June 17 Action Items

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.
ACA 5 – Support by calling the Senate Labor Committee at (916) 651-1556 or email.

ACA 5 (Weber) Opportunity for All: repeals the ban on affirmative action in higher education, employment and contracting
ACA 6 (McCarty) Free the Vote: restores voting rights for people on parole
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)
AB 1950 (Kamlager) Probation Reform: limits probation terms
AB 2054 (Kamlager) CRISES Act: creates an alternative emergency response to the police
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
AB 2342 (McCarty) Parole Reform: limits terms paroles
AB 3070 (Weber) Anti-Discrimination in Jury Selection: addresses racial discrimination in jury selection
AB 3121 (Weber) Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans: creates a task force to study awarding reparations
SB 144 (Mitchell) Debt Free Justice: eliminates the most burdensome fees in the criminal justice system
SB 555 (Mitchell) Phone Justice: limits the cost of phone calls and commissary in jail