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(From Press Release) – Assembly Joint Resolution 15, a bill expressing the support of the California State Legislature to continue protecting national monuments, passed out of the State Assembly on a  bipartisan vote of 56-16. The measure was introduced by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D – Winters) last week in response to the announcement of a federal review of national monuments, and was originally coauthored by Assemblymember Jim Wood (D – Santa Rosa), and Senators Bill Dodd (D – Napa) and Mike McGuire (D – Healdsburg).

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry on Monday honored Judge David Rosenberg at the California State Assembly annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony.

Judge Rosenberg is the son of Holocaust survivors Fay and Harry Rosenberg.

“It was a privilege to have Judge Rosenberg at the Capitol to honor him and his parents,” said Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), whose district includes Lake County.

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – A bill to create a blue ribbon committee to study Clear Lake and develop a plan to protect and improve its conditions passed unanimously out of the Assembly’s Natural Resources Committee this week.

Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), who represents Lake County in the Assembly, introduced AB 707.

The bill establishes a blue ribbon committee for the study of potential threats to Clear Lake water quality and will develop and monitor any necessary plan to assure the lake’s health.

SACRAMENTO — For the third year running, a representative of Napa will again lead efforts in the state Assembly to study issues affecting the California wine industry.

With her appointment this month as chair of the Assembly Select Committee on Wine, Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, will be at the forefront of identifying and examining issues that affect the wine industry in Napa and the state. In her new role, Aguiar-Curry succeeds former 4th District Assemblymember and current state Senator Bill Dodd, D-Napa, the committee’s previous chair.

Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, and several of her Assembly colleagues have introduced ACA 4, a constitutional amendment that would give local governments flexibility in funding infrastructure and affordable housing projects.

This bill is targeted to help the urgent needs of local communities, to increase the supply of affordable housing and to address public infrastructure challenges.

SACRAMENTO — Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters) announced Thursday that she has joined nearly 900 state lawmakers from across California and around the country in signing an amicus brief in support of women’s right to make their own reproductive health decisions in Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization.

Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters) announced that AB 156, the Broadband Budget Bill, passed the Assembly with a 78-0, bipartisan vote. The bill later passed the State Senate by 39-0 margin.

Aguiar-Curry was a member of the Assembly negotiating team that keyed the deal with Governor Newsom and the Senate on the package. AB 156 revolutionizes the State’s broadband deployment program under the California Advanced Services Fund Program and provides new and increased funding to bring California into the technological 21st Century.

SACRAMENTO — Assembly Bill 32, authored by Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, and Assemblyman Robert Rivas, D-Hollister, to expand virtual telehealth services,  passed its first significant hurdle on Tuesday receiving a bipartisan, 13-0 vote in the Assembly Health Committee.

Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry represents California’s 4th Assembly District, which includes all or parts of Napa, Lake, Yolo, Sonoma, Colusa and Solano counties. Aguiar-Curry is on the Committee of Health.  She is also chair of the Local Government Committee. In this Q&A, Aguiar-Curry discusses rural health care, COVID-19, the 2021 session, and bridging the digital divide.

The ongoing COVID pandemic has laid bare the massive gaps in internet connectivity at sufficient speeds for too many Californians. As more families have struggled to conduct distance learning, virtual work, access telehealth services and safeguard small business participation in the virtual marketplace, the need to connect the State at sufficient speeds with adaptable technology has reached crisis proportion.