Assembly Floor

The Assembly is now in session. Assemblymember Reyes 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 in the flag salute. The day's prayer will be offered by our Assembly chaplain, Imam Yasir Khan.

In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful, almighty God. As we gather in this Assembly, we stand in awe of your boundless wisdom and grace. May your presence fill this space, infusing us with inspiration and guidance.

Grant us the courage to challenge the status quo, the compassion to uplift the marginalized and the vision to create a world of equity and peace. Guide our words and actions as we seek solutions to complex challenges, reminding us of our shared humanity. May our efforts in this Assembly be a testament to your love and compassion, bringing hope and healing to all whom we serve. In your divine name, we offer this prayer. Amen.

Thank you. Assembly Member Boerner will lead us in the pledge. 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 stands one nation under God.

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

Assembly chamber Sacramento Thursday, May 2, 2024 the Assembly met at 09:00 a.m. the Honorable Jim Boyd

... moves and Mister Flora seconds that the reading of the previous day's journal be dispensed with. Presentations and petitions there are none. Introduction and reference of bills will be deferred. Reports of committees will be deemed 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. Members, your attention please. Assistant Majority Leader Santiago, you are recognize for your procedural motions.

Thank you Mister Speaker. I request anonymous consent to suspend rule Assembly Rule 45.5 to allow Assembly Members Brian and Gibson to speak on an adjournment in memory today. That objection. Such shall be the order.

I request unanimous consent to suspend rules 118 to allow Assembly Members Reyes and Friedman to have guests seated at their desk today and to allow Assemblymember Reyes to have guests in the rear of the chamber today. At the request of the authors.

Please remove item 34, SB 1226, and item 87, SB 1150 from the consent calendar. Pursuant to Assembly Rule 96, I request unanimous consent to re refer SB 1333 from the Judiciary Committee to the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee.

Without objection, such shall be the order.

I request unanimous consent to submit suspend rules 56 to allow the following committees to notice bills pending re referral from other committees to allow business and professionals Committee to notice SB 1059 for their hearing on Tuesday, June 25, pending re referral from Revenue and Taxation Committee to allow Housing and Community Development Committee to notice SB 1339 for their hearing on Wednesday, June 26, pending re referral from Health Committee to allow local government Committee to notice three bills for their June 26 hearing SB 1111 pending re referral from Elections Committee SB 1210 pending re referral from Utilities and Energy Committee and SB 1234 pending re referral for environmental safety and toxics Material Committee.

Without objection Such shall be the order.

I request unanimous consent to rescind the action whereby on June 10 at 2024 SB 1318 was read third time passed sent to Senate. Please order the Bill to be back for third reading file.

Correction. That was SB 1381. Without objection. Such shall be the order and thank you for that.

I request anonymous consent to order SCR 157 to third reading file. Without objection, set shall be the order.

Excuse me, do we have objection?

Thank you Mister speaker. We do object to that rereferral and ask for a roll call vote.

Mister Flora is asking for a roll call vote. Mister Santiago, this is a procedural motion. Members, Mister Santiago is asking for an aye vote. Mister Flora is asking for a no vote. Procedural motion. Clerk will open the roll. All those vote who desire to vote. On this procedural motion. Mister Santiago asking for an aye vote.

Mister Flora asking for a no vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those voters. The motion was seconded by Assembly Member Ortega. Procedural motion Members requiring 40 votes Members, this is a procedural motion. Procedural motion. Members, Mister Santiago is asking for an aye vote. Mister Flora is asking for a no vote.

Clerk will close the roll. Tally the votes. Eyes 42, nos. 13. Motion carries. Mister Santiago, you are recognized.

At the request of the author, please remove item 24, SB 931, from the consent calendar and place the Bill on an active file. Clerk will note. Thanks. Please proceed. Thank you. There are late amendments to deaths relative to ACA 10. I move to suspend Assembly rule 69 to allow Assemblymember Wicks to take up for the amendments today on behalf of Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry.

We object to these amendments. Ask for roll call vote.

Okay, there's a motion by Mister Santiago seconded by Miss Ortega. The procedural motion. Members, Mister Santiago is asking for an aye vote. Mister Flora asking for a no vote. Clerk will open the roll. All those vote who desire to vote. On this procedural motion. All those vote who desire to vote. Mister Santiago, asking for an aye vote.

Mister Flora, asking for a no vote. All those vote who desire to vote. All those vote who desire to vote. Members, if you are in the lounge, please come to the floor. We have business before us. I know we have a quorum. It's a procedural vote Members, procedural vote Mister Santiago, asking for an aye vote. Mister Flora, asking for a no vote Members, please. Procedural vote Members.

Procedural vote Members. Procedural vote Members. Requires 40 votes. Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. Eyes 40 no's. 14 measure passes. Carries. Carries. Moving now to guest introductions and announcements. Assemblymember Reyes, you are recognized for your guest introductions. Members. Your respectful attention to Assembly Member Reyes.

Thank you, Mister speaker. Members, I would like to welcome my guests from the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, HACU first, Doctor Antonio Flores, President and CEO Doctor Reyes Gonzalez, Senior Vice President of state policy and government relations who will soon be leading the Chicago office Noemi Lujan Perez, Director of state government relations here in Sacramento Jorge Cruz, Assistant Director of Legislative affairs here in Sacramento and Mireye Gutierrez Palma, internship housing coordinator.

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities represents more than 600 colleges and universities committed to higher education success. HACU also represents a growing number of colleges and universities in the Caribbean, Latin America and Spain who collaborate with HSIs.

Here in the United States, HACU is home to two thirds of all Hispanic college students, and they are the only national educational Association that represents Hispanic serving institutions. Here in California alone, we have 172 Hispanic serving institutions. Members, would you please help me welcome our guests?

[Second Reading]

With amendments all bills will be deemed read and all amendments will be deemed adopted. Moving now to concurrence and Senate amendments file item 47 AB 1924 by Assemblymember Nguyen. Clerk will read

Assembly Bill 1924 by Assembly Member Stephanie Nguyen and others an act relating to transportation.

Assemblymember Nguyen, you are recognized.

Thank you Mister speaker and Members. I rise today AB 1924 on concurrence. Senate amendment simply aligns with local representation. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

All seen 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. All those vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll and tally the votes. Ayes 46, nos Zero measure passes. Excuse me. Senate amendments are concurred.

Item 53 is a notice, under reconsideration. All items shall be continued. We're going to move to Assembly third reading, but we're going to pass temporarily on file item 60 and we'll move to Assembly Senate third reading file item 72 SB 739 Senator Ashby by Senator Nguyen for amendments. The Clerk will read

Senate Bill 739 with amendments by Assembly Member Nguyen.

Assembly Member Nguyen you are recognized.

Thank you Mister speaker. Once again these amendments make clarifying changes around workforce training language. I respectfully ask for your aye vote with that objection.

We'll take a voice vote on the amendments. All those in favor say aye. Opposed say no. Ayes have it. Amendments are adopted out. The Bill is out to print and back on file and we're moving back to Assembly third reading file item 60. ACA 10 Assemblymember Wicks presenting on behalf of Assemblymember Agbiar Curry, the Clerk will.

Read Assembly Constitutional Amendment 10 with amendments by Assembly Member Wicks.

Assembly Member Wicks, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mister speaker. Members, I rise to present amendments to ACA 10 on behalf of Majority leader Aguirre Curry. The amendments fix drafting errors and make technical and clarifying changes. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Without objection. We will take a voice vote on the amendments. All those in favor say aye opposed say no. The ayes have it. The amendments are adopted. The Bill is out to print and back on file. Members, we will now move to the second day consent calendar.

Before we vote on the second, we will take up first take up resolutions on the consent calendar for the purpose of adding co authors. Clerk will now read the resolutions on the consent calendar.

[Consent Calendar]

Clerk will now open the roll on the resolutions on the consent calendar as co authors. All those Members who desire to vote. As a co author for the resolutions on the consent calendar, all those vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll and tally the votes.

Ayes 53 no zero there are 53 co authors added. Moving to a vote on the consent calendar, we have removed file item 87 pass and retain on 89 does any Member wish to remove an item from the consent calendar? The Clerk will open the roll on the consent calendar. Pardon he'll read the consent read the.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution 209 by Assembly Member Kalra relative to the 2024 International Day of Yoga

The Clerk will now, open the roll on the consent calendar. All those vote who desire to vote all those vote who desire to vote on the consent calendar, all those vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll and tally the votes. Ayes 56 no's one the consent calendar is adopted. Clerk will read the remaining items on the consent calendar.

[Consent Calendar]

Ayes 56 Noes one Members of quorum call is still in place. We respect for your respectful attention to those who have been granted prior permission on an adjournment in memory. If you need to have a conversation, please take your conversations off the floor. Members, please take your conversations off the floor. Quorum call is still in place. Ask that you take your conversations off the floor, please. Senate Member Bryan, you are recognized for your adjournment and memory.

Thank you, Mister speaker. Today I rise in the memory of Reverend James Lawson Junior. A civil rights icon, a labor movement organizer, a Professor, a preacher, a mentor who passed away earlier this month, Lawson worked alongside Doctor Martin Luther King, who called James Lawson the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.

He's widely known as the mind of the movement and was a staunch advocate for nonviolence in the struggle for equity, equality and civil rights, even in the face of extreme and unprecedented brutality. As a community organizer in Los Angeles, the community looked to Reverend Lawson's teaching and leadership as a framework for engaging in struggle and resistance.

Lawson was imprisoned in 1951 for refusing to register with the armed forces, and following his parole from prison in 1952, he traveled to India and performed missionary work with the Methodist Church. While in India, he deepened his study of Gandhi's use of nonviolence to achieve social and political change and transformation.

While Doctor King was fresh off the successful Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, Lawson traveled around the south with him to prepare activists for nonviolent action. This gave the community the tools and tactics needed to face violent pushback from white supremacy.

He mentored a generation of civil rights leaders, among them John Lewis, Diane Nash, James Bevel, the Little Rock nine, the students who integrated Central High School, the uncle of one of our colleagues from South Lake.

Throughout his career, he was instrumental in the forefront of the student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee and assisted with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Congress of Racial Equity. He worked with various civil rights groups in the south until 1974, when he migrated to LA and became the pastor of Hohmann United Methodist Church in my district.

For 25 years, Reverend Lawson played a key role in centering Los Angeles as a strong labor Center for the rest of the country and the rest of the world to follow. For more than 20 years, Lawson co taught a class titled Nonviolence and social movements as part of UCLA's labor studies program.

I knew Reverend Lawson for many, many years and up until the day he passed, he was the sharpest man in the room. Always. He loved to share knowledge, to share stories. He loved to teach students. I never forget one of the first times he told me a story.

He mentioned a time where he and Martin were doing something. And it was the first time in my entire life somebody ever referred to Doctor King as Martin because that was his friend, that was his colleague, that was his partner in the struggle.

For decades, for over 90 years, Reverend Lawson walked this earth at the intersection of morality, religiosity, justice, equity, and fairness. One of my favorite quotes from him, peace dominates war. Faith reconciles doubt, mutual regard cancels enmity. Justice for all overthrows injustice. The redemptive community supersedes systems of gross social immorality.

These were the kind of quotes he gave often, but more deeply than that. These were the kind of words and spirits that moved him and everybody he touched during his time on this earth. May he rest in power.

Thank you, Assemblymember Bryan. Assemblymember Gipson, you are recognized on this adjournment memory as well.

Thank you very much, Mister speaker and Members. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to rise in the memory of Reverend James Morris Lawson. I want to thank my colleague from Los Angeles, one, for elevating and making sure that we close out this session in memory of this great drum major from Los Angeles.

He was known for many names. He was a husband, an amazing father, a civil rights strategist, a people organizer, a pastor, a biblical scholar, and an activist. Reverend James Lawson junior played a significant role during the civil rights movement alongside Doctor Martin Luther King Junior. And it's chronicled in our history books.

There's photographs that you can see and saw and see all the things that this great drum major did. He recognized that he didn't need to be elected to make change. Some people think you have to be elected in order to make change.

He showed us that you do not need to be elected to invoke change that you wanted, that he wanted to see in his community. And he did that. He did that standing right beside the drum major for justice, Doctor Martin Luther King Junior.

I remember back in the nineties when I worked for Los Angeles, City Council Member who was part of the Freedom ride movement. My first introduction to Reverend James Lawson was at a meeting. And when he walked in the room, he just commanded presence. And guess what?

Because he was a biblical scholar, he was the light in dark places, and he was the salt that gave flavor to the movement that he needed to invoke. He was the change agent that he wanted to see in Los Angeles.

And then when I had the opportunity to lead the janitors movement in Los Angeles, when we took the streets over, thousands of people stood with janitors and he was with the Vice President and the President of SDIU International, Andy Stern and Aliceo Medina. James Lawson was right there in that struggle.

And he said, if we need to go to jail, then we'll go to jail on this day. That was the kind of man. So he didn't need a title to invoke change, because he was change. Reverend Lawson knew that one. He was known for patience, he was known for bravery, and also his sacrifice.

In 1961, Reverend Lawson helped spread the word to coordinate the freedom ride movement and coalition. And I was looking at his bio and I did not know this whether it was international. He spoke out against international arms trade in America and also criticized America to his response on poverty in America.

He also got involved against the war in El Salvador, the Persian Gulf War, and also the Iraq War because people's lives were being placed in jeopardy. And so what I'm simply saying is that we have lost a great man, not only in Los Angeles, but this great country.

And as my colleague from Los Angeles said, James Lawson, may you rest in peace and rest in power. You did a great job, you changed its trajectory and you made a difference.

Thank you Mister Gipson. And Mister Gipson, you are recognized for an adjournment memory.

Thank you very much Mister speaker and Members. I rise to ask his body to adjourn. To adjourn. Wait a minute. To adjourn in memory of Oreceo Orpeza. Mister Orpeza was born in 1941 in Michigan, Mexico. He migrated to the United States at the age of 21 alongside of his father, and worked as a coal miner in Texas before migrating to California where he joined the agricultural movement in California. He made his home in Wilmington, California, where he started a family, a beautiful family.

And just three years ago on this floor, I actually asked his body to adjourn in the memory of his wife. They eventually had five sons and two daughters, 23 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. One of those grandchildren was my former district Director who introduced me to his grandfather.

In 1966, Mister Orpeza joined the Farm Workers Movement alongside Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. In March of that year, he was one of the original farm workers who began the historic pilgrimage from Delano to the state capitol. Mister Appeza was the uncle of the United Farm Workers Vice President Erica Viret Neverett.

He died a few days before his 84th birthday. I had an opportunity to be with him a few days before his passing and when he saw me, he started crying and he asked why was I here. And I said, I'm here to play you dominoes so I can whoop you in dominoes.

And he said to me, not right now, because he knew that time was drawing near for him. But he was surrounded with mediocre bands playing while he was laying on the couch, seeing all of his family. This man was an incredible man.

And before he passed away, he said to his daughter, do you think I made a difference in the movement? And she said, yes, you did. I'm happy to one call my friend a mentor. Thank you very much Members, for allowing me to ask this body to adjourn in his memory.

Thank you, Assembly Member Gipson. 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. Committee hearings Joint Legislative Audit. Assembly Labor and Senate Labor Committees meet upon adjournment in the swing space, room 1100.

Session schedule is as follows. Friday, June 21 no check in session. No floor session. Monday, June 24, floor session at 01:00 p.m. all other items will be passed and retained. All motions shall be continued. Mister Santiago. Mister Santiago moves. Mister Patterson seconds that the House stand adjourn until Monday, June 24 at 01:00 p.m. quorum call is lifted and the house is adjourned.