Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D–Winters), is hosting a press conference and rally in support of her bill, ACA 1, at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 27, in Room 317 at the State Capitol.
She will be joined by coauthoring legislators and advocates for local governments, housing, labor, public safety, transportation and conservation.
SACRAMENTO — An Assembly Joint Resolution that advocates universal background checks for people wanting to buy firearms is going before the full Assembly on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, the Resolution, sponsored by Winters-area Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, passed out of the Assembly Public Safety Committee with a bipartisan, 7-1 vote.
Passing AJR 4 will put California’s Legislature on record demanding U.S. Congressional passage of and a Presidential signature on House Resolution 8, by Congressman Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, the “Bipartisan Background Checks Act.”
SACRAMENTO – Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters) introduced Assembly Bill 958 on Thursday, to provide local, organic food to children in schools. School meals with organic foods offer benefits for health, the environment, and California’s economy by increasing access to organic food for low-income children, decreasing pesticide exposure, increasing climate resilience, and supporting the organic market for California farmers.
The wine industry scored a small win in Sacramento recently, bringing a handful of post-Prohibition laws up to date in the age of social media.
Signed by Gov. Brown in late September, Assembly Bill 2452, which takes effect in January, will let wineries freely use social media to promote certain events hosted by retailers that plan to feature their wines. The bill was the work of Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, state Sen. Bill Dodd and the Napa Valley Vintners trade group.
LAKEPORT— Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry met with the Lakeport Unified School District governing board Saturday and promised to try and assist them with expediting a budget request for state bond monies to secure $14 million needed for completion of construction of a new pool, tennis court and weight room.
SACRAMENTO – AB 2292, authored by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D – Winters), which expanded our state’s capacity for child care by increasing the reimbursement rates for infant and toddler care, has been fully funded by the budget.
The bill created an inclusive grant program to help pay for new and renovated child care facilities, and establishing a fund to recruit a new generation of educators.
The legislation was a California Legislative Women’s Caucus priority for the year, and the only state budget request the caucus was backing.
SACRAMENTO – More information about California's health care districts will soon be one mouse-click away under AB 2019, authored by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters) and signed into law yesterday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The bill strengthens legislation last year that first established basic website postings and other requirements for these special districts that had sometimes fallen under the radar.
SACRAMENTO – AB 2674, by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), was signed into law on Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The new law will require the Department of Managed Health Care, or DMHC, to annually review complaints filed by providers who believe a health care service plan is engaging in an “unfair payment pattern.”
SACRAMENTO – Assembly Joint Resolution 30, authored by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), was approved by the State Senate this past week.
The resolution urges Congress to reassert its role in approving acts of war in a nuclear first-strike, by passing H.R. 669, 24-8.
H.R. 669, authored by California Representative Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), would prohibit the president from unilaterally authorizing the deployment of nuclear weapons in an offensive attack absent express authorization from Congress.
SACRAMENTO — California Assembly and Senate candidates running in multi-county districts are getting a boost when it comes to the candidate statement.
Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed Assembly Bill 666, which allows candidates to submit the candidate statement form from their home county to all the other counties in the district.
AB 666 was written by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, and co-authored by Sen. Bill Dodd, D-Napa.
