Assembly Standing Committee on Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact

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Good morning, everyone. I would like to call this meeting to order. Welcome to this morning's Assembly Economic Development Growth and Household Impact Committee hearing to ensure members of the public and the media have access to our proceedings today.

This hearing will be streamed on the assembly's website, and members of the public can provide testimony in person in Room 127. All witnesses' testimony will be in person.

There will be no phone testimony option for this hearing. If any member of the public in the room would like to testify in a bill, I ask that you approach the microphone at the appropriate time.

To preserve the safety of everyone here and ensure that the public's access to the discussion, please follow the directions of our sergeants. We are going to begin today's hearing as a subcommittee until we have quorum. Today, we have two bills and then three ACRs.

The following bill and the two ACR consent, file item number one, AB 2163 Gonzales. File item number three, ACR 164, Baines, and file item four, ACR 166, Ávila Farías.

We will allow primary witnesses here in the room today to speak for two minutes, each with two primary witnesses per side. Any additional witnesses will be limited to name, organization they represent, and the position on the bill.

Primary witnesses in support must be those with the author or those otherwise have registered support position with the committee, and And the primary witnesses in opposition must have their opposition registered with the committee.

All other support and opposition can be stated in the standing mic when called upon simply name, affiliation, and position. Again, we're gonna wait for our quorum.

And with that, we were gonna go ahead and start with our first author who happens to be our committee Member. So we have a Committee Member, Cottie Petrie-Norris, when you're ready. Morning.