Legislation
2025
Below is a list of my 2025 legislative policy proposals. From housing, to wildfire mitigation, child care affordability, health care access and so much more, it is my honor to put forth these policies to address the challenges facing our state.
Dental Providers: Fee-Based Payments
Adds virtual credit cards to the types of payments that can be used with a dental provider.
Home Care Aides
Requires home care aides to complete a training related to the needs of patients with Alzheimer's and dementia as part of their bi-annual registration renewal.
Planning & Zoning
Provides tribes with an opportunity to contribute to the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) of the local government.
Gravity-Based Energy Storage Well Pilot Program
Establishes a regulatory pathway to transition some idle wells to energy storage in the future.
Employment: Payment of Wages
Strengthens the California Equal Pay Act.
California Environmental Quality Act
Expedites the rebuilding of communities recovering from wildfire-declared emergencies.
Legislative & Gubernatorial Appointments
Boosts transparency for Gubernatorial and Legislative appointments.
Migrant Childcare & Development Programs
Expands access to the Migrant Childcare and Development Program.
Consumers: Financial Protection
Boosts enforcement authority at the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation.
Geologic Hazards: California Geological Survey
Establishes the Department of Conservation as the primary state agency responsible for the investigation of geologic hazards and acknowledges the exacerbating influence of climate change stressors on geologic hazards.
Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Cap and Invest Reauthorization
2024
Below is a list of my 2024 legislative policy proposals. From housing, to wildfire mitigation, child care affordability, health care access and so much more, it is my honor to put forth these policies to address the challenges facing our state.
Voter registration: California New Motor Voter Program
Proposes an update to California's automatic voter registration system to create an "opt out" system as opposed to our current "opt in" model.
California state preschool programs: age of eligibility
Helps childcare providers and families by transitioning providers to a single reimbursement rate for early learning and childcare programs and suspending family fees until an equitable family fee schedule can be established.
Sexual Battery
Protects victims of sexual assault by clarifying that in situations where a perpetrator uses a hand of the victim to touch an intimate part of the perpetrator that they are committing misdemeanor sexual battery.
Medical professionals: course requirements
Requires doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals who provide care for people 65 and older as at least 25% of their practice to take continuing education in geriatrics and dementia care.
Prescribed grazing: local assistance grant program: Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force
Institutionalizes support for ecological grazing as a nature-based wildfire solution by integrating outreach, infrastructure, and local and regional planning within existing wildfire prevention grant programs. The bill would also direct the state’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force to develop a plan to expand the use of ecological grazing near communities.
Gubernatorial appointments: report
Requires the Governor’s Office, on or before January 1, 2025 and annually thereafter, to report the aggregate demographic information of individuals appointed by the Governor. The bill requires the report to be published on the Governor’s website. The bill also requires the Governor’s office to maintain an updated website with information on all state boards and commissions, including vacancies, current membership list, and frequency of meetings.
Voluntary carbon offsets: business regulation
Sets False Advertising regulatory rules for the voluntary carbon offsets market.
Consumer debt: medical debt
Prohibits the reporting of medical debts on consumer credit reports and requires hospitals to maintain a database of lawsuits related to the collection of medical debt.
Pupil instruction: course of study: social sciences: civic engagement
Creates a seal for civic education to promote the importance of being involved in local, state, and federal government.
Fire prevention: prescribed fire: state contracts: maps
Establishes mapping and planning for prescribed burns. It will also cut red tape that prohibits CALFIRE from utilizing prescribed burning in a timely and efficient manner.
State Fire Marshal: fire safety: regulations: lithium-based battery systems: telecommunications infrastructure
Requires the State Fire Marshall to develop regulations that would allow battery power for Broadband Companies to supply 72 hours of backup power to their infrastructure.
County Employees Retirement Law of 1937: county board of retirement
Allows the Ventura County Employees Retirement Association to hire a Chief Technology Officer.
Assessments: advanced placement examinations: fall testing date
Creates more flexibility for the timing of Advance Placement Testing to promote students' success.
Public benefits contracts: phone operator jobs
Promotes the use of human workers, instead of Artificial Intelligence, in call centers that help the public with critical human services at state agencies.
California Prompt Payment Act: nonprofit organizations
Expands the Prompt Payment Act to all nonprofit grants and contracts. It also sets a 5% minimum discrepancy amount and includes penalties paid to nonprofits in the Department of General Services annual report. This bill would define the term “grant” to clearly mean a signed final agreement between any state agency and a nonprofit organization, removing the current eligibility cap.
Product safety: bisphenol
Prohibit a manufacturer, from selling children feeding, sucking, or teething products that contain any form of bisphenol (BP).
Underground injection control: aquifer exemption
Requires a higher level of state review to ensure a comprehensive environmental analysis that provides the local public and vulnerable populations an opportunity to voice concerns on how their drinking water may be affected by oil and gas production.
California Ocean Science Trust: agreements
Allows the Ocean Science Trust to Contract with other state agencies to conduct research.
Dental providers: fee-based payments
Limits the use of virtual credit cards as payment for dental procedures by insurance companies.
Gravity-Based Energy Storage Well Pilot Program
Authorizes CalGem to regulate idle wells transitioning into gravity based energy storage wells.
2023
Below is a list of my 2023 legislative policy proposals. From housing, to wildfire mitigation, child care affordability, health care access and so much more, it is my honor to put forth these policies to address the challenges facing our state.
Department of Industrial Relations: domestic violence prevention
Creates a domestic violence awareness poster with the phone number of the National Domestic Violence Hotline for employers to put up in their workplaces, on a voluntary basis.
Gubernatorial appointments: report
Requires an annual report on data of individuals appointed by the Governor to allow us to measure and ensure the state's Boards and Commissions are representative of the state.
Health care coverage: cancer treatment
Makes permanent an existing law that prohibits a health plan or health insurer from requiring more than $250 per month in out-of-pocket costs for a 30-day supply of an oral anticancer medication.
Biomarker Testing
Requires a health plan and health insurance policy (including Medi-Cal) to provide coverage for biomarker testing.
Digital financial asset transaction kiosks
Caps the fees that are charged at Crypto ATMs placed disproportionately in low-income communities.
Prescribed grazing: local assistance grant program: Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force
Expands the use of ecological grazing as a nature-based wildfire solution and directs the state’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force to develop a plan to expand the use of ecological grazing near communities.
Sexual Battery
Expands the definition of a misdemeanor sexual battery to include actions taken by the perpetrator to allow for unwanted sexual contact forced upon the victim.
California Prompt Payment Act: nonprofit organizations
Expands the Prompt Payment Act to all nonprofit grants and contracts and sets a 5% minimum discrepancy amount and includes penalties paid to nonprofits in DGS' annual report. This bill would define the term “grant” to clearly mean a signed final agreement between any state agency and a nonprofit organization, removing the current eligibility cap.
Medical professionals: course requirements
Creates the California Alzheimer’s Diagnostic Hub and provides a comprehensive approach to the diagnosis, treatment, and education of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias across the state.
Laborforce housing: Short-Term Rental Tax Law
The Laborforce Housing Fund creates a state program to finance publicly owned housing that is built sustainably with union labor and addresses our housing crisis by developing homes for the benefit of all Californians.
Income taxes: credit: childcare
Proposes to reestablish the childcare tax credit for businesses who provided childcare to their employees.
California state preschool programs: age of eligibility
Transitions our child care reimbursement model to a single reimbursement rate for early learning and childcare programs and suspends family fees until an equitable family fee schedule can be established.
Food safety: food handlers
This bill requires employers to pay for employee food handler safety training, the time required to take the training course, and makes public all accredited food handler training providers and the cost of their trainings on the CDPH website.
Voluntary carbon offsets: business regulation
Ensures that voluntary carbon offsets are additional and permanent to advance our greenhouse gas goals.
Health care coverage: endometriosis
Removes prior authorization or other utilization review for laparoscopic surgery for the diagnosis of endometriosis.
Human trafficking: civil actions
Protects human trafficking survivors who have been coerced into taking on debt without their consent and prohibits creditors and debt collectors from collecting this debt.
Voter registration: California New Motor Voter Program
Updates California's automatic voter registration (AVR) system to create an "opt out" system that would register more eligible voters.
Local government: public broadband services
Adds metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and regional transportation planning agencies (RTPAs) to the definition of “local agencies” that may apply for Local Agency Technical Assistance (LATA) grants funded through SB 156 (Chapter 112, Statutes of 2021)
Plastic gift cards: prohibition
This bill would ban the sale of plastic gift cards.
Gravity-Based Energy Storage Well Pilot Program
Authorizes CalGem to regulate idle wells transitioning into gravity based energy storage wells.
2022
Below is a list of my 2022 legislative policy proposals. From housing, to wildfire mitigation, child care affordability, health care access and so much more, it is my honor to put forth these policies to address the challenges facing our state.
Oil and gas: hazardous and idle-deserted wells and production facilities: expenditure limitations: updated reports
Allows CalGEM to collect and spend up to $5 million per year to plug abandoned and deserted oil wells. SB 47 ensures taxpayers don't bear the brunt of plugging abandoned and deserted oil wells.
Medi-Cal: annual cognitive health assessment
Creates an innovative first in the nation program to give Medi-Cal providers training, validated assessment tools, and payment incentives for conducting cognitive health assessments to achieve the statewide goal of improved Alzheimer's detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer's.
Health insurance: large group health insurance
Requires large group health insurance policies to cover medically necessary basic health care services, such as women's reproductive services and organ transplants. It also prohibits discrimination in large group health insurance design and marketing.
Code enforcement officers: safety standards
Requires each local jurisdiction that employs Code Enforcement Officers to develop safety standards based on their work and the conditions they face to protect officers that risk their safety and health-protecting our communities.
Health care coverage: deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses
Helps families track their medical coverage expenses by requiring health plans and insurers to share how much a consumer has paid towards their deductible and maximum out-of-pocket costs.
Qualifying accounts for direct deposit of publicly administered funds
Prevents nonbank prepaid card companies from evading California and federal laws by relabeling their "prepaid cards" as "debit cards" in order to charge overdraft fees on consumers receiving public assistance including unemployment (EDD) and disability benefits. It protects Californians from overdraft fees that place low-income consumers in a vulnerable position.
Biomarker Testing
Improves access to genetic biomarker testing in patients with advanced or metastatic stage 3 and 4 cancer by prohibiting a healthcare plan, insurance policy, and Medi-Cal from using prior authorization.
California Student Opportunity and Access Program
Modernizes the California Student Opportunity and Access Program (Cal-SOAP), which works with underserved students pursuing higher education at over 400 middle and high school sites. It improves the mission of Cal-SOAP to improve financial aid services and outreach to students of historically underserved backgrounds.
Solar energy system improvements: consumer protection
Provides more consumer protections for solar customers by ensuring solar contracts have the same protections as general home improvement contracts. It also promotes more transparency in the sales of solar systems.