Senate Floor

Secretary, please call the roll.

[Roll Call]

A quorum is present. Would Members and guests beyond the rail and in the gallery please rise. We'll be led in prayer this morning by our chaplain, Sister Michelle Gorman. After which remain standing and I shall lead you in the pledge.

We gather in God's presence. Gracious and merciful God. Today we ask for perseverance through the pains of our lives and a broad vision to help us transform our sufferings into new life for the benefit of others. The poet Wendell Berry invites us to have such a vision.

He says, if we will have the wisdom to survive to stand like slow growing trees on a ruined place, renewing, enriching it, then a long time after we are dead, the lives our lives prepare. We'll live here, their houses strongly placed upon the valley sides. Fields and gardens rich in the windows.

The river will run clear as we never knew it. And over it birds song like a canopy. Families will be singing in the fields. They will take nothing from the ground. They will not return whatever the grief at parting memory will spread over it like a song.

The abundance of this place, the songs of its people and its birds will be health and wisdom and indwelling light. This is no paradisal dream. Its hardship is its possibility. Amen.

Please join me in the pledge to our flag. I pledge. So, we do have a few Members missing this morning. One that is not listed is me. I've been experimenting with artificial intelligence. And what you see here is a hologram of me. And this meeting is going to be run entirely by artificial intelligence.

What could possibly go wrong? Let's get started. First of all, Senator Hurtado has a birthday tomorrow. Is Senator Hurtado here? Well, in her absence, we will wish Senator Hurtado a happy birthday. And also we have introduction. We have in the gallery today, I believe, up here.

Up there, a seventh grade class from Contra Costa Jewish Day School and their teacher, Ms. Penegore. Welcome to the Senate chamber. Please join me in welcoming them.

So, messages from the Governor will be deemed read, messages from the Assembly will be deemed read, reports of committees will be deemed read and amendments adopted due onto motions and resolutions are there any motions or resolutions? Seeing no mics raised, we will move on to consideration of the daily file. Assembly third reading please read

Senate Resolution 82 by Senator Perez relative to Children's Dental Health Month.

Senator Perez, you are recognized.