Our 2013 priority list included gun safety, Israel/CA trade,  Community-Based Adult Services (CBAS), and Anti-Semitism on campus.

The LIFE Act (Lifesaving Intelligent Firearms Enforcement): Senate Democrats unveiled eight legislative actions to curb gun violence in California which would close loopholes in the regulation, circulation and education relating to firearms and gun ownership. Termed the “LIFE Act,” it includes eight bills all backed by Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg. For more information about the LIFE Act, please click here.

Assembly Bill 518 (Yamada and Blumenfield): Community-Based Adult Services: CBAS is an outpatient service that offers critical health and social services in an integrated manner to Medi-Cal eligible patients who are at risk of placement into nursing homes at much greater expense to the State.  Participants receive skilled nursing care, therapeutic activities, physical therapy, and a range of other services to assist people in avoiding costlier – and usually undesired – out-of-home placements.  A.B. 518 seeks to provide statewide standards that will help provide a more uniform and reliable system of care throughout the State.

Jewish California partnered with former State Assemblymember Bob Blumenfield and former Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg to circulate a letter to the University of California Regents thanking them for their stance against BDS.  Read the letter here.
 
Other bills Jewish California supported include:

AB 978 (Blumenfield): Financial institutions: Iran sanctions
AB 1166 (Blumenfield): International relations: trade and economic development: Israel
AB 156 (Holden): Human trafficking: interception of electronic communications.
AB 694 (Bloom): Admissibility of evidence: victims of human trafficking
SB 327 (Yee): Human trafficking: recall and resentencing
SB 516 (Steinberg): Human trafficking
SB 612 (Leno): Residential tenancy: victims of human trafficking and elder or dependent adult abuse
AB 276 (Hueso): CalFresh eligibility
AB 309 (Mitchell): CalFresh: homeless youth
AB 191 (Bocanegra): CalFresh: categorical eligibility
AB 216 (Stone and Maienschein): High school graduation requirements: pupils in foster care
SB 391 (DeSaulnier): California Homes and Jobs Act of 2013
AB 16 (Perez): Domestic violence: corporal injury
AB 65 (Achadjian and Lowenthal): Sex crimes
SB 400 (Jackson): Employment protections: victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking
AB 263 (Hernández and Roger): Employment: retaliation: immigration-related document practices
SB 118 (Leiu): Unemployment Insurance