Senate Floor

[Roll Call]

A quorum is present. Colleagues, please rise. We'll be led in prayer this morning by sister Michelle Gorman after please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance.

Let us remember that we are always in God's presence. God of all peoples and to nations, help us remember that we are in constant development. Let us enter lovingly into the merits of each person we meet. Let what calls us to action be motives of admiration and reverential regard everywhere in our environment. In culture, may we promote liberty.

In politics, may we promote equality. In economics, may we promote service to others. In family and community, may we promote inclusivity and love. We ask all this in your name. Amen.

Please join me in the pledge allegiance. I pledge allegiance. Under privileges of the floor, we have none. Message messages from the governor will be deemed read. Messages from the assembly will be deemed read.

Reports of committee will be deemed read and amendments adopted. Under motions, resolutions, and notices, Senator McNerney, you're recognized?

Thank you, madam president. Please move file item 24 SB 1011 to the inactive file.

The desk would note. Seeing no other member wish to be recognized. Moving into the consideration of the daily file. We have file item six and we are gonna skip over governor's appointments. Go into Senate third reading.

Senators, we have nine bills to go through six of them are support, support. We can get out of here by 10:30 if we go through these as smoothly as possible. Kicking us off with majority leader, file item 17. Secretary, please read.

Senate bill 1050 by Senator Ashby an act relating to Consumer Protection.

Thank you. Good morning, colleagues. California is home to the largest and most influential creative sector in the world. Over 750,000 jobs power the state's creative economy, which generates over $190,000,000,000 federal, state, and local dollars.

Senator.

Recent advancements in AI have led to the creation of synthetic performers, human like digital figures that convincingly appear, speak, move and perform like real people. The use of these performers in advertisements is misleading to consumers and allows creators to avoid the responsibility of hiring real workers.

SB 1050 establishes a disclosure requirement for advertisements that includes synthetic performers to ensure that existing laws are updated to reflect new realities. SB 1050 is sponsored by SAG-AFTRA and has received bipartisan support.

I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Majority leader. Secretary, please call the roll.

[roll call]

Please call the absent members.

Blakespear? aye. Choi? Dahle? Ochoa Bogh?

Please call the absent members.

Ochoa Bogh, aye.

Aye is 38. No 0. The measure passes. We're gonna swing back to Governor's appointments. Senator Reyes has both file items six and seven.

Senator Reyes.

Thank you, madam president, members. File item number six is the confirmation of Preston Prince for reappointment to the California Housing Finance Agency board of directors. Mister Prince has served on the board since 2014. He's the executive director of the Santa Clara County Housing Authority. He was approved by the rules committee on May 20. I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

Seeing no mics up, secretary, please call the roll.

[Roll Call]

Ayes 30, noes 9. The appointment is confirmed. Senator Reyes, file item seven.

Thank you, madam president. Members, file item number seven is the confirmation of Stephanie Lanrogin for reappointment to the State Mining and Geology Board. She is the director of Altadena Garden and was first appointed in 2015. She serves as the board's position for a landscape architect. She was approved by the rules committee on May 20 and I respectfully ask for your aye vote.

No discussions on this item.

Secretary, please call the roll.

[Roll Call]

Aye, sir. Aye, 30. Nose, nine. The appointment is confirmed. Going back to Senate third reading, Senator Grove, you have file item 18.

Secretary, please read.

Senate bill 1373 by Senator Groove an act relating to criminal procedure.

Senator.

Thank you madam president. Colleagues in 2018, California created Mental Health Diversion to address the root causes of low level nonviolent offenses through treatment rather than traditional court proceedings. However, the reality is that this program was built without sufficient guardrails, and it's opened the door for violent repeat offenders to avoid accountability and return to our communities without oversight. Perpetrators walk away with no record of their crimes, while victims are left with no recourse.

In my own home county, a disgraced former Republican County Supervisor, Zack Scrivner, serves as the primary example of how broken this system is. Despite sexually assaulting his child, receiving felony charges of child abuse and possession of assault weapons, he was granted diversion.

He never entered a plea. He never was served a day in jail, and his diversion is and when his diversion is complete, his record will be wiped completely clean, meaning that nothing will appear on his background check if he volunteers at an elementary school.

This isn't just one case.

We've been given recorded jailhouse calls of career criminals talking about using diversion as their way out. We're seeing the habitual offenders in cities across California use this loophole to commit brutal assaults and even murder while out on diversion.

In San Francisco, a repeat offender with prior arrest for assaults with a deadly weapon, robbery, and elder abuse was granted diversion only to go out on diversion and strangle a young woman to death.

A father whose one year old baby girl died from skull fractures and brain hemorrhaging while in the sole, in his sole care, admitted to heavily drinking and being addicted to alcohol and he didn't remember what happened, and he was granted diversion. A three year old little boy was found overdosing on lithium after being force fed the medication and locked in a filthy room, yet both caregivers were granted diversion.

A 20 month old baby is dead. He had catastrophic internal injuries and nearly 50 external wounds, while his parents blamed clumsiness and sought diversion. A three month old infant suffered a skull fracture and brain bleeding consistent with abuse, and living conditions so severe that his face was completely covered in cockroach bites. And of course, the individuals in his care custody and control sought diversion.

A two year old little girl was brutally beaten, held under water, and slammed against concrete, abuse and torture, which was captured all on video as evidence, and the abuser sought diversion to escape any type of justice.

Some may argue that these cases are the exception to the rule, but the truth is these are just a handful examples that we pulled from, from thousands of cases across California. We could sit here for hours and hours reviewing case after case that is established across this state, the district attorneys are fighting for every single day to protect victims.

There are countless reports of violent repeat offenders being released under diversion, and the public simply is asking why. Why is this happening?

This is not what mental health diversion was meant to be for and SB 13733 fixes this broken system and restores full judicial discretion consistent with AB 46 we passed yesterday, ensuring the judge can deny diversion for a defendant that poses a risk to public safety based on their history.

However, judicial discretion is not enough, and we've seen that in other cases. We must ensure that those who commit the most heinous acts, such as human trafficking, child abuse resulting in death, are no longer eligible for diversion at all. Removing diversion simply means that the defendant must face court proceedings, plead their case before a jury. We're closing the loophole for a wealthy, privileged politicians, and career criminals alike. No one should be exempt from the law.

For the right people, diversion can be a real second chance. We can protect our communities from dangerous predators, while also making sure the system works in the way it's supposed to. I came up here to Sacramento to fight for the oil and ag industry, and I ended up being the woman that fought for women and children.

And this is my last bill that I'll have this, in my career since 2010, and I'd be honored, and respectfully asked to have your aye vote on this to continue to protect those children that we serve.

Senator Rubio, you're recognized.

Thank you, Madam president, ladies and gentlemen of the Senate. I rise as a proud coauthor to SB 1373, this legislation that strengthens California's mental health diversion process while prioritizing public safety and accountability in our communities. California's mental health diversion laws were created with an important purpose, to ensure individuals suffering from legitimate mental illness can receive the treatment they deserve instead of being incarcerated when appropriate.

However, recent cases as highlighted by the great Senator of Bakersfield shows the deficiencies in these laws, particularly when diversion is granted in cases involving serious or violent crimes, such as child abuse and endangerment, assault of a child that results in death, human trafficking, and inflicting cruel or inhumane corporate punishment on children. I've met with many, many victims.

In fact, I wanna thank the great Senator who authored this bill because, she and I have been working a lot in this space and have heard the horrific stories. And these stories stay with you, especially when they involve children, babies who are horrifically murdered, and yet there's loopholes that allow their their aggressors, their murderers to go free. I think this bill strikes a good balance. SB 1373 is critically important.

It preserves access to mental health treatment while ensuring courts retain that authority to deny diversion when a defendant poses a substantial risk to our public safety.

Public safety and compassion are not opposing values. Californians expect a justice system that supports treatment when appropriate, while also protecting victims and holding dangerous offenders accountable. This legislation helps restore confidence in California's justice system by ensuring diversion programs are used responsibly, consistently, and with proper oversight.

Again, all you have to do is meet with victims who were harmed, whose lives were altered forever because they either lost a child or their life was altered because of their aggressor. And to know that their the perpetrator went free and they had no accountability, that's heartbreaking, and we need to fix that.

SB 1373 is ultimately about balance, protecting access again when people genuinely need access to mental health treatment, but also safeguarding California communities from preventable harm. We must ensure always that the most heinous of crimes are treated with the severity it deserves. Victims are counting on us every single day to help them get justice when appropriate. And with that, I respectfully ask for an aye vote. Thank you.

Senator Arreguin.

Thank you, Madam president. Colleagues, I rise as the chair of the Senate Committee on Public Safety to urge your vote for SB 1373.

I know this is a difficult vote for some of you, but I wanna assure you this bill has been carefully crafted to balance ensuring that judges continue to have discretion for referring people to diversion when appropriate with also considering significant public safety risk of the of the offender and whether sending them to diversion will not be in the interest of public safety.

We passed a bill yesterday, AB 46, that makes important changes to broaden judicial discretion to make sure we're striking that balance of maintaining our system of diversion and making sure the people that need treatment get treatment in California, but also making sure that we're balancing that with considering the public safety impacts of that decision.

This bill builds on that and and retains the same public safety standard, but also, includes other considerations, such as the violent nature of the offenders, criminal history, making sure that's considered in the process of evaluating whether a candidate suitable for diversion, and specifically excluding very serious crimes from diversion.

The current statute already has specific exceptions in which if people commit certain offenses, they're not able to be referred to diversion. Some of the offenses in this bill that would make someone ineligible are the death of a child, you know, serious harm to children, you know, corporal, injury that results in great bodily injury. These are very serious offenses that pose significant risks to public safety.

And while people should certainly be in diversion who need treatment, we also wanna make sure that those people that may end up in diversion and may get out of diversion and re offend and pose a risk to the safety of our communities, that we are taking that into consideration as we're making these decisions. I wanna thank the author for working with the committee on amendments to this bill.

I think this strikes right balance, and I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

See no other mics up. Senator Grove, you may now close.

I thank you, Madam president. I'd like to thank my colleague from Baldwin Park and the public safety chair from Oakland for commenting on this bill. We worked really hard to make sure it was narrowed. My intent is not to take individuals who truly need mental health diversion, and put them in a prison sentence where they don't get the help that they need.

But there needs to be sufficient guardrails, and like I said, I just, I could have kept us going till probably 04:00 this afternoon to ring case after case of child abuse that is brought to us.

Where, like I said, death of a child, corporal injury. One guy cut a little girl's finger off because she was flipping people off. She was three years old. That's a learned behavior. Somebody taught her how to do that, and then they punished her by doing that, and then said, oh, it was the alcohol.

Those things can't happen. We have to protect our children. They're growing up in a society, a lot of them spend a lot of time on their phones, even as children, as long as, you know, little kids, like two, three years old. And we've got to be able to protect our children, and this bill, I think, provides the proper guardrails, to at least move it further so that we can protect our kids.

I have no doubt in my mind that when the original bill for mental health diversion passed, this was not the intent of that author, to make sure that everybody had a get out of jail free card.

That's just not that's just not the intent. Everything associated with the DSM five list, which is about nine pages long, gives you every reason why somebody in California, because this is attached to that bill, gives you a reason why you can get out on mental health diversion. And some of these things are we all have them. I'm just saying. All of us have something in this file, and it shouldn't be like that.

There should be guardrails sufficient to protect our children and those who cause the most great bodily injury and the most horrendous crimes in our state. Respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Secretary, please call the roll.

[roll call]

Please call the absent members.

Becker? Cabaldon? aye. Cortese? Dahle? Durazo? Gonzalez? Reyes? Smallwood Cuevas? Weber Pierson?

Please call the absent members.

Becker? Cortese? Dahl? Durazo? Gonzalez? Reyes? Smallwood Cuevas, Weber Pierson?

Aye 32, No 0. The measure passes.

Moving on to Senator McGuire for file item 19. Secretary, please read.

Senate bill 1393 by Senator Maguire, An act regarding fish.

Senator. Thank you so much, madam president. I rise today to ask for support for SB 1393, the fisheries omnibus bill. Members, California's fishing fleet and recreational fishermen support more than a 100,000 jobs and drive hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity each year, especially in rural coastal communities. The Dungeness crab fishery centered along California's North Coast is one of the most vital in the Western United States.

And no matter if you are a lover of rockfish or squid, crab, urchin, or spiny lobster, this bill is for you. We need smart management tools that protects our natural resources and keeps our coastal economy strong, and that's what thirteen ninety three delivers. Number one, it strengthens the steelhead trout fishing program.

It extends and refines the dunguness crab fishery management structure, which has been needing modernization candidly for years, and it establishes clear rules for vessel transit through closed crab fishing areas, which should have been updated years ago. This bill has received broad bipartisan support.

It's supported by the commercial fleet and would respectfully ask for an aye vote.

I see no mics up. Secretary, please call the roll.

Allen. aye, Alvarado-Gil. aye, Archuleta. aye, Adegin. aye, Ashby.

aye, Becker. aye, Blaise Spear. aye, Cabaldon. aye, Caballero. aye, Cervantes.

aye, Choi. aye, Cortesi. aye, Dali, Durazo. aye, Gonzales. aye, Grayson.

aye, Grove. Aye, Hurtado. Aye, Jones. Aye, Laird. Aye, Limon.

Aye, McGuire. Aye, McNearney. Aye, Menshivar. Aye, Nilo. Aye, Ochoa Bog.

Aye, Padilla. Aye, Perez. I Reyes, I Richardson, I Rubio, I See Arto, I Smallwood Cuevas, I Stern, I Strickland, I Umburg, I Volodares, Aye, Wahab. Aye, Webber Pearson. Aye, Weiner.

Aye, 39. No. Zero. The measure passes. Senator Perez, you're up for your support support.

File item 20. Secretary, please read.

Senate bill 995 by Senator Perez an act relating to public health.

Senator.

Thank you, madam president and members. I rise today to present SB 995, the Masuma Khan Justice Act. This is a bill that is inspired directly by one of my constituents, Masuma Khan, a 64 year old fire survivor from Altadena who was taken during her immigration check-in appointment to California City Detention Center where she was denied access to clean water, denied access to clean food, and also denied access to an attorney.

When her family finally discovered and located where she was, she had almost suffered a medical emergency. Fortunately, her daughter got to her in time and was able to save her.

She has ultimately been released, but has been utterly terrified by the experience she had in this facility. Her story is just one of hundreds of stories that we've heard from across the state about these types of facilities and we've already heard cases, CalMatters just reported on this, of sexual assault and sexual violence occurring in these facilities and them hiring outside private contractors to do investigations rather than allowing in county sheriffs.

We must ask the question members, why do these facilities refuse to let law enforcement even inside their doors? That is incredibly concerning. In addition to that, there are currently 500 individuals across this country right now participating in a hunger strike to bring attention to the quality of these facilities, the mistreatment that is going on.

You will notice that the bill also includes what is referred to as secure youth treatment facilities, which also falls under involuntary residential facilities. These are operated here in the state. We've also found several abuses with these facilities as well. We need stronger oversight. We need stronger accountability.

I urge an aye vote on SB 995. Thank you.

Senator Grove, you're recognized.

President and colleagues, I rise in support of SB 995. This is something that, desperately needs to be addressed and fixed. I think that there's involuntary when you involuntary put somebody in a facility, there should be oversight to where we have some type of input on how people are treated in those facilities.

I worked you all know, and you guys helped pass bills that Paris Hilton was involved in, And this is a bill that she would definitely and not speaking for her, but she would definitely support as well, I believe.

Anyways, respectfully ask for an aye vote for SB 995.

Senator Perez, you may close.

Thank you. I wanna thank our good Senator for rising in support. And once again, I can't think of a more important measure for this body to pass given the circumstances that we've seen in these sorts of involuntary residential facilities. These facilities are operating in our state. It's our responsibility to ensure that they are following public health and public safety laws.

Thank you. Urgent an aye vote.

This item is eligible for unanimous roll call. Any objection?

Aye, 39. No, 0. The measure passes.

Senator Hurtado, you have filed item 21. Secretary, please read.

Senate bill 1025 by Senator Hurtado, an act relating to food security.

Senator. Good morning. Thank you, madam president. Colleagues, I rise to present SB 1025, which establishes the office of food security and affordability. Across California, there are families, students, seniors, and working parents who qualify for food assistance, but still find it difficult to to assess the sup the support that already exists.

This isn't because of our lack of investments. It is because of our current system, and it's spread out across multiple agencies that often do not communicate with one another. And SB 1025 is about making that system easier to navigate for individuals. This bill brings agencies together to improve coordination, strengthen outreach and enrollment efforts, support more emergency food providers, and use data to identify communities that continue to be underserved.

By improving communication and reducing duplication between programs, SB 1025 helps ensure that the investments California is already making are reaching families more effectively and efficiently.

I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Thank you, Senator. I see no mics up. Secretary, please call the roll.

Allen. aye. Alvarado-Gil. Archuleta. aye.

Arteguin. Aye, Ashby, Aye, Becker, Aye, Blake Spear, Aye, Cabaldon, Aye, Caballero, Aye, Cervantes, Aye, Choi, Cortesi, Aye, Dali, Durazo, Aye, Gonzales, Aye, Grayson, Aye, Grove, Aye, Hurtado. Aye, Jones. Aye, Laird. Aye, Limon.

Aye, McGuire. Aye, McNerney. Aye, Mendevar. Aye, Nilo. Ochoa Bog, aye Padilla, aye Perez, aye Reyes, aye Richardson, aye Rubio, aye Seyarto, aye Smallwood Cuevas, I Stern, Aye.

Strickland. Aye. Umberg. Aye. Volodares.

Aye. Wahab. Aye. Weber Pearson. Aye.

Weiner.

Aye. Please call the absent members.

Alvarado-Gil. Choi. Aye. Dahle. Nilo.

Ayes, 37. No zero. The measure passes. The next three bills are eligible for unanimous roll call. So if we could stay on the floor, we'll go through as fast as possible.

Senator Stern, you are ready for fire item 25. Secretary, please read.

Senate bill 1266 about Senator Stern an act relating to crimes.

Senator.

Thank you, Madam president. SB 1266, redefines the value when assessing copper wire theft costs to include the full cost of repair replacement, labor, and equipment rather than just the scrap value of that copper. And appropriations amendments were taken to make a bill only apply to public infrastructure and public and private telecommunications infrastructure. Respectfully ask for aye vote.

Seeing no mics up, any objection to utilizing unanimous roll call?

Aye 39, no 0. Measure passes. Senator Gonzalez with file item 26. Secretary, please read.

Senate Bill 1211 by Senator Gonzalez, an act relating to criminal procedure.

Senator.

Thank you, Madam president. I rise today to present Senate Bill 1211 which will clarify that conviction integrity units within District Attorney Offices have the authority to investigate post conviction claims of factual innocence as open cases. By clarifying that the CIUs may investigate the most time sensitive cases as open matters, SB 1211 will expedite access to justice for wrongfully convicted Californians. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Any objection to applying the unanimous roll call?

Aye, 39. No, 0. The measure passes. Senator Wahab, you have file item 30.

Secretary, please read.

Senate bill 1302 by Senator wahab inequity in the healing arts.

Senator Rahab. Thank you. SB 1302 is the sunset bill for the board of registered nursing. I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

That was beautiful, Senator. No mics up. Any objection to applying the unanimous roll call? We we have an objection. Secretary, please call the roll.

Allen. Aye. Avarado Gill. Aye. Archuleta.

Aye. Aye. Ashby. Aye, Becker. Aye, Blake Spear.

Aye, Cabaldon. Aye, Caballero. Aye, Cervantes. Aye, Choi. Aye, Cortesi.

Aye, Dali. Durazo. Aye, Gonzales. Grayson, Grove, Hurtado, Jones, Laird, Limon, McGuire, McNerney, Menjivar, Nilo, aye Ochoa Bog. aye Padilla.

aye Perez. aye Reyes. aye Richardson. aye Rubio. aye Seyarto.

aye Smallwood Cuevas. aye Stern. Aye, Strickland. Aye, umberg. Aye, Volodares.

Aye, Wahab. Aye, Weber Pearson. Weiner. Aye.

Aye. 38. No. Zero. The measure passes.

Senator Hurtado with file item 31. Secretary, please read.

Senate bill 1181 by Senator Hurtado, an act relating to school safety.

Senator.

Thank you, Madam president. Members, I am the proud daughter of immigrant parents from Mexico. My parents always share the stories with me of when they migrated to the US. My father had an easier route here than my mother.

My mother often shares with me how cruel the journey can be going north. How dangerous. How at one point, she was almost raped before a good samaritan stepped in and helped save her. I wanna be very clear that getting to the United States can be very cruel for people, making that risk for a better life. And when they get here, it's not always easy.

It's not. My parents share that with me. My parent my dad, you know, lived out of a car for some time. Both of my parents lived out of a hotel. The immigrant story is it's not an easy one to speak about.

It can be cruel and like so many families in the Central Valley, my parents came here searching for dignity and a better future for their children. That story is not unique to my family. It is a story of millions of Americans. And that is why this conversation here today matters. SB 1181 is about protecting youth.

The future of this country documented or not, are our little ones. Because predators, traffickers, online manipulators, and criminal networks do not stop to ask immigration status before targeting vulnerable children. And every child deserves safety.

Every family deserves dignity. And every community deserves institutions that can recognize threats early and respond before lives are destroyed. This bill passed unanimously out of the last committee with bipartisan support.

And I know that suddenly opposition emerged portraying this bill as targeting communities instead of protecting them. This bill is not that. We're walking into a dangerous territory when we begin telling vulnerable communities they should not trust the institutions meant to protect them. These institutions are not perfect. I recognize that and we must all continue to work to improving them.

We must continue protecting civil liberties and above all yes we must pass meaningful immigration reform. But we should not confuse reform with dismantling trust itself because trust saves lives. Across California coordinated public safety efforts have helped rescue trafficked migrant children, identify victims of exploitation, and dismantle criminal networks targeting vulnerable immigrant communities.

These partnerships have helped locate missing children, stop labor exploitation, and improve emergency response when lives were on the line. Because these same communities most vulnerable to exploitation are often the communities most afraid to ask for help.

And after listening carefully to the concerns raised by immigrant communities and civil liberty advocates, I am removing fusion centers from this bill and keeping coordination within Cal OES because trust matters. I recognize that.

The very research surrounding what's going on warns us that societies that become more vulnerable when fear, mistrust, and division begin to erode confidence in institutions and in one another. I want communities especially vulnerable communities to know this bill is not about surveillance. This bill is not about targeting immigrants.

It is not about creating fear. It is about prevention, awareness, coordination, and protecting children from exploitation, trafficking, online radicalization, and emerging threats driven by technology and artificial intelligence. And if removing fusion centers helps preserve trust while allowing us to accomplish the goals of this bill through Cal OES coordination, then that's the right thing to do.

And in today's world the threats facing our youth and vulnerable families are evolving rapidly. Experts studying what's going on online warn that modern threats are increasingly designed to manipulate trust, behavior, and decision making through technology, misinformation, fear, and isolation.

They also warn that artificial intelligence and digital platforms are accelerating these threats at a scale previous generations never faced. And their conclusions their conclusion was simple. Resilience requires a whole of community response. Families, schools, local leaders, mental health professionals, educators and emergency officials must work together before harm occurs. And that is exactly what SB 1181 is about.

It's about prevention, awareness, coordination, and protecting young people before tragedy occurs. If President Trump, President Donald Trump warned Americans about threats from within and it's not a very nice thing to say on its surface, but President Joe Biden also warned about something and it he spoke about the battle for the soul of our nation. I prefer President Joe Biden's way of speaking. I think we are facing a battle for the soul of our nation.

Different parties, different language both in their own way warning Americans that something deeper is happening in this country.

We are losing trust in one another. We are becoming more isolated, more divided, more vulnerable to manipulation, fear, exploitation and extremism. And when trust disappears, vulnerable communities suffer first. This moment is bigger than politics or party. This is about whether we allow fear and division to destroy trust between communities and the people responsible for protecting them.

The Central Valley taught me something important. Resilience. The valley produces more food more than food. It produces sacrifice, perseverance, and families who still believe that hard work should mean something. And it produces people willing to fight for the next generation.

So I go back and I think about my parents. I think about the risks they took and the sacrifices they made. And I think about my niece's future and the future that we leave behind for her generation. It is about whether children are protected before they become victims and whether the next generation inherits fear and division or trust, resilience and hope.

And as long as I have the privilege of serving, I will continue fighting to protect both freedom and human dignity for every family that calls this country home.

I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Senator Cabaldon.

Yeah. Thank you, Madam president. I was rising in support of the bill. I also had concerns about the fusion center connection here, and I know many members have. And those we are auditing fusion centers, passing guidelines around them as well. We also need alternative ways for local law enforcement, school districts, and communities to share information and to identify threats in advance.

This bill is a modest pilot that turns it to local communities through their school districts or cities and counties and others to develop their own approach to data sharing that will help without putting their local resident to risk.

It's an important bill to to move forward to prevent the school shootings and other activities that have happened and allow the the Southern San Joaquin Valley to develop a model that we can then use as an alternative to some of the dangers that we've seen emerge from fusion centers and I urge and aye vote.

Senator Caballero.

Thank you, Madam president. Well, I'm I really appreciate the intentions of the author. The counties that are listed in the bill are my counties, and I'm not gonna be supporting the bill today. It's a laudable goal, but I want to see in writing exactly what the scope of the work that they're gonna do. The stated purpose is to deal with chronic absenteeism, youth mental health, and digital threats.

And all of that is critically important, but how we go about setting up a pilot program becomes really important. You have to get the commitment of the school districts to participate, You gotta get the commitments of the unions that are gonna be actively involved in, I would assume, being actively involved in setting up how the infrastructure's gonna work.

And the fusion centers were a big distraction in this bill, went through one committee only, I was not part of that committee, so I'm gonna lay off the bill until I see some work happen on it that defines a little bit more and where I can feel comfortable that there is actually support in my district for something like this really important issue. And I respectfully, will abstain.

Thank you, Senator. Senator Perez.

Thank you, Madam president. I rise to speak on SB 1181. I wanna share one that the author has been working on this bill for quite some time. It's gone through both, my committee, Senate Education Committee, as well as the Committee on Emergency Management. I think there's two things to note here.

One, I think the author has pointed out, you know, some really concerning things that have happened in our schools as of lately as we've seen rises in school shootings. At the same time, as somebody that worked on running after school programs in East LA and during my career before my time here, I recognize the importance of making sure that we are approaching these issues through a restorative justice lens.

One that is looking at focusing on addressing the real root cause that is causing many students to act out in the classroom. You know, we've, I've had to learn about this when I began working in the classroom back in 2013.

You know and oftentimes, I was dealing with students that were living in extreme poverty, dealing with students that were dealing with violence at home and that was in causing them to have very bad interactions with other students and sometimes even staff and teachers in the classroom and really making sure we were integrating social workers and other safety net pieces into that was critical.

Restorative justice was brought into this piece during the Senate Education Committee. We had conversations around that. But there has been this issue with fusion centers. They also had a bill in this space because there has been such little transparency around what these fusion centers are doing, how they are sharing this information.

I know we've talked a lot with the author about this and she has completely removed fusion centers from this bill, has made that commitment to me and to my office, because frankly, given the very limited information we have on these spaces, it is not appropriate to utilize fusion centers for this.

And so I appreciate the author for taking these huge amends. This bill still has some work to be done, but I know that she's committed to this issue. Request an aye vote.

Senator Reyes.

Thank you, Madam president. I too want to thank the author. The good good, Senator from Bakersfield has been absolutely committed to the safety of our youth. She's worked really hard.

She makes sure that she is connected to her community, not just telling us stories, but bringing in those who have experienced the very tragedies that we're talking about. And I thank her for that commitment to her community in a way that we all want to aspire to do.

I thank you for, I thank her for that, and I thank her for the amendments she's taken at the after considering all of the factors involved in this and making sure that in the end, she has a bill that absolutely protects the youth, in a way that, that is needed in in today. So thank you to my good Senator from Bakersfield, and with that, I would respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Senator Hurtado, you may now close.

I appreciate everyone's comments. I appreciate the support that I've been given in making sure that this bill is as sound and as good as possible. Right? Because at the end of the day, we're all invested and interested in making sure that our youth are safe. I thank you for that and I respectfully ask for an aye vote.

Secretary, please call the roll.

[roll call]

Please call the absent members.

Caballero, Cervantes? Dahle? Durazo? Gonzales? aye. McNerney? Menjivar? Rubio? aye. Weber Pierson?

Aye 33. No 0. The measure passes. That's it.

You're on bill presentations. We are moving into the special consent calendar number 26 on item 62 through 76. Would any member wish to remove an item from this consent calendar?

Phenomenal. Secretary, please read.

Senate Resolution 94, Senate Bill 1430, 867, 894, 900, 962,nine sixty two, 1022, 1047,1053, 1224, 1299, 1330, 1395, 1397, and Senate bill 1407.

Secretary, please call the roll on the first item and apply that roll call to the entire consent calendar.

Allen. Alvarado-Gil. Aye, Archuleta. Aye, Adegin. Aye, Ashby.

Aye, Becker. Aye, Blaisepeer. Aye, Cabaldon, Aye, Caballero, Aye, Cervantes, Aye, Choi, Aye, Cortezi, Aye, Dali, Durazo, Gonzales, Aye, Grayson, Aye, Grove, Aye, Hurtado, aye Jones, aye Laird, aye Lemon, aye Maguire, aye McNearney, aye Menjivar, aye Nilo, aye Ochoa Bog, aye Padilla, aye Perez, aye Reyes, aye Richardson, aye Rubio, aye Sigardo, I Smallwood Cuevas, I Stern, I Strickland, I Humbert, I Volodares, I Wahab, Aye. Aye. Aye.

Aye. Aye.

Aye. 39. No zero. The consent calendar is adopted. Under committee announcements for all the budget sub chairs, Senator Perez?

Budget sub one will be meeting in Room 2100. Review may revise, and we will be there in the next ten minutes when session is done.

Senator Reyes. Budgets of two

will be meeting in Room 2200 in Swing Space 0 Street Building in ten minutes upon adjournment.

Budgets of three will be meeting in Room 1200 15 Minutes after session is over. Senator Hurtado?

Subcommitte four will meet, in Room 113 upon adjournment fifteen minutes upon adjournment of of, session.

Richardson? Yes. I'd like to announce that the budget subcommittee five on judicial, corrections, labor, transportation, subcommittee will be held in Room 112. Thank you. In about

Senator

Madam pro tem, we are done with house of origin. There's no other business. The desk is clear.

Thank you, madam president. Colleagues, today we have officially concluded the business of the Senate House of Origin. Over the course of this month alone, this body has worked to dispense 341 bills, engaging of course in thoughtful debate on behalf of the people that we represent. I wanna thank you all for your dedication, for your partnership.

I wanna do a special thank you to our majority leader who helped us get through this month, our assistant majority leaders, our majority whip, the assistant majority whips, and our caucus chair, as well as the presiding officers who spent so many hours trying to make sure that this floor was able to get through this work, including our minority, party leaders as well.

We could not have done this without the staff that is here, both on the floor, the desk team, the staff in all of our offices that have been by our side helping us, and the dedicated Senate employees who made sure our lights were on and that we were fed and that we were here. So thank you all. Our next floor session is on June 1. Monday, June 1 at 2PM. Thank you all for your work.

Will all presiding officers please hang back? The Senate will be in recess until 03:30pm, at which time the adjournment motion will be made. We will reconvene Monday, 06/01/2026 at 2PM. All presiding officers to the desk.