Legislative Update for Final 3 Days of the 2022 Session Actions you can take: Please Donate to LC here: https://www.livablecalifornia.org/donate/ Call your Senator’s office TODAY. Leave a message asking them to vote no on the floor on these two bills: AB 2011, AB 2097 Find your Senator’s Contact information here. If you have time
Appropriations Suspense Results and Actions to Take Assembly Appropriations Committee Do Pass or Do Pass as Amended – 244 (75.5%) Held – 79 (24.5%) Total – 323 See the full Assembly results list here Senate Appropriations Committee Do Pass or Do Pass as Amended – 368 (75%) Held – 123 (25%) Total – 491 See
Upcoming Dates and Events of Interest: Please contribute to help us continue to bring you timely updates on subjects of interest. Become a sustaining member with a modest monthly donation. Aug 10 – 6 PM - Our Neighborhood Voices Initiative Informational Zoom Meeting Catalysts is having a series of four town halls: Aug 10
Legislative Candidates for November 2022 Election On November 8th we will elect many new California Assembly Members and Senators. Here is a listing of the candidates:
Legislative Update for Final Month of 2022 Session The legislature will return from summer recess Aug 1st. The Appropriations committees will immediately take up over 840 bills in the first week - 466 measures set for the August 1 hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee and 376 measures set for the August 3 hearing
Meet With Your Legislator Now During the Summer Break The legislature is on recess until Aug 1. This is the perfect time to set up meetings with your Assemblymember and your Senator, since they will be back in your district You can get contact information for your two legislators here. Below are some suggestions
Updates on two major bills, AB 2053 and AB 2011 as we go into the legislatures summer recess AB 2053 is Dead – sort of. It failed passage in the Senate Governance and Finance Committee, but could come back this session as a “gut and amend” or next session as an new bill. We
AB 2011 could be the worst bill of 2022 for taking away local control! AB 2011 was a gut and amend that created a massive new bill on April 18th It requires ministerial approval of construction across a broad category of zones – including office, retail, and parking. AB 2011 is a massive state taking
By Housing is a Human Right, March 2022 Corporate YIMBYs have repeatedly tried to frame themselves as housing justice activists, but that’s far from the truth. In fact, a new book titled Selling Off California: The Untold Story reveals that Corporate YIMBYs have deep ties to Big Real Estate and Big Tech, pushing forward their pro-gentrification, trickle-down housing
January 4, 2022 Jovita Mendoza is a first-year elected city council member in the Northern California town of Brentwood. She is one of the five formal proponents of the "Our Neighborhood Voices Initiative" who are working hard to find the donor financing needed to meet the huge cost of gathering more than 1 million