Assembly Standing Committee on Governmental Organization

Good afternoon. Thank you for being here today. The Assembly governmental organization Committee is now called to order. We don't have a quorum, so we'll start as a Subcommitee. I appreciate you being here early, and I just want to make sure that we're mindful of your promptness. So thank you for being here. Good afternoon.

For each Bill heard today, there will be an opportunity for two witnesses in support and two witnesses in opposition to each provide two minutes of testimony. Sergeants, can you please call the absent Members? Noticing the absence of a quorum, we will begin as a Subcommitee. And Madam Secretary, can you please call the row? zero, well, yeah, sorry.

We could just go straight. Thank you. Let's see. And then just an announcement. Assembly Members Addis and Baines are absent today. We will be hearing. We have several measures on consent. Again, when we establish quorum, we'll go ahead and start with that. And I see Senator Wilk is with us today, but Senator Wilk.

Chair and Members, I'm pleased to present to you SB 1495, which would allow alcohol licensees to sponsor events or purchase advertising space from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. If you watch the Tom Brady roast, one of the, one of the. I can't remember which roaster took a shot at the roast master Jeff Ross, about.

This is the only place he plays because he does a lot of stuff for nonprofits. And so that's there. It's very important to the community. So the cemetery is currently a permanent retail on sale license holder with a type 88 license, which doesn't allow for this arrangement.

This narrow tide house exemption would help generate important revenues for the care, maintenance, and improvement of the cemetery grounds and its ability to continue to host cultural events.

The Legislature's granted numerous properties exceptions from these state restrictions, and due to the unique circumstances they face, given the precedents and the Hollywood forever's unique operations, is both a functioning cemetery and also a cultural space, a state level tighthouse exemption is appropriate. The specificity of the type 88 license assures this exemption is both targeted and simplistic.

There is no known opposition. I brought. I'm just going to have you do, if they have any technical questions, because I think they want to get moving. Is that okay? Or do you want to hear from them?

Senator, you're the only one here, so whatever you want to do, go ahead.

Okay. Very well. My name is GV Ayers. I represent Hollywood Forever Cemetery and the sponsor of SB 1495. Madam Chair and Members, thank you so much for your consideration of this Bill. Senator Wilk, thank you for authoring this Bill. I appreciate Mister Johnson's thorough analysis of this.

The cemetery hosts more than 90 events a year, including outdoor screenings of feature films and Hollywood classics, indoor performances for music, literature and art and other productions, and the largest dia De Los muertos celebration in the United States, sometimes attracting 35,000 or more people to it. And then obviously, there are family memorials and celebrations.

The ability for this tide House restriction exemption will enable the cemetery to continue to perform these events and also help to maintain the care and maintenance of the cemetery as well. We ask for your. I vote here.

Thank you. Are there any witnesses in opposition? Hearing, none. We'll put it out to the Members of the public. Anybody in support of the measure? Okay. Any Members of the public in opposition? Okay, I'll bring it back up. Any Committee Members have any questions, comments? No. Okay. Hearing? None. Senator Wilk, you're welcome to close.

Okay, before I close, I'm going to just list off some of the people that are buried there. My staff claims that I made up names when I did this in the Senate. I don't think I did. We'll have to go and pull the tape. Chris Cornell from Soundgarden.

Judy Garland, Pee Wee Herman, Paul Rubens, who actually graduated college from my district. Burt Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, whole host of people again. It's a cultural icon there. Very much appreciate your support.

Did you forget Marilyn Monroe?

I don't think she's at this. Zero, she's not at that one.

Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you. Since we don't have a quorum, we will take a motion up and a second when appropriate.

Thank you. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Okay, we're inviting authors to come to the governmental organization Committee. We're ready to hear your bills. Okay. Thank you. So we have. Mister Lackey is presenting on behalf of Senator Ochoa Bogh. Thank you, Mister Lackey.

All right, well, this is going to be quick. Good afternoon, Madam Chair and Members. Thank you for allowing me to present this Bill on behalf of Senator Ochoa Bogh.

Senate Bill 1224 will allow the Riverside County fairgrounds in Indio again to serve alcohol on site as long as food service is available to the public at all times during events.

This change ensures the fair can continue operating as it has for almost two decades, allowing the community to benefit from the substantial revenue that fair events contribute to the local economy. Here to testify? I don't know if they are here. Apparently they're not here. So you'll have to rely on a very unqualified person to answer about this.

This particular Bill.

Okay, so no witnesses in support? Any witnesses in opposition?

Let's hope not.

Okay, I'll take it out to the audience. Anybody in the audience in support of the Bill? Okay, seeing none. Anyone in the audience in opposition of the Bill? Okay, I'll bring it back up to the Committee. Any questions from the Committee?

You can ask all the questions you want. Go for it.

Thank you. And so no questions from the Committee. Mister Lackey, you may close.

I sincerely ask for your support on this very, very, very, as you hear all the time, common sense Bill.

Thank you. Mister Lackan, we don't have a quorum, so we'll wait for Members so that we can. zero, thank you. Have a motion in a second, so thank you. We're just waiting for additional Members.

Thank you very much.

Madam Secretary, can you call the roll?

On the quorum? Rubio? Here. Rubio, here. Lackey? Lackey, here. Bryan? Bryan, here. Cervantes? Davies? Davies, here. Dixon? Dixon, here. Gabriel? Gibson? Gibson, here. Haney? Jones-Sawyer? Jones-Sawyer, here. Low? McKinnor? McKinnor, here. Pacheco? Papan? Papan, here. Patterson? Patterson, here. Ramos? Soria? Ta? Ta, here. Valencia? Wallace? Wallace, present. We have a quorum.

Thank you. miss. Senator Wilk presented SB 1495. I need a motion, please. Moved by Mister Lackey, second by Mister Jones-Sawyer. Madam Secretary, can you call the votes, please?

SB 1495. Senator Wilk, the motion is do passed to the Committee on Appropriations. Rubio? Aye. Rubio, aye. Lackey? Aye. Lackey, aye. Bryan? Bryan, aye. Cervantes? Davies? Davies, aye. Dixon? Dixon, aye. Gabriel? Gibson? Gibson, aye. Haney? Jones-Sawyer? Jones-Sawyer, aye. Low? McKinnor? McKinnor, aye. Pacheco? Papan? Papan, aye. Patterson? Patterson, aye. Ramos? Soria? Ta? Ta, aye. Valencia? Wallace? Wallace, aye.

Thank you. That measure passes. We'll leave the roll open for additional Members. We also have SB 1224 by Senator Ochoa Bogh. Madam Secretary, can you call the roll? Oh, I'm sorry. I need a motion in a second.

SB 1224, Ochoa Bogh. The motion is do passed to the Committee on Appropriations. Rubio?

We have a motion by. Where's the second? 2nd. Okay. Motion by Mister Patterson, second by Assembly Member Wallace. Ok, can you call the roll?

Rubio? Aye. Rubio, aye. Lackey? Aye. Lackey, aye. Bryan? Bryan, aye. Cervantes? Davies? Davies, aye. Dixon? Dixon, aye. Gabriel? Gibson? Gibson, aye. Haney? Jones-Sawyer? Jones-Sawyer, aye. Low? McKinnor? McKinnor, aye. Pacheco? Papan? Papan, aye. Patterson? Patterson, aye. Ramos? Soria? Ta? Ta, aye. Valencia? Wallace? Wallace, aye.

The measure passes. We'll leave the roll open for absent Members. Yeah, Assemblymember. Thank you. And then I need a motion for the consent calendar, please. Thank you. Assembly. Motion by Assemblymember Davies, second by Assemblymember Patterson. Can you call the roll, please, for the consent calendar?

On the consent calendar file item one, SB 782, Limon. The motion is do pass to the Judiciary Committee, recommended consent. File item two, SB 931, GO Committee do pass to appropriations, recommend consent. File item three, SB 1044, Seyarto, do pass to appropriations, recommend consent. File item five, SB 1278, Laird, do pass, recommend consent.

File item seven, GO Committee, SB 1519. The motion is do pass to appropriations, recommend consent. Rubio? Aye. Rubio, aye. Lackey? Aye. Lackey, aye. Bryan? Bryan, aye. Cervantes? Davies? Davies, aye. Dixon? Dixon, aye. Gabriel? Gabriel, aye. Gibson? Gibson, aye. Haney? Jones-Sawyer? Jones-Sawyer, aye. Low? McKinnor? McKinnor, aye. Pacheco? Papan? Papan, aye. Patterson? Patterson, aye. Ramos? Soria? Ta? Ta, aye. Valencia? Wallace? Wallace, aye.

The motion passes, and we'll go ahead and leave the roll open for absent Members and Members that is all for today. Yes. Can you. Yes. We're opening the roll for Members that just joined us.

SB 1495. Assemblymember Gabriel? Assemblymember Gabriel, aye.

We'll open the roll for a Member that arrived.

On the consent calendar, Assemblymember Valencia? Yes. Valencia, yes. File item four, SB 1224, Ochoa Bogh, Valencia? That's a yes. Valencia, yes. File item six, SB 1495, Wilk, Valencia? Yes.

Thank you. We'll continue to leave the roll open for additional Members. Open the roll for arriving Members.

Calendar, Assemblymember Cervantes? Cervantes, aye. File item four, SB 1224, Ochoa Bogh, Cervantes? Cervantes, aye. File item six, SB 1495, Wilk, Cervantes? Cervantes, aye.

The measure passed and we'll keep the roll open for additional Members. We're opening the roll for arriving Members.

SB 1495, Wilk, Ramos? Ramos, aye.

On the consent calendar, Haney? Haney, aye. Pacheco? Pacheco, aye. Soria? Soria, aye. File item four, SB 1224, Ochoa Bogh, Haney?Haney, aye. Pacheco? Pacheco, aye. Soria? Soria, aye. File item six, SB 1495, Wilk, Haney? Haney, aye. Pacheco? Pacheco, aye. Soria? Soria, aye. On the consent calendar, Assemblymember Ramos? Ramos, aye. SB 1224, Ochoa Bogh, Ramos? Ramos aye.

Thank you. The measure passes and we'll go ahead and adjourn. Governmental organization meeting at 02:00 p.m. thank you.