Assembly Floor

The Assembly is now in session. Assembly Member Aguilar curry notices the absence of a quorum. The sergeant at arms will prepare the chamber, bring in the absent Members. The Clerk will call the roll.

[Roll Call]

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 our Assembly chaplain, Mohammad Yasser Khan.

In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful, Almighty God. As we begin this session, we seek your guidance to lead with wisdom and integrity. Grant us the courage to face challenges and the humility to seek common ground. May our actions reflect justice, equity, and peace for those we serve.

Bless our discussions, that they may yield fruitful outcomes for the greater good. Inspire us to act with compassion and respect, uniting us in our shared purpose.

May our work honor your will and contribute to the well being of California Amen.

Thank you. Assemblymember Schiavo will lead us in the pledge.

Please. Hey. Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic, for which.

Thank you. Reading of the previous day's journal.

Semblance Chamber of Sacramento Wednesday, February 14, 2024.

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 the motions and resolutions, the absences for the day will be deemed read and printed in the journal.

The Assembly Aguilar-Curry moves. Mr. Flora seconds that the reading of the previous day's journal be dispensed with. Presentations and petitions there are none. Introduction and references of bills will be deferred.

Moving to our procedural motions, Madam Majority Leader Aguiar-Curry, you are recognized for your procedural motions.

Good morning, Mr. Speaker. I request unanimous consent to suspend Assembly rule 45.5 to allow Assemblymembers Pacheco, Calderon, Sanchez, Wallace, and Lowenthal to speak on an endearment in memory.

Without objection, such shall be the order.

I request unanimous consent to suspend Assembly Rule 118 a to allow Assemblymembers Lowenthal, Ortega, Joan Sawyer to have guests seated at their desk today.

Without objection, such shall be the order.

Pursuant to Assembly rule 5151 I request unanimous consent to refer HR 51 Assailey to the Rules Committee.

Without objection, such shall be the order. Moving on to guest introductions and announcements. Assemblymember Lowenthal, you are recognized for your guest introductions.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members, very pleased to invite or to welcome these Californians here hailing from the LBC. I have three club soccer players, 8th grader Olivia Lowenthal, 6th grader Raquel Lowenthal, 4th grader Violet Lowenthal. And they are the inspiration this year, as they were last year on the bill package coming out.

And I'm particularly proud to introduce their mom in our blended, modern family, who is my sounding board for all things legislative and otherwise. Mr. Speaker, welcome the Lowenthal family.

Thank you. Mr. Lowenthal, welcome. Mr. Jones-Sawyer, you are recognized for your guest introduction. Reginald

Thank you. Mr. Speaker, I would like to present Maria Sasha Ray, my domestic partner who's been with me for all 11 years since I've been here in the assembly and even before then.

She is the wind beneath my wings. She is the one that has kept me strong through all the adversity. But most important, I want to make sure I shared with her when the good times that are now here in the assembly. Welcome her today.

Thank you. Welcome, Assemblymember Ortega. You are recognized for your guest introduction.

Speaker and members, it is an honor and a pleasure to introduce to you my daughter, Yamara Isabel Toro, a junior in high school and my inspiration every single day. She is my favorite child as she is my only daughter and her siblings are not here today. Thank you for allowing me to introduce her.

Thank you. Majority Leader Aguiar-Curry, you are recognized for your guest introductions.

Good morning, members. I wanted to take a moment during Black History Month to welcome black farmers from my district representing a growing community of black California farmers.

Today I'd like to introduce Nathaniel Brown, Nelson Hawkins, and Keith Hudson from the Ujamba Cooperative Farming Alliance based in West Sacramento. With them is Jamie Fannis of the Community alliance of Family Farmers.

Thank you, Nate, Nelson, Keith, and Jamie for their work creating and promoting sustainable practices and proving that it is possible when we support our black farmers. Please give them a warm welcome.

Mr. Essayli. Assembly Member Essayli, you are recognized for your guest introduction.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. It is my privilege to welcome the sheriff of my county, Riverside County, Sheriff Chad Bianco, to the assembly here. The last year of the sheriff's department has been a really tough and tragic one.

We've lost three deputy sheriffs within a calendar year, Deputy Isaiah Cordero, Deputy Darnell Calhoun, and Deputy Brett Harris. The Riverside Sheriff's office has nevertheless stayed strong under the leadership of Sheriff Chad Bianco, and I thank him for his commitment to public service and for being with us here today.

Sheriff, welcome. Thank you.

Assemblymember McCarty, you are recognized for your guest introduction.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to recognize a group of students here from Stanford University, from the public policy program. They're joined by their professor, a former colleague of ours on the green carpet here, a former assemblymember from Joe Nation. I wanted to welcome them again to our state capitol. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Mccarty. And while there are no birthdays of members to recognize today, I'm going to take a moment of personal privilege and wish my son a happy birthday today. Happy birthday, Alex. Moving on to business on the daily file.

Governor's vetoes. Please pass and retain on file item number one. Under reconsideration, all items shall be continued. Assembly, third reading. Moving to item number. Excuse me. Item number five, ACR 132 by Mr. Santiago. The Clerk will read.

Sunday, Concurrent Resolution 132 by Senate Santiago. Relative to CalEITC Awareness Week.

Mr. Santiago, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We want to declare January 26 to February 2, CalEITC Awareness Week. And although it's already passed and we were declaring it because we still have a significant amount of time before people do their taxes.

And in fact, this last weekend, in one of the neighborhoods that I represent, we did a CalEITC awareness and help people do their taxes for free. We had about 300 individuals who came.

And what's really important about CalEITC, particularly the programs that we all put together here for our constituents, is a family who may be in need that could qualify for $31,000 or below, could have accessed about $3,500 because of the programs that we've all worked on to put together.

Quite frankly, one of the largest anti poverty programs that we have in the State of California. But it's not just that.

It's when we help people through CalEITC, we can also enroll them in the young child tax credit. So while we talk about the CalEITC and it's important to create awareness, still know that we've got to promote it in our districts because it is the largest anti poverty program.

And when we couple it up with the VITA programs that we all have been doing across the district, as well as a Young Child Tax Credit, families can go home with 5000 to 6000 to 7000 in their pocket.

And it is eligible for all who qualify, even those who qualify with an ITIN number. So today we want to raise this resolution up, open the first roll call for co-authors, and respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Seeing and hearing no other debate, the clerk will open the roll, for co-authors. All Members who desire to vote. All Members who desire to vote for co-authors, Members who desire to vote. All Members who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. 657 co-authors are added without objection.

We will now take a voice vote on the resolution. All those in favor say aye. Opposed say no. The ayes have it. The resolution is adopted. Moving on to file item number eight, HR 8 by Mr. Muratsuchi. Clerk will read.

House Resolution 68 by Senator Muratsuchi and others relative to Japanese American concentration camps.

Mr. Marsucci, you are recognized.

Thank you very much. Colleagues, I rise once again to present House Resolution 68, which declares February 19 as a day of remembrance for the State of California. As you may recall, February 19 was the 82nd anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt signing Executive order 966, the Executive order that led to the mass incarceration of over 125,000 Japanese Americans, a mass incarceration based on race, without any due process of law, and without any evidence of treason or military necessity.

Every year, Japanese Americans throughout the state come together to commemorate this day of remembrance in hopes that all Americans will remember and learn the lessons so that no other community is ever targeted or scapegoated by our own government or any other government ever again. But every year, as time passes and as we all age, there are fewer and fewer Japanese Americans who show up at these events, who are survivors of America's concentration camps.

Recently, we lost a beloved community leader, someone who was born in Manzanar, California, who went on to lead the fight for reparations for Japanese Americans. Alanicio was born on August 1945 in the Manzanar concentration camp. He was, of course, too young to remember anything about Manzanar. He grew up in Los Angeles, but he never knew or learned anything about Manzanar or the history of Japanese Americans during World War II until he went to college at UC Berkeley.

As Alan once said, like most Japanese Americans, my family never spoke of the World War II incarceration out of a sense of shame that we had done something wrong. Well, of course you had done nothing wrong. And of course, like most Americans of his time, he never learned anything about America's concentration camps. In school, as a young college student, Alan finally learned about what happened to Japanese Americans during the war.

And he finally understood why his father went from owning a grocery store before the war to becoming a gardener after the war. He finally understood why. He saw pictures of his father beaming with pride in front of his new store before the war. But after the war, he only had memories of his father as a bitter man who never smiled, who hardly ever talked, a man who hated his life as a gardener, and who escaped his bitterness by turning to alcohol.

As Alan learned more about the history of his community, he became angry. He channeled his anger into his student activism, getting involved in the free speech movement, the student nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Vietnam War protests, Third World students strike and the ethnic studies movement.

After Berkeley, he came back home to Los Angeles in the late 1960s to become one of the founders of the UCLA Asian American Studies program to make sure that the history of Americans concentration camps and the history of all Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders would be taught. He then began to focus on grassroots community activism in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.

In the late 1970s, when Japanese Americans across the country first began calling for reparations, Alanicio founded and then became the co chair of the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations, a grassroots organization of Japanese Americans across the country that engaged in what ended up being a 10 year campaign that culminated in 1988 with the passage of House Resolution 442, a Bill number, by the way, that was selected to honor the legendary all Japanese American United States army combat unit that fought the Nazis in Europe and became one of the most decorated units in American military history.

The Bill was signed by none other than President Ronald Reagan, and the Bill acknowledged that the root causes of the mass incarceration were race prejudice, wartime hysteria, and a failure of political leadership. The Bill provided a formal apology on behalf of the United States of America, together with $20,000 in reparations for every Japanese American who had their freedom wrongfully denied as a result of Executive order 966, and who was still alive when the Bill was signed into law.

After the fight for reparations, Allen continued to dedicate his life to the Japanese American community. He loved the community, and the community loved him back. I first met Alan in the mid 1990s when I was a young man working with the Japanese American civil rights organization in Little Tokyo. And like many people who had the privilege of getting to know and work with Alan, I loved Alan and respected him as a legend, a hero.

I had a chance to talk with Alan over the phone a few days before he recently passed away. He had battled with cancer for more than 17 years, so he had a lot of time to think about the end of his life and to prepare himself and his loved ones. His last words to me were, I've lived a good life. I have no regrets. It's time for me to pass it on.

So today, colleagues, I wanted to pass on to you a legacy of Manzanar Alan Nicio of Gardena, California. He was a great American. Please join me in commemorating February 19 as a day of remembrance.

Thank you, Mr. Muratsuchi. Assembly Member Luz Rivas, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members, I rise today on behalf of the California Native American Legislative Caucus to express my support for HR 68 and to thank the Member from Torrance for introducing this resolution. Many of our ancestors have experienced internment, including Native Americans. The American government named Native American Camps reservations.

Native Americans were also captured, held, and made to work in the Spanish era missions or in mining camps during the gold rush in 1942, our brothers of Japanese American Ancestry were held in internment camps through FDR's Executive Order 9066. Over almost three years, more than 120,000 Americans and residents of Japanese ancestry were deprived of their civil rights, homes, businesses, and dignity.

These families were separated nearly 40 years after the United States Supreme Court decisions upholding the convictions of Fred Koramatsu and others for violations of Executive Order 9066 we learned that the US Department of War and the US Department of Justice destroyed and withheld information from the US Supreme Court about the loyalty of the people of Japanese ancestry.

Despite these injustices and forced incarceration behind barbed wire, thousands of Japanese Americans served for America during World War II in the Hundredth infantry battalion and 442 regimental combat teams. These brave and patriotic men and women later received numerous awards and honors. Yesterday, February 19, marked 82 years since the signing of that order. Let us work together to ensure that such orders never occur again by working together for equity and justice despite our fears. Thank you. And I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you. Assembly Member Rivas. Assembly member Bryan, you are recognized.

Thank you. Mr. Speaker and colleagues, I rise on behalf of the legislative Black Caucus and strong support of HR 68. And I want to thank my colleague from Torrance for bringing this history back to life on this floor. We've had some dark histories in Americans history. America's dark history is actually some of the darkest history in the world. And the only way we learn from that history is to continue to tell it. What we did to Japanese Americans out of fear and subjugation and torment.

It cost folks their livelihoods, their homes, their sense of being and belonging in this country that had been a welcoming light to the world. It was wrong. It was wrong then, and it's been wrong every day since then. And the only way to right that kind of an evil, that kind of a wrong, is through repair, through apologies, and through reparations.

It's not lost on me that my colleague from Torrance centered reparations in his comments, because that repair is the only real way to address these kinds of harms. So I ask that as we commemorate this day immemorial, as we look to HR 68, we also look to the rest of the work that we have to do in this body and the rest of the repair for the harms committed in our country and in our state that still need to be done.

Thank you, Assemblymember Bryan. Majority Leader Aguiar-Curry, you are recognized.

Thank you, Assembly Member, for bringing this forward. It just seems a little bit ironic that in my community, we are going to acknowledge the Japanese heritage in our community. A lot of people didn't realize how many families live there and were shipped off to internment camps. It's a really rich history in our community, and it's almost disappeared. Before World War II, the first Japanese immigrants were vital and strong part of winter's agricultural community.

Precisely 100 years later, after decades of developing the land and being interned during World War II, President Ronald Reagan apologized to the Japanese Americans on behalf of the US with monetary reparations from the Civil Liberties act of 1988. That 100 year history should be preserved. And that's why my historical society is doing that.

We will be doing a presentation in about a month with a plaque to acknowledge them, to also visit the Japanese cemetery, the portions that are of our local cemetery, and to talk about what a wonderful life that we have been given due to all their hard work. So I want to thank you for bringing this forward. It means a lot to me, and it's ironic that it's happening so soon. So thank you very much. I'd love for you to come over to the celebration.

Thank you, Madam Majority leader. Assembly member Carrillo, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members, today I rise on behalf of the California Latino Legislative Caucus in strong support of House Resolution 68. On February 19, we marked 82 years since the signing of the Executive Order9066 a dark chapter in California's history, the internment of Japanese Americans. During World War II, the US government forced more than 120,000 people of Japanese descent into 10 camps across the western states.

Two of these were in California, Manzanar in Central California, and two, Lake Relocation center in the north. In fact, individuals who resisted these grave injustices were sent to a special camp in Tool Lake where dissidents were housed. During this time, California was home to nearly three quarters of the entire Japanese American population by 1940. The Web Haney act, designed to discourage immigrants, particularly those from Asia, from settling in California, was just one of many discriminatory laws that Japanese Americans faced during this time.

These laws, combined with the devastating effects of World War II, would ultimately lead to the internment of Japanese Americans in the United States. These were discriminatory laws rooted in Xenophobia that forcibly uprooted the lives of more than 120,000 Americans and residents of Japanese ancestry, disrupting their education and careers and causing the loss of their homes, businesses, farms, and livelihoods.

No charges of disloyalty were brought against any of these citizens, nor was there any vehicle by which they could appeal for the loss of property or personal liberty. On the day of remembrance, we honor the memory of Japanese Americans who were unjustly excluded, removed, and incarcerated in internment camps during World War II. This serves as a reminder of the great grave injustices that were committed against innocent individuals and families who were forced to endure years of hardship and suffering.

I want to bring into our chamber the history that we all share and the immense contributions of civil rights history by the Mudemitsu family, Sayima Mudemitsu, his wife Masako. Their boys, Seiko and Selo Seiko, known as Tad. Their twin girls, Kasuko and Akiko, were all forced from their farm in Westminster and into an internment camp. Tad, being American born, was able to retain the 40 acre farm in Westminster, something that was quite unusual at the time.

Through a mutual friend, they met Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez, a Latino family from Santa Ana, California, of Mexican and Puerto Rico descent. The Mendes family moved to the farm with their children. When the local schools refused to integrate their Latino children, they organized and they hired a young attorney by the name of Thurgood Marshall. In 1947, the Mendez versus Westminster case desegregated schools in California.

In 1954, Thurgood Marshall will use that very case to argue for brown versus the board of education, which ultimately desegregated all schools in the United States. None of this would have been possible if Tad Munemitso had not been friends with Gonzalo Mendez. Amid concrete roses can grow. We must never forget the moral, social, and legal wrongdoings of the past to ensure that we do not repeat them in the future.

We join you in ensuring that we never fail to support and defend the civil rights and civil liberties of any individual as we did for Japanese Americans during this period.

Let us honor our history, all the survivors, the injustice and name, to provide closure and healing for all those attended, for all those affected by this awful history in the United States, and a special recognition to the Japanese American community of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, and in my own community where I grew up in Boyle Heights, all the Japanese Americans from Roosevelt High school, which we still have a friendship pond dedicated to that history in our own community. Thank you.

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

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. There we go. Thank you. I, too, rise on behalf of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus in strong support of HR 68. And I want to thank our colleague from Torrance for so eloquently reminding us of the importance of this work and for being a leader on doing this. And every year that I have been here in the Legislature, you have undertaken this important task of reminding us of this. One of the greatest stains on the history of our nation.

And it is both an American story, but it's also a California story that we know is so resonant for so many communities across the State of California. And as we've heard, our own state was home to two of these concentration camps. And so I just wanted to lend my voice to the chorus. I think that our colleague spoke so beautifully about this through the narrative of one individual and how it impacted leaders here in the State of California and so many of our communities.

And I've often reflect it's almost impossible to put yourselves in the shoes of the community that endured this. Not only the great disruption to their livelihood, to their ability to live freely, to their free. Taking away their personal freedom, but also the extraordinary humiliation that was wrought on those communities.

And then to think about the contrary example of those Japanese American servicemen that won the Medal of Honor, that won the congressional gold medal, that went on, that risked their lives, in many cases, gave their lives, made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our nation at the same time that their loved one, their parents, were literally held in concentration camps. And so I just want to thank our colleague for reminding us of this important history. It is perhaps more resonant now than any other time.

It's important that we reflect on it. It's important that we teach it to our children with all of its warts and all of its complications and all of its ugliness, so that we can learn from it. So with that, and on behalf of the Jewish caucus, would urge a strong. I vote on HR 68.

Thank you, Assembly Member Gabriel. Seeing and hearing no further debate, Assembly Member, Assembly Member Muratsuchi, you may close.

Thank you. I want to thank all of my colleagues who spoke, as well as those that I know are thinking about the significance of this resolution. I respectfully ask for the first role to be open for co authors, and I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Mr. Mersuchi. All debate having seized the Clerk will rope in the role for co authors. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote for co authors. Clerk will close the roll. There are 69 co authors added without objection. We'll take a voice vote on the resolution. All in favor say aye. All those opposed say no. The ayes have it. The resolution is adopted. Moving on to Senate third reading.

Pass and retain on senate third reading. Members of quorum call is still in place. We're moving on to adjournments in memory. We're asking you give your respectful attention to those granted prior to permission to speak on an adjournment in memory. Assemblymember Pacheco, you are recognized for your adjournment in memory.

Mr. Speaker and members, it is with a heavy heart that I rise to announce the passing of former Rules Committee employee Dave Walls and to adjourn in his memory. Dave was a former supervisor of the assembly warehouse and a long term employee of the Assembly Rules Committee.

He began his career in the assembly in August of 1989 as a warehouse assistant. In October 2007, Dave was promoted to warehouse supervisor, where he worked until his retirement in October of 2021.

As supervisor, Dave managed the warehouse crew, delivering furniture to members offices and traveling throughout the state for district office moves. Many in the Capital community knew Dave from the warehouse as that easygoing guy willing to do anything to make a member's office more comfortable.

He was often seen wearing a Hawaiian shirt along with his khaki shorts and having a can-do attitude about him. Dave was a doer and wanted to get his task list completed as quickly as possible and to keep everyone in the Capital community happy. Rule staff recalls Dave's willingness to roll up his sleeves, coming to work early and tackling his request list.

Although Dave retired several years ago, I want to express my condolences to his family and, of course, to the Capital community. Together we are mourning the loss of Dave Walls. I ask that we adjourn in his memory. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Pacheco. Assemblymember Calderon, you are recognized for your adjournment in memory.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise to adjourn in memory of J. Benton White, a longtime San Jose resident and retired San Jose University professor who passed away peacefully on December 6, 2023 at the age of 92.

Benton was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and went on to graduate from the University of Alabama, the Chandler School of Theology at Emory University, and the Pacific Lutheran Theology Seminary.

He served as an Air Force chaplain in the Strategic Air Command prior to becoming campus minister at the Wesley Foundation at the University of Nebraska. In Nebraska, he met and married the love of his life, Mary Lou. He came to San Jose in 1961 to serve as the director of the Wesley Foundation at San Jose State.

Benton was active in the civil rights movement, recruiting students to participate in voter registration drives in the south during the Freedom Summer of 1964. While also working to secure housing for students of color in San Jose in the 1960s.

In 1967, he was asked by then San Jose State President Robert Clark to be the university's first ombudsman in response to student protest over segregated conditions on and around the campus community.

In 1970, Beton established the religious studies program at San Jose State University, where he taught until his retirement in 1992. During retirement, he taught as an adjunct Professor at Santa Clara University, golfed as often as he could, traveled, wrote books, and spent time with his family and friends.

Benton is survived by his wife of 65 years, Mary his two sons and their wives, Tom and Julie and Matt and Elaine his three grandchildren, Gavin and Abby White and Tricia Testokus and his great grandson, Ryder.

Benton will be deeply missed by all who knew him, and his impact in the San Jose community is enduring. I respectfully request that we adjourn in the memory of Jane Benton White. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Calderon. Assemblymember Sanchez, you are recognized for your adjournment memory.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, it is with great sadness that I rise today to adjourn in memory of Rosie Diaz, a constituent of the 71st Assembly District. On the afternoon of January 4, Rosie was taken from us far too soon due to an unfortunate accident while she was out running in the City of Marietta.

Rosie was an incredible person, a mom, a partner, a daughter, a sister, niece, aunt, colleague and friend. The community's outpouring of love for Rosie and the offering of condolences to her family from friends, including local runners, has been extremely touching.

Their condolences tell of Rosie's kindness, smile and infectious laugh that will be very much missed. Rosie is survived by her three children, Josh, Nathan and Lexi, and her partner, Omar. I adjourn in memory today in honor of Rosie Diaz.

Thank you, Assemblymember Sanchez. Assemblymember Wallis, you are recognized for your adjournment in memory.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, it is with great sadness I rise today to ask this body to adjourn in the memory of John B. Jack Simon, a veteran of World War II, a successful entrepreneur, and a generous philanthropist.

Born in 1923 and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Jack was a professional trombone player in his teen years, playing with the New Jersey State Orchestra and later with Duke Ellington.

He graduated from Duke University and received his Naval Commission on the same day. He shipped off to the Pacific as a gunnery officer on the USS Massachusetts, where he fought bravely in the Battle of Okinawa, among others. He stood witness to the historic moment when Japan surrendered to General Macarthur in Tokyo Bay.

To honor his military service, Jack was included in the Eisenhower Walk of Honor at the Indian Wells City Hall. Jack was a successful businessman, operating countless glass repair stores in Southern California.

He was also a prominent commercial developer. As a resident of the Coachella Valley, Jack became a stalwart of the philanthropic community. He was a distinguished founder of the McCollum Theater and a major contributor to the Eisenhower Medical Center.

After 99 years on this earth living an extraordinary life, Jack peacefully passed away on January 20, 2024. He will always be remembered by his family, his friends and our community for his exceptional citizenship and remarkable generosity. I ask this body adjourn today in the memory of Jack Simon.

Thank you, Assemblymember Wallace, Assemblymember Lowenthal, you are recognized for your adjournment in memory.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, today I rise to adjourn in the memory of Ivy Arlinda Goolsby. Born in Long Beach on December 8, 1952 Ivy realized at a very young age that her purpose in life was giving and extending a hand to those in need, especially in her own community.

Ms. Goolsby started her professional career in 1971 with Verizon, then went on to AT&T, where she would eventually retire in 2000 from her human resources position after 30 years of service.

Outside of work at her daytime jobs, Ivy held various positions in organizations and nonprofits in Long Beach and was also the proud owner of multiple small businesses. Just eight months into retirement, Ivy decided she needed another challenge and went back to work with International Realty and Investments in 2001.

IRI is a proud and successful black-owned business, and in her new role, Ivy was dedicated to providing the highest quality of service to her clients. While overseeing the day to day operations at IRI, Ms. Goolsby remained true to her passion of community service and took on numerous roles in the organizations throughout Long Beach.

While the list of positions Ivy held are too numerous to name in full, some include serving on the community Board of Trustees, Board of Governors, Long Beach City College Foundation, and the NAACP of Long Beach. Ivy was also elected as the first African American President of the Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce's Women's Business Council.

Of her many accomplishments in this role, Ivy established a fund and awards grants for women transitioning from shelter to workforce and also awarded more scholarships to students at Long Beach Community College and Cal State Long Beach that year than in the organization's history.

As is evident, Ms. Goolsby was an incredible community leader in Long Beach and was rightfully honored as the recipient of numerous awards such as NAACP's Unsung Heroes who make a difference, American businesswoman, Impact Council's Outstanding Businesswoman of the Year, and my father, then Senator Alan Lowenthal, named Ivy Goolsby the 54th district's 2008 Woman of the Year.

While Long Beach has lost a selfless and influential leader in Mrs. Goolsby, her legacy will continue to be felt and carried by all those who she brought up and inspired along her journey. Members, I respectfully ask that we adjourn in the memory of Mrs. Ivy Arlinda Goolsby.

Thank you, Mr. Lowenthal. Members, please bring the names to the desks to be printed in the journal. All requests to adjourn in memory will be deemed read and printed in the journal.

Moving to announcements. Committee hearings today Health Committee meets upon adjournment in swing space Room 1100. The Judiciary Committee meets upon adjournment in Capitol Room 437. The Joint Hearing of Housing and Community Development and Budget Subcommittee number five meets upon adjournment in Capitol Room 447.

Environmental, Safety and Toxic Materials Committee meets upon adjournment in Capitol Room 444. And Utilities and Energy Committee meets upon adjournment in Capitol Room 126. Session schedule is as follow.

Wednesday, February 21 check in session, Thursday, February 22 floor session at 09:00 a.m. All other items will be remaining items will be passed and retained. All motions shall be continued. Seeing and hearing no further business, I'm ready to entertain a motion to adjourn.

Ms. Aguiar-Curry moves, Mr. Wallace seconds. That this house stand adjourned until Thursday, February 22, at 09:00 a.m. The quorum call is lifted, and the house is adjourned.