Assembly Floor

The assembly is now in session. Seems like there's a quorum out there. Can't be sure. I'm looking. I can't really notice if there is an absence of a quorum.

Maybe there's somebody here who can notice if there's an absence of a quorum. Assembly member Wallace? Assembly member Wallace? Leader Flora recognizes and notices the absence of a quorum. The sergeant officer will prepare the chamber, bringing the absent members. Clerk will call the roll.

Addis, Edgar Curry, Aarons, Alanis, Alvarez, Arambula, Avila Farias, Baines, Bauer Kehan, Bennett, Berman, Burner, Fanta, Brian, Colozah, Carrillo, Castillo, Chen, Connolly, Davies, DeMayo, Dixon, El Hori, Ellis, Flora, Fong, Gabriel, Gallagher, Garcia, Gibson, Jeff Gonzales, Mark Gonzales, Adwick, Haney, Harabedian, heart, hoover, Patel, Patterson, Petrie Norris, Quirk Silva, Ramos, ransom, Celeste Rodriguez, Michelle Rodriguez, Rogers, Rubio, Sanchez, Shievo, Schultz, Sharp Collins, Solace, Soria, Stephanie, Ta, Tangipa, Valencia, Wallace, Ward, Wicks, Wilson, Zvere. Mister speaker.

Members, a quorum is present. We ask our guests and visitors in the rear of the Chamber and in the Gallery to please stand for today's prayer. Reverend Oshita will offer today's prayer. Reverend Oshita.

Please join me in a moment of reflection. Some years ago, my nephew, Trevor, asked me, Uncle Bob, who is the happiest person you know? I smiled as I said, I've met many happy people, and they seem to know that the secret to happiness is when we begin to live uncentered on ourselves. Think about the times we went to a truly great movie, Broadway show, or concert. We left the event smiling happily, saying things like, that was amazing.

I enjoyed that so much. Telling friends, I'd like to see that again. Why were we so completely enjoying that moment? Why were we smiling so fully, talking about it? I think it's because, for the duration of the entire event, the movie, the play, the concert, we were totally uncentered on ourselves.

Like the mother who explained the chocolate tastes better in the mouth of my child, her happiness was simply seeing her child happy, uncentered on herself. When we become uncentered on ourselves, feelings of happiness naturally begin to emerge. We are no longer judging, this is good, that is bad.

This is right, that's wrong. Instead, we let go of our critical minds and become one with the experience. When we become uncentered on ourselves, feelings of happiness emerge. Every true teacher and genuine spiritual tradition recognizes this reality and is trying to share this awareness in so very many ways.

The Persian spiritual poet, Rumi, beautifully shared, beyond our ideas of good and bad, there is a field. I will meet you there. Rumi was saying, beyond our judgments of good and bad, mine and yours, self and others, there is a place, a place where we are no longer centered on ourselves, and we realize we are one humanity. I will meet you there. With kindness and gratitude beyond words.

We ask our guests and visit-- excuse me. We ask our guests and visitors to remain standing to join us in the flag salute. Assembly Member Fong will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Thank you so much. Members, please place your right hand on your heart and ready, begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag. [Pledge of Allegiance].

You may be seated. To our guests and visitors today, state law prohibits persons in the Chamber from interfering with legislative proceedings or disrupting the orderly conduct of official business. People disrupting legislative proceedings are subject to removal, arrest, or other appropriate legal remedies. Reading of the previous day's journal.

Assembly Chamber, Sacramento, Thursday, May 7th, 2026. The Assembly met at 9:00 a.m. The honorable Josh Lowenthal, Speaker Pro Tempore of the Assembly--

Majority Leader Aguiar-Curry moves and Ms. Sanchez seconds that the reading of the previous day's journal be dispensed with. Presentations and petitions, there are none. Introduction and reference of bills will be deferred. Reports of committees will be deemed read and amendments deemed adopted. Messages from the Governor, there are none.

Messages from the Senate, there are none. Moving on to motions and resolutions. The absences of the day are as follows: for legislative business, Assembly Member Celeste Rodriguez. Members, just a couple of reminders before we begin.

As was the case yesterday, please be at your desk to present your bills. If you're not, we will skip it, and you may not be able to return to those bills today. Additionally, if your item is a support-support measure, try to keep your talking points brief. We will still have nearly 200 bills left to dispense with this week. Continuing on with our procedural motions, Madam Majority Leader, you're recognized for your procedural motion.

Good morning, Mr. Speaker. At the request of the author, please move File Item Five: AB 1589, Chen, to the inactive file.

Clerk will note. Okay. Members, we are gonna start off file order today. Everybody keep track. Watch close. Assembly Member Addis? Okay. We're gonna begin with File Item-- excuse me. Reconsideration, File Items One through Three. All items shall be continued.

We're gonna go to the assembly third reading file, which is file items four through one eighty five. We're gonna begin with file item number 13. File item 13, that's AB 2393 by Assemblymember Addis. The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 2393 by Assemblymember Addis and acclimating to damages.

Assemblymember Addis, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. I rise to present a vital bill, AB 2393, the Ice Out Abuse Act, that will make it easier for victims of false imprisonment and arrest to seek justice for the harm that they suffered by establishing fixed statutory damages for specific harmful actions. We all remember Alex Preddy and other victims of ICE who have been wrongly detained, wrongly arrested, falsely imprisoned, and even murdered. And AB 29 excuse me.

A B 2393 will address this by simply adding alternative damages to existing claims for false imprisonment and arrest and adding extra damages if an officer is wearing a mask, using a weapon, a gun, or other or other egregious actions that may happen.

So this bill does exempt peace officers and custodial officers and public entities, and there is no state or government liability exposure. But what AB 2393 will do importantly is hold those operating outside the rule of law accountable, something that we desperately need, and it will also help prevent horrendous actions on behalf of ICE from happening in the future. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Addis. I'll debate having seized 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.

Members, please report to the floor. All members vote who desire to vote. Members, please report to the floor. You need to put your key in, miss Winn. Clerk will close the role tally the votes.

Ayes, 41; noes, 15. The measure passes. File item number 15, members. File item number 15, that's AB 1994 by Assemblymember Alvarez. The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1994 by Assemblymember Alvarez and others, an act relating to victim rights.

Assemblymember Alvarez, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, I rise to present Assembly Bill 1994, which would require the Attorney General to design an immigrants' victims' rights and resources card that may be included with the existing Marsy Rights Card that's provided to victims of crimes. Many undocumented immigrants are unaware of available relief options, such as a U Nonimmigrant Status Visa, the U visa, the T Nonimmigrant Status Visa, or the T Visa, and protections that exist under the Federal Violence Against Women's Act, VAWA.

Undocumented immigrants are particularly vulnerable to serious crimes, and that creates a threat to public safety. Perpetrators are very smart and unfortunately take advantage of vulnerabilities that exist in our communities.

That is the case with many of our immigrant community. They take advantage to discourage or prevent the reporting of crime that is happening in our communities. Informing crime victims about immigration relief options that exist to them and the available resources would help rebuild the trust that must exist between local law enforcement and the communities that they serve. Additionally, California would reinforce its commitments to protect all crimes of victims, regardless of their status, and support efforts to deter future criminal activity.

For those reasons, I respectfully ask for aye vote on AB 1994.

Thank you, Assemblymember Alvarez. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

Clerk will close the roll tally the votes. aye fifty eight, no zero. The measure passes. File item number 27. That's AB 1929 by Assemblymember Ortega.

Clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1929 by Assemblymember Ortega and others inequality in health care coverage.

Assemblymember Ortega, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker and members. This morning, I rise as a proud Californian and American citizen who has sent a clear message with my colleagues and our leadership to the rest of the country and to our current president. We will not stand for the reign of terror that this administration has continued to raise among our community members. I was a three year old little girl when my parents brought me to this country, but I was lucky. I was not separated from my family.

Unfortunately, today, we cannot say the same for 100 thousands of children who are being left without their parents. AB 1929 requires health plans to disclose all investments they make with subsidies and patient premiums they collect, including investments in for profit prisons and immigration detention centers. As California families can no longer afford health insurance or are being kicked off Medi Cal entirely, I ask you this.

Should premiums and tax subsidies go to ICE detention centers where our neighbors or kids are being held, where they eat rotten food and drink dirty water, where they are cut off from their families and legal aid, where they are at the mercy of armed guards with no oversight or accountability for abuse. AB 29 is a way for us to hold these health plans accountable and an opportunity for us to see who's paying for this destruction.

Thank you, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you. Assemblymember, I would take all debate having ceased. The clerk will open the role. 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 of the vote. Ayes 41, Nos 17. The measure passes. Next item is file item number 40. File item number 40, AB 1633 by Assembly member Haney. This is a 54 vote bill.

Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1633 by Assembly member Haney, and acclimating to detention facilities, to take effect immediately tax levy.

Assembly member Haney, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. I am proud to present AB 1633, which will impose a 50% gross receipts tax on corporations operating for profit private detention facilities in California. California is home to seven private immigration detention facilities operated by for profit corporations. These facilities have a long and well documented record of dangerous conditions, including inadequate medical care, health and safety violations, and inhumane living conditions. Despite prior efforts to increase oversight and accountability, serious concerns continue.

Following inspections of a newly opened private detention facility in Kern County in 2025, the attorney general reported dangerous living conditions and a lack of adequate medical care, including insufficient medical staff, hygiene products, and inadequate food and water. At the same time, private detention corporations generate billions of dollars through government contracts while Californians and immigrant families bear the human and community costs of detention. This bill does not regulate federal immigration policy.

Instead, it uses California's long standing taxing authority to assess business activity taking place in our state. California already applies industry specific taxes and fees where sectors create significant public costs, including in health care, tobacco, and oil extraction.

AB 1633 follows that same principle of accountability. It uses a gross receipts model to ensure companies contribute based on the full scale of their California operations rather than reducing liability through deductions or accounting practices. Revenue generated by this bill will be reinvested into the due process for all fund to provide immigration related services and support communities impacted by detention and enforcement actions. AB 1633 is about accountability, protecting California communities, and ensuring laws do not reward private profiteering from human separation and suffering.

With that, I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in opposition to AB 1633, and I detect a theme by the majority party of this legislature, and that is let's demonize federal law enforcement agents. Absolutely reckless. Who benefits from this attack on federal law enforcement agents? Certainly not our communities.

It doesn't bring safety in our communities. It unfairly smears and defames the good men and women of federal law enforcement who are just doing their jobs. They care about Californians. They wanna keep us safe, and yet you are doing everything to make their jobs impossible and worse. I believe bills like this put their lives at risk.

There are bills that you have put as part of this package of a b $16.33 to dox them, to reveal their identity, to allow them to be targeted, to allow their families to be targeted, to have people show up in hotels and harass them. What is your design? I believe your design is to stand with the criminals, not with our communities. This bill in particular would force the release of criminals onto our streets because the author of the bill's purpose is very clear.

He wants to close all of the federal law enforcement detention facilities that this bill is targeting, which means that all those criminals will now be roaming the streets.

You know, when SB, the sanctuary state bills, 1454 was passed, members of this legislature, past and present, said, we're not trying to interfere with the Federal Government's ability to enforce immigration law. Oh, no. Heaven forbid. We just say that we are not gonna work with them and cooperate.

And what happened? Federal law enforcement then had to take extraordinary steps to go into the community and do their job with one arm tied behind their back. Now we find that the real objective was what it was all along, which is to absolutely eliminate the ability to enforce federal immigration law to get these criminals out of our communities. This bill would go much farther.

Not only you're not helping get the criminals out of these communities, you're gonna release them back into the communities for them to recommit crimes.

The author of this bill does not seem to respond to the the basic legal criticism that the federal courts have already said that the state of California cannot interfere with ICE's ability to have detention centers. The courts have already ruled. So now you're trying to find a roundabout way through state tax law to make it impossible for these facilities to keep these criminals behind bars.

Let's be honest about what the intent is here, To undermine federal law enforcement for the benefit of criminals, and this is shameful, I urge a no vote on AB 1633.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Fellow members, I rise today in support of AB 1633 of assembly member, Matt Haney. This bill is about accountability as much in values. Private detention corporations are making enormous profits here in California, while repeated reports have documented dangerous living conditions, inadequate medical care, and serious health and safety concerns inside these facilities. I have one of these facilities in my district, in the city of Adelanto.

We've all seen the reports from the Los Angeles Times, KVRC, LAS, The Guardian, and El Pais documented repeated deaths and dangerous conditions at this facility. Every person who died in this facility had a family. Meanwhile, the corporation operating the facility keeps receiving a tax benefit. The death of Ismael Agelawribe, Gabriel Garcia Avilas, Alberto Gutierrez Reyes, and Jose Guadalupe Ramos Solano are a reminder that behind these corporate profits are real human lives and devastated families. That is simply unacceptable.

At the same time, the due process of people who continue to be detained are con that their continues with no meaningful ends in sight. AB 1633 says that if corporations are going to operate detention facilities in California and generate massive revenues from from them, they should help pay for the harm and public cost created in our communities. The bill reinvest those funds into immigration related legal and support services.

As legislators, we have the responsibility to stand for dignity, accountability, and the well-being of all Californians regardless of where we come from. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you. Assembly member Carrillo. Assembly member Patterson, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I agree with everything my colleague from San Diego said, but I have another concern. And if it wasn't for investments in in private detention facilities, how else how else would a leading Democratic gubernatorial candidate make their billions of dollars to fund their campaign? With that, I ask for a no vote.

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

Thank you, members. I rise in support of AB 1633 in strong support and a proud co author of this bill. I have the honor of representing the beautiful people of Oakland, Alameda, and Emeryville, but these are communities where people have been dragged from their homes at dawn, separated from their children, and shipped hundreds of miles away to detention facilities with their families left behind trying to figure out what happened and how to help.

This has happened in my district in the same way it's happened in yours across the state. A 17 year old boy taken from his East Oakland home transferred across to a juvenile detention facility.

A 21 year old man with Down syndrome and no criminal record swept up and detained, gone. And where do they end up? In facilities like California facility California City in Kern County, the largest ICE detention facility in the state where a federal judge found detainees were suffering irreparable harm from deprivation of medical care.

One of the detain detainees, a refugee with congestive heart failure, sat in a wheelchair, jaundiced, unable to urinate, bleeding inside his mouth, while his sister, my constituent, drove six hours to try to see him, fearing he would die before she could get there. This is happening right now.

Meanwhile, corporate detention officers are welcoming the surge in immigration sweeps to bloat their bottom line. Billion dollar companies are treating human suffering as growth opportunity. California must demand better. The number of people detained in California's private facilities has more than doubled since April 2025, from roughly 3,100 people to nearly 6,800 people on any given day. Those people, Ishmael Avila Ghraim at the Adelanto Detention Facility died on 09/22/2025.

Hua Bing Xie at the Imperial Region Detention Facility on September 2025 died. Gabriel Garcia Aviles died on 10/23/2025 while detained at the Adelanto detention center. Luis Beltran Yanez Cruz on 01/06/2026, the Imperial Regional Detention Facility. Alberto Gutierrez Reyes on 02/27/2026 at the Adelanto detention facility. Jose Guadalupe Ramos Solano died on 03/21/2026 at the Adelanto at the Adelanto detention facility.

A B 1633 does something straightforward. It says that if you are going to operate a for profit detention facility in California, you are going to be accountable for the harm you cause here. I respectfully request your aye vote on AB 1633.

Thank you. Assembly member Bonta. Assembly member Gipson, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker and members. I rise today in support of Assembly bill 1633. I wanna thank my colleague from San Francisco for bringing this measure before us. At its core, this bill is about accountability. We believe that every person deserve dignity, safety, and respect regardless of where they were born, where they were born, and their immigrant status.

Yet across California, private detention operators are running prisons like facilities where people face civil immigration charges are subject to dangerous and inhumane conditions. Assembly bill 1633 say very clearly, if corporation choose to profit from detentions of the of detaining Californians and operate facilities that create, serious health conditions, and human rights concerns, they should be held accountable for the harm and the cost imposed on our Californians and our brothers and sisters.

This bill imposed a tax on private detention operators and reinvest those funds into immigration related services that support Californians and those in our community. And I heard individuals from the other side of the aisles. This bill would not close detention centers.

What this bill would do is hold these detention centers accountable. I sit on this floor a few months ago and and recounted a story about someone who was in a detention center, a private detention center. And this gentleman tried to get health care services because his stomach grew three times his size. And early on a Sunday morning, he died because inadequate care in the facility.

And these are things that are taking place, and we just heard the sister, my colleague from Oakland, talked about and read names and said names out loud.

And these facilities are being operating in inhumane facilities, and they're operated by these private detention facilities. They should not be operating because they are like modern day slave, holding facilities. And if they're gonna hold these brothers and sisters, they should be operating. They should be paying a tax, and that's what this bill does. We should hold these individuals accountable, and that's what this bill does.

And I think this is going and moving in the right direction. We should hold these individuals accountable, and this is what this bill does. So let's make sure that we're not being caught up with the rhetoric and the noise. And we wanna make sure that those who go to these detention facilities are treated humanely. I respectfully ask, but I vote on assembly bill 1633.

Thank you. Assembly member Gibson. Seeing and hearing no further debate, Assembly member Haney, do you wish to close?

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, members, and thank you to my colleagues, for their comments. I wanna be very clear about what is happening here. We have 7,000 more than 7,000 people in our state who are being detained in private, for profit, corporate operated detention facilities. Imagine that it was your grandfather who was taken to one of these facilities, who was taken away from his family or his job.

Maybe he's somebody who's elderly, who's sick, handed over to a company that is making billions in profits, traded on the stock market, who now you have to believe has his best interest in their mind, that they're gonna now somehow provide for adequate medical coverage for food when they operate and it gets hot and there's in danger because of the the temperatures in that facility that they're gonna look out for his well-being with no oversight, with no accountability, with no transparency.

You would be terrified. You would be frightened. You would do everything you could to get him out of that facility. Nobody should be incarcerated, detained in a facility operated by a for profit company with no oversight or accountability. That is happening in California, and these folks have not been charged with crimes.

These are immigration related offenses. These these are civil offenses. Then they're being detained pending the next steps in the process. And in our state, this is happening, and they're making hundreds of millions of dollars off of it. That's what this is about.

And and and it it says nothing about shutting down these facilities. These are businesses operating in our state. Of course, we have the ability to regulate them and tax them. This is not about federal immigration policy. This is about businesses operating in our state, separating families, causing human suffering, no accountability, and doing it in an inhumane way.

You would not accept that for your family member, and we should not accept that for any of the family members that we represent, the many thousands, who are impacted, by these facilities operating without any accountability, not paying at all for the harm that they're causing in our state. And with that, I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Haney. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. This is a 54 vote bill.

All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote.

Mister Haney? Mister Haney is asked to move the call. We're gonna continue on file item number 42. That's AB 1650 by Assemblymember Colosa.

The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1650 by Assemblymember Colosa and others and inequity to rental vehicles.

Assemblymember Colosa, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker, for the opportunity to present AB 1650. The Trump administration has turned immigration policy into a tool of fear, directing ICE to carry out aggressive rates that have separated families and destabilized our communities. AB 1650 is about safety, transparency, and accountability. Since the summer of twenty twenty five, enforcement activities by ICE have intensified across our country, from Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, Minnesota, and Illinois. These operations have raised serious concerns about oversight and safety.

We have seen growing concern on the use of unmarked rental vehicles in enforcement operations that have involved arrest, detention, and transport of members of our community. When vehicles used by government agencies lack proper identification, it becomes difficult for the public to distinguish between legitimate law enforcement and bad actors. Additionally, inviting potential abuses of power in government, given the absence of transparency or accountability in how these vehicles are being used. These practices create not just confusion, but fear.

Fear for the public and fear for those who are being illegally faced with governmental force and violence.

At the same time, rental car companies are finding themselves at the center of this issue. Their vehicles are being used in these operations without notification or consistent standards for safety and identification. AV sixteen fifty ensures that any privately owned vehicle rented or leased to a governmental agency for purposes of enforcement is clearly identifiable with decals. It also establishes enforcement mechanisms to ensure compliance and accountability. Ultimately, no one should have fear that a vehicle simply approaching them could put their safety at risk and cause them harm.

This uncertainty and fear has no place in California. And for those reasons, I respectfully ask for I vote on AB 1650. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Coloz. I'll debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote?

All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally the vote ayes 44, nose 19. The measure passes. File item 43 is AB 1655 by Assemblymember Brian. The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1655 by Assemblymember Brian and others and accolade the CalWORKs.

Assemblymember Brian, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. And colleagues, I rise to present AB 1655. In January, a five year old boy was picked up in front of his home at preschool and used that bait as bait to lure out his father. And then him and his father were subsequently shipped to detention facility in Texas where that little boy became very sick.

If that little boy had been kidnapped by ICE here in California and it was a CalWORKS family and he was gone more than thirty days, that family would have lost the essential support they need to survive.

Our CalWORKs program has some exceptions when a child is outside of the home for an extended period of time, and those include an extended hospital stay. What this bill does is create an additional exception, and that is if your child is kidnapped by ICE. This is the kind of policy that I never thought we would have to craft.

But when our Federal Government is actively targeting vulnerable families, using children as bait, and separating those families unjustly, even against court orders, we have to do everything we can to protect them. That's what this bill does, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you. Assemblymember Brian. Assemblymember Arons, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. I stand today in support of AB 1655 authored by my friend and colleague from Los Angeles. Over the past year, we have witnessed an openly hostile Federal Government whose domestic policy only seems to be driven by cruelty towards immigrants and cutting critical social benefits for the most vulnerable. As someone who's had to use California's social safety net and as a legislator who represents a majority minority district, I must stand and speak out against the attacks coming from the Federal Government.

I commend the member from Los Angeles' bill to ensure that wrongfully detained individuals are not disqualified from their social safety net services.

In this historic cost of living crisis, the last thing a family should have to worry about while a family member is wrongly detained is losing part of their CalWORKs grants. To support immigrant families and communities across our entire state, I respectfully urge an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Aarons. Assemblymember Bennett, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. I certainly strongly encourage support for AB 1655. What is happening to children in the state of California is inhumane. And this one thing to be able to make sure that the family doesn't have to also worry about the CalWORKs benefits is a small thing that we should do against a major problem that we have here in California. So I strongly encourage an aye vote on sixteen fifty five.

Thank you very much.

Thank you. Assembly member Bennett. Assembly member De Maio, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. I rise in opposition to AB 1655 because it is part of a dishonest campaign of fear mongering.

Excuse me, Mister De Maio, we do not wanna start that way. We do not wanna impugn the motives of your colleagues. Just be respectful in your comments.

I believe the arguments made in support of AB 1655 are dishonest. They're not tethered to reality. I mean, you'd have as much opportunity with a bill if you said that you were going to ensure that people kidnapped by aliens or gnomes on a shelf would get protection. Because the reality is this, you are demonizing federal law enforcement, making things

up. Excuse me, mister DeMaio. Assembly member Bonta, you are recognized.

You are I believe the statement you are demonizing is impugning the character of my colleague from Los Angeles.

Thank you, Assembly member Bonta. Your point is well taken. Mister De Maio's second warning, please be decorous and respectful in your comments.

You may not want to hear my arguments, but these arguments are shared by millions of Californians. And you have the votes to shut me up, to shut off my microphone in making my speeches against your bills. But you know what that means? You don't have the ability to use facts and logic and evidence to support the divisive bill that you've brought forward. If you don't like what I have to say, you can always stand up

and argue with the bill. Mister DeMaio, let's stay to the merits of the legislation, sir. I'm trying to Excuse me, mister Maya. Don't interrupt the chair. I understand the point that you're trying to make, and it's an important one.

I wanna validate that. Please stay with the merits of the bill. Please speak to those issues alone. Thank you.

My opposition to this bill and several others is that the bills are designed for political theater, not good public policy. You are inventing a problem that doesn't exist, and this stunt puts fear in the hearts of so many Californians needlessly, and it divides Californians from law enforcement, which is a dangerous path to go down. We have disagreements on immigration policy, and that's okay. You can have a disagreement. There are some that believe that we should have an open border.

There are some that believe we should have amnesty. Others, like the constituents I represent, and I would believe most Californians, we support law enforcement. We believe that we should have a vetting process. We believe in the rule of law, and we do not want to have our law enforcement members who are just trying to do their job to keep us safe demonized. We also don't want to strike fear in the hearts of our community members by inventing things that are not actually happening.

I I think it's shameful. Leadership requires that even if we disagree on public policy, that we temper our arguments to make sure that we are not needlessly putting people in stressful situations. It does not result in good outcomes. And as it relates to my first amendment rights, the Supreme Court has ruled, mister speaker. The Supreme Court has ruled, mister speaker, that I have a right to state the case against these bills on behalf of my constituents.

You may not like it, but I respect your rights to speak against my point.

Mister DeMeo? Mister DeMeo? Okay. We're not talking about what the Supreme Court rules. We're talking about the rules that we have adopted as a body democratically Correct.

That we have voted on, sir.

Which the

And so I'm asking you and I'm asking you I'm pleading with you. Please stay to the merits of this bill, and the points that you're making are important points to make when we're not discussing the bill.

I am discussing the bill. You may not agree with my points, but I have a First Amendment right to represent my constituents. And the Supreme Court has ruled that legislatures cannot limit that. With that, I ask for a no vote.

Thank you. Assemblymember De Maio. Seeing and hearing no further debate, Assemblymember Brian, do you wish to close?

I certainly do. I appreciate my colleague my colleagues who spoke in support from Santa Barbara and Silicon Valley and the super majority on this floor that is going to agree with this legislation. And I appreciate my colleague from San Diego. I have no problem engaging in debate and conversation and talking about dishonesty. What I would say is a bill a bill that protects struggling families when their children get kidnapped by ICE does not strike fear in Californians.

I was there when ICE raided the streets of Los Angeles. I was on the streets with families. I saw what fear looks like. I saw Esther's face the day after her dad was kidnapped from a car wash in Culver City and couldn't make it to her graduation the next day. That little girl was terrified.

That's what fear looks like. That was the whole point of sending these goons into our state was to strike fear in California for a whole host of reasons, and that is why we are called to stand up in this moment. This bill is incredibly simple. If you kidnap a a child from a CalWORKs family here in California and ship them off to Texas or who knows where, we are not gonna cut off the social safety nets they need to survive. That's humanistic.

That's basic. But I do agree that this bill should be unnecessary. This is a ridiculous law. And the reason it's ridiculous is because we shouldn't live in these kinds of times. We shouldn't live in the moment where we have to worry about children being kidnapped or used as bait after preschool, and then families using the basic safety net losing the basic safety net.

They need to survive, but we do live in those times. And that's what takes what should be ridiculous policy and makes it absolutely critically necessary for us to pass. And I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you. Assemblymember Brian. All debate haven't ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Burke will close the roll, tally the votes, ayes 50, nose 14, the measure passes. We are skipping on to file item number 44. Excuse me.

We're gonna pass temporarily and file item 44. Apologies, mister Lee. We're gonna pass temporarily on file item 56. I know I'm just jumping around my own list. Sorry, folks.

File Item Number 60 is AB 1851 by Assembly Member Gipson. The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1851 by Assembly Member Gipson, an act relating to pupil health.

Assembly Member Gipson, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker and members. Assembly Bill 1851 brings consistency and clarity to how school supports students' mental health, behavior, overall well-being. The Department of Education has made clear that social-emotional learning is fundamental to both academic success and long-term well-being. Both today, whether a student's received meaningful school wide support depends largely on whether a-- whether to go to school.

AB 1851 addresses the gap by directing Department of Education to develop and publish clear statewide guides, resources, and technical assistance for tier 1 support. I respectfully ask for an aye vote on 1851.

Thank you, Assembly Member Gipson. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally votes, ayes 56, nos zero. The measure passes. File item 64. File item 64 is AB 1896 by Assembly member Mark Gonzales.

The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1896 by Assembly member Mark Gonzales and others an act relating to public employment.

Assembly member Gonzales, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. Today, I rise on AB 1896, a Latino caucus and progressive caucus priority bill. And for anyone wondering, it's called the GTFO back with GTFO act, which means, and let me be clear, get the feds out. This bill says that individuals who participated in immigration enforcement activities between 01/20/2025 and 01/20/2029 shall be disqualified from holding state, county, or local public employment in the state of California. That's it.

Not the person that has been working as a janitor, not the clerk or the person working lawfully for ICE prior to this administration. The exception is for conduct already permitted under California Senate bill 54, the law that protects trust between our communities and local government. This bill is authored by myself and our speaker whose partnership in this effort sends a message that California will not bend when it comes to defending our communities, our civil rights, and the values that defined our golden state.

And colleagues, let us tell the truth plainly today. Since January 2025, fear has been knocking on doors before the sun even rises.

Parents have gone to sleep watching if their children will still be home tomorrow. Children have learned words no child should ever have to learn. Raid, detention, deportation. Neighborhoods have begun looking over their shoulders instead of looking out for one another. And the deepest wound of all, people no longer know whether the badge approaching them stands for protection or persecution.

This is not political theater of others on this floor have said. This is not some abstract policy debate happening in a committee binder. This is lived reality of immigrant communities across the country and across my district and many of your districts since June 6. And as we've seen with our own eyes, that terror follows when cruelty is given authority without accountability. We have seen horrible acts of violence and hate committed against vulnerable people, and these acts are not isolated incidents.

They are symptoms. Symptoms of a system that has abandoned restraints, abandoned humanity, abandoned basic constitutional principles. Because when you strip away training, when you strip away oversight, when you strip away morality, what remains is not public safety. What remains is fear with a badge. Whistleblower complaints and congressional documents show alarming changes to ICE training standards.

Current ICE recruits now receive 250 fewer hours of training and complete a 14 hour week program. 14 a week program. Entire practical examinations have been completely eliminated. The number of tests recruits must pass dropped from 25 to 9. And entire courses have disappeared, including instruction on use of force, the structure of the United States government, and even the difference between criminal proceedings and civil removal proceedings.

Think about that. In California, a peace officer must complete a minimum of 40 weeks of academy training before earning the privilege to serve the public. Because here in California, we believe public service is sacred. We believe authority must be earned, and we believe a badge without accountability is dangerous. And we believe anyone entrusted with public power should defend the constitution, not weaponize fear against families.

That is why this bill matters, and all of the bills we are hearing today matter. Because California has the right to decide who represents our values in public service. And if you participated in raids that violated civil rights, if you ignore due process, if you terrorize neighborhoods instead of protecting them, then California will not hand you another badge, another pension, or another taxpayer funded paycheck. Not here. Not in the state of California.

So today, colleagues, California answers with moral clarity. We choose dignity over dehumanization. We choose law over lawlessness. We choose community over cruelty. And we choose to say loudly and unapologetically, if you come here to hunt our communities instead of serving them, then GTFO.

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

Mister speaker, I rise in opposition, no surprise, to AB 1896. A few years ago, the minority faction within the party on the other side openly called for defunding of the police. But then they started getting quiet about defunding the police when they realized that Californians like our police officers. They like public safety. This bill uses the window dressing of anti ICE to make it harder for us to recruit and retain police officers and law enforcement personnel.

We already have a recruitment and retention crisis in the state of California. You all know that. But I think there are some that actually like that because what it means, it's a backdoor to defunding the police. We've seen other bills like this, AB 1896 making it harder for state and local police officers to do their job to recruit and retain them. Because you know a direct approach of defund the police won't work with the public, so let's slowly corrode the very profession.

This bill goes further. Shameful. Saying that we need minimum standards, including good moral character. And then going on to saying that if you take a job as a federal law enforcement agent, that somehow just doing your job means that you don't have good moral character. If this bill passes, the first impact would be to de would be to dehumanize, smear, defame federal law enforcement.

The second impact would be that it would be harder to recruit and retain police officers, putting our communities at risk. The third impact would be you are inviting a federal civil rights lawsuit that I don't believe the state of California will prevail on. But I don't think that many of you care about whether your laws are upheld in court because so many of them have been overturned in federal courts. With that, I urge a no vote on AB 1896.

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

Yeah. Thank you, mister speaker. This bill is blatantly unconstitutional. And I appeal to my colleagues on the other side of this on the other side of the aisle. You may disagree about immigration policy or immigration enforcement.

We should rightfully have those discussions and that debate. But to take someone who only did their job, that they were designated to do, and then say they could never work again in public office, when all they did was do their job. There is a job out there called immigration enforcement. It's a necessary job. We have immigration laws for a reason.

And they do have to be enforced just like we have our laws that we pass here, and we expect them to be enforced by our law enforcement officers. And what this bill says is that if you ever worked for ICE and you engaged in enforcement activities that are a fundamental part of your job, that then you would never be able to work again in that public office. Even if they never did anything wrong.

If you think that they abused their discretion, if you think they did something wrong, then take them to court. Then utilize the processes to make sure that they can't work.

Take it to the civil authorities, take it to, the oversight bodies that we've established in this state that said, hey, you you abused your authority, you overstepped your bounds. But you can't blanketly say to someone who just worked in law enforcement, who did their job, you can never work again. Think about that. Because you're mad about immigration enforcement, you're going to do that to people who did nothing more than just do their jobs? Don't do that, man.

You, I think you know there's several people on that side of the aisle, I'm looking at that, you know it's wrong. You know that's wrong. But here's the other thing. It's not principled. It's not a principled stand.

The author is not making a principled stand here by limiting it to this specific period of time. Because if you really believe that, if you really believe that immigration enforcement is so evil and so wrong, maybe you would add the period of time that Obama was the president, when over 3,000,000 people were were deported from this country. And yes, 67 people, look it up, died in immigration enforcement and detainment. But you're not bringing up that period. Why?

Because it's a person of a different party. Immigration laws do need to be enforced. And immigration law enforcement officers in ICE, in the border patrol, are not evil people. Overwhelmingly, they are doing their job and they're doing it justly. You may not like the policy, and that's okay.

Go to Congress and try to change it then. But don't vilify people who are simply doing their jobs and enforcing the law. And this is wrong. If you pass this law, number one, it's gonna get overturned. It will be ruled unconstitutional because you cannot deprive people of their livelihoods in such a way.

Have a debate about the issues, but don't come in here and grandstand and pass crazy laws that deprive people of their due process, of their rights. I urge a no vote.

Thank you. Assembly member Gallagher. Assemblymember Bryan, you are recognized.

Absolutely. I didn't plan on speaking on this, but when we talk about constitutionality and following the law, it's wild to me because the period of time that the author from Los Angeles is talking about is a time where immigration enforcement blatantly violated the constitution and the civil rights of the people of California.

Just a moment, mister Bryan. State excuse me. Mister Gallagher, state your point of order.

It's a factually incorrect statement he's making on the floor.

Thank you, mister

It's not well taken.

Excuse me, mister Brian. Just a moment. Excuse me. You are out of order, mister Gallagher. Just a moment, everyone.

Take a moment. Mister Gallagher, your point is not well taken. That is not a transgression of the rules. Mister Bryan, you may continue.

I'll also clarify and be super clear. An administrative warrant and a judicial warrant are not the same thing. Now I ain't passed the bar, but I know a little bit. And I know that if you operate under an administrative warrant, you are violating the constitutional rights and the civil rights of everybody in this country for the purposes of immigration enforcement. And that is what was happening.

That was a directive directly from the White House and directly from the leaders of ICE. Now I know that folks wish this was the time when a Democratic caucus would write a strongly worded letter, but we are past those days. And we don't have to go to Congress to do something here in this legislature. We can, we will, and we have to do something. That's exactly what this bill does.

So I wanna commend my colleague from Los Angeles, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you. Assembly member Brian. Seeing and hearing no further debate, Assembly member Gonzales, do you wish to close?

Thank you, mister speaker. I wanna thank my colleague from from Culver City and the other colleagues from the other side of the aisle for proving my point today. What we have seen are children being torn away at graduations. What we have seen that's unconstitutional is the flower guy being dragged away for simply going to work that day. What we are seeing that is unconstitutional is the teacher being dragged away from their classroom.

What we are seeing that's unconstitutional is everyday workers and Angelenos and Californians being dragged away for simply going to work. For Republicans who talk about the moral compass, to me, that proves you're okay with that. You're okay with folks just trying to live their single everyday life. That is what is unconstitutional. Come walk a day in my district.

Come say that to a brown face in my area and tell them that this is how you feel, that you feel that they have no rights to be here when they have contributed to this country every single day that you have benefited from at this moment. And so for me, this bill is important. It doesn't only tell the Republican side, the GTFO themselves, but it says that we have to stand for something. We are California.

We have to push back against an administration that's trying to arrest us for just being the color of our skin.

And that's what this bill is about. And for us, we are committed to working with law enforcement as we have been because this is bigger than politics. It's about drawing a moral line in the sand. And if you choose to terrorize our communities instead of protecting them, California will not employ you. Again, colleagues, I respectfully ask for your aye vote on the GTFO Act.

Thank you.

Members, let me take this opportunity to remind everyone to not use indecent or profane language. Let's stay with acronyms as well, inclusive in that. Let's not make this part of our house business. Seeing and hearing no further debate, we'll open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. 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: 41; noes: 19. The measure passes. File Item Number 84 is AB 2230 by Assembly Member Avila Farias. File Item 84. That's AB 2230. Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 2230 by Assembly Member Avila Farias, an act relating to immigration.

Assembly Member Avila Farias, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. ICE enforcement has created fear across California, impacting both citizens and immigrants alike. AB 2230 protects two critical spaces: voting centers and child care facilities. This bill strengthens existing law in order to prohibit immigration enforcement from entering or surrounding these locations, ensuring that people can vote and children can learn without fear.

At a time when there is a growing concern about intimidation at the polls and aggressive enforcement tactics, we must act to protect fundamental rights and community safety. No parent should fear losing a child to enforcement actions, and no voter should be intimidated from participating in our democracy. AB 2230 ensures that these spaces remain safe, free from fear and intimidation. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Avila Farias. Assembly Member Bennett, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Speaker-- Mr. Speaker. I rise in strong support of this bill. One of the first things that authoritarian governments do is intimidate people at the voting box. It-- there's a history of this over and over again in the world, as authoritarian governments have tried to make this move. I strongly support this bill. We need to make sure that we don't have federal intimidation as people go to exercise their right. Thank you.

Thank you, Assembly Member Bennett. Assembly Member Gallagher, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would agree with the gentleman if that were actually happening, but it's not happening. No one is being intimidated at the polls. In fact, in committee, I asked the author straight up, is there any-- is there any example of this happening at all? And she couldn't come up with one.

There isn't one. You know, but we're still passing this bill. And then we add child care centers in there, too, and I think we all know this, like child care centers are everywhere. We have home child care. We have people that have home in their homes. They have child care. How is an ICE agent to even know that he's within the proximity of a child care center in California? It's not like those are-- it's not like there are signs or something. You know?

And also, by the way, like, you can't enforce it. You guys don't have jurisdiction over federal law enforcement officers. That's already been made clear by the courts. That actually was a court case that was decided already. You know, but the gentleman from LA is bringing up court cases that never were decided.

There's never any decision about the unconstitutionality of enforcing immigration law. Did not happen. Again, there's a lot of stuff on this floor that's being brought up that did not happen, but we're acting like it did and passing laws based on no evidence. That's been the point of a lot of this discussion this morning is at least talk about what's real, and let's pass laws that actually address those exact issues.

But we don't have ICE going and intimidating voters. We have ICE going into communities largely because of sanctuary state policy that you all passed. Well, maybe not all of you. You guys weren't here when SB 54 passed, but I was, and a lot of people brought this up, that it was gonna be a problem.

And the reality is the focus has been on those committing crimes in this country. And we should all agree that people who are here victimizing our people should be sent back home. That should be the focus. But if our law enforcement can't even cooperate, can't even tell someone when they have arrested someone, have them in their jail, that, hey, here-- ICE, come over here, where are they going?

They're going into neighborhoods. Let's have a real conversation about policy and what we actually want to accomplish instead of making things up and putting fear in people and passing laws that have nothing to do with an actual injustice that's going on in our country.

One of the problems with our dialogue now--and look, and I'm going to say, I think it happens on both both sides of the aisle--is the vilifying of the other side as if they are an evil enemy, using a word like fascist, goons. They're law enforcement officers, man.

They're not goons. Talk about people in a real way and talk about what is really going on in a factual way, in a civil way, and discuss solutions to that issue. But when we compare things that are not alike, you incite people. And people who are not well, or who are feeble-minded, or easily manipulated, do some pretty crazy things because of words that people say.

You've got a president who I know you don't like, but man, he's-- three times now, someone's tried to kill him. And I don't put that blame on anybody else other than the people that did it. It's their responsibility, someone that goes and tries to do such an atrocious thing. But, you know, when you start calling people bootlegged thugs, and fascists, and what we're really fighting here is Hitler, some really unstable people think that's real, even though it's not real.

So again, disagree with the policy. Let's have spirited debates, but let's talk about what is actually real and factual in this building. And let's have civil discussions like adults. I urge your no vote.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in strong support of AB 2230, and I agree with my colleague from East California is that, indeed, it is dangerous for politicians to call names, to sensationalize, and they should be saying that of their president who openly celebrates American politicians being murdered, being hurt, and openly calls people enemies of the public. This is literally his own playbook. This is literally what he does.

But aside from that point, this is another one of those ridiculous laws that we shouldn't have to be doing. We shouldn't have to be protecting our polling places and daycares from ICE agents from intimidation, but this is the reality. And why is it the reality? Is that Trump, President Trump himself and his advisers continually threaten to literally surround polling places for the midterms with National Guard or ICE agents.

It's something Steve Bannon has said, and when asked directly--the president was asked directly by the media would he send National Guard or ICE agents to the polls--he said, I would do absolutely anything necessary. This is things that they're literally threatening themselves because the playbook of authoritarianism is to intimidate the opposition and to secure power no matter what. But these are factually the words and threats that he has been broadcasting for years, and his inner circle have been broadcasting for years.

So members, this is a law and a thing we shouldn't have to be talking about, but this is a reality, and I applaud the author for being forward-thinking because I don't want to be talking about this once ICE has stormed the polling places, once National Guard has been deployed to deter people from voting. So I strongly recommend an aye vote for this bill. Thank you.

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

So let me be perfectly clear. There have been threats from this Administration to deploy ICE agents to voting locations. So it is absolutely our duty to protect the right to vote, to make voting places safe for people to go and exercise this right. So I applaud the author on this bill, I support AB 2230, and we cannot wait until these events absolutely happen. We must be proactive, and we must make sure they do not happen, and we must respond to these threats.

Thank you, Assembly Member Pellerin. Assembly Member DeMaio, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Once again, I rise in opposition to AB 2230. Moments ago, in speaking against a similar bill as part of this ICE is awful, let's attack ICE bill package, I raised the question, are we actually dealing with a real problem or are the backers of these bills inventing, in a hysterical fashion, problems that do not legitimately exist because they have a different purpose?

Not good public policy, but to defame, attack federal law enforcement officers. I think the record is quite clear. I mean, we have extra observers here from the media, and welcome. I always love the transparency that you bring to this Chamber in our proceedings. But something tells me that this may be choreographed. I'll let you decide. A package of bills, all with the same theme, with hysterical undertones, with very little basis in reality.

So this bill, AB 2230, would have us believe one of two problems are being addressed. Option one: we have a lot of illegal immigrants voting in our elections because AB 2230 says, hey, we gotta keep ICE out of the polling centers. Why else would ICE be showing up at a polling center in California but for the fact there would be illegal immigrants there?

And you have not responded to that. That is what, apparently, you are raising as a real probability with this bill. Are you saying the quiet part out loud? No wonder you oppose citizenship verification of our voter rolls because you apparently are agreeing that it is a problem with AB 2230. Why else say, we have to rush a law, enact a law saying ICE cannot show up at the polling centers?

Or here's the second option. Maybe you don't believe that illegal immigrants are routinely added to our voter rolls, and instead, you're playing politics. You're trying to create a hysteric narrative, hysterical narrative that doesn't actually exist. I actually think it may be a combination of both, and that is why I ask you for a no vote on AB 2230.

Thank you, Assembly Member DeMaio. Assembly Member Kalra, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I think that a couple things hopefully would be very clear to everyone that, on the one hand, may believe that we need to have the freedom to have immigration enforcement, and on the other hand, both safety and the sanctity of our voting system and protection of certain places where we believe that that immigration enforcement should simply be off the table.

I would hope that child care centers would be off the table, and an actual trained police officer can very easily identify where licensed child care facilities are and are not. Now, if these federal agents aren't properly trained, that's a different story and that's on them.

That's on them if they can't figure out where a child care facility is like every other law enforcement agency in the state is trained to do. And we're not gonna wait until threats that have been made are followed through on. Trump's Department of Homeland Security has refused to rule out the possibility of sending agents to polling sites.

Secretary Mullin specifically has refused to rule out that possibility, and Press Secretary Leavitt herself has said she can't guarantee ICE agents won't be around polling locations in November. And the simple sentiment that, well, if they're not doing anything wrong, what's the problem of having them there, it's the same thing that happened in the South during the Civil Rights Movement.

Well, if they're not doing anything wrong, why do they care if they're uniform personnel that have traumatized them for years and decades? What's wrong if they're around polling centers? They're not doing anything wrong.

We already know ICE has detained wide ranges of our residents from those that are documented, citizens, undocumented, children. So the intimidation factor is a real one, and that's why we have to make sure that we protect the sanctity of the vote, protect these polling centers, protect our children and those that are caring for them. I hope we would all agree that child care centers should not be locations of immigration enforcement. If we can't even believe on that basic tenet, then what are we doing?

If we can't believe in the tenet that immigration enforcement shouldn't be happening at polling places during an election, which is a fascist tactic, if we can't agree on that, then we have very definitions of what it means to have a fully free and functioning democracy. I urge a yes vote on AB 2230.

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

Thank you. I wanna thank our colleague from Martinez for bringing forward AB 2230, which I am in certain strong support of. I think it's important for us to recognize that both Democratic and Republican presidents have historically ensured and discouraged enforcement of immigration enforcement around sensitive spaces like in protected locations like schools and child care centers and places where children gather.

And it was only until executive action taken in January of 2025 that all of a sudden, those sensitive places where our children were trying to learn, people were trying to vote, our children were being dropped off by their family members, did we reach a situation where those places were all of a sudden not to be protected. That is the reality that we are living in.

It is not a hysterical reality at all. It's a fact. In my district in Oakland, I had child care centers that had immigration enforcement vans parked where families were scared of dropping off their children. Now, our opposition and the other party might decide to declare that that is hysterical and that we are being hysterical, but in fact, we are being factual.

If others want to be in complete ignorance and denial of the reality of everyday people trying to live their lives, that is on them. That is on them. If they want to actually create manufactured hysteria, coordinated efforts to be able to say that we are doing something incorrect, they should also look in the mirror because I'm pretty sure that's what happened around other legislation in this body very recently, in fact, where there was constant-- where there was hysteria promoted around constitutional charges made against legislation that actually involved protection of immigrant service providers.

We're not being hysterical. We're trying to make sure that people have the ability to live their daily lives. We are not trying to attack ICE agents. We are trying to protect people in being able to live freely with liberty, with the civil liberties that they are afforded under our constitution in the State of California. With that, I respectfully request your aye vote on 2230.

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

I rise in support of AB 2230. Wanna thank my colleague for bringing this bill forward. To my colleagues across the aisle, I often talk about being brought here when I was three years old by my immigrant mother, who traveled hundreds of miles by herself to reach the United States of America for that American Dream, and today I stand here because a Republican president passed amnesty for millions, millions of us who work hard every day and pay taxes.

Unfortunately, the party of then is not the party of today. The president, your president, in fact, has called us rapists, criminals, has killed American citizens. Alex Pretti, he is ripping babies from their mothers. He's using them as bait. And so to hear you offended because we're using the words, fascist, or we're now hysterical is quite absurd, especially as we all stand here as colleagues and talk about how much we love this country, how much we love the State of California.

And so, yes, this is personal for many of us, and, yes, there is a theme here today because this is a reality for us. It is not-- we're not reading this in books. We're not finding out about this in history books. This is happening today, right here, and that is why we have this set of bills today. And that is why I'm standing up for AB 2230.

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

I don't think it gets more powerful than the lived experience of our colleague from the East Bay, who speaks for many on this floor and millions across our state and millions more across the country.

My colleague from Nicolaus, who I love dearly, if you are more triggered by me calling ICE agents goons, then these goons ripping babies from families, killing American citizens, and being threatened to use to terrorize polling places and other civic institutions where people are already afraid, then I'm not interested in being lectured about morality this morning. Respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Bryan. Assembly Member Tangipa, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in simple opposition to this bill. This is talking about law enforcement and law enforcement's ability to enforce the laws that are on the books in specific locations, whether it's polling places or day care centers. Let us talk about the fact that we have, here in California, in the City of San Francisco-- illegal immigrants have the right to vote. There is an LA city council member who is trying to do the exact same thing in the City of LA: allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote.

U.S. Code Section 1325 is the law of the land that says if you enter into the country illegally, you have committed a crime. U.S. Code Section 1326 is if you remain in the country illegally, you have committed a crime. This doesn't make us racist. This doesn't make us bad people.

This doesn't make us morally repugnant. It makes us law enforcers. Everyone in this room is a lawmaker. If we would just make all laws subjective laws, why should anyone listen to you? Why?

If you can't follow what U.S. Section 1325 from 1929--no new laws, a law that has been here for almost 100 years--how does that make us evil? Repugnant? The same laws that President Obama used, the same laws that President Clinton used, the same laws that Democrats and Republicans have used are still the same laws on the books.

And that makes us bad people? I don't think so. When we talk about why this enforcement's happening, it's because illegal immigrants have the ability to vote in the State of California, and that would be the only reason why law enforcement and immigration custom enforcement would be there. When we're talking about the day care centers of-- well, maybe we shouldn't have enforcement at day care centers, unfortunately, we know there's a lot of day care fraud out there.

The Somali Learing Center was a day care center. The attorney for the Southern District of California found four people, four people committing child care fraud that were also illegal immigrants bilking, bilking the State of California. In their own statement, it says, child care benefit programs are designed to help parents who need the assistance of quality child care services.

Fraud takes money away from the very communities that the programs are intended to serve. We know that the system here, not only in the United States, but in California, has been built on an honor system, and that honor has been stepped on by others who have no respect for the law, who have no respect for the system, and they are stealing from the Californians, the citizens, and those that we should help.

And you would only appeal to a motion when you don't have logic and facts on your side, because I can tell you this as a damn fact, that I care about immigrants. I sponsored my own mother's immigration, and I will not be painted as somebody who hates immigrants. I have worked to try to help and fit this system, but if you wanted to change immigration and enforcement, run for Congress.

If you want to have respect for law as lawmakers, follow the law yourself. We can find a compassionate way to make sure that we're prioritizing our individuals and taking care of the system, and we should find a way to do so. But this isn't that. This is a game, a messaging play that hasn't worked, and for those reasons, we all care about immigrants, we all need to follow the law, and I respectfully ask for your no vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Tangipa. Assembly Member Schultz, you are recognized.

Well, thank you very much, Mr. Speaker and colleagues. I rise, of course, in support of AB 2230, and I'll be asking everyone to vote aye. I do wanna make three observations though, and I'm really glad the press is here today, because I think every so often we can see how lawmaking should be done and sometimes how it shouldn't be done. Three points I'd like to make.

First of all, I'd like to thank my colleague from San Leandro for her courage and bravery and sharing that experience with all of us today. You have my profound respect, and I bring that up because it was raised both in this conversation and in earlier conversations that some of the legislation where the debating today is trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. And I would simply offer to all of my colleagues on all sides of the aisle that we have a responsibility to check our privilege at the door.

And just because we have not personally experienced something as a problem does not mean it doesn't exist in our communities. The second point I would make is that there's been so much discussion about this bill, and I'm not going to question anyone's motivation, but I would see there's been a lot of misinformation about the bill.

So I'd like to point out two things about what the bill actually does. Existing law--this is already the the law of the State of California--prohibits the presence of the following individuals I'm about to name at polling centers. It's a wobbler, so it can be charged as a misdemeanor or a felony.

So we have long said that if you're a person in possession of a firearm, a peace officer, private guard, security guard, or any person wearing the uniform of a peace officer guard or security personnel--and I'm just looking at the legislative digest.

I'm not even reading the bill. This is, like, the second or third line if you look at the file. That's already the law of the State of California. And I wasn't here for the passage of that law, but I would presume it's because we believe that intimidation by any source of voters trying to exercise their right to vote is something that we wanna guard against.

Now this bill, I would argue, at least this first part of it, is really just trying to make it exceptionally clear that that prohibition on the presence of peace officers should apply whether they're a municipal employee, a state peace officer, or federal law enforcement.

And we can absolutely, to the point of my colleague from Nicolaus, we can disagree on the policy, but that's what we're talking about, is extending the application of existing law. Now the other thing I would point out is a second provision of the bill as it relates to child care centers. I'm not gonna cover every point, but I would simply point out that this is actually mirrored off of legislation I believe we passed last year dealing with our educational facilities.

And it quite simply says, not that ICE agents, for example, can't come visit child care centers. What it says is they can't access non-public-facing portions of those centers without a judicial warrant.

What that means is they can't come into my kids' child care center in the back where the kids are napping without a judicial warrant. And I can tell you as a former prosecutor, it's not that hard to get a judicial warrant based on probable cause if you believe that the law has been broken. It's just not that difficult. And the last thing I would say is this. To my colleague from San Diego, I have not raised my mic today.

I have not been trying to interrupt you. I believe every member of this floor certainly has a First Amendment right within the confines of decorum. I would simply offer this. The fact that we all have a desk on this green carpet, the fact that we all have First Amendment rights does not give us license and liberty to lie. Thank you.

Thank you, Assembly Member Schulz. Assembly Member Rogers, you're recognized.

Thank you so much, Mr. Speaker. I'd like to direct my colleagues to the lettering that's above the rostrum. I'm paraphrasing here. It says that it is the duty of the Legislature to enact laws that are just. And on this bill, and probably the five previous bills before this, what we keep hearing from my colleagues is that people are just doing their jobs, that they're just enforcing the law. And I think anybody who has studied history has seen a litany of examples where people were just doing their job and just enforcing the law without stopping to ask if it is moral and if it is just.

This Legislature needs to enact laws that are just, that recognize that we are the arbiters of what our communities need. We come up here to discuss the issues that are most impactful to the State of California. And what we have seen over the last year and a half--and if you wanna go back to January 6th--is a president who is willing to bend every law to do every unmoral and just thing to retain power.

AB 2230 allows California to not be caught flat-footed, to make sure that the wheels of our own districts are adhered to, and this Legislature has an opportunity to weigh in on what is just and moral. I urge an aye vote.

Thank you, Assembly Member Rogers. Assembly Member Patterson, you are recognized.

Great. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. One of my favorite things about this job is whenever some people speak over here, like, sparks 10 more mics to go up. It's, like, offended that we even say anything at all. But, you know, one-- going back to the bill, if ICE is really as bad as is made out to be, do you think there's any chance that this legislation is gonna stop them from doing what they wanna do to enforce the law?

It's gonna do nothing. So the security that you're trying to provide people by passing this legislation, you think ICE is gonna say, you know what? We're not gonna enforce law because the California's-- the liberal California State Legislature passed this bill right now. It's not gonna do anything. It's not gonna provide any security to the exact people that you're trying to provide security to.

This is a total false bill. It's messaging the entire thing to say, hey, look, we did something, but it's not going to stop ICE from enforcing the law. With that, I respectfully ask for a no vote.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, friends, this is a hard bill for some because there's some nuances. We live in a political era where division is easy, but division is also incredibly cheap. It takes zero political courage to stand on a partisan coastline, point across the aisle, and throw stones. That doesn't require leadership.

It just requires a microphone. True leadership requires something far more difficult. It requires civility. Now civility is not weakness. It isn't a compromise of court principles, nor is it a surrender of convictions.

Civility is the tactical recognition that our mission to serve the people is larger than our desire to win a talking point. It is the understanding that a different perspective isn't a threat. It's an asset. When we approach our colleagues with mutual respect, we stop fighting for titles and start fighting for solutions. We don't have to look forward to see tangible proof of what happens when we choose this path.

Let me give you an example. Consider the California Problem Solvers' Immigration Reform Working Group. Immigration is arguably one of the most volatile, deeply partisan issues of our generation. It's an issue custom built for gridlock, yet a dedicated group of leaders, Republicans and Democrats, chose to sit down, leave the hyperbole at the door, and focus on practical, real-world solutions.

That local, civil collaboration didn't just stay in California. It built a blueprint by proving that bipartisan problem-solving was possible here. We built a bridge to our federal counterparts.

Assembly Member Wilson, you're recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My colleague has been speaking for some time. I've yet to hear him speak to the merits of the bill. Could you direct him to do that? Thank you.

Your point is well-taken, Ms. Wilson. Assembly Member Gonzalez, let's speak to the merits of this legislation, please.

I didn't know a minute was a long time, but I will continue. The reason why I'm bringing this up is a solution for--

And if I could, just-- you know, I think that there's a lot of members today that are speaking to other speeches that have been spoken to, which is appropriate. Let's all try to bring this back down to the bill that we're about to vote on, please.

Which is what I'm trying to do. I'll try and land the plane. So we built this bridge as a solution. It's now called the Dignity Act. With this bill and other bills, it is very easy to put these up, but it's hard to work with our federal counterparts to find solutions.

So my recommendation to the author and to others on this bill is, one, we should use the power of civility here. Number two, it will transform the gridlock into progress. And number three, we can actually make a change where change can be made in the Federal Government. Just like my colleague from across the aisle where we sat together and say, how can we be a model? This is one way we could do that.

So I encourage my colleagues to take a look at this bill and use it use our example to make a change in federal law.

Thank you. Assembly member Gonzalez. Assembly member Quirk Silva, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. Members, I stand here in support of AB 2230. We've heard a lot of discussion on the floor. This type of legislation is difficult and it can be very triggering for many of us. But this isn't just about today's legislation.

This is about a theme of yes, multiple pieces of legislation that have been put forth by this body for over a year. Last year, we were debating masks by ICE agents and other pieces of legislation. Today, this bill is about protecting our polling sites and childcare. So we must ask ourselves why. Why are these bills put forward?

One member mentioned this is a theme. Indeed, this is a package of bills. A package of bills to address what is happening in our communities across the state of California. And to gaslight us and to say that we're being hysterical, emotional, and that even if we pass these bills, they're not going to be enforced As we have seen with the mask legislation, it's almost like laughing in our face.

We know that in the past, there were places as we just heard from a member talking about civility, that Republicans and Democrats agreed.

We agreed at one point that there shouldn't be enforcement at churches, at courts, at schools. And yet, since 2026, we've seen all of that eroded. We've seen families pulled from cars, dropping their kids off at childcare centers. So when this bill is brought forward because of the direct language that there will be ICE agents at our polling sites, we know what that means. We have no reason to believe that won't happen.

We have no reason to believe that somehow all of this will just disappear and we'll go back to being able to communicate as we always have. Our communities feel under attack. And some may think we're being hysterical. But for us that support this legislation, we have seen that fear. One of the members mentioned, just follow the law.

Just follow the law. And yet all we have to do is look to our president of The United States that continues to break the law and have a blatant disregard for the law. So when we bring up other topics that aren't related to this legislation, I think fraud was brought up. I think the president just pardoned individuals who've committed fraud for many, many people. So members, for some of you, it's hard, the communication.

We want to be friendly. We want to be civil. We want to get to a better place of common ground, and we should. We should find places where we can agree. And that happens almost every day on this floor.

If you look at the vote counts, you'll see many, many votes that fly off this floor with bipartisan support. Matter of fact, the majority of them do. The majority of members support each other's votes on the Republican and Democratic side. Watch the votes. But there's times where we stand our ground, and this is a time to say, we can't agree on this.

We can't agree. And until then, you'll continue to see packages of bills that are going to do everything we can to protect our public. With that, I ask for your support on AB 2230.

Some member Gallagher, you are recognized.

That's point of information, mister speaker.

Make your point.

It was stated earlier that this bill just adds people to what were already prohibited and that previously law enforcement officers were a part of that prohibition. In fact, this bill does add law enforcement

I think you need to just state the point of information quickly, mister Gallagher. It's not another floor of speech.

I want it to be clear what this bill does because it's been stated and before that this this adds all law enforcement options.

I I understand your point of information. Just a moment, mister Gallagher. Thank you, sir. Mister Gallagher, your your point is not well taken. I don't think that this is a point of information, if you if I may.

Point of information is really if you had a question specifically, what is printed on page 10 of this? If you really wanted to ask something like that versus making a second speech which is more about an opinion of what the bill does, it doesn't do. And so that point is out of order, sir. Okay. Is it

Okay. Is it correct that this bill prohibits 100 feet for a law enforcement officer, any law enforcement officer from being 100 feet from those locations, Johnson

and Sanders, and Thank you, man. Police blazes. Just a moment, sir. Okay. Thank you, mister Gallagher.

We're not gonna be answering those points. Those are not those are matters of debate. Those aren't points of information as it relates to process. Assemblymember De Maio, you are recognized? Mister speaker, a point of information.

State your point, sir.

Don't we have to wrap up this bill in time for the governor's 01:30 press conference to feed the media?

Your your point is not well taken, mister De Maio. Okay. Continuing on, Assemblymember Berman. Okay. Seeing and hearing no further debate, Assemblymember Abi Laffarias, do you wish to close?

Thank you, mister speaker. Members, this bill is about prevention. As I shared in committee, there was a time when people rode in cars without seatbelts, and today, we all understand why that changed. This is the same idea, prevention. It may not resonate with those who move through this world with a level of privilege that shields them from being profiled.

But for others, this is about safety, dignity, and reducing harm before it happens. I respectfully ask for your aye vote, and this bill has no opposition.

Thank you. Assembly member, Abi Laffarias. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes, ayes 42, nose 15. The measure passes. Madam majority leader, you are recognized for our members

before start, but we have, we have dispensed with eight items. After we break for caucus, we will meet back here at 01:30 sharp, and be ready to take up your bills. We'll see you at 01:30, not 01:31.

Wait. Is the call

Members, Democratic caucus in the members lounge, Republican caucus in Capitol Room 125, we remain under call. You will not be able to leave the designated green carpet areas. As majority leader, Aghaier Curry, stated, we will meet back here exactly at 01:30PM.

Okay. Members, we're gonna get moving. Hope everybody had a nice lunch. Okay. Before I recognize—thank you, members.

The house is back in session. The house is back in session. We are going to be starting off with AB 2379 by Assemblymember Solache. But before I do that, will you join me in recognizing Congressman Pete Aguilar in the rear of the chamber? Welcome, Congressman.

Okay. Ticker desk, members. Thank you. AB 2379 by Assemblymember Solache. The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 2379 by Assemblymember Solache and others, an act relating to childcare and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

Assemblymember Solache, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for the opportunity to present AB 2379 to safeguard the constitutional rights of family childcare providers. I represent a large immigrant community in Southeast Los Angeles. For nearly a year, communities like mine have been under attack and living in fear. Inhumane deportation rates have spread fear across our communities, disrupted our workforce, and threatened access to vital childcare services for both families and providers. We must take legislative action to better protect our communities and access to essential services like childcare.

Childcare providers responsible for taking care of our children, statewide, deserve access to tools and resources needed to protect themselves and our children. AB 2379 ensures license and—license-exempt family childcare providers are informed with the constitutional rights when confronted by immigration enforcement. The bill requires the Department of Social Services to notify providers of the Fourth Amendment protections until they coordinate accessible multilingual training. The training will ensure providers understand the rights regarding searches, seizures, arrests, and detentions in their homes.

The bill will help childcare pro open—childcare doors open—and safe from intimidation, misinformation, and unlawful searches or arrest when confronted by immigration enforcement.

AB 2379 built on existing sensitive location protections by ensuring family childcare providers have the information and tools they need to protect themselves and their children in their care. My parents came to this country from Leon, Guanajuato to build a better life to our—of our family. I stand here today honoring their sacrifices, honoring the resilience of our immigrant communities, and the contributions of hardworking immigrants, hands build our neighborhoods, and enhance the prosperity of our nation.

We must stand firm in our commitment to the constitutional rights of all people led with our humanity. As communities like mine continue to live in fear, unsure of what will come next, we must do what we can to protect them.

I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Solache. All debate having ceased, clerk will open the role. 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 votes. Ayes, 59; noes, 10. On the urgency, ayes, 59; noes, 10. On the measure, the measure passes. Boy, I love those late votes.

File item number 110, that's AB 2460 by Assemblymember Celeste Rodriguez, presented by Assemblymember Gabriel. Clerk will read.

Assembly bill 2460 by Assemblymember Celeste Rodriguez, an act relating to peoples health.

Assembly member Gabriel, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, mister speaker. I rise today to present AB 2460 on behalf of our colleague Assemblywoman Celeste Rodriguez. This measure will ensure that schools are prepared to respond when students exhibit trauma or instability due to immigration enforcement. AB 2460 would require the California Department of Education to update the model referral protocols that's for students' behavioral health to include guidance on supporting students affected by immigration enforcement emergencies and family deportation trauma.

It would also require local education agencies to update their policies accordingly.

AB 2460 helps schools respond with care, clarity, and consistency by making sure students and families can be connected to appropriate behavioral health supports. This bill has received bipartisan support. And on behalf of our colleague from the San Fernando Valley, I respectfully request your aye vote on AB 2460.

Thank you. Assemblymember Gabriel, I'll debate having ceased clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes, ayes forty, size fifty two, nos eight. The measure passes. Members, can you put your votes in earlier, please? Would that be possible? Press your button.

Thank you, members. We're gonna skip to file item number one sixteen. That's AB 2495 by Assemblymember Kalra. The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 2495 by Assemblymember Calra and others and accurately into employment.

Assemblymember Calra, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. AB 2495 expands the scope of prohibited unfair immigration related practices that employers use to intimidate and dissuade increasingly deter immigrant workers from complaining about violations of their workplace rights by making bail threats, chilling statements, or implicit warnings about immigration consequences. When such employer coercion succeeds, unlawful conduct goes unreported, workplace standards erode, and law abiding employers are undercut. AB 2495 simply amends existing labor protections to establish that all immigration related threats are unlawful.

I respectfully ask for your aye vote on this API caucus legislative priority bill.

Thank you. Assemblymember call roll. Debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. Ayes 50, nose 15, the measure passes. File item 127, that's AB 2662 by Assemblymember Carrillo.

Clerk will read.

Assembly bill 2662 by Assembly member Carrillo, inoculating to state government.

Assembly member Carrillo, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker and members. AB 2662 is a modest common sense measure that would establish a formal process for California to monitor and document federal enforcement actions, assess their impact on our communities, and issue public reports. It would allow us to recommend legislative responses to prevent the kind of rogue and dangerous behavior we're increasingly seen from federal law enforcement agencies.

There should be no place in this nation where such actions are considered acceptable, and there must be accountability for those who violate the rights and protections our democracy guarantees. This bill has no registered opposition.

Members, I respectfully ask for a nigh vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Carrillo. All debate having ceased, Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

Clerk will close the roll tally to vote ayes 51, nose 13. The measure passes. File item one thirty is AB 2721, also by Assemblymember Carrillo. Clerk will read.

Assembly bill 2721 by Assemblymember Carrillo and others, an act relating to businesses.

Assemblymember Carrillo, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. Fellow members, I rise today to present Assembly Bill 2721, a Latino caucus priority bill to ensure workplace safety for hospitality workers, which is a timely concern given the upcoming World Cup we will soon host. AB 2721 is a common sense balance bill simply directing hotels to disclose via a public notice on-site, reservations the hotel knows or should know, it has good US Customs And Border Protections as well as US immigration and customs for enforcement.

Compliance would be materially and intentionally simple. A printer, paper, tape, and visible workspace.

Hotels already post notices when elevators are out of service or some elements of the premises require notification. This bill simply applies the same common sense principle of disclosure to activities affecting the safety of workers, guests, and surrounding communities. This bill does not prohibit hotels from hosting federal agencies or undercover operations to combat drug and human trafficking operations.

Federal agencies themselves use their massive budget increase to redirect thousands of law enforcement personnel away from drug and human trafficking operations to expand their operations targeting immigration enforcement. The bill does not seek to expand or expose hotels to any further liability.

That's not the point here. In fact, we see this closure in prioritizing the safety of workers and guests alike as the best practice to reduce liability all around. Be honest about the situation on the premises and give the people the chance to be safe proactively. This bill's intent is not to identify individuals, but to inform workers about operational conditions that may affect their safety. Proper role outcome ensure disclosure remain general and identify only the agencies without compromising anyone's security.

This bill does not regulate the actions of the Federal Government or create long term burdens over if if federal policies change. The notice in our alliance is minimal and consistent with existing posting obligations. California has a long history of recurring disclosure of public's interest from Prop 65 levels to real estate transactions that do not, like this bill, interfere with commerce. This bill ratio applies to precedent to balance everyone's needs.

After the deaths of two Americans and 14 detainees, including some in my district, I must turn the public's trust and at this point, for communities to feel safe in their presence.

The Latino caucus respectfully ask for your vote on AB 2721. Thank you.

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

Thank you, mister speaker. I speak with concerns of this bill. I have great respect for the author. He is my friend, but I have real concerns about this bill. I'm worried this bill brings hotel hotel's rights, and it brings them right into this nasty fight that we have between the state and the Federal Government.

Oops.

And it's not fair to the California hotels. Even if hotels new every time a federal officer checks in, making this information public can create a serious safety threat, not just to officers themselves, but I'm really concerned about the safety of the hotel employees and guests for potential civil unrest developing as a result. Many federal agents have reasons to stay at California hotels that are not related to immigration enforcement. Things like human trafficking, anti narcotics, and anti terrorism operations.

I just ask the author and my friend to consider these concerns as the bill moves forward.

Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Alaniz. Assemblymember Gibson, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, mister speaker and members. First of all, I wanna thank our member for bringing this bill before us today. I rise in support of assembly bill 2721. Think that this is a very simple bill about disclosures at the hotels. And also looking at what's transpired in his own district, this all this does is gives those individuals a heads up what's going on.

These are individuals who works in the hotels, that works in the hospitality areas, giving those employees the heads up that ICE is one staying there for their own safety. And, also, even in his own district, two individuals, who were detainees in their in his in his district was also threatened, and also harassed just because they were hotel workers there. It's a reasonable request to making sure that this notice is provided. There are strongly asked what I vote on assembly bill 272721.

And thank the author for bringing this bill before us.

It's simple. It makes sense. Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Gibson. Assemblymember Hoover, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. I rise in opposition of AB 2721. Let's, make no mistake. Nothing about this bill is going to be simple. This is going to be a very difficult bill for hotels to actually implement.

It hold holds hotels liable for information that they do not and that I would argue they should not be required to collect. It also puts private businesses in the middle of a fight between our state and the Federal Government. And and finally, in what is seems to be a theme on this floor today, it also puts our officers at risk. And and it actually raises a lot of concerns for me about the safety of the law enforcement officials that are doing their job.

So with respect, appreciate a no vote.

Thank you.

Thank you, Assemblymember Hoover. Seeing and hearing no further debate, Assemblymember Carrillo, you may close.

Thank you, to my friend and colleague from Modesto. Points well taken. We will continue to work on that as should this bill move forward from this floor. And the concerns of having other law enforcement's been attacked by what this bill would do, the idea again is to just simply post a notice on letting guests know and workers of what the they who the the guests are gonna be there if they are ICE federal agents. It's about safety with what we've seen.

I think that it's something that is is intended to be safe for guests and workers at the same time. So with that, I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you. Assemblymember Carrillo. All debate haven't ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. The clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. Aye is 43, no 17. The measure passes.

File item one thirty seven is AB 1537. File item one thirty seven, by Assembly member Brian. The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 1537 by Assembly member Brian and others, an act relating to peace officers.

Assembly member Brian, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker and colleagues. This is a very simple bill. It it simply says that if you sign up to protect and serve our communities during the day with a local law enforcement agency, you cannot moonlight with ICE. We've been working with the opposition, and we've removed the coast guard or other parts of DHS that they've been concerned about and are also still open to conversations. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Brian. We'll debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll. Tally vote size 43, nose 15. The measure passes. File item 152.

File item 152 is AB 1806 by Assembly Member Gabriel. The Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1806 by Assembly Member Gabriel and others, an act relating to the Department of Justice.

Assembly Member Gabriel, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I rise today to present AB 1806, which would require the California Attorney General to conduct an independent, transparent, and thorough investigation into any incident involving a fatal shooting by federal immigration enforcement agents.

Since the Trump administration began its immigration enforcement surge, our nation has witnessed an unprecedented increase in civilian shootings by federal agents. An investigative report by the Wall Street Journal identified more than a dozen incidents that have resulted in multiple deaths. At least five of those shot were US citizens.

Two of the most high profile cases involve the deaths of Renee Nicole Good, a 37 year old mother of three who was fatally shot by an ICE agent on January 7, and Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who was fatally shot by a CPB officer on January 24.

These incidents have occurred in California as well. In Northridge, Keith Porter Jr was shot and killed by an off duty ICE agent. In Patterson, just last month, Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez was shot seven times by ICE agents. He was shot in the face and is still recovering.

In these cases, the federal government not only failed to investigate, but also apparently attempted to thwart other agencies from doing so. When circumstances are highly disputed and unanswered questions persist, an independent investigation is not just warranted, it is necessary.

In these circumstances, the state has both a moral and a legal obligation to protect its residents and uphold the rule of law. We must use our power and authority to protect our immigrant communities, push back on federal overreach, and safeguard our constitutional rights.

AB 186 does exactly that, which is why it is supported by a robust coalition of labor, immigrants rights, legal aid, and civil rights organizations that includes SEIU California, the California Immigrant Policy Center, and the Latino Community Foundation. Thank you, and respectfully request your aye vote on AB 1806.

Thank you, Assembly Member Gabriel. All debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. ayes 50, nose 17, the measure passes. File item 169, 169, that's AB 2318. AB 2318 by Assembly member El Hawari.

The clerk will read.

Assembly bill 2318 by Assembly member El Hawari and others, and act relating to law enforcement.

Assembly member El Hawari, you may open on the measure.

Good afternoon, mister speaker and members. I am proud to present AB 2318, a bill that would make it unlawful for law enforcement to deny, delay, or fail to facilitate access to medical evaluation or treatment for an individual under law enforcement control if it is safe and reasonable to provide such access. This bill would also impose documentation requirements on law enforcement in instances in which medical access is denied or delayed.

AB 2318 is a Latino caucus priority and is a critical step in increasing transparency regarding access to medical treatment at the scene of incidents. It will also make it easier for medical professionals to provide life saving interventions.

In doing so, it will protect the vulnerable communities that have been targeted by Predatory Immigration tactics, as well as those who encounter law enforcement. Thank you, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you. Assembly member Al Hawari. I'll debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes, ayes 44, nose 18, the measure passes. Okay. While we're waiting, mister Haney has asked to lift the call on file item 40.

Clerk will post. Clerk will close the roll, tally votes, size 54, nose 16. Measure passes. Mister Gabriel, let's do file item 56. That's AB 187.

File item 56, AB 1807 by mister Gabriel. Clerk will read. Madam Clerk? File item is 56, AB 1807. Clerk will read.

Assembly vote 1807 by Assembly member Gabriel and others, an act relating to immigration.

Assembly member Gabriel, you may open.

Good morning, mister speaker and colleagues. I rise today to present AB 187, which would prevent state resources from being commandeered to advance the Trump administration's dangerous and chaotic immigration agenda. Since June 2025, federal agents have conducted sweeping indiscriminate enforcement operations across California and our nation. These operations have taken place in workplaces, near residents, and in previously recognized sensitive locations, and in some cases, on state owned property, including CSU and community college facilities. They have often unfolded in front of children, families, and community members.

The events in Los Angeles, the deadly violence in other parts of our nation, and the pattern of reckless federal enforcement activity across this country demand a response. California cannot stand idly by and support this cruelty, allowing our own property to become a base for operations that terrorize our communities. AB 187 would prohibit the use of state owned property, including parking lots, vacant lots, and garages for federal immigration enforcement operations, such as staging, processing, or detention activities.

The use of state owned property to facilitate federal immigration operations interferes with California's authority over its own resources, property, and personnel, and undermines public trust and confidence. Simply put, we cannot be complicit in federal actions which are inciting chaos and violence and harm our communities.

AB 1807 is supported by a robust coalition of labor, immigrant rights, legal aid, and civil rights organization. For that reason, I ask for your aye vote on AB 1807.

Thank you, Assemblymember Gabriel. All debate having ceased. Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

All members vote who desire to vote. Burke will close the roll, tally the votes. Ayes 52, Nos 13, the measure passes. We're going back to file item number 19. File item number 19, that's AB 1627 by Assembly member Avila Farias.

The clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 1627 by Assemblymember Avila Farias and others, an act relating to public employment.

Assemblymember Avila Farias, you may open.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and members. I'm pleased to present AB 1627, the MELT ICE Act of 2026. Californians deserve the best qualified and trained peace officers. AB 1627 ensures that federal immigration enforcement personnel are disqualified from becoming peace officers in California if they have committed misconduct in their prior role. This bill is about restoring public trust and holding federal law enforcement to the same standard as any other peace officer in California.

Public service requires integrity, restraint, and respect. When those values are abandoned, public trust is broken and an entire communities are put at risk. Communities are safer when we are policed by people who are committed to protecting the public, rather than kidnapping them. Thank you, and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Thank you, Assemblymember Avila Farias. All debate having ceased, Clerk will open the roll. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote. All members vote who desire to vote.

Circle, close the roll tally of the votes ayes 43, no 17, the measure passes. Okay, members. We're gonna go to the very beginning of the assembly third reading file. We're gonna pass and retain on file item four.

We've already dispensed with file item number five. File item number six is AB 1905 by Assemblymember Schultz. Clerk will read.

Assembly Bill 8—1905—by Assemblymember Schultz and others, an act relating to juveniles.

Assemblymember Schultz, you are recognized.

Yes. Good afternoon, Mr. Speaker and members. Today, I rise to present AB 1905, which safeguards constitutional protections for young people in custody by establishing clear guardrails around undercover custodial interrogation. I'd like to note that our office has worked very closely with the California District Attorney's Association to address their concerns and have agreed to amendments that limit this bill only to apply those who are 26 years of age or younger in custody, similar to another section of the California Penal Code that defines youth by this age.

This significantly narrows the scope of the bill while still addressing the unique susceptibility to deception and a manipulation among this population. I'll also note that we've agreed with CDAA to include a retroactivity provision ensuring that active criminal cases will not be impacted. And moving forward, our office remains committed to further conversations with CDAA and opposition for final amendment agreements.