Assembly Floor

Assembly is now in session. Assemblymember Wallace notices the absence of a quorum sergeant. Arms will prepare the chamber, bringing the absent Members. Clerk will call the roll.

[Roll Call]

Members, the 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. Reverend Nosta will offer today's prayer. Reverend Nostah.

Please join me in a moment of reflection. My grandfather, Kitaro Ideta, immigrated from Japan to America in 1896. My father, Chuck Ideta was born in Exeter in 1922 and my brother Rick in Fowler in 1960. His first son, Trevor was born in Fresno in 1992.

And last month we welcomed the first fifth generation Member of our family in America, Miles Idetta. Every child born embodies our hope for humanity's future. Each child represents our deep wish to create a better world. Newborn children inspire optimism that humanity will continue to evolve when we consider how their new lives will unfold.

We pray for their happiness and well being and we hope the world will be loving, kind and patient with them. We shared with Trevor and his wife Ellie our four deepest hopes for baby Miles. One. We hope he will have good health. Two, we hope that he will have a kind and caring heart.

Three, we hope that he will have a bright and curious mind and four, we hope he will find something in life he is passionate about. Then our job is to help him pursue that passion and find his fulfillment. Every child born embodies our hope for a better, safer, peaceful world for them to live in.

For the sake of the children, let us continue to do our best to create a better world. Let us live with kindness and gratitude beyond words.

We ask our guests and visitors to remain standing to join us in the flag salute. Assemblymember Quirk Silva will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Members, join me in saluting our flag. 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.

Members, quick announcement With Appropriations reporting bills out from their suspense hearing on Friday, there are hundreds of Assembly bills on the Senate Floor without floor managers. Over 300. Please work with the Senate to identify floor managers as quickly as possible. You should be working with your staff right away. Reading of the previous day's Journal Assembly.

Chamber Sacramento Wednesday, August 20, 2025 the Assembly met at 7:00am The Honorable Tree Ta Assembly Member 70th District Presiding Chief.

Authority Leader Aguiar Curry moves that Mr. Flores 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. Absences for the day for paternity leave. Assemblymember Berman on to procedural motions. Madam Majority Leader. Madam Majority Leader, you are recognized for your procedural motion.

Good afternoon. I request unanimous consent to suspend Assembly Rule 45.5 to allow Assembly Members Quicksilver, Gallagher, Rubio, Colonial and Calderon to speak on a German memory.

Without objection. Such will be the order.

I request unanimous consent to suspend Assembly Rule 118A to allow Speaker Reavis and Assembly Members Hoover, Peller and Coloza to have guests at the rear of the chamber today.

Without Objection. Such will be ordered

I request unanimous consent to withdraw AB 1457 Brian from engrossing and enrolling and return the Bill to the Senate for further action.

Without objection.

I request unanimous consent to resend the action whereby on August 28, 2025 SB 400 Cortese was ready. 13 time passed and sent to the Senate. Please order the Bill back to the third reading file.

Without objection. Such shall be the order. Okay, moving on to guest introductions. Members, because of the heavy schedule we have on the floor for the next two weeks, all guest introductions announcements will be done by the presiding officer. We have two today that will be sprinkled in Based on their arrival time through the session.

We are going to move now to business on the daily file. In the interest of time, we're going to defer the reading of items on second reading until the end of our session today. Without objection, the Committee reports and amendments on second reading will be deemed read and adopted. Now moving back to procedural motions.

Madam Majority Leader, you're recognized for your procedure.

At the request of the author, please move file item 43, SB494 Cortese to the inactive file.

Clerk will note this one also. Madam Majority Leader, you're recognized.

I request unanimous consent to suspend Assembly Rule 96 to withdraw AB362 Ramos from the Appropriations Committee. Order the Bill to the to the second reading file.

Thank you, Madam Majority Leader. Assembly Member Flora, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. With whole consent, ask for a recall vote.

Mr. Flora has objected. Seconded. The motion is made by our majority leader. Seconded by system Majority Leader Garcia. This motion is not debatable. Requires 40 votes. Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. The majority leader is asking for an aye vote. Mr. Flora is asking for a no vote.

All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tally the votes. Ayes 41 Noes 13. The rules are suspended. Moving back to business on the daily file. Without objection, we will pass and retain on items 189 and 197. We're going to be moving to item number 194.

Begin with that. That is Assembly Member Pellerin's. File Item 194: ACR 70 by Assembly Member Pellerin. The clerk will read.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution 70 by Assembly Member Pellerin and others, relative to Suicide Prevention Awareness Month.

Assembly Member Pellerin, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and colleagues. I rise today to present ACR 70 to proclaim September as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. While this is extremely hard for me, I am grateful to be a member of this esteemed body to have this incredible platform to speak to you about a subject that has profoundly impacted me and my family.

Suicide was not a topic I spent much time thinking or talking about before November 19, 2018 when my husband at 25 years, Tom, the father of our two children, died by suicide. I am motivated to speak openly and publicly because suicide and mental health--we need to prevent suicide, and mental health conditions can be treated.

Early in my grieving process, I went to a talk on suicide and the speaker encouraged us to put our grief to work. That resonated with me, so I joined a suicide survivors group, did the overnight walk in San Francisco to raise money and awareness for suicide prevention, authored proclamations from my county and cities, and joined the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the NAMI Board.

I then ran and was elected to represent the 28th Assembly District because I want to be a voice and a face for suicide prevention and awareness as well as mental health. I'm honored to serve as Chair of the Select Committee on California's Mental Health Crisis and serve with my colleagues who care deeply about our mental health crisis.

I understand how difficult it is to talk about suicide and our mental health. In the beginning, it was extremely hard for me, but now, as my friends and family will attest, I do it often. I've learned a lot about suicide in my journey and I'm grateful to my children, family, friends, co-workers, and all of you here on the floor who have supported me on this path. I want to share some things I've learned about suicide beyond the statistics that you can read in the resolution. Suicide is not a selfish act.

It is a devastating outcome of someone who feels utterly hopeless, trapped in unbearable pain, and no longer afraid of dying. Please don't say someone committed suicide. Suicide is not a crime. It's the result of an illness. We do not say someone committed cancer. Words matter, so please say 'died by suicide' or 'took their own life.'

Asking someone if they're thinking about suicide will not put the idea in their head. Most will be relieved that someone cares and is willing to have that critical conversation. Grief is not a journey to a destination. It is something we carry with us every single day. The path is not straight, nor flat, nor one direction.

That stigma around suicide is real and emotions are complex, so please don't ask if someone is done grieving or question why they continue to make their loved one's birthday or anniversary a special day. And if someone could get through that intense and short moment of an active suicidal crisis, chances are they will not take their own life.

That's why the semicolon has become more than punctuation. It's a symbol of a battle fought, a pause that wasn't an ending, and the ongoing narrative of mental health. I have a semicolon butterfly pin for each of you on your desk. I hope you wear it proudly, and when someone asks about the meaning, you can tell them.

Suicide does not discriminate. It impacts all people of all ages, genders, race, ethnicity, incomes, sexual orientations, but suicide numbers are higher for White males, veterans, people who live in rural areas, our LGBTQ plus youth, transgender adults, middle-aged adults, and our first people.

So what can all of you do to help prevent suicide? First on my list: be kind. You don't know what someone is going through, you don't know their story, so just be kind to one another, even to those who are unkind to you. Promote the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

This lifeline has proven to be essential in providing quicker access to crisis counseling and connecting people with local mental health resources. We must do more, not less, to strengthen and expand this lifeline for everyone. Let's talk about suicide in the workplace, schools, religious institutions, and homes, and not just in September.

Training is available to teach people to identify who may be at risk for suicide and how to link them to care. And learn the warning signs. Is someone talking about wanting to die? Are they feeling hopeless, more anxious, or full of rage?

Are they withdrawing from friends, giving away important items, having extreme mood swings, eating or sleeping more? These are just some of the warning signs. If you have firearms in your home, please store them securely. My husband died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound that was brought into our house.

Data shows approximately 46,000 firearm deaths annually, with suicides accounting for more than half of these deaths. Ask the difficult questions and let the person know they are not alone. Talk to them. Listen. You don't have to be an expert and it might feel uncomfortable. Let them know that help is available.

Tell them what they are experiencing is treatable and that suicidal feelings are temporary. Suicide is final. If you are having suicidal thoughts or you are struggling with your mental health, please, please reach out by calling or texting the hotline at 988 or talk to someone you trust.

The reality is, each and every one of us has struggled, has felt hopeless, and has been depressed, and while many of us suffer in silence, we are never--we are seeing the anxiety and the stress in our communities now more than ever and yet through this pain and fear, the greatest tragedy would be if we did nothing because silence in the face of suffering is its own form of violence.

In a time of growing hatred and division, please let us choose love, let us choose kindness, let us lift up our most vulnerable, let us fund affordable and accessible mental health care for everyone, and let us build a world where every single person believes their life is worth living. I want anyone who is thinking about suicide to know that your life matters. Your family and friends will not, will not be better off without you. Take it from someone who knows. I respectfully ask for your aye vote on ACR 70.

Assemblymember Jeff Gonzalez, you are recognized.

11 number seems so simple, yet it means something so significant to me. 11. I was sitting on my couch and I found myself on the floor. I was curled up in this ball. I didn't even realize realize I was already there. And I started to cry. You guys know me.

I'm a pretty happy, go lucky kind of guy, man of faith, family, have everything to live for. And yet I found myself on the ground crying. See, the previous 36 months before that, 10 of my Marines died by suicide.

Now, one would say that you could see it going on in their lives, but these were happy go lucky. Everything was okay. The mask that they wore every single day was a mask that fooled us all. And it was the mask that I wore myself.

45 minutes passed, and this little puppy across the room that hated me so much sat there and gave me this confused look as to why am I on the ground crying. It wouldn't even come over to get a snack for me, but it sat there and stared as I cried about the 10 and me being number 11.

Some call it suck starting a 9 mil. Some call it taking the leap. I didn't know what to call it. I just knew I was on the ground crying. That puppy made its way over, started to lick my face for about 45 minutes.

That puppy who didn't like me, came over and gave me the love that I needed. I say God intervened by using one of his creatures to come over and show me comfort because there was no one there. I got up and realized that I was going to be number 11.

I don't know how I got there, but I got there. And that dental floss thread of faith that I had, that dental floss thread of faith is what I clung onto to get me through to another day and ask for help. I tell you this story, and some call it vulnerability, but I call it.

It's my job as a leader. It's my job as a leader to display my vulnerabilities and our vulnerabilities because there are people watching here today, all over California, all over the world. They got to hear the story from my colleague and her tragedy. They get to hear what's going on.

We don't know who's battling anything in this room, let alone who's watching. So I say this to say, you can live another day. There is a story to be told. Don't let your story end. It might look bleak today, but every day has a storm.

So whether you lean on your faith or lean on your friends, or lean on your family, or lean on your community of colleagues. Whatever it is, take no shame in leaning, because all of us have a day where we will need to lean on somebody. So, colleagues, I say this to you.

This is one thing I believe we can be united on, where we stand together and say, and not publicly, but say to those around us, how can I help? And sometimes that great ministry we call it the Ministry of Presence, of Just Being there, could be the greatest ministry that ever, anyone could ever have.

And that just means being there for someone else. So let today be another reminder that we have the power to change someone's life by just asking and standing with them. Let us use today as a day of action, as a day of awareness, and as a day of saving lives.

And with that, with my colleagues, I ask you for an aye vote.

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

Well, thank you. Mr. Speaker and Members, I rise to request your aye vote today on ACR70 that would designate September 2025 as suicide prevention Awareness Month. Suicide can strike in any community or family. And today I stand with my colleague from Santa Cruz and the countless families who have lost someone to suicide.

We stand united with you, our colleagues here today on the floor, especially our colleague from Santa Cruz.

Tragically, it has no regard for age, and it is the third leading cause of death for persons who are 10 to 24 years of age and the second leading cause of death among Native American youth 10 to 20 years of age.

And it also impacts our LGBTQ youth, who also fall victim to this plague that's running rampant in the State of California and our nation.

As a state and nation, we must do more to make mental health services more accessible across every ethnicity, every age group, and do all we can to remove the stigma of seeking care, of seeking resources. We must come together and remove that stigma.

We still must ensure that everyone can get help and in culturally and language, appropriate assistance and resources so that California can lead the way in this health crisis. We need to make sure that when we talk about mental health, it's at every discussion that takes place in the State of California and within this body.

There's no way that we could talk about moving businesses forward in the State of California. There's no way that we could talk about moving the economy forward unless we start to tackle mental health awareness in the State of California. It's time that we put that mental health awareness as number one in the State of California.

Because if we don't address mental health, how can we Continue to move forward as a thriving economy and a thriving population, a diverse population in the State of California. I ask you to vote aye on this resolution, ACR 70. And as we stand in solidarity with our colleague from Santa Cruz.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of ACR 70 on behalf of the Latino Caucus. September is known as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, a time to acknowledge and raise awareness of suicide prevention services and mental health resources.

There have been rising cases among communities, including our veterans, racial minorities, youth, LGBTQ individuals, and those in both in urban and rural areas. For the Latino community, the rates of suicide have risen in the last decade, going from 5.7 per thousand people in 2011 to 7.9 per thousand in 2021.

Strengths linked to immigration status has led to an increase in mental health problems. In a culture that does not typically recognize mental health issues, it is important to recognize that suicide is a serious issue that can be prevented.

When support is available, we must ensure that California know the resources on suicide prevention and mental health and feel that they can truly rely on them when they or a loved one is having suicidal thoughts. It is important not to stay silent on this issue.

We must make sure that everyone has the support system available and access to help when they are in need. Members, I urge you to support ACR 70.

Thank you, Assemblymember Carrillo. Assembly Member Quirk-Silva, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Today I rise in support of ACR 70, which declares September as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. I want to acknowledge the Member from Santa Cruz, the Members from Santa Cruz and Indio, for courageously sharing their stories. This is exactly what we need to be doing, which is talking.

Not only talking, but checking in on individuals, making sure that we are there for them. As an educator, I've seen the silent struggles our youth face, and as a Legislator, I know these struggles affect Californians of every age, background and community. Suicide is a public health crisis. Each life lost is not just a statistic.

It is a family that's devastated, a community in mourning, and a future cut short. We cannot allow stigma to silence people when resources and compassion can save lives. By speaking openly, we send the message that it is okay to ask for help and it is okay to not be okay.

Lifelines like our suicide prevention line 988 and our local mental health networks are essential, but we must do more to expand awareness so every Californian knows that help is within reach. Suicide prevention is about awareness, compassion and action. It is about ensuring that no one feels alone, and that every person has the chance to heal and thrive.

Colleagues, I'm proud to stand in support of acr, reaffirming our commitment to mental health, to saving lives, and to building communities of hope across California.

Thank you, Assembly Member Quirk Silva. Assemblymember Mark Gonzalez, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Member from Santa Cruz for sharing your story. Today I rise on behalf of the LGBTQ Caucus in support of ACR 70 designated September as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Members, like many of you, and many of you in this room, pissed off, I'm frustrated.

And like many of you, as you heard from the stories, are heartbroken. Our children are dying not because they are broken, but because our systems are. Because they are treated as outcasts, because they are being targeted, erased and used by political pawns by a federal Administration that has turned cruelty into policy.

Just this July, the federal Administration cruelly slashed funding for LGBT suicide prevention through the 988 Lifeline, a service tens of thousands of young people depended on in their darkest moments, in their darkest hours and their darkest minutes. These cuts just didn't eliminate a phone number. They severed a lifeline. Let me say this loud and clear.

The existence and reality of queer people cannot and will not be erased. 20% of LGBT students have attempted suicide. That is more than three times the rate of their non LGBTQ peers. That is not a coincidence. That is a crisis.

School should be a safe place for every child to learn, to grow, and to feel a sense of belonging. Instead, they have become battlegrounds. Yet according to the FBI, our schools are the third most common location where LGBTQ youth experience hate crimes.

And as we stand here debating and legislating somewhere every 45 seconds, an LGBTQ child feels so targeted, isolated, alone, that they consider that their only option is to end their life. Not because there is something wrong with them, but because they have been made to feel like there is. Like they're second class citizens. Like they don't belong.

To those young people who may be listening, who have ever felt unseen, unloved or unsafe, please hear this. You matter. Your life matters. And this world is so much better with you in does get better. And I, along with my colleagues and our constituents, are living proof of that. Members, this is not abstract. This is not hypothetical.

This is real life. And if we claim to represent all of Californians, that we must do better by all Californians, especially. Especially our most vulnerable. So the next time someone rises on this floor or you hear an attack on LGBTQ individuals, Please ask that question.

And question the fact that those folks who are speaking out against that are questioning our dignity. They're questioning their rights and their very existence. And remember this, your words have power. And your words can either save a life or they can cost one. I'll leave you with that. But, Members, I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

And again, thank the Members from Santa Cruz for sharing your personal story on ACR 70.

Thank you, Assemblymember Gonzalez, Assemblymember Tangipa, you are recognized.

I hate my father for leaving us with the mess that we're going through now. And it's a hard thing to love somebody you hate. But we have to talk about it. Because the families, the ones that are struggling with the void left, that they were never aware of, the warning signs that were there.

To think constantly about what you could have done more doesn't leave to what you could have been prepared for. You couldn't have been. I just want to thank my colleague from San Diego and my colleague from Indio sharing their story. Because this is one that I haven't talked about. It's one that we're still picking up the pieces.

It's the one that I think about often. And how he put us through such unimaginable hell. So many reasons beyond anybody could possibly imagine. But I think about my younger brother, and I haven't met anybody stronger than him.

And how this last week he just started at Sex Day and he called me and he got all the paperwork done and he said, I just wish dad could see that we're doing okay, that I wish he knew that.

Even though we went through what we went through, we were prepared to take care of our family through the entire hell. And he helped us with that. But I ask you all to be aware of the families that it's okay to talk about it.

It's okay to be vulnerable, to find the person that's struggling and say, I'm there for you, to love somebody that you hate, to have compassion. He was a veteran. He struggled his entire life. I just wish he would ask for some help. Find the family members that just need help. Just ask them. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Tangipa. Assemblymember Jackson, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. As always, I want to thank our Member from Santa Cruz who continues to lead with conviction, with purpose, with compassion, and with honesty.

And it never fails that this provides an opportunity for each and every one of us to actually work through our own traumas, to be able to understand that maybe we can all do a little bit more to ensure that we stay healthy, that we can all do a little bit more to make sure that the people around us know that we can be there for them.

And no matter how busy that we get, that we can learn to ensure that people who come in contact with us know that there's nothing, that we can never be too busy to ensure that the world will just stop for someone because they need us at that time.

Just this weekend, I had a close friend talk about that, that day, that they even had thoughts of suicide. And I had spent my entire day with this person. As a trained social worker, I had no clue. And sure. I'm not sure, Mr. Speaker, if I can say this, but here we go.

Sure, he was bitchy all day, but that was nothing new. But then I realized why all day seemed like there was something that they just wanted to not be alone that day. And it wasn't until it was time to say, the day is over. Y'all know when I go to bed.

And it was way past that time, but before had to tell me that they were struggling with suicidal thoughts. And then it's the next day. As many of us have to do, even whether we get good news or bad news, there's still a flight that we always have to take.

But if we realize that there's still things that we can do even when we can't physically be there with them. So that person woke up with a message from me after our floor. After our floor session or even during the floor session.

They'll also get a message from me asking if they're okay and did they eat something today. And then it is my intention to make sure that my voice is the last voice that they hear before they go to bed to make sure that they are okay. There are people that we come across every single day.

There are people who work for us every single day. And they need to know that we're never too busy to make sure that they are okay. But it has to be intentional. It has to be something that we make sure that we do.

Because the last thing we want to happen is to be in a situation where someone takes their own life. And we did not provide that opportunity to have that one conversation. And when I asked my friend, well, why do you. Are you having these thoughts? He just simply said, I'm just tired. I'm just tired.

And then I think about how many people around this world and amongst us and even many of us are just tired to get out of bed to eat something, how many people are just tired of just trying to survive every day. Tired of being anxious, tired of being scared, tired of being depressed.

But one thing is for sure, and that is that we can just get out of bed every day. We know we can make it.

And so as we make decisions here on this floor, hopefully we continue to make decisions or make more decisions that make it less stressful for people to live here, to make it less stressful to get the basic necessities of life and make it more accessible, to get the everyday necessities, but also the mental health support that people need when they need it and how they need it.

I respectfully ask for an aye vote on ACR 70.

Thank you, Assemblymember Jackson. Assemblymember Krell, you are recognized.

I rise in support of Assembly Resolution 70 on behalf of the Legislative Women's Caucus. I so appreciate my colleague from Santa Cruz, Brooklyn, bringing this important resolution for her leadership on this issue and for her kindness every day towards all of us. I appreciate my colleagues who have shared personal stories today. I think we all have them.

I think we've all been impacted by this. I will tell you that one of the best detectives I ever worked with died by suicide. And I think so many times, so often, I wish I had known. I wish I could have talked to him. I wish I could have talked him out of it.

I wish he knew that he could reach out to me. So I think all of us feel that. All of us know that. And I just appreciate my colleague from Santa Cruz and my seatmate for bringing this to the forefront. And I urge everybody to vote Aye on acr70.

Thank you, Assemblymember Krell. Assemblymember Fong, you are recognizing thank you.

So much, Mr. Speaker and Members. I rise today on behalf of the AAPI Legislative Caucus in strong support of ACR 70, which proclaims September 2025 as suicide prevention Awareness Month. Thank you so much to my colleague from Santa Cruz for your tremendous leadership and for bringing this important measure forward.

Suicide is a serious public health problem that affects all our communities. This September, each and every day, it is important to prioritize suicide prevention and mental health supports, including in language and culturally appropriate resources, should be a priority all year long.

On behalf of the APL Legislative Caucus, I urge a strong aye vote to ensure that everyone has access to the resources and mental health supports to discuss suicide prevention to seek the resources they need. Thank you so much.

Thank you, Assemblymember Fong. Assemblymember Lackey, you are recognized.

Well, clearly this is a very sacred, awkward and difficult thing to talk about. And I want you to know that I've unfortunately had to witness a couple suicides and it's hard to chase those memories away.

Just within this last couple months a dear friend of mine had this happen into her life and I went over to speak with her and what an awkward position to be in to because you want to not just hug them but you want to give them some kind of support. But it's very, very difficult.

And that's the reason why our society is having such a difficulty with this. And I'm very, very thankful that we're talking about it because that is what we haven't done in the past. Obviously I'm not a young man and I'm telling you the way we've managed this difficult topic has been very unsuccessful.

And I'm not saying that there is any simple answer, but I will tell you that it is so powerful.

I had a partner of mine who was involved in an officer involved shooting and it was the result of a struggle for his weapon and he found out that he had to the life of this other individual and he found out that that individual had no criminal history.

So he felt like maybe he overreacted and he second guessed himself to the point to where he started drinking.

He was not a drinker and he was a very quiet guy and alcohol began to be a very integral part of the way he self medicated and the family was very concerned and so they had a family gathering and talked about it and that evening he ended his life.

There are so many things that I wish we had answers for and I'm very, very thankful that we on this Assembly floor are addressing this issue. And I thank you for all the Members who have had this very difficult circumstance in their life.

Be willing to share because that takes courage and it takes leadership and it takes a lot of what we need. So to the Member of Santa Cruz, we're very thankful for your powerful words and I would encourage us all to support this measure and to be good examples to those who we care about.

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

Thank you. I want to thank my colleagues who spoke in support of ACR 70 for those who shared their very powerful stories. To my colleague from Fresno, I am so sorry for your loss.

We've been talking about this for almost 50 minutes and reminds me of a statistic that every 11 minutes somebody in the United States takes their own life. So let's take a moment to think about that. And I respectfully ask for your aye vote I on acr70.

And let's do everything in our power to make the world a better place for everyone. Thank you.

Thank you, Assembly Member Pellerin. Members, we will take a voice vote without any objection on this measure. All those in favor of the measure, signify by saying, aye. Resolution. Excuse me. All those opposed say no. The ayes have it. The resolution is adopted. Media transmittal to the Senate. Senate amendments are concurred in. Excuse me.

Excuse me. Senate amendments are concurred. Assembly Member Pellerin, you are recognized for your guest introductions.

Are you doing it? Yes. Okay. Oh, okay. I was told I wasn't able to do that, so, hello. Okay, so we have people here today who are representing different organizations doing really outstanding work in suicide prevention and awareness.

So I don't have everyone's name off the top of my head, but we have Rovina from NAMI, Santa Clara County, Eve from the LGBTQ group here in Sacramento, we have Shana Alexander, who works with the San Francisco Giants on their mental health awareness, and then we have Lauren, who is with--remind me--American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Yes, I did it. Okay. There goes my memory. All right. Thank you so much, and it's such a joy to have them here today.

Welcome to the California Assembly. Thank you. Thank you so much. Members, courtesy of Assembly Member Pellerin, you'll find Suicide Awareness pins on your desk today. You may wear them throughout the month of September as a visible reminder of our shared commitment to breaking stigma, supporting prevention, and honoring the lives touched by suicide.

Members, if I could have your attention very briefly? If you will look up to the Gallery on your left side, joining us are students and faculty from De La Salle High School of Concord. On behalf of Assembly Member Avila Farias, please join me in welcoming them to the California Assembly. Welcome. Welcome, welcome.

Okay, members, we are going to go back to the start. Pass and retain on File Item 188, pass and retain on File Items 190 and 191. We are going to get off the ground here with File Item Number 192. That's AB 977 by Assembly Member Ramos. The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 977 by Assembly Member Ramos and others, an act relating to Native American human remains.

Assembly Member Ramos, just a moment please. Thank you, members. Take conversations off the floor.

Assemblymember Ramos, you are recognized.

Well, thank you, Mr. Speaker. AB 977 is back for concurrence. This bill was amended in the Senate to reflect the California State University policy proposal for Native American repatriation and reburial of remains. This bill would outline a process for tribes who do not have available land to rebury repatriated remains.

I ask for your aye vote. This has been a support support bill.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of my colleague. We've talked about this several times in committee. We've talked about this here a whole bunch of times. This is a support, support. This, this should not be of question. Any questions, we should all be voting aye on this.

And with that I stand with my colleague and ask all to rise in support.

Thank you, Assemblymember Gonzalez. Assemblymember Hadwick, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, I rise today also in support of AB 977. For far too long, California's Native American tribes have faced unacceptable delays in the repatriation of of their ancestors and cultural items. Despite both federal and state law. Laws have not been have been in place for decades and compliance has lagged.

Timelines have been ignored and our institutions have failed to treat tribes as the experts and leaders they are for 30 plus years. This is unacceptable. I want to thank the assemble members from San Bernardino and San Fernando Valley for their leadership on this issue and bringing to this injustice to light. AB 977 ensures accountability.

It strengthens California's compliance and requires clear timelines, greater transparency and true consultation with tribes. Tribes should not have to beg or wait another 20 years for the return of what is rightfully theirs. This bill is about respect.

It is about justice, and it is about making sure that our state institutions live up to their obligations, not just on paper, but in practice. Colleagues, the tribes of California have waited long enough. I respectfully ask for your aye vote on AB 977.

Thank you, Assemblymember Hadwick. Assemblymember Jackson, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.

The fact that we have to continue year after year, hearing after hearing, bill after bill after, to make it clear to our California institutions that these are not artifacts, these are not property, and that it's time to stop allowing bureaucracy institutional practices to stop us from properly honoring the ancestors of the first people of California.

So at some point, I hope we are making it clear to these universities it's time to get this done. And there will never be an acceptable excuse of why it cannot be done.

So if we have to continue to bring them in hearings, which I'm sure the member from San Bernardino will continue to do, we will do so. But I'll tell you this. It is hard to support the institutions that are doing this to the first people.

And before they send letters of request and all kinds of things, I hope they have an answer of when will this get done? Because time is up. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Jackson. Seeing and hearing no further debate. Assemblymember Ramos, do you wish to close?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Ramos. 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 68. Noes 0. Senate amendments are concurred in. Brings us to file item number 193.

That's AB 1510 by Assembly Member McKinnor. The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1510 by the Committee on Public Employment and Retirement, an act relating to public employees.

Excuse me. That's presented by the Committee on Public Employment and Retirement by Assembly Member McKinnor. Assembly Member McKinnor, you are recognized.

Mr. Speaker and members, AB 1510 is the Assembly PER's Committee bill. Senate amendments were technical and clarifying. I respectfully ask for your aye vote. Thank you.

Thank you, Assembly Member McKinnor. 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: 66; noes: one. Senate amendments are concurred in.

We've already dispensed with File Item 194. Going to pass and retain on File Item 195. That brings us to the Assembly Third Reading file. Going to pass and retain on File Item Number 198. That brings us to File Item 199: HR 65 by Assembly Member Caloza. The clerk will read.

House Resolution 65 by Assembly Member Caloza and others, relative to Filipino American History Month.

Assembly Member Caloza, you are recognized.

Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker and colleagues. Today is a very special day for me and so many Filipino Americans. It's my honor to present House Resolution 65, which marks the month of October as Filipino American History Month.

Filipino American History Month is about honoring and uplifting the contributions of Filipino Americans in our beautiful state and in our country. It's also about recognition of a history that isn't always seen or always told in our history books, at least not yet.

Filipino Americans are one of the largest Asian American groups in California and the third largest in the United States. We are also home to the largest population of Filipinos outside of the Philippines. Filipinos have been in the United States for centuries.

Since setting foot in Morro Bay, California in 1587, Filipinos have pioneered essential industries and are deeply part of California's economic prosperity. Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos were service sector workers such as bellhops, dishwashers, and cooks, building thriving Manilatown communities throughout the state.

They also worked tirelessly on agricultural fields, canneries, and shipyards, and served as nurse and medical workers after World War II. We also know many of their invaluable service to our community during the Covid-19 pandemic, when many of our nurses and healthcare workers were Filipino Americans and helped save lives at the cost of their own sometimes.

My own family immigrated here from Quezon City, Philippines, where I was born when I was a young girl, and as a daughter of a caregiver, a child care provider, and a nurse, I've seen the resilience and labor contributed by Filipino Americans, and as we celebrated Labor Day yesterday, we must also recognize the invaluable role Filipinos have played in the Labor Movement. Through their organizing and farm worker unionization, Filipinos have also left an enduring legacy in our Civil Rights Movement.

Filipino American labor leaders like Larry Itliong and Philip Vera Cruz and others worked tirelessly with Latino labor leaders like Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta to organize farm workers in the Delano Grape Strike of 1965. This led to the establishment of what we now know today as the United Farm Workers of America.

Today we've seen that legacy continue to our late Luisa Blue of SEIU, one of the highest ranking Filipinos in labor, to Charmaine Morales, the current president of the United Association of California/Union of Healthcare Professionals, also known as UNAC/UHCP.

In education, Filipino student organizers led the Third World Liberation Front, founding the nation's first third world college at University of California, Berkeley, and the first college of ethnic studies at CSU, San Francisco. Filipinos have also demonstrated their valor serving in the U.S. military and in World War II.

Nine Filipino Americans have received the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest award for valor in action that can be bestowed serving in the United States Armed Forces. In public service, we have seen Rob Bonta, our first Filipino American Assembly Member in the state's history and the first Filipino Attorney General.

We've also seen Todd Gloria walk these halls as Assembly Member and now the mayor of the City of San Diego. And in our Governor Gavin Newsom's Administration, we are also proud to welcome Nani Coloretti, our new Cabinet Secretary, who is the highest ranking Asian American and Filipino American in Governor Newsom's Administration.

And I know, I think he might be running over from the Senate chambers to be with us, but Senator Christopher Cabaldon and I are also so, so proud to join these ranks and to stand alongside each of you. Right on cue, Senator Cabaldon. Senator Cabaldon is the first Filipino American in the Senate and I'm so honored to be your first Filipina woman in the California State Legislature. Thank you.

All of this was made possible not just through the strength of the Filipino community, but through the broader coalitions that we have built and will continue to strengthen with our brothers and sisters in the Latino, Black, Jewish, LGBTQ plus, and Native American communities. And so together, let us mark history and make history. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Assembly Member, and thank you for breaking that barrier, and we welcome you, Senator Cabaldon. Assembly Member Bonta, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today in support of HR 65 on behalf of the California Legislative Women's Caucus and the beautiful people of Oakland, Alameda, and Emeryville in 8018 to recognize the incredible contributions and the legacy of our Filipino siblings.

As a proud mother of three Filipino children, I stand wholeheartedly committed to our Filipino residents in Assembly District 18 and beyond, and I'm pleased that we are holding space to champion their contributions to California's rich cultural tapestry.

The story of Filipinos and Filipinas is commonly a story of women journeying across the globe and fighting tirelessly for a seat at the table where decisions are made. Whether it be our groundbreaking Filipina from Los Angeles, Assembly Member and author of this resolution, whether it is the author of and creator of Rappler, Maria Ressa, who fought and has fight so valiantly against the wrongdoings of her government and exposing truth and transparency and leading to a Nobel Peace Prize, or whether it be my bianong, Cynthia Bonta, advocating for civil rights, the ninang of both Senator Cabaldon and Senator--Assembly Member Caloza, advocating tirelessly, or whether it be the next generation of amazing history-makers.

I have one of those too: my beautiful daughter and the beautiful women of the Filipino national soccer team who led us to a victory in their first bid in the Women's FIFA World Cup, groundbreaking in their efforts.

I'm honored to represent a community with such a vibrant Filipino presence, to be a part through marriage of a Filipino community, and to be in a city like Alameda that has Bohol Circle, that has welcomed our immigrant community and our Filipinos, creating a space to be able to honor and support our Filipino community and to bring that rich history to us every single day.

It's these spaces, these celebrations and moments that the Filipino community is so well known for--in music, in song, in advocacy, in fight, in courage, and in legacy--that I stand and request your support of all Filipino women and those who should never be forgotten, whether they be soldiers in our Navy, people across the State of California fighting for our basic rights, people fighting for our labor community, people fighting for our immigrant community.

With that, I respectfully request your aye vote and ask as just personal point of privilege that we stand and honor the first, the next in the line, our colleagues from Los Angeles and Sacramento.

Thank you, Assembly Member Bonta. Assembly Member Lee, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today on behalf of the California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus and AAPI Caucus in support of HR 65, recognizing Filipino Americans and their influence in shaping the social, cultural, and economic fabric of our state and country. Filipino Americans have played a pivotal role in advancing equal rights and social equity in our communities.

For instance, they are central to one of the most important campaigns in modern labor history: the Farm Worker Movement. In 1965, Filipino labor leaders such as Larry Itliong took a bold step by launching the Delano Grape Strike.

They walked out of the Central Valley's great fields, stood on their picket lines, and joined forces with Mexican labor leaders like Cesar Chavez to fight for better pay and working conditions. Their courage and sacrifice ultimately led to the creation of the United Farm Workers Union, as my colleague form Los Angeles said.

In my district, two city parks in Milpitas and San Jose have been named Delano Manongs Park in honor of the Filipino Americans who helped lead the historic strike. The contributions of Filipino Americans extend far beyond the Farm Worker Movement.

Public servants, community leaders, and activists have made lasting impacts from the International Hotel Anti-Eviction Struggle to ongoing advocacy in education, housing, and workers' rights. Filipino Americans are highly influential in the arts, entertainment industry, and contribute across fields such as education, technology, and healthcare.

And last year, members, I was proud to author this resolution as we eagerly awaited our new colleagues from Los Angeles and from Sacramento becoming, respectively, the first Filipina representing in the State Assembly and the first Filipino State Senator representing many different counties across the Bay Area--and the first openly gay Filipino State Senator as well.

So, on behalf of the LGBTQ and AAPI Caucuses, I'm proud to join this significant commemoration of the history of monumental Filipino Americans who have stood firm in leading the charge to seek true equity and justice for all. Thank you, Speaker and members. Respectfully ask for your aye vote on HR 65. Thank you.

Thank you, Assembly Member Lee. Assembly Member Ortega, you are recognized.

Good afternoon, Speaker and colleagues. On behalf of the Latino Caucus, I rise in strong support of HR 65, recognizing Filipino History Month. The stories of Filipino Americans and Mexican Americans mirror each other in many ways, and we have a strong history of working together to advance human rights.

As what was mentioned by many of my colleagues today, the Farm Worker Movement began while Filipino leaders Larry Itliong and Philip Vera Cruz joined forces with Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. Together, they helped advance labor rights and immigrant rights. HR 65 shows us the importance of amplifying immigrant stories and voices, especially during these trying times. I'd like to thank my colleague for bringing forward such an important resolution and for making her own history. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Ortega. Assembly Member Haney, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. I first want to thank and congratulate my colleague from Los Angeles and thank her for her leadership and echo my colleagues and how joyful and proud we are to have you and the Senator from West Sacramento here with your trailblazing leadership to be able to present this resolution.

I think it is incredibly powerful and overdue to have a Filipino American here to present this resolution on this floor and I'm proud to rise today in support of HR 65, recognizing October as Filipino American History Month. California would not be California without Filipino Americans, and the city that I represent, San Francisco, would not be the city that it is without Filipino Americans.

From public service to education to food, culture, music, and community resilience, Filipino Americans have shaped every aspect of San Francisco, most of all through their enduring strength in the face of displacement and discrimination, and their impact has been felt for the last hundred years in the City of San Francisco. Filipino Americans have been part of California's history since 1587 and part of San Francisco's for over 100 years. The story of Manilatown and the historic International Hotel, I-Hotel, stands as a defining chapter.

The Manongs, Filipino laborers who helped build California's agriculture and urban economy, made the I-Hotel their home and fought fiercely against eviction in the 1970s. Their struggle became a symbol of resistance to displacement and a rallying point for housing rights movements all across the nation to this day.

From the original Manilatown to SoMa to the Excelsior District, which is home to one of the city's largest Filipino populations, generations of Filipino families built community, fought for justice, and preserved their culture. Today, the SoMa Filipinas Cultural Heritage District carries that legacy forward, preserving Filipino heritage and culture in our city and beyond.

The countless organizations and leaders that have helped to shape San Francisco have often led in coalition with other communities and helped to ensure stronger rights and justice for people in our city and secured it for people beyond. Entrepreneurship and creativity have also been a huge part of the Filipino community's impact.

In our city, the Pistahan Parade and Festival is the largest Filipino celebration on the West Coast. With more than 36,000 Filipinos in San Francisco, we are proud to continue to be a hub for culture, activism, and resilience, and by recognizing Filipino American History Month, we honor that history and the continued impact of Filipino Americans across the state. I respectfully ask for your aye vote on HR 65.

Thank you, Assembly Member Haney. Assembly Member Rubio, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and colleagues. Today I rise as a proud member of the Jewish Caucus in strong support of HR 65. This resolution is a tribute to the rich history of Filipino Americans, a recognition of their contributions, struggles, and resilience in shaping the fabric of this nation.

It reflects the strength and solidarity of immigrant communities that have tirelessly fought for their rights, dignity, and the promise of equal opportunity. We acknowledge the peril journeys of Filipino and Jewish immigrants. Both communities have faced discrimination and exclusion, yet have remained steadfast in their pursuit of a brighter future.

The two communities have worked hard to preserve the respective cultural identities while contributing to the economic and social landscape of the United States. I visited the Philippines last December and felt right at home. My district--fun fact--my district's second largest population is Filipino, so I represent a lot of Filipino constituents, and I'm also an honorary auntie to two amazing boys, Chase and Jordan, who teach me every day how to be Filipina.

The Jewish Caucus stands in solidarity with our Filipino American communities as they take steps towards a future where their history and impact are celebrated. I look forward to visiting the Philippines many, many more times. I respectfully ask for an aye vote on HR 65.

Thank you, Assembly Member Rubio. Assembly Member Gipson, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker and members. I also rise on behalf of the, the African American Latino--the African American Latino, excuse me--the Legislative Black Caucus. We all one big family together. As a former city council member in the great City of Carson, California, we are in support of HR 65.

In the City of Carson, it was been chronicled that we have the largest Filipino concentration outside the Philippines, and I'm sure my colleagues will debate that on this floor, but also being, again, in the City of Carson, Carson is home to a large concentration of Filipino Americans, settled in the City of Carson, and we embrace that. Carson would not be the City of Carson without the Filipino concentration that exists, and I would simply say California would not be California without the Filipino concentration of that great vibrant community that exists here in our very fabric of the State of California.

And certainly, in the City of Carson, where we were possibly the first city that erected a statue of Dr. Jose Rizal, a great hero in his own right, and I also share that pilgrimage to the Philippines with so many of my colleagues who sit on this floor, having the opportunity to be not only in the Philippines, but also see so many children with Project PEARL--we'll talk about that later--but certainly being part of the culture there, the Filipino community with its very strong fabric, I also celebrate my colleague being the first Filipina on this floor and a great Senator.

Let me simply say this, that we celebrate the history in California, even having the first Lieutenant Governor--I don't know if you made mention of that--but having the first Lieutenant Governor who ever was been part of this great constitutional officer, but here, to celebrate the many contributions, not only in our school, but our workplace, our arts, our public life, to embrace the culture and the family, the hospitality, the resilience, the creativity, to recognize the challenges, not only the dignity and the respect, but also the solidarity.

And just as a point of special privilege, I had an opportunity to get very, very close with a family, the Angelo Quito family--many of you heard me talk about that family who suffered a great loss--being able to be part of that family and comfort that family during a great tragedy, who now is part of my family, but also to elevate their story and talk about their story but also have that story being told on this floor and also to be able to have a piece of legislation signed into law, our families will never be the same in California, will never be the same. So I respectfully ask for an aye vote on HR 65.

Thank you, Assembly Member Gipson. Assembly Member Stefani, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and I also want to congratulate my colleague from Los Angeles. It's such a privilege and honor to be in this freshman class with you, and of course, to Senator Cabaldon as well, and I just want to say, you know, I want to recognize my colleague from San Francisco as well.

I, too, represent San Francisco, so ditto to everything that you said, but I get to represent Daly City, and Daly City, I will have you all know, has the highest concentration of Filipino Americans in the United States, so I win--I win, yes--with approximately one-third of the entire population of Daly City being Filipino.

So I wanted to stand up today and shout them out because it just, like I said, it's an honor and privilege to serve the Filipino community in Daly City. When I was running for office, I remember getting a lot of advice because I had been centralized in San Francisco, and they said, 'oh, you're not going to win if you don't get the Filipino community on your side.' And you said, you know, I got advice: you need to call Tita Perla right away.

And I called Tita Perla right away, and I went to her home, and we had a meeting of the Filipino Democratic Club, and of course, there was food everywhere, and, you know, you couldn't do anything, you couldn't do any business until you filled your plate with food, and I said to Tita Perla, I'm like, 'I'm very familiar with this culture. I'm Italian, and we have a lot in common. We fill our plates with food before we do business.'

And it is just honestly, the festivals that we have in Daly City, when we raise the flag for Philippine Independence Day, it is such an honor to be with all of them. I've made so many friends in this community, and again, thank you so much for bringing this forward. And I urge an aye vote on HR 65.

Thank you, Assembly Member Stefani. Assembly Member Addis, you are recognized.

Thank you so much, Mr. Speaker, and while my colleague in San Francisco may have the most Filipinos, I have the first, and I'm proud to stand here, and first we'll shout out Auntie Khan. If you're watching out there, shout out to Auntie Khan, but I want to rise in support of HR 65 and say thank you to both the Assembly Member from Los Angeles and the Senator for Sacramento and it's so wonderful to have both of you in the legislature.

As a former Morro Bay city council member and a current Morro Bay resident, I'm so proud that our beautiful Central Coast community is the first place that Filipino people set foot in California and the United States, as you heard in 1587, but now Morro Bay is home to a wonderful monument marking the landing of the first Filipinos, and I want to invite both of you down if you haven't been there to visit.

It's gorgeous. That history on the Central Coast isn't just about arrival but also about resilience, about contribution, and about community, and today, the Filipino American community enriches California's entire Central Coast through leadership, through culture, and through service.

And so today, as we honor Filipino American History Month, let us recognize the deep roots of the Filipino community all across California, but I'm most proud of the community on the Central Coast, and I want to reaffirm our Central Coast commitment to ensuring that Filipino stories are told and celebrated for generations to come. And with that, I urge your support for HR 65.

Thank you, Assembly Member Addis. Assembly Member Jeff Gonzalez, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in opposition to my colleagues for not bringing food. This--we're--here we are celebrating all the great accomplishments, but we've forgotten one of the greatest things is the food and the culture, so I rise in opposition to that because we're all hungry because we've been here.

But as--I digress. Since we're talking about the movement of the Filipino community, on January 1st of 1930, thousands of Mexican and Filipino lettuce pickers walked off the job protesting low wages and poor conditions.

While the strike ultimately failed, it demonstrated early solidarity among Filipino and Mexican workers and marked one of the first major agricultural labor strikes of the era. The early Filipino organizers in Imperial Valley were members of the large Filipino community, with clusters living in towns like Niland, Holtville, Calexico, and El Centro.

This community supported the labor efforts with fraternal lodges and mutual aid organizations providing a safety net for workers. Many of the Filipino workers in Imperial Valley during this time had extensive experience organizing in other areas, such as the fish canneries in Alaska and farms in the Salinas Valley.

These experienced organizers were part of the broader network of Filipino labor activism. While later events in the Filipino Labor Movement, such as the 1965 Delano Grape Strike led by Larry Itliong and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee are more widely known, the groundwork was laid in my district by early organizing efforts in places like the Imperial Valley, where when they invite you, they bring food. To my colleague. And with that, I ask all of us to rise in support.

Thank you, Assembly Member Gonzalez. Assembly Member Mark Gonzalez, you are recognized.

Wanted to wait till the end, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. I want to congratulate my colleague from Los Angeles, but as the proud representative of Historic Filipinotown in Los Angeles, the first designated Filipinotown in the United States and the home to the Filipino Workers Center, I just want to thank my colleague for bringing this measure forward today on HR 65 and [in Filipino].

Okay. Seeing and hearing no further business, Assembly Member Caloza, do you wish to close?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you to all my colleagues. [In Filipino]. You know, thank you to the members from San Leandro, San Jose, Oakland, Baldwin Park, San Francisco, Carson, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, and Indio. I respectfully ask for your aye vote on HR 65 and happy early Filipino American History Month. Thank you.

Assembly Member, do you wish for the first roll to be open for co-authors?

Yes, Mr. Speaker.

Members, all debate having ceased, the clerk will open the roll for co-authors. Members, this is for co-authors. 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. There are 63 co-authors added.

Without objection, we'll take a voice vote on the measure, the resolution. All those in favor say, aye. All those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The resolution is adopted. Now onto the Senate Third Reading file. We're going to jump ahead to File Item Number 257. That's SB 81 by Senator Arreguín, presented by Assembly Member Ortega.

Senate Bill 81 by Senator Arreguin and others to health and care facilities and declaring the urgency thereofs, take effect immediately.

The Clerk will read.

Members, this is a 54 vote bill. Assemblymember Ortega, you are recognized.

Thank you. Mr. Speaker. I rise to present SB81 on behalf of Senator Arreguin, which ensures that all Californians can safely access healthcare facilities.

SB81 requires healthcare providers to create non-public areas in their facilities and bar immigration agents from entering unless they have a valid judicial warrant or court order in order to strengthen patient privacy and protections.

Immigration enforcement has no business in our hospitals and our clinics, and no one should have to fear seeking out health care in the State of California. Last month, Los Angeles witnessed immigration enforcement camping out at a Glendale hospital for six days. Six days. Waiting to apprehend a patient.

Milagros Solis was detained by immigration enforcement on July 3rd despite clearly displaying medical needs. She was left handcuffed and covered in vomit for over eight hours without proper medical care.

I recently learned from a hospital that serves Assembly District 20 that pregnant women are now avoiding medical care because they are afraid that ICE will show up and detain them. Two babies have already died due to delayed care in California. We are committed to protecting all those who call California home.

SB81 ensures that I respectfully ask for your aye vote and immediate transmittal to the Senate.

Thank you, Assemblymember Ortega. Assemblymember Fong, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, today I rise on behalf of the AAPI Legislative Caucus in strong support of SB81, which protects our most vulnerable communities and healthcare facilities from arbitrary searches and improper data sharing. SB81 is part of our legislative package in conjunction with the Latino Caucus to support our immigrant communities.

It is crucial that our communities are able to access health care without fear of immigration enforcement activity that has not gone through due process, and we should do all we can to make sure that that is the case. I respectfully urge an aye vote on SB81. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Fong. Assemblymember Carrillo, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On behalf of the Latino Caucus, I rise in strong support of this bill. This bill is part of a package of bills that help support our immigrant communities. SB81 takes a critical step in defending the dignity, safety, and privacy of Latino and immigrant families in California.

This bill protects patients by prohibiting immigration enforcement access to non-public areas of healthcare facilities without a valid judicial warrant or a court order. Immigration status information is classified as medical information under the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, strengthening patient privacy protections.

Health care entities cannot be compelled to comply with foreign subpoenas that do not meet California legal standards, nor with out-of-state warrants that conflict with California law. As Californians, we will protect the dignity, safety, and privacy of our immigrant families and in ensuring no one fears seeking the health care they deserve because of their immigration status.

Members, I respectfully request and aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Carrillo. Assemblymember Bonta, you are recognized.

Thank you, members. I rise in support of SB81. And I want to thank our Senator from Berkeley for bringing this forward and for our colleague from San Leandro for floor managing this. And also just to recognize that the chair, the Vice chairs of the California Legislative Latino Caucus both spoke on the importance, critical importance of this bill.

We will see over the course of the next several weeks, a couple of weeks, a series of bills with a very common theme about protecting our immigrant communities. This is the first; it will not be the last.

And because this one has been, in focusing specifically on safety within the health care space, I wanted to just not only have us reflect on the lives of our immigrant communities, people who are again having to live in the shadows instead of making sure that they have the preventative care that they so desperately need.

The impact, the weight of an individual who is struggling with the idea of taking their child to get the care that they need for fear that they might get swept up by ICE, by ICE raids, quite frankly, and actions of this federal administration that have proven to be incredibly unlawful.

Just today, I also wanted us to recognize the impact that the stance that we've taken on our immigrant community has had on our health care facilities. Because so many of our immigrant communities are fearing getting daily care, going to hospitals, going to our health clinics, going to our community-based health centers. We are now in a tailspin.

Those hospitals, those facilities themselves, are struggling because they cannot provide the care. We are in a serious challenge. I want to thank our colleague from San Leandro for bringing forth this bill on behalf of Senator Arreguin. With that, I respectfully request your aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Bonta. Seeing and hearing no further debate. Assemblymember Ortega, do you wish to close?

I respectfully request an aye vote and for immediate transmittal to the Senate.

Thank you, Assemblymember Ortega. Members, once again, this is a 54 vote bill. 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, 54, no's 10. On the urgency.

Ayes 54. Noes 10 on the measure. The measure passes immediate transmittal to the Senate. We're going to skip ahead to File item number 280. 283. That's SB98 by Senator Perez, presented by Assemblymember Muratsuchi. The Clerk will read.

Senate Bill 98 by Senator Perez and others and appellate to education and declaring the UCC to take effect immediately.

Assembly Member Muratsuchi. You are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, I am proud to present Senate Bill 98, the SAFE act, on behalf of Senator Perez. This is the next bill in the continuation of the theme to keep our immigrant communities safe.

This bill would require K12 schools to include in their comprehensive school safety plans a process to notify parents and school staff when immigration enforcement activity is confirmed on a school site. It would also require higher education institutions to notify staff and students as well as the broader campus community when immigration enforcement agents are present on campus.

The common theme here is that students cannot learn unless they feel safe. And we, you know, for decades we had a bipartisan agreement to keep educational institutions, schools, campuses free from immigration enforcement activities. Unfortunately, that decades long bipartisan agreement was changed in January of this year when the Trump Administration started sending Ayes agents into our schools.

Our communities need to know what is happening at our schools to protect themselves. I respectfully urge your support for Senate Bill 98.

Thank you, Assemblymember Muratsuchi. Assembly Member Avila Farias, you are recognized.

Thank you. Mr. Speaker. On behalf of the Latino Caucus, I rise in strong support of this bill. This bill is part of a package of bills that help support our immigrant communities.

Our communities have been under attack for months under the federal Administration and this bill will ensure individuals working and learning in public institutions are informed when immigration enforcement activity happens on their campus. For students and families, the presence of immigration enforcement can have a chilling effect.

This bill is measured, time limited and response that promotes safety, preparedness and trust in our public education system. We urge your support. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Avila Farias. Assemblymember Fong, you are recognized.

Thank you. Mr. Speaker. Today I rise on behalf of the AAPI Legislative Caucus in strong support of SB98, which ensures that a process is in place for our students and families to be informed when immigration enforcement is on campus. This is part of a legislative package from the API Caucus and Latino Caucus to support our immigrant communities.

It's important to give our students and families as much protection as possible and peace of mind as possible. SB98 will give our students and families security and noting that they'll be alerted in case there's immigration enforcement activity at their school site. I strictly urge an Aye vote on SB98. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Fong. Seeing and hearing no further debate. Assemblymember Muratsuchi, do you wish to close?

Thank you very much. I ask all of our colleagues in the lounge to get on the floor because this is a 2/3 vote and I request immediate transmittal to the Senate.

Thank you. Assemblymember Muratsuchi. All debate having ceased, the Clerk will open the roll. Members, this is a 54 vote bill. 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 54 Noes 8 on with the urgency. Ayes 54 Noes 8 on the measure. The measure passes immediately transmittal to the Senate. And we are going to skip around one last time here. File item number 224. That's SJR9 by Senator Durazo, presented by Assemblymember Mark Gonzalez. The Clerk will read.

Senate Joint Resolution 9 by Senator Durazo and others relative to immigration rates.

Assemblymember Gonzalez, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, I rise to present SJR9 on behalf of my longtime friend and Los Angeles Senator Maria Elena Durazo. SJR9 strongly denounces the mass immigration raids targeting working class communities in our state and reaffirms the protections of civil liberties and human dignity that we all deserve, regardless of our immigration status.

Members, imagine walking your child to their first day of school and never coming home. Imagine going to the store for eggs and tortillas and never coming home. Imagine leaving for work in the morning and never coming home. This is not another country. This is not another time. This is happening here, happening in California, and it's happening now.

In 2025, in June, ICE deported 2,000 people, including many innocent residents of our Golden State. As reported by the Los Angeles times, over 4,100 people were arrested in militarized raids across Los Angeles between June 6 and August 7.

Just three months ago, starting on June 6, ICE agents carried out coordinated military style raids in Los Angeles, many in the heart of my district. Families ripped apart. Workers dragged from car washes. Abuelos and abuelitas seized at their doctor appointments. Neighbors lured into fake jobs only to be loaded into vans and disappeared.

Children left crying at school drop offs, unsure if their parents will ever return. When that bell rings. Entire communities living under siege, sealed off by armored trucks, patrolled by armed agents, as if our neighbors were enemy combatants. That colleagues, is not law and order. That is terror. That is trauma. That is injustice.

California, the fourth largest economy in the world, is home to more than 10.5 million immigrants who pay over $23 billion in taxes every single year. They are the reason. No, we are the reason. What? California is that blue beacon of hope. They grow our food. They build our homes. They take care of our loved ones.

And they support us in countless ways. They are your doctors, our teachers, our lawyers. There are many of you. They are your families. They are your constituents. Nearly half of our children have at least one immigrant parent. Their laughter, their future, their promise. That is California.

And yet deportations and raids do not just remove workers from jobs or parents from homes. They rip away dignity. They sow trauma. They wound entire communities for generations. And let's call it like it is. President Trump is trying to Deport people that simply just look like me.

Targeting immigrant communities and people that look like those of us even on this floor. And instead of attacking the fabric of our community, we should be expanding the pathway to citizenship. We should be expanding emergency response resources to protect our workers, our children and our families affected by Ayes.

Just this morning, a judge ruled that President Trump's use of the National Guard in Los Angeles was illegal. How much more proof do we need to see that the man in the White House Is wrong? Colleagues, SGR9 is our call to justice.

It condemns mass raids, it denounces its illegal militarization, and it declares that in California, regardless of your immigration status, you are human, you are worthy, and you belong.

Thank you, Assembly Member Gonzalez. Assemblymember Ahrens, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in strong support of SJR9 by Senator Durazo. Right now in Los Angeles, families live in constant fear. Children cling to their parents, unsure if they will see tomorrow. Workers are dragged from their job sites, vendors tackle to the streets and even US citizens like 20 year old Adrian Martinez are violently detained.

His only crime was protecting an elderly janitor. Mr. Speaker, this is not public safety. This is not justice. This is fear. This is cruelty. This is tearing our families apart. It is traumatizing our children and weakening our communities. Immigrants are not outsiders. They are our neighbors.

They are 10.5 million Californians who contribute $23 billion in taxes to keep our economy strong. Deporting them doesn't just break families, it breaks California. SJR9 is more than policy. It is about standing up for dignity and compassion and the values we claim as Californians. I urge you to vote aye.

Thank you, Assembly Member Ahrens. Assembly Member Demaio, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I refrained from speaking on the prior two bills because I knew that we would get to this one. They're all part of the same package, but the same set of fear mongering and falsehoods being peddled by politicians.

This is just disgraceful because there is a 70% consensus in the State of California on the issue of illegal immigration, on the issue of legal immigration. That 70% consensus, you don't want the media to report it, you don't want the people to realize it. But that 70% consensus is built on 10 generations of heritage in this country.

Of welcoming immigrants with open arms. And I stand before you today on behalf of the Republican caucus in this chamber to say that we welcome immigrants with open arms. We stand with the 70% of Californians who are fundamentally fair.

They believe in giving people an opportunity to play by the rules, to work hard and to achieve the American dream, just as we've provided that opportunity to 10 generations in this country. I believe we should be making America great.

I know that those are triggering words for some in this room, but I believe that in order for us to keep America great, we must be a welcoming country to our immigrants. All we're asking for, all the American people are asking for, all Californians are asking for the 70%, is that first, we have a secure border.

Second, that when people come into this country, we vet them, that there's a process, that they follow the rules. Third, that when they're here, they build on those 10 generations of immigrants who say, we're not here for the handout, we're here just for the opportunity. Just give us a chance. We'll work hard, play by the rules.

That immigration system can be built, but it cannot be built with the fear mongering and the falsehoods that we are hearing on the resolutions that you're offering today. You don't even want an honest debate. It's proof.

I offered an amendment on this Bill to repeal SB 54, which is the root cause of these so called immigration raids, illegal immigration raids in the State of California that you're making such hay over. SB54 brought us to this point because in 2017, this chamber, your majority viewpoint said, look, we should not be working with ICE.

We shouldn't be coordinating with federal law enforcement. If you want to go detain criminals, we're not going to help you. You can't get a detainer, you can't have a handoff in a jail for a violent criminal. No, no. You go out on the street and you find them. We're not going to interfere with the Federal Government.

We're just not going to help. Those were the claims that you made for SB54. My, how things have changed. Now what you're saying is, no, no, we're not going to coordinate with federal law enforcement. We're actually going to actively openly impede.

We're going to use fear mongering, we're going to use hate filled rhetoric to try to get the public agitated, to actually perhaps physically confront federal law enforcement agents, putting public safety at risk. It's shameful. If you wanted a more orderly process for the enforcement of federal immigration rules.

You'd back down from your utter failure of SB54, which puts our community's safety at risk, not just by the people that have been released onto the street with criminal records who are violent and recommitting crimes with your aid, but it impedes federal law enforcement in their duties. Finally, I've heard you all talk about serving our immigrant communities.

Do you serve immigrant communities when you strip them of the ability to have a charter school, as the majority of this body believes?

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Do you help immigrate immigrant communities when you make their cost of living more expensive through aggressive tax increases like the gas tax increase or utility rates increases, or water Bill increases or food price spikes?

Are our immigrant communities are struggling because of your bad policies, yet you dare to come here and say that you have their best interest in mind? Review the record.

Thank you, Assemblymember Demaio. Assemblymember McKinnor, you are recognized.

Thank you Mr. Speaker. I rise today in support of SJR9, authored by the co chair of the LA County Legislative Delegation, Senator Durazo. There is a real fear in Los Angeles right now.

Parents, workers, grandparents and young people are scared to go about their daily lives because of the mass immigration raids being carried out by the Federal Government.

We are seeing armed and masked men leaping out of unmarked vehicles, yelling and carrying assault rifles, Latino men taken from their places of work or while waiting for the bus, street vendors violently tackled to the ground and forcefully held down.

On June 17, Adrian Martinez, a 20 year old US citizen from Los Angeles, not a criminal, was violently detained by Ayes agents after defending an elderly janitor during a raid outside of Walmart. The agents attacked Martinez, throwing him to the ground and arresting him as they asked him for proof he was born in the United States.

Martinez was held in custody for three days despite his mother showing up to the facility with his US Birth certificate, his body covered in cuts and bruises and wearing a knee brace after being injured by agents in the attack.

Since early June, the streets of Los Angeles have borne witness to frequently military style immigration raids that have seen people suspected of being undocumented migrants detained. This is not law and order. It's fear and chaos meant to divide us.

SJR9 strongly denounces the mass immigration raids targeting workers and families in our state and reaffirms the protection of civil liberties and human dignity. We must stand firm in our commitment to constitutional and human rights and clearly, clearly oppose Trump's unconstitutional actions.

Members Our rights as citizens, our rights as humans in the United States are being disseminated on a daily basis. Wake up. Is there no debt? This Federal Government will seek to to clean onto power and systemically deny the rights afforded to all people. Citizens are not in our Constitution.

We must not let this nation fall further into fascism and authoritarian rule. We must stand and defend the very foundations of our democracy. In defense of our nation's fragile democracy, I respectfully request your aye vote.

Thank you. Thank you, Assemblymember McKinnor. Assemblymember Rubio, you are recognized.

Thank you. Mr. Speaker and Members, I rise today in support of SJR9. I have shared my story on this floor many times. My parents came to this country with nothing but determination and a vision to create a better life, not just for themselves, but for their children.

They embraced every opportunity, worked really, really hard, and built a life far beyond what they ever imagined. They achieved the American dream. They are proud citizens of this country. And I am deeply proud to be their daughter and to serve in this body as someone shaped by their resilience.

And yet, my parents, who are the embodiment of the American dream, no longer feel safe leaving their home because of how they look Mexican, they have been citizens for almost 30 years. And yes, because of the way they look and speak, they fear they will be targeted.

In fact, on the rare occasion that they leave their home, they now carry both their naturalization certificate and their passport with them at all times as a precautionary measure. This is not fear mongering. This is their truth. This constant State of living in fear is not something unique happening to my parents.

Across our state and nation, constituents, many of them citizens, many of them lawful residents, are living in fear. Our constituents and communities deserve better and we must continue to advocate for them at every level possible. Thank you. And I respectfully asked for an aye vote on SJR9.

Thank you, Assemblymember Rubio. Assemblymember Celeste Rodriguez, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I represent the Northeast San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, the community that experienced the most raids in this summer of terror that were the immigration raids in Los Angeles.

I stand to just pause and recognize that on this floor someone said that this is somehow not real and that we're fear mongering what a privilege it is to be a white male standing on this floor, not being racially profiled every day, not being chased and tackled by masked men and put into unmarked vehicles, not being taken to detention centers, separated from your family and disappeared because they don't let you know where they are, not have due process or your rights be respected, whether or not you have citizenship status or not.

Shame on anyone who doesn't recognize what is happening. And shame on you for not saying that it's not okay. This is real. This is real in communities like mine and communities that all of us represent. I urge your aye vote in recognition of what is happening in our communities and how not. Okay.

It is because we should not stand by it.

Assemblymember Demaio, you're recognized for your point of order.

I ask that the speaker instruct Members of this chamber not to refer to someone's skin color in making derogatory remarks.

I'm sorry, Mr. Demaio, not to refer to.

I ask that the speaker advise Members of this legislative body that it is out of order to refer to someone's skin color, gender orientation, religion, but in this case, skin color in making derogatory remarks towards them. It is absolutely unacceptable.

Members. Members. Okay, Members. Mr. DeMaio, your point is well taken. Members, let us use decorum. Let us remember each and every one of us when we find views to be repugnant. There are thousands of constituents in our district that share those views. Let us have this debate with total and complete decorum in every way.

Assemblymember Carrillo, you are recognized.

Thank you. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of SJR9. As an immigrant myself, and as Vice Chair of the Latino Caucus. There is a real fear in our state and throughout our country right now.

Parents, workers, grandparents and young people are scared to go about their daily lives as a result of their mass immigration raids being carried out by the federal Administration.

As an immigrant myself that came to this country at a young age and has worked tremendously hard to afford a better life, not just for myself but for my family, I know firsthand the value we bring to this state and country. The immigrant community plays a crucial role in our state's economy.

Yet we know many of them in this moment are unable to leave their homes because of the fear of deportation. Since early June, the street of Los Angeles have become witness to frequent military cells, immigration rates that have seen people suspected of being undocumented migrants detained. Some have been rapidly deported. This is in law and order.

It's fear and chaos meant to divide us. SJR9 strongly denounces the mass immigration race targeting workers and families in our state and reaffirms the protection of civil liberties and human dignity. Rather than restoring order, this Administration has military presence to escalate tensions, raising concerns about the potential for further violence. Discontinued actions do not make US safer.

They instill fear, tear families apart and force people further into the shadows. California is home to over 10.5 million immigrants who pay over 23 billion in in taxes each year to make it the fourth largest economy in the world.

They are the heart of our diverse communities whose invaluable contributions are vital to key sectors in agriculture, health care, hotels and restaurants, childcare and construction. The Bay Area Council reports that mass immigration rates and deportations will cost California a staggering 275 billion in GDP. Immigrants in California are vital to the key sectors in agriculture, healthcare and construction.

The contribution of immigrants is not insignificant. Members, I urge you to stand with our fellow Californians and for I Y Como dijera Dolores Huerta Si se puede Y Vamos Atrimfar.

Thank you, Assemblymember Carrillo. Assemblymember Zbur, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, I rise in strong support of SJR9 by Senator Durazo. And I want to thank my colleagues from Los Angeles and Baldwin park and Palmdale and other areas for really talking about the extreme cruelty that these ICE raids have had on the people of the State of California.

Ripping families apart from raiding schools and workplaces, picking up home care workers and domestic workers off the street and disappearing them. It's a cruelty that's unimagined and I never thought that we would see in the United States that I love so much.

But I want to spend another minute talking about the extreme economic harm that the ICE raids have had on California workers, businesses and families. California's private sector workforce has already shrunk by 3% since the Ayes raids began in June, and that's according to a Stanford University study.

Another recent study shows that undocumented workers contribute 5% of California's GDP. 5%. This disproportionately impacts critical industries such as agriculture and and construction and hospitality. And these folks that the Trump Administration are targeting are contributing to our community.

California immigrants pay more than $81 billion in federal taxes each year, and in addition 51 more than $51 billion in state and local taxes. 88% of farm workers in California are immigrants. That's 880,000 people, and approximately half of those are undocumented.

Agriculture generates almost $60 billion annually, and this accounts for more than one third of all vegetables produced in the entire United States and three quarters of our fruits and nuts in the tourism and hospitality industry, which is so important in my district. This is $150 billion industry that relies on our immigrant workforce.

Immigrants hold one third of all tourism and hospitality jobs. And this has had a devastating impact on the California's hospitality and tourism business. And of course, California construction immigrants make up 41% of the construction workforce, which contributed $158 billion to California's GDP, home and healthcare workers.

I have personal responsibility with the two women who became part of my family and took care of my mom. They are afraid to come out of their house. They have not worked for months. These are folks that are the most caring, loving, hardworking people I've ever met.

And you know, what is happening to folks is affecting folks that we rely on in our, in our communities to take care of our loved ones and really, you know, are parts of our families.

So in closing, you know, this has had a devastating impact on communities, on families, striking fear into the hearts of people across the state. But it's also had a horrible effect on our economy. And we're seeing that already. And the more that this goes on, we're going to continue seeing this in spades as this moves forward.

So with that, I want to thank Senator Durazo, I want to thank my colleague from Los Angeles and other parts of the state for bringing home how horribly cruel these ICE raids are and the federal policy is. And with that, I strongly ask for an aye vote on SJR9.

Thank you, Assemblymember Zbur. Assemblymember Addis, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise today on behalf of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus in strong support of SJR9, a resolution that condemns the cruel and indiscriminate immigration raids unfolding in our state. And I would say that Jewish communities know all too well how this can end up.

What we've witnessed over the past month is not enforcement, it's trauma. And you've heard many of the particular stories of that trauma from representatives from communities all over California today.

And I would just say to our colleagues and to all those that are experiencing these traumas that I for one believe you and that many in the Jewish community and certainly the California Legislative Jewish Caucus believes you. And we know that this is not about fear mongering.

It's just about people's everyday real life experiences and the people that we've sworn to come up here and serve. And we know that what's happening is families are torn apart in the early hours of the morning, that children have been left wondering if their parents will come home and, and that entire neighborhoods truly are living in fear.

We know that these are not isolated incidents that militarized operations that are targeting workers and parents and students, without warning, are often happening without cause and without due process. And we also know that California's immigrant communities are not strangers.

It's our neighbors, as you've heard, essential workers, but people who are also foundational to our communities, our culture, our shared future, and our current and shared prosperity.

And as I mentioned, Jewish people know deeply and generationally what happens when communities are targeted, when they're scapegoated and when they're treated as disposable, and when they're told in particular that what you're seeing and feeling is not real, that somebody is making that up, that you're making that up, that it couldn't be true.

And what I think most of us on this floor knows is that it absolutely is true and that what's happening is dangerous. And that we have an obligation, jointly, across party lines, to work to make sure that no community is terrorized.

Regardless of how we feel politically or what fame we want to gain from political headlines, we have a moral obligation to serve our communities and to stand up for our communities.

And so in the Jewish Caucus, we are proud to stand with immigrant communities, communities, and to create a culture in California that uplifts and affirms instead of a culture across our state that is intimidating and dividing and disappearing people from our communities.

And so, colleagues, I know that most of you know this, but I'll say It Anyway, that SJR9 is more than a resolution. It's a declaration that Californians, that us in this room won't be bullied into complicity or made to think that this is normal, because it really, truly is not.

We're here to defend the dignity and the safety of those that call our state home, including our friends, relatives, neighbors and loved ones. And so, on behalf of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus and in solidarity with the many, many families who are truly living under threat, we respectfully urge your aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Addis. Assemblymember Tangipa, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise as a privileged Polynesian man who had the privilege to sponsor his mother's immigration, who went through the entire process, who cares deeply about the immigration and the immigration services here, who has worked hard to make sure that we are taking the approach to. To say we care about immigrants.

But what is happening here is chaos built in resolutions like this and SB54. I reached out to the White House Administration trying to say, what can we do to take care of the people who are here? And you know what they said to me? They said SB54 is causing chaos because we can't coordinate.

If we just could pick up the people who were in the jails, we'd stay so busy that we wouldn't have to do anything else. If we could just coordinate with the issues that are happening in La, with the local officials and the other elected leaders here, it would help us.

But instead we like to write strongly worded letters and do nothing but stand on platitudes not rooted in reality and chaos. I reached out to the owner of the, of the Home Depot because I wanted to know what was wrong. And you know what they stated?

They stated, they stated they sent email after email after email to Mayor Karen Bass and to the Governor saying that the immigrants at the day labor center there were being held hostage by MS13. And yet we aren't protecting them the first day labor.

Excuse me, Mr. Tangipa, the quorum Members, Assembly Member Mark Gonzalez, you're recognized for your point of order.

Making accusations. He has no actual evidence to prove what he's saying is from MS13.

Excuse me, Mr. Tangipa, this is not a court of law fair. Mr. Gonzalez, your point is not well taken. Mr. Tangipa, please stay on the basis of what the resolution is about. Thank you. Speak to the merits of the resolution.

Thank you. The Department of Homeland Security and it was also reported in national media on the exact case on how these day laborers were actually being held for extortion. I think we should protect them. I think those immigrants that fought to be here to live the American dream deserve the protections.

But we keep trying to lump in all of this to paint stories that don't help anybody. When there was an opportunity here in this legislative body to help with immigration reform, what happened? The majority denied it. And instead, again, strongly worded essays filled with platitudes not rooted in reality don't help anyone.

And when you had the chance to make sponsoring an immigrant a complete tax write off, it didn't even get a chance. Didn't even get a chance. So how can we stand here and say, let's send another letter. Let's create more chaos. Let's not be rooted in reality.

Let's let these other immigrants suffer because we can't coordinate with the Federal Administration. It's time for us to do our jobs and vote no on this SJR9.

Thank you, Assemblymember Tangipa. Assemblymember Quirk Silva, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I stand in strong support of SJR. You know, this is a very difficult time. I think across Our nation and the color of our skin has been brought up. I want you to look at myself. I'm from Orange County, north Orange County. I don't speak Spanish.

And yet when I go on walks at night with my husband, Jesus Silva, I do have fear. Jokingly, around January, my brother in law was going to buy or did buy a home in Mexico and I said, you should take your passport, jokingly. But now it's real.

These are times that in my 63 years, I never thought that I would see. And yes, there have been immigrants that have broken the law. And yes, there was an election where people said, we want to do something about it, we want to do something about the criminals.

But there was not a time where we said, we want to see raids at our car washes, we want to see raids in housekeeping, we want to see people yanked out of restaurants. We want to see hard working Californians that are on our farms yanked out, thrown to the ground. This is not fear mongering, this is real.

So unless we watch completely different realities, this is real. People are being sent to places we don't even know. Their family is not able to track them. Sometimes for days, sometimes for weeks and even months. Due process has evaporated. But the irony is, where are people being taken from most of the time? Their jobs. Their jobs.

And we know the contributions of immigrants to the State of California is enormous, and yet we hear words like handouts. These are people who are making the beds and these nice hotels that people go to to enjoy themselves on our coast and our resort areas. These are people in the back kitchens that are cooking our meals.

These are people that are hired to do housekeeping, childcare. And yes, there are neighbors and our friends, but they're also contributing to our economy. Places like Santa Ana that were bustling and adding to our economy are like ghost towns, like Olvera street, our iconic Alvera street, boarded up our flower markets.

I think some of you might go to weddings, some of you might go to celebrations, and those flowers come from somewhere. Some of you might like those rotisserie chickens that we get at Costco. Those come from chicken factories. Some of you like the fruits and vegetables that we see here in our lounge. Those come from farm workers.

The other irony is where are people being taken from our courts? And we hear often, just come here legally, do it the right way. What do you think they're doing in the courts? So we can use words, we can use numbers, we can use data. I heard 70% say that this is the right way.

I've read polls that say that Californians do not like these raids. Yes, they disliked criminals, but they did not ever imagine what's happening now. So as I walk with the color of my skin, my family who lives in Huntington Park, my in laws are afraid to go out at night.

Do not gaslight us and tell us this is for fear mongering. Do not diminish what is happening. Do not try to understand the trauma that young kids and teenagers going when they come home and wonder if their parents are there or the workers who wonder if they're going to come home.

Even landscapers have been pulled out of their trucks because they have a ladder and they're being profiled with this. I stand strongly in support of SJR9.

Thank you. Assembly Member Quirk Silva. Assembly Member Fong, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. Today I rise strong in support of SJR9 on behalf of the API Legislative Caucus. Demilitarized immigration raids that are targeting our communities with unmarked vehicles, warrantless arrests, and aggressive sweeps through neighborhoods and communities do not make anyone safer.

Instead, they instill fear in families who are simply trying to go about their daily lives. Our AAPI communities and immigrant communities know this fear all too well. Immigrants come to the United States seeking safety and opportunity, yet today they face threats, disruption, and a constant anxiety of being taken away from their families.

To target immigrants is not only unjust, it undermines the very values of the State of California. On behalf of the API legislative caucus, I urge a strong aye vote on SJR 9 to protect our diverse immigrant families and communities and to uphold California's values of justice, dignity, and compassion. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Fong. Assemblymember Ward, you were recognized.

Thank you. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of SJR 9 and on behalf of the California Legislative LGBT Caucus.

We do so in solidarity with the Latino Caucus and our immigrant neighbors who are being terrorized by an Administration determined to divide, punish, and instill fear and to really reflect and underscore so many of the comments that were made on this floor here today.

We also here in the LGBTQ community are no stranger to the targeting and hate that we experience every day and has been particularly indirectly escalated by this administration. Our constituents across the state are outraged at these agents and unmarked vans descending on our neighborhoods, causing fear, confusion, and heartbreak.

And, you know, these are not just headlines we've heard. These are real people. Parents, children, workers, neighbors being disappeared without warning.

In my district, this happened outside of a popular family restaurant in the south park neighborhood and in the Mission Valley neighborhood in a hotel parking lot, masked, unmarked supposed agents abducted a US Citizen hotel worker who was not the subject of a warrant for the person they were seeking.

And yet they still put her in the van and took her away for days. In the Linda Vista community during our summer recess, an unmarked agent detained a parent, ripped him away from his child. The fourth such incident in San Diego County where agents were coming to our schools.

One case, actually in City of Chula Vista, to be able to take a parent outside of the car with two kids in the backseat. This is what Californians are seeing and this is what we absolutely must stand up for against happening every day in our community. Let's be clear, this is not making our community safer.

Bad actors are now impersonating ICE agents. Public safety has been replaced by public sanctioned Terror. And of course, the Congress passing their HR1, the big bug, the big ugly bill the feds has given a $45 billion slush Fund for ICE's reign of terror. And we're seeing this President use federal agents to punish his political opponents.

It's authoritarianism in plain sight. And as such, we say we will not be silent, we will not be intimidated, and we will not back down.

And we will not, as the member from Orange County said, be gaslighted that this is somehow in response to the important work and debate and values that we hold up here and that we have, we have enacted here on this floor.

We stand up for those values because they are rooted in decency and in good intentions and in thought about how we address this important issue.

Unlike years ago, I'm young enough to remember, or is it old enough to remember just a few years ago when the US Senate had a bipartisan solution to be able to not only address issues in border security, but also immigration reform, which of course then was tanked and told to vote down and make sure that that never saw the President's death.

By then candidate Donald Trump, we know who is actually continuing this reign of terror here in our neighborhood. And so, yes, I've seen those polls too. Californians want smart, sensible solutions and we want safe communities.

They do not want peaceful neighbors ripped out of schools, ripped out of hospitals, ripped out of their workplaces in the name of whatever that they're trying to reframe it.

As I, along with other members of the LGBT caucus, stand proudly in solidarity with our Latino brothers and sisters and our fellow diversity caucuses, because together we will say that we want no more family separations, no more indiscriminate political retaliation, and no more militarization against our civilians.

And SJR 9 sends a clear signal that ICE has no place in our schools, our hospitals, our places of worship, or any places that California seeks safety. Members. That's why I proudly support SJR 9 and I ask that you join me in kind.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'll be brief. I'm rising today, actually, in the spirit of our colleague from Palo Alto who doesn't seem to be here today. You know, our colleagues across the aisle are very concerned about the illegal status. Of hard working immigrants.

I think we would all be well served, all of us, if they redirected their focus from the status of illegal. Immigrants to the status and the conduct of the convicted felon who occupies the White House. Thank you.

Thank You, Assemblymember Papan. Assemblymember Elhawary, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members. I rise today in strong support of SJR 9. In my district, raids have reached elementary schools, leaving our children living in fear. That is completely unacceptable. What's happening in Los Angeles is not isolated. It's a test run for cities and.