June 17 Action Items

1. Call your Senator to tell them why you oppose Assembly Constitutional Amendment 25 unless amended to protect public participation and retain legislative transparency. The amendments we support are:
   1) Remove or Limit Proxy Voting;
   2) Specify Rules for Pro Tempore Appointments in Emergencies;
   3) Eliminate Quorum Reduction​;
   4) Ensure Remote Voting and Proxy Voting Transparency;
   5) Time-Limit Remote Voting and Proxy Voting​.
   Learn More Here.
2. ACA 5 – Support by calling the Senate Labor Committee at (916) 651-1556 or email.

June 17, 2020 Events

1. Emanuel Nine Commemoration and Pledge
2. Learn about World Refugee Day 

RACIAL EQUITY BILLS

1. ACA 5 (Weber) Opportunity for All: repeals the ban on affirmative action in higher education, employment and contracting
2. ACA 6 (McCarty) Free the Vote: restores voting rights for people on parole
3. AB 901 (Gipson) Juveniles: ends the practice of putting youth on probation when they have not committed a crime (yes, that’s a thing we do)
4. AB 1950 (Kamlager) Probation Reform: limits probation terms
5. AB 2054 (Kamlager) CRISES Act: creates an alternative emergency response to the police
6. AB 2147 (Reyes) Conservation Camps – Expungement: creates a process for people who served as firefighters while in prison to expunge their convictions and obtain jobs
7. AB 2342 (McCarty) Parole Reform: limits terms paroles
8. AB 3070 (Weber) Anti-Discrimination in Jury Selection: addresses racial discrimination in jury selection
9. AB 3121 (Weber) Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans: creates a task force to study awarding reparations
10. SB 144 (Mitchell) Debt Free Justice: eliminates the most burdensome fees in the criminal justice system
11. SB 555 (Mitchell) Phone Justice: limits the cost of phone calls and commissary in jail