Assembly Floor

Good morning, California. The assembly is now in session. Assembly member Harabedian notices the absence of a quorum. Sergeant arms will prepare the chamber bringing the absent members. Clerk will call the roll.

[Roll Call]

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

Please join me in a moment of reflection. This August, Bob and I will be married for forty years. It's hard to believe so many decades have passed. Back then, like many newlyweds, we decided to do our fair share of cleaning and cooking. At first, everything went well, but then I began to see a pattern developing.

Cleaning was no problem, but cooking was another issue. I think it was after I complimented the meatloaf he made one night, he began to consider meatloaf an entire cuisine of its own. He made meatloaf with barbecue sauce, sweet and sour meatloaf with pineapples, then individual mini meatloaves in the shape of our initials, p and b. When he asked me once what I like for dinner, I recall suggesting fish. The next evening, I came home to his newest creation, meatloaf in the shape of a fish.

Now he was off to the races. On my birthday, he made a double layer meatloaf cake frosted with ketchup with happy birthday written in mustard. The last straw was his Japanese inspired meatloaf with miso and red ginger pickles. That night, his cooking privileges were revoked. To this day, he says that I stifled his creativity, which may be true, But Bob's culinary

creativity remains an example. How at times we may be so enthusiastic about what we feel is good, that we fail to see that we are not compromising. For a marriage to work harmoniously for forty years or to maintain harmony between nations of the world requires the ability to currently compromise. If only the world could learn from Bob's mistaken hope to become the master of meatloaf and see the harmony and peace require empathy and compromise. Namwami Damasu, let's live with kindness and gratitude beyond words.

We ask our guests and visitors to remain standing and join us in the flag salute. Assembly Member Harabedian.

Members, guests, right hand over your heart. Ready? Begin. I pledge allegiance to the flag.

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. Persons disrupting legislative proceedings are subject to removal, arrest, or other appropriate legal remedies. The reading of the previous day's journal.

Assembly chamber, Sacramento, Thursday, 05/07/2026. The assembly met at 9am. The honorable Josh Lowenthal, speaker pro tempore of the assembly presiding

Majority leader, Agiara Curry, moves, and Mr. Ta seconds that the reading of the previous day's journal be dispensed with. Presentation of 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 opposite of the date will be deemed read and printed in the journal. Onto our procedural motions. Madam Majority Leader, you are recognized for your procedural motions.

Good morning, Mr. Speaker. I request unanimous consent to suspend assembly rule 45.5 to allow Assembly Member Muratsuchi to speak on adjournment memory today.

Without objection, such shall be the order.

I request unanimous consent to suspend Assembly rule 118 a to allow Assembly Members Berman and Marisucci to have guests in the rear of the chamber and to allow Assembly Members Boerner, Wilson, Ransom, and Aguiar-Curry to have guests seated at their desk today.

Without objection, such shall be the order.

Pursuant to Assembly rule 96, I request unanimous consent to re refer the following bills to committee. SB 534 Padilla from the economic development growth and household impact committee to the human services committee. SB 888 CRTO from the revenue and taxation committee to the military and Veterans Affairs Committee, then back to the revenue and taxation committee. SB 1119 Padilla for the privacy and consumer protection committee to the Judiciary Committee, then back to the privacy and consumer protection committee.

That objection, such shall be the order.

I request unanimous consent to remove item a 17, AB 1156 WIPs from the inactive file and to return to the bill to the Senate for further action.

That objection, such shall be the order.

I request unanimous consent to suspend assembly rule 96 to withdraw ACR 210 Jackson from the economic development growth and household impact committee and order the resolution to the second reading file.

Without objection, such shall be the order. Madam Majority Leader, wait right there because we are having our guest introductions now. Members, can I have your attention please to quorum, please? Madam Majority Leader, you are recognized for your very important guest introduction.

You're right. I do have a very important guest, introduction. All of you know how how hard we all work and we leave our families for days on end. I know all of you have a longer distance than I do. But, I am so lucky to have the best person in my life to make sure I can be here every day and enjoy and love the work I do.

So everybody, this is my partner. Stand up, Larry. Larry Harris.

Thank you, Madam Majority Leader. Assembly Member Wilson, you are recognized for your guest introduction.

No worries. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Good morning, Members. I am pleased to present another guest this week. Thank you.

Thank you. Hey, Speaker. I am pleased to present another guest this week from the district. I would have to say the best guest from the district. My husband, Shavarz Wilson, who's been my good friend since seventh grade, and my husband of almost thirty years.

And I'm just so glad that he's here today to be with us on the floor. And I agree with the sentiments from our majority leader is that I could not do this job without all the sacrifices he makes for me to be here. And really to be honest, if he didn't tell me to come here, I wouldn't be your colleague either. It's because of him. So with that, I give you mister Shavaras Lee Wilson, the first gentleman of Suisun City and District 11.

Okay. Members, we are we do have more guest intros that are not quite ready, so we're gonna move on to business on the daily file and come back to those. We're gonna begin with the second reading file items one through six. The clerk will read.

Senate Bills 1005 with amendments, 1036, 1080, 1440, 1441, and Senate Bill 1442.

All bills will be deemed read, and all amendments will be deemed adopted. Concurrence file item 7, we're gonna pass and retain. On reconsideration file items 8 through 10, all items shall be continued. And that brings us to our assembly third reading file. That's file items 11 through 14.

File item 11, we're gonna pass and retain. Time to work, everybody. It's time to work. File item number 12 is ACR 191 by Assemblymember Stefani. The clerk will read.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution 191 by Assemblymember Stefani relative to National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

K. Members take conversations off the floor, please. Thank you. Assemblymember Stefani, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Colleagues, today I rise to ask for your support for ACR 191, recognizing June 5, the first Friday of June, as National Gun Violence Awareness Day in California. We recognize this day in memory of Hadiya Pendleton, who was shot and killed at just 15 years old. After her death, her friends asked their classmates to wear orange to honor her life and raise awareness about gun violence in this country.

They chose orange because hunters wear it to make themselves visible to others in the woods, so they don't get shot.

Today, it has become a symbol of the value of human life and a reminder that every person deserves to be seen, protected, and safe in this country. Every day in America, roughly a hundred and thirty people are killed by gun violence and hundreds more are wounded. Families and communities shattered. Gun violence is now the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in this country. Think about that.

More than car accidents, more than cancer. And it's been the leading cause of death for black children in this country since 2006. So it's not fair to say that it's now just the leading cause of death in children and teens in this country. It has been that way for communities that we love for a very long time, and it is about time that we get everyone on board to do something about it.

And yet our children grow up practicing active shooter drills and lockdowns because adults in this country have failed for decades to confront this crisis with the urgency that it demands.

This is absolutely unacceptable, and you know I'm absolutely sick of it. California has chosen a different path. Thank goodness. We are in California. Because of decades of leadership and action in this state, our state has one of the lowest gun death rates in the nation.

But our work here is far from finished. More than 3,000 Californians still lose their lives to gun violence each year. Thousands of families still receive that phone call that changes everything. Just yesterday, another family got the call after a graduation ceremony where four children were shot. A day that should have been full of celebration and joy, and instead a family is mourning the loss of their child.

We're talking about Fairfield. Just up the road. Another family losing a child to gun violence at a graduation. As co chair of the Legislators Gun Violence Prevention Working Group, I believe we have a responsibility to keep pushing forward. Earlier this year, the working group introduced nine priority bills that will strengthen California's gun safety laws.

Hold bad actors accountable, and save lives. I ask that every member of this body help us get those bills to the governor's desk. This morning, I stood on the capital steps alongside survivors, advocates, community leaders, and several of my colleagues that are dedicated to ending this preventable crisis. Their message was simple. This violence is not inevitable.

We know that it's preventable. We know that good laws save lives. The gun lobby wants America to believe that nothing can be done. But California has proven otherwise. Colleagues, I don't know how many times I can say this, but we owe it to every victim, every survivor, and every family that has been forever changed by gun violence to keep going, to keep pushing, to keep demanding communities that are safe from gun violence.

It is preventable and we must act. And so therefore, I respectfully ask for your aye vote on ACR 191.

Thank you. Assembly Member Stefani. Assembly Member Gipson, you are recognized.

Thank you very much, Mr. peaker and members. I also rise to support ACR 191 and thank my colleague from San Francisco for bringing this ACR before us. Wanna also thank the her leadership and also for being a part of the gun violence prevention work group that was started with other members on this floor. You will I wanna call to your attention those who are wearing orange, thank them for their leadership.

I also wanna thank moms demand action, student demand actions, every town, and a whole host of resilient fighters who've been fighting this fight for a long time, especially since I've been elected since 2014, who's been elevating their voices in this space.

California certainly has been leading the way in this fight, and thank all the drum majors for justice, for standing up for the least of these, the left out, and those who've been fighting in this fight. As a long life resident of my district in the heart of South Los Angeles, I have witnessed far too many senseless act of gun violence. I have seen too many spouses left widows, too many mothers left without their children.

And oftentimes, these tragedies occurred because guns are too easily accessible, and too many too many opportunities to prevent violence are missed. We all have a responsibility to do better.

We must treat every act of gun violence as a public safety crisis, and at the epidemic that it is, not only in California, but across this country. Let us work towards a shared goal to end gun violence, and we can start now. If you have not began to work in this fashion, it's never too late to work towards getting to zero gun violence in our community in the state of California. And let us keep working towards a California.

Can you imagine if California had no gun violence at all?

That you can I can go to a third world country? I can go to a third world country because I have gone to third world countries. And I have gone to third world countries, and I have walked the streets at three and 04:00 in the morning. And not having to fear for guns or fear that I will be shot down by gun violence. Because in those countries, there are no guns.

But when I come home, the story is different. And even in the district in which I represent just this past week before election night, I turned on the TV. I turned on the TV, and a husband or boyfriend murdered his girlfriend or wife, shot her in the head. And at the candlelight vigil at the candlelight vigil, two people lost their lives at the candlelight vigil. And that same song is repeating itself over and over again in California, but it's not just California.

It's repeated all over this country. And my colleague just talked about what took place in Fairfield at a graduation. Those things are preventable, and we have the power, and we can do this. And that's why I introduced a bill called safe storage notification, assembly bill 1943. We can do better and we must do better.

And again, I wanna thank everyone and ask everyone to please support ACR 191. It's the right thing to do. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Assembly Member Gipson. Assemblymember Wilson, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise in support of ACR 191, and I thank my colleague from San Francisco for introducing this resolution as well as for her leadership in this space. She did that before she got here, and then she immediately catapulted to the top as one of the top voices in this along with my colleague from Southern California.

I rise today as the member from the district that included the city of Fairfield, where last night, as was noted in previous speeches, there was a tragic shooting. Sam Yero High School, which is our continuation high school.

This is a high school where students have had some challenges or difficulties in having to attend this high school with the hope to graduate. And at the end of that celebration, within five minutes of them being dismissed and being called graduates, shots rang out. And four people were shoot were shot, including 11 year old child. Only one person shot was over the age of 18, the 20 year old, and one of them died and the other ones are in critical condition.

And so it's a reminder that the work is not done.

And that's why resolutions like this are important as a reminder that the work is not done. At a time when there should be celebration now, there is sorrow. I think of the student of the month and who was the commencement speaker, Tommy Mufi, he said that he didn't know what the future held for his, you know, graduates, but he knew that they would make the school proud, and they would do great things. And that is still true.

That even in the midst of sorrow, that is still true.

And when I look at my colleagues who are wearing orange today, it reminds me of what I was reminded after this tragic incident. And so I'll read the quote that I that I gave in my comments, but I think it is important for here today because I look at the color of orange when it comes to ending gun violence as the color of hope.

And, the preacher, c h Burgeon said, hope itself is like a star, not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. May we recognize the lives of every single person who has been struck down by gun violence, all the families that have been impacted, and that we in this body lend hope with the work that we do. With that, I ask for my colleagues to, give a strong eye to ACR 191.

Thank you. Assembly member Wilson. Assembly member Quirk-Silva, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. I also rise in strong support of ACR 191. And ladies and gentlemen, we absolutely wish that we didn't have to rise and support the resolution like this. That we didn't have to come to the floor wearing orange, for awareness related to gun violence gun violence. Places, churches, synagogues, playgrounds, restaurants, concerts, birthday parties, schools, high schools, college campuses, elementary schools, graduations, homes, neighborhoods, everywhere is where we have seen gun violence take place, not only in California, but across the country.

On the average, a hundred and thirty people a day die by gun violence in The United States. And what this resolution does is it asks us to not only realize those that we have lost, but hope for, less violence in the future. And how do we achieve that? By education, by making sure there's good storage laws, by making sure there's training for guns.

But sadly, even with that, we've also asked our young generations to endure active duty training or active duty drills on campus as young as five year olds, going to school and having to we used to do duck and cover for earthquake, and now we're doing active drills at our school campuses.

So this tells us we have much more work ahead. And with that work, it always starts with awareness. I wanna thank all of the people who have been working on this working group and have brought forward legislation over the decade that I've been here, to bring forward sensible gun laws. With that, I ask for your support of ACR ACR 191.

Thank you, Assemblymember Quirk-Silva. Assemblymember Bonta, you are recognized.

Thank you, mister speaker. Members, I rise today in strong support of ACR 191 and wanna thank our colleague from San Francisco for being such a champion of ensuring that our people are safe. I rise today on behalf of the beautiful people of Oakland, Alameda, and Emeryville in strong support. June 5 is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. We wear orange.

We remember those we've lost. This is an issue that is painfully close to my district. Just this year, we have lost Farhad Farsi, Derek Hubbard, Ethanay Morton, Leticia Tish Bobo, Marquise Keith Martin, Matthew Pierce, Jimmy Jimbo Mullins, Miguel Ramirez Rivera, Edward Williams, Tariq Roddy Figueroa. These are teachers, fathers, loved ones, friends, pillars of our community who have been lost.

And all too often these stories boil down to ghost guns, guns not safely stored, and illegally modified, fully automated pistol, guns in the hands of people who should have never had them in the first place.

I've gone to too many funerals, too many candlelight vigils. Our youth have had to walk out of class too many times begging for safety to stop seeing their peers dying. It is time this country treats gun violence as what it is, a public health crisis, not a talking point, a crisis. The human cost, the cost to our humanity is far too great. And if that doesn't move us, perhaps for some, an economic argument might move some.

The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform calculated that a single fatal shooting in Oakland cost tax papers taxpayers over $3,000,000 from the cost associated with crime scenes, hospitals, courts, incarceration, and lost revenue. In my district alone, along with the human life lost, gun violence cost nearly $1,000,000,000 a year. That is the price of inaction as federal legislation and it and people who refuse to act block common sense reform. But I wanna highlight these results we are seeing from my district's local action.

Incredibly proud to have ensured that we have the existence and the creation of the office of gun violence prevention within the Department of Justice.

And just this year, it was announced California has achieved its lowest rates of firearm death, firearm suicide, and firearm homicide on record, driven in pipe by historic investments in gun violence prevention strategies. Oakland's ended its 2021 in 2025 ended the year with 67 homicides, the lowest in twenty five years. The ceasefire program is working. Our violence prevention programs are working. Community investment is working.

Groups like Youth Alive, East Bay Asian Youth Center, and Urban Peace Movement, they are saving lives right now. And even as the Trump administration is cutting $811,000,000 in federal funding for violence prevention programs nationwide, including millions from Oakland organizations doing this work every single day, we are going to still fight for progress. Progress is not permission to stop, and orange is not just a color, it's a commitment. A commitment to save lives. The best time to do something was yesterday, was in 2032 after Sandy Hook.

In 2024, when in my district, instead of graduation, we had bullets flying. But I'll take today. I urge an aye vote. Thank you.

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

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members. I wanna thank the member from San Francisco. I know she's been involved in this movement before it was really a movement from the beginning. And this is a a close issue in our community as well, where we had a school shooting at Saugus High School in November 2019, and two children were killed, Gracie and Dominic. And and one of them one one survivor named Mia Mia Treda, Her friend was Dominic.

And she turned that pain and trauma into action and became very involved in students demand action. And I think a lot of us who have kids, the first time that our our kid does an active shooter drill, we realize how terrible the current state of things are. It's not something that I grew up with. It doesn't need to be normalized. And yet my child hasn't known anything different through their whole school experience, but doing active shooter drills.

Mia became an incredible voice in our community and nationally. She went to the White House. She has told her story and the story of Dominic. She actually at her high school graduation, had an empty chair there where Dominic should have been.

But now it's not just active shooters, drills, and it's not these lives that are being touched over and over and hurt by gun violence, but now it's it's multiple experiences. Mia went to college at Brown University where she experienced a second school shooting. So now we're having kids who have not just experienced one, but two in their lifetimes. This is embarrassing. It's shameful.

It's harmful. Other countries don't experience this. I hear talk of mental health. Other countries have a mental health crisis happening. They don't have school shootings.

They are not going in and killing their kids. And California has done so much on gun safety to protect our communities, but we do not have closed borders. We cannot protect what's happening around us, and this needs to be done at a national level.

And so I'm here to urge not only a support of ACR 191, but also for us to do everything that we can do to also push at the federal level for change to truly happen because this doesn't have to be normal. This doesn't have to be the reality of our kids, our babies.

And we can do something about it. And we can influence the people federally who can do something about it. Thank you.

Thank you. Assemblymember Schiavo. Doctor Sharp-Collins, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I honestly was not prepared to speak today. But listening to my colleagues, I found it very important that I did share a story. First of all, let me let you know I am rising a strong support of ACR 191. And thank you to my colleague from San Francisco for bringing forth this this ACR.

I represent Southeast San Diego, which is a part of the 79th District. And as a member of the Southeast San Diego community, I know exactly what it's like to wake up, walk outside, and be nervous about being able to come back home. I grew up in a time where gangs were really rampant, hardcore, late eighties, early nineties, moving into the February.

And what I can say is I know what I'm telling you, I know what it's like to be at a high school campus, but campuses were open to go to lunch and not know if I'm gonna come back from the Taco shop that was across the street because it was just a drive by. Walking outside of my campus to even prepare to go to lunch and have to lay on the floor because there's now a drive by.

My own brother's graduation party in 1994 at my home, we lost the life of Willie James Jones. My street is now named after Willie James Jones. It's now Willie James Jones Avenue. No one should have to visit a site where a person was shot. No one should have to sit here and go to the park every time for to to remember someone else.

It was very hard for me and my family to write our address once our street name was changed from Ozark because it's a constant reminder of what happened at my brother's graduation party. It hurts. That pain stays with you. It impacts you. It impacts your community.

It's not just Willie James Jones. I have a a few cousins. One cousin just graduated, standing outside, drive by. Wasn't even two days after graduation. Another one of my cousins was just at a house party in the summer.

She was standing outside. She's no longer with us either. I'm sharing my stories with you because I carry this with me in every piece of policy that I push forward as well. I'm constantly reminded of what it what it means to live, survive, and thrive, not only in the state of California, but what it is like to really live in where I live, the 79th District. Everyone's district is not peaches and cream.

It's not roses. That pain hurts. No family should have to continue to do GoFundMe's or whichever the case it may be to help support a loved one. No child should be without a father, should be without a mother, should be without a sibling, should be without their best friend. Moody Jones was one of my brother's best friends.

To this day, my brother will not have a party for his own children at a house party because of that. These things stick with you. As my colleagues have said, this is a crisis. And knowing that it's a crisis, I do have a quote from Jennifer Hines when she said, we can decide we're no longer willing to accept the violence. We can turn our pain into action.

What you decide to do today can save a life. Maybe it would be your child's or maybe it would be your own. Taking a position on this resolution today is exactly that. This is action. If you do not feel my pain, look around the room of those that are wearing orange.

Think about your friends, family members, community members. Look up in the gallery and do what you can to understand what their experiences is. This is the day of action. Take a position. Let's continue to do what we can to make a change in the state of California.

Because I tell you now, my life has been forever impacted by the family members and friends that I have lost just from being who they are and growing up in a community. It hurts, and it's the pain that I don't wish on anyone else. Thank you for allowing me to share my story, and I strongly ask for an aye vote on ACR 191.

Thank you, doctor Sharp-Collins. Assemblymember Soria, you are recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker and Members. I wasn't also gonna rise this morning, but I feel compelled. I even wore orange for some odd reason. I had not checked the calendar, to be very honest. But I feel compelled to share my personal story connected to gun violence.

And so I stand today in strong support of ACR 195, and do wanna thank my colleague from San Francisco for being a voice and a champion on this issue. And so the story is, about twenty one years ago, I was a senior at Cal. And actually, I remember getting a phone call. I I think it was around 1AM. And it was around graduation time.

I get a phone call from my little sister, and she calls me and tells me my brother has been shot. And so you can imagine, I'm it's in the middle of the night, and I received this call frantically, three hours away. And what did I do? I got in the car and start started driving to Lindsay where I grew up, and that's where the incident had happened. So for me, this is this issue is very personal.

Obviously, my brother survived, was shot three times, and and survived. And so I'm grateful, that even though he we will have been impacted by gun violence, you know, we've been able to to see my brother flourish. He ended up going to Cal. And now he's back home and is serving the community council member in the city of Lindsay. And so today, I lift up his story.

Joe Soria, who has been here, you guys have heard me introduce him. But we hardly share the story because it is painful. It is hard to talk about the trauma that families experience when you're impacted by gun violence. Fast forward, I also feel grateful that I had the opportunity to serve in the city council. And in in 2020, when I was a council member, we were able to approve, a first time investment to the advanced peace program.

I don't know if you guys have heard about this program, but that program actually started in Richmond, California, to again try to attempt to reduce gun violence and and gang prevention in communities. And so, you know, six years later, this program still continues in the city of Fresno, but also lost funding this past year because the Trump administration cut valuable programs, and investments that would help gun gun violence reduction in communities like mine.

And so I rise today because I believe that it's important to note that gun violence isn't just happening in big urban communities. The violence that we saw my my brother experienced was in a small rural town as well. And so today, I just wanted to rise to say that I'm in strong support and that I hope this issue can be a bipartisan issue where we strive for common sense gun laws, but also ensure that we are passing policies that will protect victims and survivors.

And one day, I will write more about the story because even though I share a little bit about it, there's much more that happened. And so I just wanna thank, the author again for, being a champion on this issue. And today, I sound proudly, to support ACR 191, and I ask for all of your guys' support.

Thank you. Assemblymember Soria. Seeing and hearing no further debate, Assemblymember Stefani, do you wish to close?

Yes. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I wanna thank my colleagues from Carson, Susan City, Fullerton, Oakland, Santa Clarita, San Diego, and Merced for speaking so eloquently and passionately on this subject. I didn't think I was gonna get emotional. I'm trying not to, but this is something that I've been advocating for for 27 years now.

And it's such an honor and privilege to be standing on this beautiful green carpet as an Assembly Member, getting to present this ACR 191. Twenty seven years ago, after calling mine, when I saw high school students being pulled from the second story window of a library all bloodied, you know, I thought, oh my gosh, this is never gonna continue. Of course, America's gonna wake up and prevent this from happening.

And instead, as I've said on this floor before, it got worse and worse and worse. And my shirt today is from 2016.

At that time, I was the county clerk in San Francisco, but I've been involved with Moms Demand Action We started that obviously after Sandy Hook in December 2012. And again, we all thought, of course we're gonna do something about the gun violence prevention problem. The shock and horror of that day just permeated throughout this country and it woke up a lot of people. But yet we couldn't even get a national background check bill in Congress.

And so I say to my colleagues to all of you, I know I know all of you.

I Democrats, Republicans, I know we all care about our community's safety. I know we do. There is common ground here. And I ask you and I beg of you to join to join the conversation and join solutions so that we could prevent gun violence. It is preventable.

We should not have the roadblocks in place. We should not let the gun lobby dictate the conversation. There are ways to protect an individual right to gun ownership under the Heller decision, while at the same time keeping our community safe. And I just beg of you on the other side that sometimes where the roadblocks are to be honest, to please join us, to please do everything in your power. Don't become numb to this situation.

Please don't let these stories just wash over you. Absorb them. Think about the pain victims in every single one of our communities. Please don't stop thinking about how we solve the situation. I promise you it's preventable.

We show that every day in California with our strong gun laws. Please support ACR 171. And after that, do everything you can to break through the gun lobby's hold on the politicians that would get in the way. I ask for a Aye vote on ACR 191.

Assemblymember, do you wish for the first role to be open for co authors?

Yes. I do. Thank you.

Members the Assembly Members ask for co authors. Clerk will open the role. All members vote who desire to vote. This is for co authors. All members vote who desire to vote.

All Members vote who desire to vote. Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. There are 55 co authors added. Without objection, we'll take a voice vote on the resolution. All those in favor, say Aye.

All those opposed, no. The Ayes have it. The resolution is adopted. Assemblymember Stefani, you are recognized for your guest introduction.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So joining us in the gallery are those amazing volunteers and activists and survivors with Monster Man Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for Gun Safety and Students Demand Action. And I just want to thank them for the years and years and years of work. Today, they're in their orange shirts, but a lot of times you'll see them in committee in their red shirts, which is our signature red shirts that we wear. I can't thank you enough.

Just at the press conference we had earlier this morning, a woman came up to us. Her name was Jen, and she just lost her cousin Annie to domestic violence in Lake County. Her husband murdered her. And she this is the first time she came to an event. And unfortunately, that's how people get pulled into our movement a lot of times is by absolute tragedy.

And I can't thank the survivors enough for turning that pain. I see you, Deborah, up there who talked about losing her son. I thank you so much for being here and using your pain to advocate for the rest of us. So thank you so much. We welcome you.

Keep going. Keep doing everything you can because we can and I have the hope that we are going to turn this around for future generations. Thank you so much and welcome to the California State Assembly.

Members, we have some guest introductions we're gonna take care of right now. We're gonna begin with Assembly Member Berman. Assembly Member Berman, you are recognized for your guest introductions.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I rise on a little bit more celebratory of a of an item. Every year, of the more than 800,000 student athletes across the state, the California Interscholastic Federation, otherwise known as CIF, recognizes two students out of 800,000 that excel in athletics, academics, and are active participants in their communities.

Today, I'm honored to introduce my constituent, Ryan Liu, one of CIF's 2026 Scholar Athletes of the Year. Ryan is a recent graduate of Burlingame High School where he was captain of both the cross country and track and field teams and a CIF state championship qualifier.

In addition to his outstanding performance in athletics and in the classroom, earning a 4.0 unweighted GPA, Ryan has demonstrated a commitment to supporting and improving his community. And like many of us, Ryan got his start interning for one of his local elected officials.

One that a lot of us know, former Speaker Pro Tem Kevin Mullin, once Kevin got elected to Congress. Ryan also created a current events club at his high... Ryan did a dozen things. I'm just picking out a few of them. But one was creating a current events club at his high school, which I love.

As you all know, I work a lot on media literacy and making sure that everybody, but especially our young people, know how to get facts about what's happening in the world and check those facts. I love the idea of a current events club to make sure that all of his peers knew what was happening and had a space to have conversations about those issues.

And he also, I was struck by his statement that he submitted to CIF, where he talked about interning for the Burlingame mayor and how, as a part of that, he went canvassing. He went knocking on doors, something that all of us have done in our efforts to get elected to the office.

And how he met so many people from different walks of life, and so many people who were having their own unique individual maybe challenges or struggles in the community. And he said that these... Permission to read, Mr. Speaker.

Without objection.

Thank you. That these interactions taught me that trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship aren't abstract ideals. They're daily choices in how he engages with his community, building connections that that make his hometown stronger for everyone.

Which I think is something that we all could, you know, internalize and learn from and remind ourselves of in the work that we do. So this fall, Ryan will be attending the University of Pennsylvania, where he will continue that success. I have no doubt. Please join me in welcoming Ryan and his family to the California State Assembly and congratulating Ryan on this amazing accomplishment.

Let's hold our applause just a moment, Members. We're also gonna hear from Assembly Member Papan to also have a few words about this guest introduction.

I can't let the Member from Palo Alto take full credit here. So I'm honored to welcome Ryan and his family today, who happens to go to high school in my district, and take a little claim here. But I do wanna say, and to the, my colleague from Palo Alto, what a wonderful tribute. Because you not only hit on Ryan's accomplishments, but also that he's a whole human being.

And just so you know, colleagues, there's only two students in the entire state that get this award. So it is tremendously prestigious. But I wanna thank you for being a whole human being and contributing to our community. Democracy is not a spectator sport. And I'm enormously grateful and proud that you hail from our area. And I wish you nothing but the best, Ryan. Thank you for being here, and good luck.

Okay. Thank you, Members. We have one more guest introduction. Thank you, folks. Okay. Members, we have one final guest introduction. Assembly Member Muratsuchi, you are recognized for your guest introduction.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. So as our colleagues just indicated, there are not one but two CIF California Scholar Athletes of the Year. And so it is my honor to present Mona Sugawara on her selection as the 2026 CIF Scholar Athlete of the Year also.

So I'm just looking at her bio and, you know, it just blows my mind how much Mona is able to squeeze out of each and every day, each and every of her school year. First of all, she's a four sport athlete at West High School in Torrance.

I didn't even know that that's possible to be a four sport athlete at the varsity level, mind you. Tennis, water polo, swimming, and badminton. But not only that, she, of course, is an amazing student. She has, of course, a 4.0 grade point average, 15 AP classes. Oh my gosh. As a parent of a high school teenager, I didn't even know that that's possible. 15 AP courses.

And not to limit it to her amazing athletic and academic achievements, but she also does amazing work with the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund, where she received the Congressional Service Award Gold Certificate, the highest recognition for young Americans presented by the United States Congress. Please join me in congratulating and welcoming to the State Assembly Mona Sugawara, the CIF Scholar Athlete of the Year.

Okay. Members, can I have your attention, please? Decorum, please? We are winding down for the day. We just have a little bit more business, and the first thing I'd like you to do is direct your attention over to first base, to your left, to our good friend, Dr. LaShae Sharp-Collins. I spy a tiara on your head.

It is her birthday tomorrow. Let's wish her a happy birthday. We love you, Dr. Sharp-Collins, so much. Okay. Members, we're now gonna move on to the second day consent calendar. We will first take up resolutions on the consent calendar for the purpose of adding co-authors. Clerk will read the resolutions on the consent calendar.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution 206 by Assembly Member Stefani, relative to Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Awareness Month, and Assembly Concurrent Resolution 211 by Assembly Member Celeste Rodriguez, relative to Zoot Suit Riots.

Clerk will now open the roll to allow any Member to add on as a co-author to the resolutions. All Members vote who desire to vote. Members, this is for co-authors. All Members vote who desire to vote. All Members vote who desire to vote.

Clerk will close the roll, tally the votes. There are 52 co-authors added. Moving on to a vote on the consent calendar, that's file items 27 through 34. Does any Member wish to remove an item from the consent calendar? Seeing and hearing none. Hearing none. The Clerk will read the second day consent calendar.

Assembly Concurrent Resolution 206 by Assembly Member Stefani, relative to Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Awareness Month.

Clerk will open the roll on the consent calendar. 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 60, noes zero. Consent calendar is adopted. Clerk will read the remaining items on the consent calendar.

[Consent Calendar]

Ayes 60, noes zero. Members, we're moving on to adjournments in memory. The quorum call is lifted. Let's give our respectful attention to those who are granted prior permission to speak on their adjournment in memory. Thank you, Members.

Can we take conversations off the floor? Quorum call is lifted. Thank you. Thank you, Members. Let's take conversations off the floor. The quorum call is lifted. Assembly Member Muratsuchi, you are recognized for your adjournment in memory.

Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I rise to adjourn in memory of Michael George Savidan. Michael or Mike dedicated his life to serving his community and his country. He served in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for 34 years, retiring with the rank of commander. He also served in the United States Marine Corps Reserves.

Mike loved his community of Lomita. The friendly little city, as we call it, where he served as mayor and city council member of Lomita. He also spent many years as a volunteer coach for the Lomita Little League. A sports fanatic, Mike could often be found on the golf course or rooting for his favorite Dodgers and the USC Trojans with his loving family by his side.

Mike recently passed away at the age of 80. He is survived by his beloved wife of 59 years, Mary, his son, Dr. Michael A. Savidan, daughter-in-law, Gretchen, and his grandchildren, Cole and Chloe. We miss Mike. I ask that the Assembly adjourn in his memory.

Thank you, Assembly Member Muratsuchi. Members, please bring the names to the desk to be printed in the journal. All requests to adjourn in memory will be deemed read and printed in the journal. Moving on to announcements. Session schedule is as follows. Friday, June 5, no floor session, no check-in session. Monday, June 8, floor session at 1pm.

All other remaining items will be passed and retained. All motion shall be continued. Seeing and hearing no further business, I'm ready to entertain a motion to adjourn. Assembly Member Solache moves, and Ms. Macedo seconds that this house stands adjourned until Monday, June 8 at 1pm. Quorum call is lifted, and we are adjourned.