Assembly Floor

The Assembly is now in session. Assemblymember Lowenthal notices the absence of a quorum. The sergeant at arms will prepare the chamber and 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. In honor of today's Pride Month ceremony, guest chaplain, Pastor Robert Rhodes from La Jolla Unified Methodist Church, will offer the prayer.

Good afternoon, Speaker, members, honorees, and guests. It's a privilege to join you in this important time. I would invite persons of all faith or non-faith traditions to center your spirits in this time. Creator of the universe, sustainer of joy and love, you are known in many traditions and by many names.

And you are known as the very essence of goodness and love. We turn our hearts to you this day in celebration of goodness and love. We turn our hearts to you in celebration to celebrate growing awareness of the diversity of your creation. We turn our hearts to you to celebrate persons who have overcome oppressive biases and restrictions to make significant and lasting impacts on the world. Reminding us that the arc of the universe does indeed bend toward justice. Reminding us the hope will never be silent.

As we celebrate this day and this month, call and equip us to continue this journey of restoration. Many traditions affirm that we are all created in your image, Holy One. As we honor progress and celebrate service. Help us to see the incredible and colorful and beautiful diversity of your unlimited and unimaginable love. And to know that sharing this love is nothing short of miraculous and nothing short of essential. Call us, equip us, guide us into this good work. We pray as a people of joy and hope and a people committed to continue the work. Amen.

Thank you. Pastor Rhodes. Assemblymember Low will lead us in the pledge.

Good afternoon. Please join me in giving a prideful pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag, to the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, invisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. You may be seated. Reading of the previous day's journal.

Assembly Chamber Sacramento Monday, May 20, 2024 the Assembly met at 1:00 p.m.

Ms. Aguiar-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. 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 absences for the day will be deemed read and printed in the journal. Moving to our procedural motions. Majority Leader Aguiar-Curry, you are recognized for your procedural motions.

Good afternoon. I request unanimous consent to suspend Assembly Rule 45.5 to allow Assemblymembers of McCarty and Lowenthal to speak on an adjournment in memory today.

Without objection, such shall be the order.

I request unanimous consent to suspend Assembly Rule 118A to allow Assemblymember Ward to have guests on the floor and to allow Assemblymembers Cervantes and McCarty to have guests in the rear of the chamber today.

Without objection, such shall be the order.

Pursuant to Assembly Rule 96, I request unanimous consent to re-refer SB 1144 Skinner from the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee to the Judiciary Committee and then back to the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee.

Without objection, such shall be the order.

I'm giving a one day notice to remove file item A-7, SB 762 Becker from the inactive file at the request of Assemblymember Ortega.

Clerk will note. Moving on to announcements and introductions. Members, let's wish an early happy birthday to Assemblymember Low who celebrates on Wednesday. Happy birthday. And now, Assemblymember Cervantes, you are recognized for your guest introduction.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. I am honored to introduce several distinguished guests from the Latino Community Foundation, the nation's largest Latino-serving foundation based in the Bay Area. The Latino Community Foundation has built a movement of civically-engaged philanthropic leaders, invest in Latino-led organizations, and increases Latino political participation throughout California.

Joining us on the Assembly floor today is the Honorable Julian Castro, who serves as chief executive officer of the Latino Community Foundation. The honorable secretary is also the former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, where he served as the youngest member of President Obama's Cabinet.

Mr. Castro's deep commitment to the future of this nation is woven into his DNA. Raised by his mother, Rosie Castro, a civil rights and Chicana activist, and his grandmother Victoria Castro. On the west side of San Antonio, Texas, Julian grew up with a profound understanding of what it meant to love and serve the community.

He is constantly inspired by a legacy of leaders working to safeguard our democracy and strengthen the community. Julian has dedicated his life to public service. We're happy to have him with us as he uplifts the needs of Latinos in California.

Accompanying him today are Christian Arana, vice president of civic power and policy, Eduardo Garcia, policy director, and Max Vargas, vice president of economic justice. We look forward to continuing to build a lasting relationship that where we're able to build bridges across our state and our regions to improve the quality of life of all of our communities. Thank you for visiting us here in Sacramento. On behalf of my colleagues in this chamber, welcome to the California State Assembly.

Thank you, Mr. Secretary, and welcome to the State Assembly. Moving to business on the daily file. Items number 1 and 2 are notices. Reconsideration file items three through five, all items shall be continued. We'll now move on to Assembly third reading.

Members, we will now move to the Assembly's Pride Month ceremony. Without objection, we will take up file item 13, House Resolution 101 Ward. The clerk will read.

House Resolution 101 by Assemblymember Ward and others, relative to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer LGBTQ Plus Pride Month.

Assemblymember Ward, you may open.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members. Happy Pride Month. As the Vice Chair of the California Legislation of LGBTQ Caucus, it's my honor to present HR-101 to officially recognize June 2024 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Pride Month.

Recognized as a time to support our LGBTQ+ community and celebrate our diversity, this month is especially a time to affirm that everyone should be able to live as their authentic selves, proudly and openly. Pride Month is also a time to learn about and remember our history and in turn, celebrate our progress.

Labor protections ensure federal government employees are no longer banned or arbitrarily labeled security risks for simply identifying as LGBTQ. Discriminatory discharges for our LGBTQ service members has been repealed, and marriage equality is the law of the land, not just here in California, but in several countries.

As for modern day progress, our caucus is proud that in 2023, California became the first state legislature in the nation to reach 10% representation for LGBTQ individuals, bringing parity with LGBTQ Californians. Further, it mustn't be lost on us that Pride is also a protest, as is how our movement was sparked.

Regarded by many as the event to kick off the LGBTQ Equal Rights Movement, the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in New York began in response to the discriminatory targeting of gay bars and LGBTQ patrons.

However, missing from our history books is Compton's Cafeteria riots in San Francisco, which happened three years before Stonewall. Compton's Cafeteria riots similarly occurred in response to the discriminatory targeting of patrons, particularly transgender women and those of color.

While we've since achieved great strides as a result of tireless activism, now more than ever we know that our plight for equality is not won overnight.

With over 500 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced across the nation, we note that politically motivated attacks on the rights, safety, and dignity of our LGBTQ community, disproportionately targeting our TGI siblings and youth, continues to grow across the country and sadly here, also in California.

While there are outside actors who wish to divide our community, we reject that rhetoric and affirm that we stand united as one LGBTQ community, because when one member of our community is attacked, we are all attacked.

As such, June especially highlights the ongoing fight for equality and serves as a reminder to remain steadfast in our support for all community members. We can't give up. We won't give up. We are not going back into the closet.

It's more important than ever that old and new allies stand in pride and solidarity with our community, and especially with our TGI siblings, and against the hate that they are disproportionately facing. Members, each and every one of us have tens of thousands of LGBTQ constituents in each and every one of our districts. They are your constituents, too.

So as you may attend Pride events this year, remember to be safe and take care of yourselves and others. Because Pride Month is also a celebration. Pride Month brings us all together to connect with others who understand the journey and to express ourselves in an atmosphere of love and acceptance.

On behalf of the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus, I'm proud to bring forth HR-101, commemorating this important month and affirming support for all community members and respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Ward. Assemblymember Wilson, you are recognized.

Mr. Speaker, colleagues, I rise today as Chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus in proud support of HR-101, celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month. Also, as a mother of a transgender son, this resolution is deeply personal to me and countless other families across California. This resolution affirms our state's commitment to equality and justice for all.

Recognizing the invaluable contributions of the LGBTQ+ community to every aspect of our society. From business and medicine to the arts and education, LGBTQ+ individuals enrich our lives and inspire us all. There are countless historical and modern black figures who have contributed greatly to advancing LGBTQ+ equality and culture.

And our culture as a whole, from civil rights leaders Bayard Rustin to the American writer James Baldwin, from activist and trailblazer Ernestine Eckstein, to political leaders like Barbara Jordan, the first African American elected to the Texas Senate in 1966 and the first African American woman elected to Congress from Texas in 1972.

As was once noted by the black lesbian writer, poet, breast cancer survivor, and civil rights activist Audre Lorde, "It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences." Despite significant progress, challenges remain. The LGBTQ+ community, especially transgender individuals, continue to face discrimination and violence.

California stands as a beacon of hope and safety, but our work is far from over. We must remain vigilant in our advocacy to ensure that everyone can live open and authentically. I urge my colleagues to join the Legislative Black Caucus in supporting HR-101.

Let us honor the achievements of the LGBTQ+ community and reaffirm our commitment to building a state and a nation where equality and love prevail over hate and justice. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Wilson. Assemblymember Ramos, you are recognized.

Well, thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I stand on behalf of the California Native American Legislative Caucus, and I rise today in support of HR-101.

In a time when we see basic human rights under attack because of ethnicity, immigration status, and race, we also see attempts to undermine and erase the human and civil rights of our LGBTQ+ brothers and sisters in the community. We cannot allow this.

We need to stand and embrace one another and stand side by side, not just in this month of pride, but every day of the year. We need to stand side by side in protecting the rights of our brothers and sisters in the LGBTQ+ community.

And as we do, we strengthen our own rights as we stand side by side. The LGBTQ+ community has contributed much to our culture and advancement in a number of fields, including being leaders within tribal communities in the State of California. We thank the community for their contributions in all these fields that we move forward.

It's time that we embrace one another and lift each other up during these times. I'm proud to stand with our LGBTQ+ community to make sure that they know that we stand together in the face of any turmoil that might come their way. I ask for your aye vote on this HR-101.

Thank you very much. Assemblymember Haney, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today on behalf of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus in support of HR-101 in celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Californians.

This month, we recognize the LGBTQ community's important and lasting contributions in every field, from business, medicine, law, humanities, science, literature, politics, education, music, philanthropy, sports, arts, and culture, that enrich our national life. We recognize both the LGBTQ community's history and the future of the community.

We are proud to recognize the jump from 5.6% to 7.1% of Americans who openly identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer in 2022. We also celebrate the LGBTQ's community's leadership in many prominent Jewish organizations, such as rabbis, cantors, and leaders of major institutions, including Beth Chayim Chadashim in Los Angeles, the first LGBTQ synagogue in the world.

We celebrate, as we did recently, the long legacy filled with changemakers from the LGBTQ community and Jewish community, both past and present, including Harvey Milk, California Congresswoman Sara Jacobs, Barbra Siperstein, the first transgender member of the Democratic National Committee, Dr. Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Services, the first transgender individual to hold a federal position that requires Senate confirmation.

And of course, our very own Co-Chair of the Jewish Caucus from San Francisco, Senator Scott Wiener. And we are proud that we have doubled the size of the LGBTQ contingency in our Jewish caucus. While this is a time to celebrate, we also recognize there is much to do to advance the rights of the LGBTQ community across the country.

With over 500 anti-LGBTQ bills introduced in 2023 and over 500 again introduced this year, much of this legislation targets the transgender community, threatening their healthcare, access to opportunities, and right to equal treatment under the law. So too, violence against the LGBTQ community has continued to be a pervasive threat to this day.

We're proud of the work that this body has done to stand with our transgender representatives as allies, our constituents as allies. Including this past year, this body became the first in the state, the first in the country, to recognize August as Transgender History Month.

We have to do everything in our power to ensure equality for everyone and that every person is given the just and equal treatment that is our nation's promise. There is much still to be done, and the Jewish caucus will stand strong and proud with the LGBTQ community in solidarity and in the fight for equality and justice.

In that spirit and on behalf of the Jewish caucus, I respectfully ask for your aye vote on HR-101.

Thank you very much. Assemblymember Low, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker and colleagues, for allowing me to speak in celebration and recognition of a very prideful month as Chair of the California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus.

We have incredible trailblazers like Congressman Mark Takano, the first Asian American Member of Congress elected in United States history, or the youngest Asian American Legislator and Assemblymember Alex Lee in the State of California, who broke records from a previous office holder who previously held that title as individuals get older in this period of time.

It's important to recognize that there's always a first, but not a last. And that is the beauty of this continuation of inclusivity. At the same time, I also want us to be reminded, as we are celebrating in this beautiful chambers and seeing the colorful attire.

It wasn't all that long ago, too, that other members on the opposite side of the aisle would summarily, during this recognition, walk off the floor of this chamber.

And I want to pause for a moment to recognize our colleagues on the other side of the aisle for giving the dignity and recognizing that we exist and allowing an opportunity to respect, love, of basic humanity. And that love transcends partisanship. That is the fact.

If we remember our history, we would have the gay men's chorus come beautifully here in these chambers and not have a single member on the opposite side of the aisle in this chamber. This is progress.

And in fact, as we have an opportunity to rectify the discriminatory past of California, eliminating the rights of same sex couples to marry on this floor, on this Assembly floor, not one, no vote on marriage equality, supporting marriage equality in the State of California, and supporting constitutional protections to love, irrespective of gender and also race and that of same sex couples to marry and also interracial marriage.

And so, as we celebrate this opportunity, I also ask to lend a hand, a hand of love to those across different party affiliations, because that's the only way. That is the only way in this period of time that we'll get through the hate. We are stewards of public trust.

And as we see the incredible leaders that will be walking down these aisles here today, they are in the community, subjected to the incredibly difficult vitriol each and every day, hated for who they are. And yet, in spite of that, you will see them walking beautifully down this aisle in the people's house, celebrating who they are.

And so, as we reflect on this moment, let us not forget the hard work of those who have come before us who are not out because of the fear of being persecuted or killed. And in fact, as we recognize the LGBTQ Legislative caucus, we still lack a member of our transgender community represented in these chambers.

And in fact, the states of Virginia and Delaware have Trans representation. California still does not. So we have great work to be done ahead of us. And as we recognize this celebration, I again thank all of our colleagues, all of our colleagues for allowing us to celebrate in our pride month. I respectfully ask for aye vote in HR-101.

Thank you very much, Assemblymember Low. Assemblymember Cervantes, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members. As Chair of the Latino Legislative Caucus and a Member of the Women's Caucus, I rise in support of HR-101. Today, we commemorate Pride month and celebrate our progress in our fight for equality.

I'm a proud member of our LGBTQ caucus and a proud queer Latina and the first openly queer Latina elected Chair in our caucus' state history. I'm also the mother of triplets who are growing up in a same sex family. In fact, 16% of our state is raising their children in same sex families.

The Stonewall Uprising is a reminder of how our LGBTQ community continues to reclaim our place, our names, and our bodies to help reaffirm the voices of our diverse and united community. We honor the bravery and continued resilience of the LGBTQ community.

Those who have fought for our rights and those who continue to do so today, like those who are being honored. In fact, Latinos played a key role in demonstrations across our country that started as early as the 1950s. Like Mexican American writer John Ritchie, who took part in the largely forgotten 1959 Cooper Do-nuts Riot in LA, 10 years before the Stonewall Uprising.

Black and Latina Trans women like Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, and Sylvia Rivera were at the helm of this movement in its early stages, founding organizations who support homeless, trans women, and queer youth ostracized by their families.

Let this also be a stark reminder that in recent years, we have witnessed a record breaking number of anti-LGBTQ measures proposed and passed across our country. The pervasive violence of our LGBTQ community faces, in particular our communities of color, due to the intersection of racism, transphobia, sexism, have taken the lives of so many.

We mourn those we have lost to violence and hold their lives in our memory as we continue to work towards ending hateful speech, threats, and violence. The courage of many of our LGBTQ+ community indeed provides us with strength.

But no child, no person should have to be courageous, to love, to live and to survive, to be able to be themselves. We all have a responsibility to protect one another and to stand up against hate, bigotry, homophobia, and transphobia. Pride month is the time to celebrate our progress and acknowledge the challenges.

If you are an ally, be loud about your support. I want to acknowledge our indigenous, two spirited, non binary relatives. We see you. So let us all continue to have more open spaces and celebrate one another. To those who are afraid to be open about their identity, we see you every day. You belong.

And we will continue to fight to ensure we all are treated with dignity and respect and given equal opportunity to love and be loved. For these reasons, I joined my colleague from San Diego and respectfully ask for an aye vote on HR-101.

Thank you very much. Assemblymember Jones-Sawyer, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I represent a group of people called the proud parents of a gay son and his partner, his husband. My son didn't come out to me until he graduated from Morehouse College. If you know anything about the African American community, it is not easy to do that.

And once he did, at the age of 21, he told me all of the abuses, all of the hate, all of the discrimination, all that he had to suffer through. And I asked him why he didn't come to me.

To this day, I don't understand what I did that didn't give him that comfort level to where he could come to his father, his father, who hopefully is the most important person who could protect him.

And he didn't feel like he could come to me, which tells me that in the African American community, we have a long way to go. We allow LGBTQ people be part of our church, to be part of the community, to be doctors, lawyers, but we dont let them be themselves.

I am extremely proud of my son, who is not only a Morehouse grad in mathematics and biology, who is probably the only African American teacher in the LA City school system, maybe in the state that is a teaching advanced math and biology right now.

That is an example to other African American males that they can go into the sciences, into the math sciences, and it's not something that he still cannot come out and talk about when he's in class.

He still can't be himself, which is a tragedy because I think there may be some young boys that would love to sit and talk to my son that would love to sit and tell him about their pain and that my son could tell them about his pain and how he survived it and how he was able to go on and get his masters at Georgia State, and now he's getting his doctorate at the University of Southern California.

He was able to overcome that because there was eventually a support system that got him through it, but it wasn't always there. And so on Pride Day, I want to acknowledge, at least on this floor, that I'm extremely proud of my son.

I'm extremely proud of his partner, whom I married in front of my office in Exposition Park. That's how proud I am of them, and I will continue to be proud of them.

And that's why this is so important, and that's why we have to not only acknowledge, but we have to actually speak it and say it and show our support each and every day.

Because when we hide and whisper or we let other people say derogatory things about LGBTQ people, that we allow that homophobia to continue, then we are not truly prideful, and we are complicit in what's going on in this state.

And so, I commend you on HR-101, Mr. Ward, and the rest of the community, and hopefully we all have a unanimous vote. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Seeing and hearing no further debates. Assemblymember Ward, would you like to close?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I just wanted to express my gratitude for my colleagues from Suisun City, from Highland, from Riverside, from Los Angeles, and from Silicon Valley for your eloquent words.

Whether you are a Member of our caucus or a straight ally, we are very much appreciative for the heartfelt and headstrong and personal testimony that you can provide here today, because it reminds me of one of our trailblazers, the late Harvey Milk(, who very wisely in the seventies, helped to turn a tide that was coming politically against us.

Hate filled rhetoric that was coming at us that otherwise would have set a trajectory for some really regressive policymaking. And the solution was to come out because it's a lot harder to be able to hate somebody that you know and to have reasonable and meet eye to eye, to have those conversations and find that common ground.

And that's what pride month is about for us, it's about three things. One, remembering our history because that defines where we've come from, defines where we are going. Two is remembering that it began with a protest, and we still protest today. The injustices around us and the heat that rises up against us and people we love.

We are there to be able to let them know that we are not going back into the closet, and we are going to continue to fight and protest those actions. And third, it is a time to celebrate.

It is a time to respect and love and appreciate the unique identities and qualities and the individualities that make up California. And so, for just the testimonies that are here that I know are representative of all people from across the Golden State, I want to thank you for sharing that today.

I would ask that the first roll be open for co-authors and respectfully ask for your aye vote.

All debate having ceased, the Clerk will open the roll for co-authors. All Members vote, who desire to vote. All Members vote, who desire to vote. All Members vote, who desire to vote. Remember, this is for co-authors. The Clerk will close the roll. Ayes. Clerk will close the roll.

Okay, there are 55 co-authors added. Without objection, we will now take a voice vote on the resolution. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed say no. The ayes have it. The resolution is adopted.

Members, I would also like to recognize our LGBTQ statewide elected state insurance commissioner Ricardo Lara who has joined us in the back. We will now move on to our observance of Pride Month. For the 2024 observance of Pride Month, we will recognize 16 distinguished honorees for their invaluable contributions to our state and country.

Mr. Ward, you are recognized for your introductory remarks.

Thank you again, Mister speaker and Members. Thank you very much for celebrating the start of Pride Month in California. Found on your desk are some gifts to ring in Pride Month, a rainbow California bear keychain, progress, pride flag and rainbow candy, celebrating this year's theme of outlaws and trailblazers, you'll also find a rainbow bandana.

Some of you have already found that. Thank you for wearing those, and a cowboy hat styled candle. In addition, on your desk are programs for this year's celebration, which include a QR code that links to our honorees biography so you can learn more about their impact for our communities across California.

In light of this year's theme is with great honor that we get to recognize these 16 LGBTQ trailblazers. Later this evening, we're inviting members to join us alongside the Outlaws and Trailblazers Pride celebration, where you can celebrate with us Cowboy Carter style in western wear and meet our honorees individually.

Happy Pride Month everybody, and thank you again for celebrating with us today.

Thank you. I'm appointing an escort Committee to bring our honorees onto the floor for our ceremony. Members should retire to the rear of the chamber as I call your name. Assembly Members Ward, Cervantes, Jackson, Zbur, and Low. I also ask that Speaker Rivas, Republican leader Gallagher and Senator Eggman move to the front aisle to receive our honorees.

Members, it is now time to introduce and welcome our 2024 honorees. The Clerk will read.

Escorted by Assemblymember Ward is Bruce Abrams. Bruce is an attorney, philanthropist and holds various leadership positions on boards that support the LGBTQ and Jewish communities. Please welcome Bruce Abrams.

Escorted by Assemblymember Cervantes, is Araceli “Cheli” Mohamed. Cheli is the founder of Volunteer with Cheli an organization which seeks to increase LGBTQ community service. Please welcome Araceli Mohamed.

Escorted by Assemblymember Jackson is David Giron. David is Vice President of Riverside LGBTQ Pride. Please welcome David Giron.

escorted by Assemblymember Zbur is Jai Rodriguez. Jai is the original cultural aficionado in the series Queer Eye for the straight guy. Please welcome Jai Rodriguez.

Escorted by insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is Jonny Cota. Johnny is a fashion designer known for pioneering the new American avant garde. Please welcome Jonny Cota.

Escorted by some Assemblymember Jackson is Hailie Sahar. Hallie is an American actress best known for her role as Lulu Abundance on the award winning TV series Pose. Hailie is accepting this recognition on behalf of Sir Lady Java, a transgender entertainer and activist. Please welcome Hailie Sahar on behalf of Sir Lady Java.

Escorted by Assemblymember Cervantes is Lori Risso. With over 33 years of service, Lori is currently the director of educational services for Stockton Unified School District. Please welcome Lori Risso.

Escorted by Assembly Member Low is Nguyen Pham. Nguyen is President of San Francisco Pride. Please welcome Nguyen Pham.

Escorted by Assemblymember Jackson is Paris Antoinette Quion, aka Paris Sukomi Max. Paris is a drag entertainer, businesswoman, and an activist. Please welcome Paris Antoinette Quion.

Escorted by Assemblymember Zbur is Raul Urena. Raul is former mayor of Calexico, making her the first transgender Latina mayor of a California city and on the entire US Mexico border. Please welcome Raul Urena.

Escorted by Assemblymember Cervantes is Ronn Ruiz. Ronn is co-founder and CEO of ApartmentSEO and a Google premier partner. as well as founder and CEO of iZone Marketing. Please welcome Ron Ruiz.

Escorted by Assemblymer Zbur is Sal Rosselli. Sal is the founder and president emeritus of the National Union Healthcare Workers and the first openly gay leader of a California based Healthcare union. Please welcome Sal Rosselli.

Escorted by Assemblymember Low is Sera Fernando. Sera is the manager and leader of the Santa Clara County office of LGBTQ affairs. Please welcome Sera Fernando.

Escorted by Assembly Jackson is Tyler Williamson. Tyler is the mayor of Monterey, California. Please welcome Tyler Williamson.

Escorted by Assemblymember Cervantes is Kate Brown, who is accepting this posthumous recognition on behalf of Soni Wolf. Soni was a pioneering lesbian activist and co-founder of Dykes on Bikes. Soni left a lasting legacy in the LGBTQ community ever since her passing on April 25, 2018. Please welcome Kate Brown on behalf of Soni Wolf.

And unable to attend today is DJ Les Ortiz, artist and CEO of Social Events Ent.

On behalf of Vice Chair Ward and the members of the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus, thank you for helping us celebrate this year's remarkable honorees. Members, to learn more about these distinguished individuals, please read the biographies by scanning the QR code in the program found on your desks. This concludes our celebration.

Members, as our honorees exit the chamber, let's give another prideful round of applause.

Moving back to business on the daily file, members. Moving to file item number nine, ACR 194 by Assemblymember Grayson. The clerk will read.

Assembling Concurrent Resolution 194 by Assemblymember Grayson, relative to Family Justice Center Day.

Assemblymember Grayson, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Good afternoon, members. I am honored to present ACR 194, which designates June 3 as Family Justice Center Day in California. Family justice centers, or FJC, provide trauma-informed, collaborative, wrapped-around services for survivors of interpersonal violence.

These centers offer a single access point where multiple service-providers and agencies work together under one roof, creating a dedicated space for victim services and recovery. Without an FJC, a survivor may need to visit over 23 different locations to receive services and legal support, repeatedly sharing their story over and over again.

An FJC offers a safe and supportive environment, delivering comprehensive, continuous, and safe seamless care all in one single place. The California Family Justice Center Network represents the 27 family justice centers across the state, serving over 70,000 trauma survivors annually. Through these centers, California is now leading the way in multi-sector collaborative approaches nationwide.

Family justice centers have always risen to meet the needs of survivors and have proven to be more crucial than ever. With their collaborative model of services, they are able to provide family court assistance, mental health counseling, legal support, housing assistance, and so much more.

These centers are not just saving individuals and families, they are also breaking the cycles of abuse that perpetuate across generations. They represent a beacon of safety, hope, and healing for those that are in need. ACR 194 allows us to acknowledge the life saving and hope restoring work of the California Family Justice Network and its 27 member centers, ensuring that survivors can access all necessary services and support under one roof. Friends and colleagues, thank you for your attention and recognition of Family Justice Center Day, and I respectfully ask for an aye vote on ACR 194 and ask for the role to be open for co-authors.

Thank you very much, Assemblymember Grayson. Seeing and hearing no further debate, the clerk will open the roll. All those vote who wish, who desire to vote as a co-author. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote as a co-author on the resolution. Clerk will close the roll and tally the votes. There are 60 co-authors added without objection. We'll take a voice vote on the resolution. All in favor say aye, opposed say no. The ayes have it. The resolution is adopted.

Mr. Grayson, you are recognized for your guest introductions.

Thank you, Mr. speaker. I would like to introduce the incredible advocates from the California Family Justice Center Network. The network provides education, training, and coordinated assistance to the FJCs as well as to the new and developing centers throughout the state. Colleagues, would you please join me in giving them a warm welcome up here in the gallery. Thank you so much.

Thank you, Mr. Grayson, welcome to your guests. Thank you so much for the work that you do. And welcome to the Capitol. Moving back to introductions. Assemblymember Nguyen, you are recognized for your introductions.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. I have with me today Franklin High School's Half Dome team. Half Dome is a cybersecurity team that works together to solve a variety of real-world cybersecurity challenges and vulnerability while maintaining critical services. This past March, Franklin's Half Dome team made history as the first Northern California team to win the Air Force Association Cyber Patriot national competition, ranking first amongst 2700 teams.

In April, this team beat out 54 other schools in the greater Sacramento region to secure their fourth consecutive win in the Norcal Cyber Major Cup out of the competition's six years in existence. Members, please join me in giving a thundering cybering applause and welcome to the Half Dome team of Franklin High School.

Thank you. Assemblymember Nguyen. Welcome to the Assembly chamber. Congratulations on your fourth consecutive victory. That's amazing. Thank you. Moving back to daily file item number 11, ACR 152 by Assemblymember Connolly. The clerk will read.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution 152 by Assemblymember Connolly and others, relative to California Mountain Biking Month.

Assembly Member Connolly, you're recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members. I rise today to present ACR 152, which would designate June 2024 as State Mountain Biking Month. California is widely recognized as a birthplace of mountain biking. Its roots began in Marin County in the late 1970s, which is now the home of the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame.

California's mountain biking industry contributes over $2.3 billion to the state's economy annually, and creates over 17,000 jobs. It generated over $153 million in state and local revenue in 2017 and has grown significantly since then, making mountain biking tourism a driver of economic revitalization for rural communities. Mountain biking provides numerous health and wellness benefits.

This includes cardiovascular exercise, weight loss, fitness, and strength and endurance building. It also provides numerous mental health benefits, reductions in stress, social bonding through shared experiences, and community building, all while connecting with nature.

Mountain biking, as we all know, is incredibly popular in California and will be included as an Olympic event in the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Olympics with the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument as the backdrop. Designating a California mountain biking month will promote participation in off road cycling and mountain biking as a form of healthy outdoor recreation.

This also encourages people to connect with and experience their public lands, increase diversity of the mountain biking community, encourage increased stewardship of trails, and celebrate California's significant mountain biking culture, history, and incredible destinations. Thank you Members, and I ask that the first roll call be open for co-authors.

Thank you Mr. Connolly. Seeing and hearing no further debate, the Clerk will open the roll. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote as a co-author. All those vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll and tally the votes. There are 59 co-authors added without objection.

We'll take a voice vote on the resolution. All in favor say "Aye". Opposed say "No". The "Aye"s have it. Resolution is adopted. Mr. Connolly, you have guests to introduce.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Let me start by acknowledging our distinguished colleague from the Senate, Minority Leader Brian Jones, one of the co-authors of ACR 152. Senator Jones, where are you? Alright. And, if you'll join me in welcoming in the gallery, members of the California Mountain Biking Coalition. Welcome.

Members, in 1988, five California mountain biking organizations came together to form the International Mountain Biking Association, or IMBA, which was the first national and international mountain biking organization. The IMBA developed and refined sustainable trail design principles and standards that have since been adopted worldwide and by numerous federal, state, and local land management management agencies.

Five California mountain biking organizations formed the nation's first 501(c)(4) organization to advocate for mountain biking friendly legislation, the California Mountain Biking Coalition joining us, which is sponsoring this resolution. So I invite you to join me, Members, on the west steps at 3:00 p.m. to take photos with my guests and their mountain bikes.

And again, thank you for helping me to welcome them here today.

Thank you again, Mr. Connolly, and welcome, welcome to your guests. Moving now to file item number 12, A.C.R. 166. Assemblymember Ramos, the Clerk will read.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution 166 by Assemblymember Ramos relative to the federal Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.

Assembly Member Ramos, you are recognized.

Well, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today, I rise to present A.C.R. 166, which commemorates the centennial of the federal Indian Citizenship Act. The Act, signed by President Coolidge on June 2nd, 1924 granted citizenship to Native Americans born within the United States.

This past weekend, Frank Ramirez and native veterans gathered at the park here in the Capitol to commemorate this passage, this passage that moved forward here in the Federal Government.

But we have to bring up that when that passage happened in 1924, there was no Native American voices there working on the passage of this Act, and they weren't even part of the discussion or involved in the creation of the Act.

Today, we know that that is very much different here in this legislature, where we bring in the Native American voices ahead of time. Although the Act was signed in 1924, voting rights were not granted across the nation until as late as 1948, when Alaska and Arizona granted voting rights to Native Americans.

Voting rights were reinforced with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1965. But unfortunately, there still are barriers that exist here in the State of California and across the nation for the Native American population to be able to vote and provide the democratic right that we have.

Additionally, in June, we also celebrate two more historical events on the path forward to full recognition of Native American civil rights. We remember Alice Piper, a 15 year old Paiute pupil who made history also on June 2nd 1924 when her parents sued Big Pine School District of Inyo county to integrate their classrooms.

On that day 100 years ago, the California Supreme Court unanimously sided with Alice on the basis that her parents were tax paying citizens of the United States. That representation represented a significant step forward toward complete recognition of Indian Citizenship Act that's there.

30 years later, in 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren used this case as a precedent for the landmark Brown versus the Board of Education of Topeka that declared public school segregation unconstitutional in the United States.

Finally, in two weeks, on June 18, California Native Americans will mark the fifth anniversary of Governor Gavin Newsom's apology to the state's California's first people, for the heinous crimes and genocide committed against them in the history of the State of California. This, too, is a step forward. But we still have a lot of work to do.

A lot of work to do to move forward on the voices of California's first people and the voices of this nation's first people. As we celebrate these historical and monumentous occasions, let us continue to recognize the contributions of Native Americans and their battle for civil rights and justice that still exists today.

And when it's appropriate, I ask that the row be open for co-authors on this resolution.

Thank you, Mr. Ramos. Seeing and hearing no further debate, the Clerk will open the roll on co-authors. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote as a co author. Clerk will close the roll and tally the votes. There are 64 co authors added.

Without objection, we will will take a voice vote on the resolution. All in favor say "Aye", opposed say "No". The "Aye"s have it. The resolution is adopted. Assemblymember Ramos, you are recognized for your guest introductions.

Well, thank you Mister speaker. We have in the gallery representatives that are here from the big Pine Indian reservation and those that are celebrating the historical contribution to the State of California, as well as Mister Frank Ramirez, representing veterans, Native American veterans. Please give them a round of applause.

Thank you and welcome. Welcome. Now moving to Senate third reading, we're going to pass and retain on final items 14 and 15 Members, the quorum call is still in place. We ask that you give your respectful attention to those who were granted prior permission to speak on an adjournment in memory. If you have to have a conversation, please take it off the floor.

Please take your conversations off the floor. Please take your conversations off the floor. I ask that you give your respectful attention to Assemblymember McCarty, who has been granted prior permission to on an adjournment memory. I think he's going to come up here and use, without objection, Mister Holden's microphone.

Well, now he's going over here. That's okay. From the majority leader's desk, Mister Mccarty.

Thank you Mister speaker. I ask that you join me today in adjourning for our former Assembly Member for this area of Sacramento. Mister Phil Eisenberg. Served for distinction for 14 years on this green carpet representing the great City of Sacramento. He served from 1982 to 1996 in a golden era, I'll talk about the California State Legislature.

He passed away this past winter while we were on recess, and he would have turned 85 just two months ago. He served with great distinction, and I'll focus more on that on this green carpet. Again, he didn't just serve Sacramento in California. He truly was a legend in California State politics in this community.

And he didn't just fade away after his service in the California State Assembly, he went on to serve on state boards and commissions, chaired the Delta Stewardship Council, was a transition chair for then Governor Gray Davis's transition to becoming Governor of the State of California, and helped craft the first budget for Governor Davis.

He served as a lecturer at Sacramento State, at UC Berkeley, at the McGeorge School of Law, served on boards and commissions for arts groups like Weaver, the Public Policy Institute for California and so many more going back. He was born in Gary, Indiana, 1939.

Moved to Sacramento as a young boy, went to El Camino High School, went to Sacramento State College, and then went to Bolt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, to study law. That's where he started getting involved in California politics. As a young student, he met some fellow young Democrats throughout California.

You may have heard these names, Willie Brown, John Burton. That was the crew that he spent the next 30-40 years making a difference with in California. After he graduated from law school, he went to go work for then Assemblymember Willie Brown at his law firm in San Francisco because back then the Legislature was part time.

He was a key player with Willie Brown for decades. He later followed Willie Brown to Sacramento, his hometown, and got the job as the chief consultant for the Ways and Means Committee. Those of you that know, that's the Committee. That's budget and appropriations. So he literally was the guy who made things happen.

He took pride in overseeing what he called the dream team of consultants for that Committee. You may have heard these names. John Mockler, the guy who wrote Prop 98. Steve Thompson, the guy who helped create healthcare policy and has a loan forgiveness program in his name. He helped shepherd California politics in a key era in California history.

He was elected to our Sacramento City Council in 1971, served for four years, then elected as mayor in 1975, where he served for seven years.

In 1982, he joined his mentor, Willie Brown, being elected to a Member of the California State Assembly in this house, where he served as one of Mayor Brown's top lieutenants for over a decade. He chaired the important Judiciary Committee during a time when the courts were about to fall apart.

It wasn't a sexy topic, but he made sure that we worked on issues like saving our trial court system and making sure it served everybody in California. He had the smarts, but he also had the respect of his colleagues. He was extremely thoughtful, but most importantly, very effective for his district in California.

You know, we're going through a budget crisis right now. And one of the cute stories I heard about him during his recent service was during the time when everybody came around and wrote a letter saying, don't do this in the state budget, not us.

He took that letter and put it up on the wall to show people like, hey, we're all in this together. He was what I would call a Member of the probably so called progressive caucus, as we are now. But he was bipartisan. He worked with former Assemblymember Republican Bill Baker on efforts to save Mono Lake.

He was a staunch environmentalist. One of his claims that his most important legislation was working to enhance and preserve Stone Lake just down south of here along the delta, just south of Elk Grove and create the fill-in Maryland Sandhill Crane refuge. Again, his legacy continues in Sacramento.

Today we're joined here by his family and friends and his widow and his life partner, Marilyn Eisenberg.

I also want to say that his legacy lives on in me because while serving as a part time City Council Member here in Sacramento, he also worked as a family law attorney because our City Council was a part time City Council.

And by luck and good fortune, he met my late mother, Barbara McCarty, and he became her family law attorney. And it was a very difficult and chaotic time for my family, a very ugly process and very tough time for us.

But he took her in and helped her and she was a woman who was an immigrant with a 10th grade education, and he helped her through those tough times. But he took her aside and said, hey, I see you coming to the law office to study and research and focus on how we should focus on this case.

You know what, you have smarts, you have hustle, and I love your British accent. You should go to law school, you should aspire to do something for your family. So he encouraged her to enroll in community college in 1975. At the same time he encouraged her to volunteer on his campaign for mayor of the City of Sacramento.

How ironic. She did go on to law school. She succeeded and he won that election. So she went on to Sacramento State University, Lincoln Law School, and his inspiration sparked her to believe in herself.

And when she passed away in 2008, I called him and I asked him if he would provide a eulogy at her service, and he did. And that was a special moment for me and my family, and I'm honored to be here today to provide a tribute to him.

And I know he'd be kind of annoyed that we're doing this whole thing on this Assembly floor today, but I encourage you to read about his history and his legacy, because he is somebody that definitely left a mark on the State of California in this body.

And Members, I ask that you join me and his family and friends and former staffers and associates here in Sacramento and adjourn in his memory. Thank you Mister speaker.

Thank you Mister McCarty. And our condolences to family and friends. Sunny. Member Lowenthal, you are recognized for your adjournment memory.

Thank you Mister speaker. Members, today I rise to adjourn in the memory of Long Beach baseball legend Sean Burroughs. Sean was born on September 12th, 1980 grew up in Long Beach, and became a longstanding and truly beloved member of our community.

Mister Burroughs got a taste of the limelight at a very young age when he became the star pitcher on the 1992 and the 1993 Long Beach Little League World Series champions. I want you to stop and think for a second how infinitesimally small it is for a team to reach the Little League World Series.

This is not just an American phenomena. This is a global phenomena. To reach it and to win two years in a row, it's unconscionable, the possibilities there.

He was the first American born pitcher to pitch back to back no hitters in that little League World Series, which led his team to bring these two titles back home to Long Beach. I would say he was the Michael Jordan of that team.

Maybe it's better to say he was the Shohei Otani of that team, because in his four years playing as a little leaguer, Burroughs did not lose a single game as a pitcher. This tremendous and early success even earned him an appearance on the David Letterman show and a spot in Sports Illustrated magazine.

After an all American career at Wilson High School, Shawn was selected 9th overall, the 1998 MLB draft by the San Diego Padres in his senior year, and he went on to a path of seven seasons in the major leagues and won Olympic gold medal. That path was not linear.

He went out of the league for several years, found his way back into the league as an inspiration to many and beyond. His time in the major leagues, spent many years in the independent baseball leagues where he led those leagues in hitting.

But he spent his time there mentoring others, teaching others not just about baseball, but about life. He was actually a coach on the baseball field, coaching his son Knox, when a sudden cardiac arrest took his life at the age of 43.

While he was taken too soon, it is without a doubt that Sean achieved an extraordinary list of accomplishments in just 43 years. He brought international acclaim to his hometown and returned to share his passion with the rest of that community. Mister Burroughs leaves us with memories that we'll live on forever, and a reminder that.

That the true value of sports is not just in the trophies obtained, but in the love and connections forged in competition. Members, I respectfully ask that we journ in the memory of Sean Burroughs.

Thank you, Mister Lowenthal. 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. Moving to announcements session. Schedule is as follows. Tuesday, June 4, check in session. Wednesday, June 5, check in session.

Thursday, June 6, floor session at 09:00 a.m. all other items will be passed and retained. All motions shall be continued. Seeing and hearing no further business, I am ready to entertain a motion to adjourn. Miss Aguilar Curry moves Mister Jim Patterson seconds that the house stand adjourn until Thursday, June 6, at 09:00 a.m.

The quorum call is lifted and the house is adjourned.