthcare providers, and also his caregiver. Members, I respectfully ask that we adjourn in the memory of our former colleague that was on this green floor, mr. Gerald N. Fernando.

Thank you, Assembly Member Gipson. Assemblymember Fong, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Members, today I ask the Assembly to adjourn in the memory of Charles Chuck Kershman. Our farmers take pride in feeding billions of people every year in the Central Valley. And Chuck's legacy as the potato king of Kern County is well deserved. Chuck was born in Bakersfield, graduated from Bakersfield High School, and went off to Fresno State. With the unexpected loss of his father, Chuck returned home to help run the family farm with his brother, Arnold.

Before starting a family, Chuck joined the National Guard and was drafted into the army, where he was called to duty on a special operation. And we honor him for his service to our nation on the farm. Chuck spent over half a century farming nearly 14,000 acres annually, dominating the potato industry. That legacy he has passed on to his family. While farming was a passion, his true love was with his children and six grandchildren, Chase, Clara, Annabelle, Georgia, Faye, and Nora.

He also found golf as another way to connect with his family and friends alike, growing camaraderie and allowing him to travel and compete. Known for his larger than life personality, he will be remembered for his generosity and devotion to those he cared for. Chuck passed away on August 17 after 77 fruitful years. His service to his country and community, his wit and humor, and his devout love of his family will be missed by many, including myself. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Senator, Member Fong Members, please bring the names to the desk to be printed in the journal. All requests to adjourn in memory will be deemed read and printed in the journal. Members, please identify a couple of announcements. Couple of announcements. Members, please identify senators to manage your bills on the Senate floor. We're still missing some of those. Members, please take note that this Friday is the floor amendment deadline.

All floor amendments must be put across the desk by this Thursday so they can be adopted by Friday's amendment deadline. Also, the deadline to notice removal of bills from the inactive file for the purpose of amendment is tomorrow, Wednesday, September 6. The Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee meets upon adjournment of session today in Capitol room 126. The session schedule is as follows. Wednesday, September 6. Floor session starts at 10:00 a.m.. All other items remain to be passed and retained. All motions shall be continued.

Seeing and hearing no further business, I am ready to entertain a motion to adjourn. Assembly Member Hart moves and Assembly Member Lackey seconds that this House stands adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, September 6, at 10:00 a.m.. The quorum call is lifted. The house is adjourned.

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Vote change. Bauer-Kahan File Item 279, SB 332. From no to aye.

Vote change. Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan. Senate Bill 332, no to aye.

Vote change. On the motion to suspend the rules from aye to no.

Vote change. Assembly Member Garcia on the motion to suspend the rules. Aye to no.

Do I say my name?

Yes.

Vote change. Assembly Member McCarty on the suspension the rules, aye to no.

Vote change. Assemblymember McCarty on the motion to suspend the rules. Aye to no.

Yeah. Vote change. Cervantes SB 335. Aye to not voting.

Vote change. Assembly Member Cervantes Senate Bill 335 aye to not voting.

Assembly Member Petrie-Norris. SB 335. Aye to not voting.

Vote change. Assembly Member Petrie-Norris. Senate Bill 335 aye to not vote voting.

Assemblymember Irwin SB 335. Aye to no.

Vote change. Assembly Member Irwin. Senate Bill 335. Aye to no.