Senate Floor

Secretary, please call the roll.

[Roll Call]

Members, welcome back to the chamber. Second time. And a quorum is present. Would the Members and our guests beyond the rail and in the gallery please rise. Before we proceed with our prayer and pledge this morning, I'd like to recognize Senator Jones.

Thank you, Mr. President. Before we begin this morning, I would like to request a moment of silence in recognition of Representative Doug LaMalfa. Many of us may know that we lost a great American and a great Californian earlier this week when Doug passed actually in the hospital after an emergency at home.

Doug served in the Assembly, the Senate, and then in Congress. And we'll do a full adjournment in memory in honor of him in the next few weeks, but would just request a moment of silence today.

Members, let's join in a moment of silence. Thank you. Please remain standing as we are led in prayer this morning by Senator Archuleta. After which, please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Senator Archuleta.

Thank you, Mr. President. As we continue ease into the work of this new year, Brendan Kennelly invites us to begin again. Begin again through the summoning of the birds to the sight of the light at the window. Begin to the roar of morning traffic along N Street. Every beginning is a promise born in light and dying in dark determination and exhaustion of springtime flowering the way to work.

Begin to the pageant of queuing constituents, the arrogant loneliness of crowds downtown, bridges linking the past and the future. Old friends passing through with us still. Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always seems about to give in, something that will not acknowledge conclusion insists that we forever begin from essential. Brendan Kennelly.

Thank you. Members, please join me in the Pledge Allegiance to the Flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, Members. Privileges of the floor. We do have a special guest with us today. It is the mother of our own Senator Cervantes, Hortencia Perez Cervantes. Welcome to the Senate. Members, let's welcome Senator Cervantes' mother to the floor. Messages from the Governor will be deemed read. Oh, Senator Smallwood-Cuevas, you are recognized.

Mr. President, I just wanted to ask if there is also an opportunity for us to have a moment of silence this morning.

Please proceed.

May I ask that we have a moment of silence for our citizen who was gunned down in Minneapolis yesterday afternoon, exercising her rights to protect her family, her life, and her community.

She was executed on a neighborhood street by federal authorities, and she is one of many who has died at the hands of federal authorities over these last few months. I ask that the body also have a moment of silence in the honor of Renee Good.

Without objection. Members, would we rise together, also guests in the gallery, and take just a moment of silence for the events that just took place out of respect of the family and our nation. Moment of silence. Thank you, Members, for that respect and that moment of silence. Members, messages from the Governor will be deemed read.

Messages from the Assembly will also be deemed read. Reports of committees will be deemed read and amendments adopted. Under motions, resolutions, and notices, pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10, the following bills are referred to Committee on Rules. File item 53, SB 299. Introduction of first reading of bills will be deemed read. Consideration of the daily file, second reading file items one through three. Secretary, please read.

Senate Bill 457 with amendments. 492 with amendments. 677 with amendments.

If there is no other business, Pro Tem Limón, the desk is clear and you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Members. We are going to walk over to the Assembly for our State of the State. But the next floor session is scheduled for Monday, January 12th at 2026 at 2:00pm.

Thank you, Pro Tem Limón. The Senate will be in recess until 3:30pm, at which time the adjournment motion will be made. We will reconvene Monday, January 12, 2026 at 2:00pm. Again, as a reminder, Members are now to proceed to the Assembly Chamber for a joint convention for the Governor's State of the State address. Thank you.