Assembly Floor

The Assembly is now in session. Assemblymember Wallace notices the absence of a quorum. Sergeant at Arms will prepare the chamber and bring in the absent Members. Clerk will call the roll.

[Roll Call]

Members, please report to the floor. Members in the lounge, please report to the floor.

Members of quorum is present. We ask our guests and visitors in the rear of the chamber and in the gallery to please stand for the day's prayer. Assemblymember Ahrens will offer today's prayer. Assemblymember Ahrens.

Colleagues and guests, please join me in prayer. Lord God, grant us hearts that remain open, open to truth, open to reason, and most importantly, open to the suffering of others. Scripture reads, whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none. Whoever has food must do likewise. Let us be reminded, charity is not optional.

It is commanded. Make us a people known not for exclusion, but for compassion. Not for hoarding, but for sharing. Not for fear, but for love. Scripture further warned, do not oppress a foreigner. You yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners because you were foreigners in Egypt.

We dishonor our own history and your word when we deny welcome and protection to the vulnerable. Let us not forget that the strength of a nation is not measured by how it treats its, how it treats the powerful, but by how it cares for the least among us.

May our actions reflect not just political will, but divine commandment. May our policies reflect your justice and not just our convenience. And may we never forget that in serving the poor, the hungry and the stranger, we serve you. May this be your will. Amen.

We ask our guests and visitors to remain standing to join us in the flag Salute. Assemblymember Patel will lead us in the pledge of allegiance.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, guests and staff, please put your. Right hand over your heart and recite. The pledge with me. Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag.

May be seated. To our guests and visitors today. State law prohibits persons in the gallery from interfering with legislative proceedings or disrupting the orderly conduct of official business. Persons disrupting legislative proceedings are subject to removal, arrest or other appropriate legal remedies. Reading of the previous day's Journal .

Assembly Chamber Sacramento Wednesday, June 42025 the Assembly met at 10am The Honorable Josh Lowenthal, speaker pro temporary of the Assembly. Presiding Chief Clerk

Majority leader moves and Ms. Sanchez 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 read and amendments deemed adopted. Messages from the Governor? There are none. Messages from the Senate? There are none.

Moving on to motions and resolutions. The absences for the day. For legislative business, Assemblymember Alvarez. For illness, Assemblymember Berman. Madam Majority Leader. Excuse me. Assistant Majority Leader Garcia. You are recognized for your procedural motions.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I request unanimous consent to suspend Assembly Rule 45.5 to allow Assembly Members Brian and Gibson to speak on an adjournment in memory today.

I request unanimous consent to suspend Assembly rule 118A to allow Assembly Members Elhawary, Jeff Gonzalez, Celeste Rodriguez, Petrie Norris and Soria to have guests in the rear of chamber today.

Without objection, Such shall be the order.

At the request of the authors, please remove the following measures from the consent calendar. File item 133, ACR101, Addis file item 135, SB 385s and file item 142, SB 410. Grayson I move to suspend the rules for any bills reported to the desk by a Committee as do pass as amended or do pass as amended to the Appropriations Committee on July 17 and July 18 to be amended and ordered to the second reading file one legislative day prior to the day required under the Assembly and Joint Rules .

Assembly Member Sanchez, you are recognized.

We object and ask for a roll call vote.

Okay. System Majority leader's motion is seconded by Assemblymember Gibson. This motion is not debatable. Takes 40 votes. Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote a desire to vote. Majority leader is asking for an aye vote. Ms. Sanchez is asking for a no vote. All Members vote who desire to vote.

All Members vote who desire to vote it. Clerk will close the roll. Tally the votes. Ayes 41, noes 12. The motion carries. Rules are suspended. Okay, moving on to guest introductions. Assistant Speaker Pro Tem Rodriguez, you are recognized for your guest introduction.

Thank you. Mr. Speaker, it is my absolute pleasure to introduce two interns working in my Capitol office, Yesenia Perez and Citlali Nevado. Citlali is a CLYP fellow who was born and raised in Yolo County and is a first generation third year at UC Berkeley. She's double majoring in legal studies and political science.

This is her first policy internship. In her short time here, she demonstrated to be a fast learner and show a strong interest in higher education policy issues. Moving forward, she's focused on finishing her undergraduate degree and going to law school.

Yesenia is a Callen SAC Sacramento Fellow from Koreatown in Los Angeles who graduated this spring from UC Berkeley where she studied legal studies and public policy.

She's gained a lot of valuable experience and is committed to using this new knowledge to pursue a career in public service where she can focus her efforts on supporting policies that create educational and economic opportunities for first generation students, low income families and her immigrant community.

I would like to thank them so much for their contributions to our office and ask you to please help me in wishing them success in their future careers and endeavors.

Assemblymember Dimaio, you are recognized for your guest introduction.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, I am pleased and thrilled to welcome to Sacramento, our state capital, our hard working district staff team from the 75th Assembly District in San Diego. County. They're up there in the gallery. Got up early and took my usual flight to Sacramento.

How do you guys like it, huh? Four o', clock, wake up time. We have our Constituent Service manager, Peyton Galvez. With us, our District Outreach Manager, Trinity Hanaway, our District Director, Matt Stockton, our Communications Director, Dylan Martin, and our Chief of Staff, Jordan Garnett. Our hard working district team, welcome to Sacramento.

Will be having a training session and retreat today and tomorrow so they can learn a little bit more about what happens up here in the other office. But guys and gals, thank you so much for your hard work on behalf of the 75th Assembly District.

Assemblymember Rubio, you are recognized for your guest introduction.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members, please join me in welcoming constituents from the 48th Assembly District. In the gallery we have Junior Alvarez, a paraeducator from San Bernardino County Superintendent's Office, and his two sons, Benjamin and Samuel. They traveled a great distance to be with us today at our State Capitol.

Please join me in giving them a warm welcome and welcome to the State Assembly. Boys.

It Assemblymember Elhawary, you are recognized for your guest introduction.

Thank you so much, Mr. Speaker and Members, I rise today with great joy and pride to recognize Jaden Calhoun, who has served as a summer intern in my Office through the Mccarthy Fellowship. Jaden was raised in my district and it has been wonderful to see him back in the community that shaped him.

Giving back to the community that shaped him. During his time with us, Jaden has shown an eager attitude toward learning and a willingness to help the office in any way he could. In fact, he worked so diligently that during his first week, he answered so many phone calls that his phone was hot to touch.

No task was too small for Jaden, and he approached every responsibility with eagerness. Jaden is completing his Bachelor's degree in Political Science and minoring in Legal Studies and Public Policy at the University of San Francisco and intends to attend law school afterward.

I am confident his future holds great promise and I look forward to all he will accomplish in the years ahead. He's also a brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated, and I'm so proud to have him in our office.

Please join me in recognizing and congratulating Jaden Calhoun for for his hard work, dedication and service to the people of California.

Okay, Members, there are a few guest introductions where the guests have not arrived, and so we may sprinkle those in a bit later. And for now we are moving on to business on the Daily File we are going to start with our second reading file items 1 through 76 Clerk.

[Second Reading]

Members all bills will be deemed read and all amendments will be deemed adopted. Moving back to procedural motions, Assistant Majority Leader Garcia, you are recognized for your procedural motion.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. At the request of the author, please move file item 29, SB344, Weber Pierson, to the inactive file circle. Note. At the request of the author, please remove file item 40, SB861, Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development, from the consent calendar.

Clerk will note. Okay. Madam Majority Leader, you are recognized.

AB104 and AB138 have been received from the Senate. I request unanimous consent to suspend Assembly Rule 63 to allow Assemblymember Gabriel to take up the bills today without reference to file. For the purposes of concurrence in the Senate amendments that. Objection.

Such shall be the order without reference to file Assembly Bill 104 by Assemblymember Gabriel. The Clerk will read

Assembly Bill 104 by Assembly Member Gabriel and accolades to the state budget. Making an appropriation, therefore, to take effect immediately. Budget Bill.

Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker, I rise to present AB104. This Bill makes technical and conforming changes to the 2025 Budget act and reappropriates funding for a variety of projects and grants that require extended timelines.

This Bill also provides two additional hospitals in Imperial county with loan repayment extensions and enacts small changes to some budget numbers to reflect updated federal funding allocations. Finally, this Bill includes minor corrections and technical fixes to the Budget act that were identified by the Department of Finance. Colleagues, I respectfully request your aye vote on AB 104.

Thank you, Assemblymember Gabriel. Assemblymember Jeff Gonzalez, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I rise in strong support of this critical budget Bill. Because for communities like mine, this isn't just about numbers on a page. It's about survival. Colleagues, today we are not simply voting on a budget. We are taking a stand for the health, dignity and future of Californians who are too often overlooked.

I'm proud to support a measure that will provide loan repayment relief to distressed rural hospitals, including El Centro Regional and Palo Verde, both of which serve as lifelines in my district. Let's be clear, this is a big win.

A win for healthcare access, a win for common sense, and a win for every rural Californian who should not have to drive hours to just to get basic medical care. For too long, rural hospitals have been asked to do more with less. They serve communities with higher rates of chronic illness, fewer physicians and limited transportation infrastructure.

Yet they remain the first line of defense in any emergency. When margins shrink and debt mounts, these hospitals are pushed to the brink. This Bill changes that by extending repayment terms on critical loans. We're giving hospitals like El Centro and Palo Verde the tools they need to stabilize operations, retain staff and continue delivering essential care.

Let me say that again. We're keeping hospitals open, we're keeping care local, and we're showing that when rural communities raise their voices, Sacramento listens. And with that, I ask you to vote and I am in strong support of AB104.

Thank you Assemblymember Jeff Gonzalez seeing and hearing no further debate. Assemblymember Gabriel, do you wish to close?

Respectfully request an aye vote.

All debate having ceased, the Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tally the votes. Ayes53 Nose1 send amendments are incurred in without reference to file Assembly Bill 138 by Assemblymember Gabriel.

Assembly Bill 138 by the Committee on Budget an act relating to state employment and making an appropriation therefore to take effect immediately Bill related to the budget.

Assemblymember Gabriel, you are recognized.

Thank you Mr. Speaker. I rise today to present AB138. This Bill codifies and ratifies four additional recently agreed upon MOU agreements. It also reflects addenda side letters to 14 different collective bargaining contracts. These MOUs are reflected in the 2025 budget package and are expected to result in 227 million in General Fund savings. Colleagues, I respectfully ask for your aye vote on AB138.

Thank you Assembly Member Gabriel, Assemblymember DeMaio, you are recognized.

Thank you Mr. Speaker. I rise in strong opposition to AB138. This Bill, like the other MOUs that are being sent by the Governor to this chamber, intentionally cooks the books, underfunds the bills that we are incurring for state employees this year in the form of not paying for their retiree health care benefits.

This is exactly like a family with a mortgage on their house just deciding we're not paying our mortgage payments this year. And what happens is it pushes that debt off. It means that the interest compounds and the Bill eventually comes due at a much higher rate. This is Enron style accounting.

This is pretending like we don't have a cost kicking the can down the road. In this morning's calmatters or yesterday's calmatters, they rightfully point out that the State of California did not balance its budget on June 30th we have a $20 billion structural budget deficit.

And instead of actually balancing the budget, doing our jobs, we're actually creating a bigger problem because these skipped payments come with compound interest. I urge you to vote no, send this back to the governor's office and demand that we pay our bills when they are actually due.

Thank you. Assemblymember DeMaio, seeing and hearing no further debate. Assemblymember Gabriel, do you wish to close?

Respectfully request an aye vote.

All debate having ceased, Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tally the votes. Eyes 503. noes 4. Send. Amendments are concurrent. Okay, going on to the concurrence file.

We are passing and retaining on file item 77. That brings us to file item number 78. That's AB 1114 by Assemblymember Avila Farias. The Clerk will read

Assembly Bill 1114 by Assembly Member Avila Farias an act relating to vehicles.

Assemblymember Avila Farias, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. AB 1114 is back on concurrence. Amendments made in the Senate removed section one of the Bill which exempted private ambulances from registration fees imposed under the vehicle code.

The Bill now simply clarifies the process for private ambulance services providers seeking agreements with toll agencies in order to waive toll fees while responding to an emergency. Thank you. AB 1114 has no opposition and a bipartisan support. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you. Assemblymember Abi Lafarias. All debate having ceased, Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tally the votes. Ayes 59. No 0. The measure passes. Senate amendments are concurred in just a moment.

Folks, we have some Members that are stuck in traffic. Just want to make sure that they are going to arrive today to be able to present. And on that note, we are going to pass temporarily on file item number 79. That's going to bring us to file item number 80. That's AB642 by Assemblymember Muratsuchi. The Clerk will read

AB 642 by Assembly Member Muratsuchi an act relating to emergencies and declaring the urgency thereof to take effect immediately.

Assembly Member Muratsuchi, you are recognized.

Thank you very much. Assembly Bill 642 is back for concurrence. Support. Support. No No votes Respectfully ask for an Aye Vote.

All debate having ceased, the Clerk Will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tally the votes. Ayes 55. No. 0. Senate amendments are concurred in a pass and retain on File item number 81.

That brings us to file item number 82. AB 1051 by Assemblymember Davies. The Clerk will read

Assembly Bill 1051 by Assemblymember Davies an act relating to state highways.

Assemblymember Davies, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Amendments were made in Senate. All technical ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Davies. I'll debate having cease. Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tallied votes Ayes 55. No. 0. Senate amendments are concurred in. Okay, that brings us to the Assembly Bill.

Third reading file. Going to pass the retain on file items 83, 84, 85, 86, 87. That brings us to file item 88. That is AB 1533 by Assemblymember Wicks.

Assembly Bill 1533 by Assemblymember Wicks an act relating to state claims and making an appropriation, therefore declaring the urgency thereof to take effect immediately.

Assembly Member Wicks, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members AB 1533 as amended, would appropriate $672 from the General Fund to the Department of General Services for the payment of claims against the state accepted by the government claims program. The Bill also includes an urgency clause. This is one of several annual bills authored by the chair of either the.

Assembly Appropriations Committee or the Senate Appropriations. Committee to provide appropriation. Appropriation authority for legal settlements. Approved by the Department of Finance and the Department of General Services. This Bill enjoys support recommendations from both causes. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Wicks. All debate having ceased, Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tally the votes. Ayes 16, Noes zero on the urgency. Ayes 16 no zero on the measure. The measure passes.

Going to pass and retain on file items 89, 90, 91. We're now on to the Senate third reading file. Okay, we are going to pass and retain on file items 92 through 102. That is going to bring us to File item number 103. That is SB611 by Senator Richardson. Presented by Assemblymember Zbur.

The Clerk will read the bill..

Senate Bill 611 by Senator Richardson and others an act relating to land use and declaring the urgency thereof to take effect immediately.

Assembly Members Zbur, you are recognized.

Thank you, Madam Speaker. Colleagues, I rise today to present SB6.11, authored by a Senator from San Pedro and sponsored by Mayor Karen Bass. California continues to grapple with a persistent and deepening housing crisis, one that threatens not only our state's economic stability, but the dignity and well being of countless residents across our communities.

SB 611 seeks to address a key barrier to progress, the unnecessary legal delays that stall housing developments which have already been reviewed and approved. This Bill restores essential legal clarity and stability to the development process.

SB611 reforms the legislative intent behind AB 1515, authored by Assemblymember Friedman in 2019, by ensuring that housing projects consistent with adopted community plans can move forward even if the plans later become subject to litigation. Without this certainty, critical housing efforts are left in limbo, undermined by lawsuits unrelated to the merit of the individual projects.

AB 1515 had a sunset date of January 1, 2025. The most recent amendment makes the Bill applicable to community plans adopted from January 1st of this year. SB 611 has enjoyed bipartisan support, has received no no votes.

I respectfully urge your aye vote to ensure that we continue to make this progress towards housing stability for all Californians.

Thank you, Assemblymember Zbur. All debate having ceased, Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tally the votes. Ayes 66 no. 0 on the urgency. ayes 66 no. 0 on the measure, and the measure passes.

Okay, we are going to pass Retain on file items 104105. Members, decorum, please. Keep your voices down, please, Members. Okay, thank you, Members. Appreciate it. We're on file. Item 106. That's SB 251 by Senator Caballero, presented by Assemblymember Wicks. Clerk will read

Senate Bill 251 by Senator Caballero and acclaim to payment of claims against the state making an appropriation, therefore declaring the urgency thereof to take effect immediately.

Assemblymember Wicks, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I know everyone's ready to go on break. AB 251, similar to the Bill I just presented a second ago, would amend as amended, would appropriate around 1.2 million and some change from the General Fund to the Attorney General to pay three specific claims against the state.

This Bill also includes an urgency clause and a support from both caucuses. It's one of several bills authored either by myself or Senator Caballero to provide appropriation authority for legal settlements approved by the Department of Finance, justice and Finance. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Wicks. All debate having ceased, Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote that desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tally the votes. Aye 64, no 0 on the urgency. Aye 64, no. 0 on the measure. The measure passes.

We're going to pass and retain on file items 107 all the way through file item 130. We're going to go back to the concurrence and Senate amendments. That is file item number 79. AB 1459 by the Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials presented by Assemblymember Connolly. Clerk will read

Assembly Bill 1459 by the Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials an relating to Hazardous Materials.

Members, please give some respect to the authors. I know everybody is antsy to leave today. Please, Members. Please. Members, respect to the author. Assemblymember Connolly, you are recognized.

Good morning, speaker and Members. AB 1459 is a Committee Bill that makes technical changes to the 6 Unified Hazardous Waste and hazardous materials regulatory programs overseen by the certified unified program agencies. The Senate amendments were technical, including updated updating. Co authors has no opposition. Respectfully asked for concurrence and Senate amendments.

Thank you, Assembly Member Connolly. I'll debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll Tally, the votes Ayes 67 no 0 send. Amendments are concurred.

Assemblymember Soria, we're going to recognize you for your guest introduction at this time. Have your guests come up to the rear of the chamber, please. Members, decorum please. Assemblymember Soria, you are recognized for your guest introduction.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members, today I have a special guest on our floor who has joined us here this morning. I want to introduce our Current Maddie Institute 2025 Summer Intern, Leah Alonso, who has been working in our Capitol office this summer.

We have been excited to be able to show her what we do here on a daily basis. I know that she's learned a lot. She has been willing to take on every task that we have given her. She was born in Chicago, but grew up in Oxnard and then is attending UC Merced, which is in my district.

She's majoring in political science with a minor in natural science education. We're excited to have her here. She has a passion for immigration law and immigration reform. She's inspired by her parents experience experiences and the challenges that many immigrants families face.

And beyond that policy focus, she has spent many years working with children across California, particularly in underserved communities. And I learned yesterday as we spent some time together, that rather than maybe doing policy work, she wants to be in the classroom impacting the lives of young people.

And so we're excited that she spent the summer here with us. Want to congratulate her. She's going to graduate next semester from UC Merced. So go Bobcats. Thank you, Leah, for all the work that you did in our office. And we wish you much success because you are the future of California.

Assemblymember Patterson, you're recognized for your guest introduction. Members, decorum please. Members. Thank you. Members.

Great. Thank you. Mr. Speaker, please to have with me in the gallery up here my district interns. They made the long trek here just like Mr. DeMaio's or our colleague from San Diego's folks, about 40 minutes drive. But I'd like to introduce them right now.

They've done a great job in my district office, responding to constituent inquiries and all the hard work. We have Maura Cooper, Daksha Noor Mackenzie Haley, and my next door neighbor, Chase, who I knew when he was like this tall. Now he's about a foot and a half taller than this bald little man. So welcome to my district, interns. Thank you.

Members, we're going to move on to a vote on the consent calendar. Okay. Items 133, 135 and 142 have been removed from the consent calendar. Is there any Member that wishes to remove any further items from the consent calendar? Seeing and hearing none. The Clerk will read the second day consent calendar.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution 13 by Assembly Member Jackson relative to International Day of Peace.

Clerk will open the roll. On the consent calendar. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. I65, no. 0 consent calendar is adopted. Clerk will remede the remaining items on the consent calendar.

[Consent Calendar]

Assemblymember Fong, you were recognized for your guest introduction.

Thank you so much. Mr. Speaker. It gives a great honor privilege to welcome the Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment interns. They're in a gallery. They can stand up. They made a trip to Sacramento and they're interning in many of our legislative offices here in Southern California. We're grateful for their service and leadership.

Let's give a warm Assembly welcome to the Center for Asian Americans United for Self Empowerment Cause. Interns, welcome.

Madam Majority Leader, you're recognized for your procedural motion.

Pursuant to Assembly Rule 97, I request unanimous consent to re refer items 125, SB104, Wiener and item 126 SB138, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review to the Budget Committee.

Without Objection.

At the request of the author, please, please move file item 37 SB773 Ashby to the inactive file.

Clerk will note.Members, we are moving on to adjournments and memory. The quorum call is still in place. Let's give our respectful attention to those who were granted prior permission to speak on their adjournment and memory. We ask for your decorum. Members, keep your conversations off the floor. Assemblymember Bryan, you are recognized for your adjournment of memory.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, I rise to honor the life and the work of James Raymond Bell, a visionary leader and an advocate within the American juvenile justice system. Jimmy Bell was born on March 5th, 1954, and he passed away on April 3rd, 2025, at the age of 71.

James was born in a segregated hospital in South Carolina. His family moved to Southern California during the Great migration in the 60s. He attended high school in Pomona and later graduated from Cal Poly Pomona, then Hastings College of Law.

James worked for two decades at the Youth Law center in San Francisco, where he worked alongside the Juvenile Law center on profound cases and projects impacting the lives of disproportionately black and brown children caught up in the system.

In 2001, James Bell founded the Hayward Burns Institute, an organization focused on addressing racial disparities and the disproportionality within our juvenile justice system. The Burns Institute is named after a mentor, a civil rights activist, William Hayward Burns, who was a leading figure in James life. Throughout his own life, James embodied the spirit of the Institute's namesake.

He inspired countless people to take action towards a brighter tomorrow, including myself. Under Jimmy's leadership, the Burns Institute partnered with over 200 counties and 23 different states, focused on improving the conditions of life for children caught in our juvenile justice system.

His organization played a significant role in two of the most prominent juvenile justice initiatives over the past 40 years. The first is the Annie Casey Foundation's Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative, which aimed to reduce the reliance on lock facilities and probation for youth who really just needed a hand up and an opportunity.

The Second is the Macarthur Foundation's model for Change, which had substantial investments in research on adolescent development and comprehensive reforms in the juvenile justice system.

His advocacy aimed to achieve equality and justice for all of our kids, especially for the children who are disenfranchised by other systemic failures that seem to correlate strongly with their race and their socioeconomic status. The last thing I did before I came to office was work on a project with James Bell.

See, in LA County, we have more children locked up than any county anywhere in California. And our probation Department had been known to be failing them for some time. So James came to town and we partnered up and we convened thousands of young people for meeting after meeting after meeting in every corner of the county.

And then Covid hit. And I remember telling James, I don't know how we continue this project in the middle of a pandemic. And he organized some of the largest zooms I had ever seen.

Hundreds and hundreds and at times a thousand people logging on to talk about what a brighter future in LA County could mean for our young people and for our struggling families.

Coming out of the report that James and I wrote together along with a few others, the County of Los Angeles established the Youth Development Department, the first such county Department anywhere in California, dedicated to uplifting and providing opportunity for young people and alternatives to incarceration for children who just need a fair shot. James fought the good fight.

Now, may he rest in power and his legacy continue on through his son Michael, his sister Elena, grandchildren Julian and Colette, a bevy of nieces, nephews and cousins. James was one of those people who just made you feel better about the world, made you feel like we could live in a better place.

And he did it with levity, and he did it with charm, and he did it with style. More importantly, he did it with grace and compassion. Colleagues, please join me in adjourning today's session in the honor of the great James Raymond Bell.

Thank you, Assemblymember Bryan. Assemblymember Gipson, you are recognized for your adjournment in memory.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Members, I rise with a heavy heart stasis body to adjourn in memory of my sons, my oldest son's aunt, Gail Yolanda McGowan. Gail transitioned and gained her wings on June 14th after a battle with ovarian cancer.

Off and on, even up to her last breath, Gail faith in the Lord never let up as she fought with grace and dignity with this awful thing called cancer. Gayle was born on June 81965 in Los Angeles, California, to Walter and Phyllis McGowan. She was born the oldest of 10 children.

With great pride in her role as the oldest of 10 siblings, Gail graduated from my old Alma mater, John C. Fremont High School. She worked her work history where I hired her first job at Taco Bell.

We often teased, it's a running joke that I hired everybody in the neighborhood at Taco Bell right there on Manchester and Cimarron in Los Angeles. And I took great pride in doing that. I think I hired the entire football team at Fremont High School, her second job. She stayed on that job.

The sugar food was her second job. She served on that job for 39 years until her death. Gail proudly called herself Superwoman because she could fix almost anything. She stood up to any challenge in her life. During her free time, Gail expressed creativity. She was a poetry writer. She wrote music. She danced. She loved to skate.

At World on Wheels, she did arts and crafts. There was no one that was so artistic as Gayle. Even though she was able to be very quiet, she took pride in that quiet time. But Gayle was quiet. But she had a very, very big presence in everyone's life, her sense of humor.

When she walked in a room, she lit up that room. She was a dedicated believer in Christ, and she was loyal, and she loved her Christ. She loved people from all walks of life, and she showed her love for people, no matter what color, no matter what language. She loved and embodied the love of people.

Her signature line was I got this. And she got this because she knew that God had her. And she could with her smile.

With her smile, she could light up a dark place in a dark room because her smile radiated in dark places because she believed that she was the light of the world, the salt of the Earth.

I would ask this body that we would just adjourn in Gail's memory and at 11:30am the family will gather at Inglewood Park Memorial Cemetery to celebrate her life. And she'll be laid to rest today on this 17th day of July at 11:30am So I would ask that this body will adjourn in memory of Gail Yolanda McGowan.

May you rest in peace and rest in power. And thank you for blessing my life.

Thank you. Assemblymember Gibson. Members, please bring the names to the desk to be printed in the Journal. All requests to adjourn a memory will be deemed read and printed in the Journal. Moving on to announcements, the following committees meet today upon adjournment right now. Higher Education and Capitol, Room 12026 Natural Resources in Capital Room 437.

Pursuant to the House joint rules, I'm ordering the desk to remain open until July 18 to receive Committee reports. Members, pursuant to Joint Rule 51, the House will stand in summer recess, reconvene on Monday, August 18th at 1pm Desk will remain open to process appropriate business. Quorum call is lifted and we are adjourned.