WEBVTT 00:00:55.889 --> 00:00:57.390 THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON BUDGET 00:00:57.457 --> 00:01:00.193 AND FISCAL REVIEW WILL COME TO 00:01:00.260 --> 00:01:01.594 ORDER. WE'RE HOLDING OUR 00:01:01.661 --> 00:01:04.197 HEARING HERE IN 1021 Þ STREET, 00:01:04.264 --> 00:01:07.734 ROOM 1200. I WOULD ASK ALL 00:01:07.801 --> 00:01:09.836 MEMBERS TO JOIN SENATOR NIELLO 00:01:09.903 --> 00:01:12.772 AND MYSELF SO THAT WE CAN 00:01:12.839 --> 00:01:15.942 ESTABLISH A QUORUM. WE WILL DO 00:01:16.009 --> 00:01:17.877 THAT WHENEVER THE APPROPRIATE 00:01:17.944 --> 00:01:23.616 NUMBER OF PEOPLE ARRIVE. AND 00:01:23.683 --> 00:01:25.518 PUBLIC COMMENT WILL BE HEARD. 00:01:25.585 --> 00:01:27.253 AFTER ALL DISCUSSION ITEMS HAVE 00:01:27.320 --> 00:01:28.922 BEEN PRESENTED, AND I'LL TALK 00:01:28.988 --> 00:01:32.525 ABOUT THAT IN A MOMENT. TODAY 00:01:32.592 --> 00:01:36.596 WE'LL HEAR ASSEMBLY BILL 111, A 00:01:36.663 --> 00:01:39.098 BUDGET BILL JUNIOR THAT AMENDS 00:01:39.165 --> 00:01:42.335 AB 109, THE BUDGET ACT OF 2026 00:01:42.402 --> 00:01:44.504 TO REPRESENT A BUDGET AGREEMENT 00:01:44.571 --> 00:01:46.639 BETWEEN THE LEGISLATURE AND THE 00:01:46.706 --> 00:01:49.542 ADMINISTRATION. WE'LL ALSO HEAR 00:01:49.609 --> 00:01:51.644 ASSEMBLY BILL 112, A BUDGET 00:01:51.711 --> 00:01:53.146 BILL, JUNIOR, THAT MAKES 00:01:53.213 --> 00:01:55.281 TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO THE 00:01:55.348 --> 00:01:57.116 2025 AND PRIOR YEAR'S BUDGETS, 00:01:57.183 --> 00:01:58.918 ALONG WITH 16 TRAILER BILLS AND 00:01:58.985 --> 00:02:02.088 TWO RELATED POLICY BILLS. THIS 00:02:02.155 --> 00:02:05.391 BUDGET PACKAGE IS BALANCED IN 00:02:05.458 --> 00:02:10.029 BOTH 2020 SIX, 27 AND 2728 00:02:10.096 --> 00:02:14.067 FISCAL YEARS. IT INCLUDES 351.7 00:02:14.133 --> 00:02:17.971 BILLION IN TOTAL, SPENDING 00:02:18.037 --> 00:02:19.105 251.5 BILLION OF WHICH IS THE 00:02:19.172 --> 00:02:21.307 GENERAL FUND. IT INCLUDES 00:02:21.374 --> 00:02:24.410 RECORD RESERVES OF 35.2 BILLION, 00:02:24.477 --> 00:02:26.246 SOMETHING THAT THE VICE CHAIR 00:02:26.312 --> 00:02:28.448 AND I DID NOT EXPERIENCE DURING 00:02:28.515 --> 00:02:30.950 OUR ASSEMBLY YEARS. IT CUTS THE 00:02:31.017 --> 00:02:33.119 LONG TERM STRUCTURAL DEFICIT IN 00:02:33.186 --> 00:02:37.023 HALF. THIS BUDGET DOES REFLECT 00:02:37.090 --> 00:02:38.825 THE FOUNDATION FOR THE FUTURE 00:02:38.892 --> 00:02:40.960 BUDGET PUT FORTH BY THE SENATE 00:02:41.027 --> 00:02:42.896 DEMOCRATS EARLIER THIS YEAR. 00:02:42.962 --> 00:02:44.764 IT'S RESPONSIBLE. IT PROTECTS 00:02:44.831 --> 00:02:46.699 CORE PROGRAMS THAT CALIFORNIANS 00:02:46.766 --> 00:02:49.602 DEPEND ON, AND IT DELAYS OTHER 00:02:49.669 --> 00:02:52.138 PAINFUL PROGRAM CUTS. IT 00:02:52.205 --> 00:02:53.606 INCLUDES DIFFICULT DECISIONS ON 00:02:53.673 --> 00:02:55.341 BOTH TARGETED REDUCTIONS AND 00:02:55.408 --> 00:02:58.611 NEW REVENUES. MOST 00:02:58.678 --> 00:03:01.948 SIGNIFICANTLY. THE BUDGET 00:03:02.015 --> 00:03:05.818 PROVIDES 22,770 NEW CHILD CARE 00:03:05.885 --> 00:03:08.021 SLOTS FOR CALIFORNIA FAMILIES. 00:03:08.087 --> 00:03:10.223 IT PROVIDES $900 MILLION FOR 00:03:10.290 --> 00:03:11.824 THE HOMELESS HOUSING ASSISTANCE 00:03:11.891 --> 00:03:14.627 AND PREVENTION PROGRAM, AND 700 00:03:14.694 --> 00:03:16.629 MILLION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING 00:03:16.696 --> 00:03:19.532 PROGRAMS. IT REJECTS REDUCTIONS 00:03:19.599 --> 00:03:22.735 TO IN-HOME SUPPORT SERVICES. IT 00:03:22.802 --> 00:03:24.337 MAINTAINS FULL SCOPE MEDI-CAL 00:03:24.404 --> 00:03:26.339 FOR ASYLEES AND OTHERS WHO ARE 00:03:26.406 --> 00:03:28.207 NO LONGER ELIGIBLE FOR FEDERAL 00:03:28.274 --> 00:03:30.710 FUNDING. THROUGH THE 2627 00:03:30.777 --> 00:03:32.478 BUDGET YEAR, WITH A COMMITMENT 00:03:32.545 --> 00:03:34.647 TO WORK TO MAINTAIN ELIGIBILITY 00:03:34.714 --> 00:03:37.550 BEYOND THAT POINT. THIS THE 00:03:37.617 --> 00:03:39.319 BUDGET DELAYS, IMPLEMENTATION 00:03:39.385 --> 00:03:41.421 OF PLANNED REDUCTIONS IN DENTAL 00:03:41.487 --> 00:03:43.356 SERVICES AND CLINICS TO JULY 00:03:43.423 --> 00:03:46.192 1ST, 2027. IT CONTINUES THE 00:03:46.259 --> 00:03:48.661 DELAY OF MEDI-CAL PREMIUMS FOR 00:03:48.728 --> 00:03:50.897 THE U. I S POPULATION UNTIL 00:03:50.964 --> 00:03:53.566 JULY 1ST, 2027, BUT REQUIRES 00:03:53.633 --> 00:03:54.767 THE GOVERNOR TO SET AND 00:03:54.834 --> 00:03:56.569 ANNOUNCE A PREMIUM LEVEL IN THE 00:03:56.636 --> 00:03:59.172 2020 7TH MAY REVISION. IT MAKES 00:03:59.238 --> 00:04:01.307 KEY INVESTMENTS IN NEW 00:04:01.374 --> 00:04:02.308 JUDGESHIPS, COURTHOUSE 00:04:02.375 --> 00:04:04.143 MAINTENANCE AND COURTHOUSE 00:04:04.210 --> 00:04:05.912 CONSTRUCTION. IT PROVIDES 00:04:05.979 --> 00:04:07.347 SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENTS IN 00:04:07.413 --> 00:04:08.781 VARIOUS OTHER AREAS OF THE 00:04:08.848 --> 00:04:11.718 BUDGET, INCLUDING TÊ K 12 00:04:11.784 --> 00:04:14.253 EDUCATION, COMMUNITY COLLEGES, 00:04:14.320 --> 00:04:16.789 CSUS AND UCS. IT INVESTS IN 00:04:16.856 --> 00:04:18.891 OTHER PROGRAMS SUCH AS CAL FOOD, 00:04:18.958 --> 00:04:20.293 COUNTY ADMINISTRATION, 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:22.195 IMMIGRANT LEGAL AID, 00:04:22.262 --> 00:04:24.397 PROPOSITION 36, AND MANY OTHERS. 00:04:24.464 --> 00:04:27.200 I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE 00:04:27.266 --> 00:04:28.635 ASSEMBLY AND THE ADMINISTRATION 00:04:28.701 --> 00:04:30.470 FOR THEIR PARTNERSHIP. THE PRO 00:04:30.536 --> 00:04:32.238 TEM FOR HER LEADERSHIP AND THE 00:04:32.305 --> 00:04:33.640 BUDGET, SUB CHAIRS AND 00:04:33.706 --> 00:04:36.109 COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND STAFF FOR 00:04:36.175 --> 00:04:37.343 SIGNIFICANT WORKLOAD IT TAKES 00:04:37.410 --> 00:04:41.581 TO COMPLETE A BUDGET PROCESS 00:04:41.648 --> 00:04:46.919 WISE. WE ARE GOING THROUGH EACH 00:04:46.986 --> 00:04:50.923 BILL WITHOUT PUBLIC COMMENT AND 00:04:50.990 --> 00:04:53.693 WITHOUT QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS 00:04:53.760 --> 00:04:55.261 FROM THE COMMITTEE. AND WHEN WE 00:04:55.328 --> 00:04:57.030 ARE DONE GOING THROUGH EACH 00:04:57.096 --> 00:04:59.232 BILL, WE WILL RETURN IT TO THE 00:04:59.298 --> 00:05:00.667 COMMITTEE FOR QUESTIONS OR 00:05:00.733 --> 00:05:02.535 COMMENTS ON ANY OF THE BILLS 00:05:02.602 --> 00:05:04.570 THAT ARE PRESENTED. AND WHEN WE 00:05:04.637 --> 00:05:08.241 ARE DONE WITH THE QUESTIONS OR 00:05:08.307 --> 00:05:09.475 COMMENTS, WE WILL GO TO THE 00:05:09.542 --> 00:05:11.544 PUBLIC FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, AND 00:05:11.611 --> 00:05:14.247 I WILL PROBABLY AT THE TIME, 00:05:14.313 --> 00:05:17.183 TAKE A SURVEY OF WHO WANTS TO 00:05:17.250 --> 00:05:21.154 SPEAK AND DECIDE WHETHER THERE 00:05:21.220 --> 00:05:24.023 IS SOME LIMIT ON THE THE TIME 00:05:24.090 --> 00:05:26.025 THAT WE NEED TO DO SO THAT WE 00:05:26.092 --> 00:05:28.027 CAN GET OUT OF HERE DURING OUR 00:05:28.094 --> 00:05:31.998 NATURAL LIFE SOMEHOW. AND. AND 00:05:32.065 --> 00:05:34.901 THEN BEFORE WE BEGIN, I AM 00:05:34.967 --> 00:05:36.636 GOING TO GO TO MY VICE CHAIR 00:05:36.703 --> 00:05:38.838 AND ASK IF HE HAS ANY OPENING 00:05:38.905 --> 00:05:44.911 COMMENTS. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. 00:05:44.977 --> 00:05:49.949 APPRECIATE THAT SUMMARY. I 00:05:50.016 --> 00:05:55.054 RECEIVED THIS LATE YESTERDAY 00:05:55.121 --> 00:05:58.591 AFTERNOON. THIS WAS PRODUCED BY 00:05:58.658 --> 00:06:03.096 OUR CAUCUS BUDGET STAFF OVER 00:06:03.162 --> 00:06:05.898 THE WEEKEND. I SUSPECT THEY 00:06:05.965 --> 00:06:09.435 DIDN'T GET ANY SLEEP. WE HAD A 00:06:09.502 --> 00:06:12.638 TWO HOUR BRIEFING VIA ZOOM 00:06:12.705 --> 00:06:14.841 YESTERDAY, LATE AFTERNOON, 00:06:14.907 --> 00:06:20.980 EARLY EVENING. THIS PROCESS 00:06:21.047 --> 00:06:27.120 LEAVES A LOT TO BE DESIRED. 00:06:27.186 --> 00:06:30.289 THERE IS WAY TOO MUCH DETAIL IN 00:06:30.356 --> 00:06:32.792 HERE FOR US TO TOTALLY 00:06:32.859 --> 00:06:34.694 COMPREHEND WHAT'S IN HERE. I 00:06:34.761 --> 00:06:37.897 KNOW THAT I'LL HEAR THAT ALL OF 00:06:37.964 --> 00:06:40.299 IT'S BEEN OUT THERE IN THE 00:06:40.366 --> 00:06:42.902 PUBLIC, BUT IT'S HARD TO TELL. 00:06:42.969 --> 00:06:44.036 WHAT'S BEEN OUT THERE IS IN 00:06:44.103 --> 00:06:45.905 HERE, AND WHAT THAT'S BEEN OUT 00:06:45.972 --> 00:06:51.511 THERE IS NOT IN HERE. THERE IS 00:06:51.577 --> 00:06:55.848 UNDOUBTEDLY LOTS OF POLICY HERE, 00:06:55.915 --> 00:06:57.517 CERTAINLY ONE IN PARTICULAR 00:06:57.583 --> 00:06:59.819 WITH REGARD TO THE EDUCATION 00:06:59.886 --> 00:07:02.722 GOVERNANCE POLICY THAT 00:07:02.789 --> 00:07:05.925 ABSOLUTELY SHOULD GO THROUGH 00:07:05.992 --> 00:07:07.693 POLICY COMMITTEE PROCESS, NOT 00:07:07.760 --> 00:07:09.529 THE BUDGET. I'VE TALKED ABOUT 00:07:09.595 --> 00:07:13.933 THAT AN AWFUL LOT. IT IS AN 00:07:14.000 --> 00:07:16.068 ABUSE OF THE PROCESS THAT WE 00:07:16.135 --> 00:07:19.238 HAVE UNFORTUNATELY GOT ALL TO 00:07:19.305 --> 00:07:22.475 ACCUSTOMED WITH. AND I HOPE AS 00:07:22.542 --> 00:07:24.310 WE MOVE TO A NEW ADMINISTRATION 00:07:24.377 --> 00:07:27.880 NEXT YEAR, THAT THAT WILL STOP 00:07:27.947 --> 00:07:32.218 OR AT LEAST MITIGATE A BIT. 00:07:32.285 --> 00:07:34.620 THERE ARE MULTIPLE VIOLATIONS 00:07:34.687 --> 00:07:38.724 OF THE SINGLE SUBJECT RULE THAT 00:07:38.791 --> 00:07:40.560 SORT OF WILL GO ON, BECAUSE IT 00:07:40.626 --> 00:07:43.296 CAN ONLY BE REQUIRED BY SUING, 00:07:43.362 --> 00:07:46.599 AND A COURT CASE TAKES FOREVER. 00:07:46.666 --> 00:07:48.734 IT IS JUST A PROCESS THAT IS 00:07:48.801 --> 00:07:53.773 VERY DIFFICULT TO HAVE A 00:07:53.840 --> 00:07:55.975 COHESIVE, COHERENT, DELIBERATE, 00:07:56.042 --> 00:07:59.178 DELIBERATIVE PROCESS ON. IT IS 00:07:59.245 --> 00:08:02.048 ALSO EXTREMELY BURDENSOME ON 00:08:02.114 --> 00:08:04.584 STAFF. THE BUDGET COMMITTEE AS 00:08:04.650 --> 00:08:08.955 WELL AS OUR BUDGET STAFF. THEY 00:08:09.021 --> 00:08:12.091 RECEIVED THE RNS ON THIS LATE 00:08:12.158 --> 00:08:16.395 FRIDAY. THAT'S A WEEKEND 00:08:16.462 --> 00:08:19.332 WITHOUT MUCH SLEEP. I SUSPECT 00:08:19.398 --> 00:08:22.268 ALL OF STAFF DID YEOMAN'S WORK 00:08:22.335 --> 00:08:25.638 ON THIS, AND THEY ARE TO BE 00:08:25.705 --> 00:08:29.642 COMMENDED AND THANKED PROFUSELY. 00:08:29.709 --> 00:08:33.980 BUT IT IS A HUGE BURDEN ON THEM, 00:08:34.046 --> 00:08:35.448 SO I LOOK FORWARD TO LEARNING 00:08:35.514 --> 00:08:38.484 MORE. I WILL PROBABLY HAVE LOTS 00:08:38.551 --> 00:08:40.119 OF ABSTENTIONS BECAUSE I DON'T 00:08:40.186 --> 00:08:42.655 HAVE ENOUGH DETAIL TO BE 00:08:42.722 --> 00:08:44.423 CERTAIN ABOUT WHAT IS IN HERE. 00:08:44.490 --> 00:08:47.994 BUT THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. THANK 00:08:48.060 --> 00:08:50.162 YOU, MR. VICE CHAIR. APPRECIATE 00:08:50.229 --> 00:08:52.765 YOUR COMMENTS. WE ARE NOW GOING 00:08:52.832 --> 00:08:55.968 TO GO TO ERIKA LEE FROM THE 00:08:56.035 --> 00:08:58.537 DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE FOR 00:08:58.604 --> 00:09:00.306 PRESENTATION ON EACH BILL. AND 00:09:00.373 --> 00:09:01.707 THEN WE HAVE ROSS BROWN HERE 00:09:01.774 --> 00:09:03.943 FROM THE LEGISLATIVE ANALYST'S 00:09:04.010 --> 00:09:06.045 OFFICE, WHO MAY OR MAY NOT 00:09:06.112 --> 00:09:07.480 COMMENT ON THE DIFFERENT BILLS, 00:09:07.546 --> 00:09:09.348 BUT WE WILL GIVE HIM THE OPTION. 00:09:09.415 --> 00:09:11.183 AND AS I SAID EARLIER, WE WILL 00:09:11.250 --> 00:09:12.885 GO THROUGH EACH BILL AND THEN 00:09:12.952 --> 00:09:14.020 WE'LL BRING IT BACK TO THE 00:09:14.086 --> 00:09:15.788 COMMITTEE FOR QUESTIONS AND 00:09:15.855 --> 00:09:17.323 COMMENTS. SO, MISS LEE, WELCOME 00:09:17.390 --> 00:09:18.958 TO THE COMMITTEE. THANK YOU. 00:09:19.025 --> 00:09:21.160 GOOD MORNING, CHAIR, VICE CHAIR 00:09:21.227 --> 00:09:22.628 AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE, 00:09:22.695 --> 00:09:23.529 ERIKA LEE WITH THE DEPARTMENT 00:09:23.596 --> 00:09:25.431 OF FINANCE. I'M HERE TO PROVIDE 00:09:25.498 --> 00:09:28.167 AN OVERVIEW OF THE 2627 BUDGET, 00:09:28.234 --> 00:09:30.202 WHICH INCLUDES 18 BILLS. 00:09:30.269 --> 00:09:32.438 THERE'S TWO BUDGET BILL JUNIORS, 00:09:32.505 --> 00:09:33.839 16 TRAILER BILLS. AND AT THE 00:09:33.906 --> 00:09:34.907 END, THERE WILL ALSO BE A 00:09:34.974 --> 00:09:36.008 PRESENTATION ON TWO POLICY 00:09:36.075 --> 00:09:37.343 BILLS, ONE ON EDUCATION 00:09:37.410 --> 00:09:38.744 GOVERNANCE AND THE OTHER ON 00:09:38.811 --> 00:09:42.381 BALLOT MEASURE PLACEMENT. THIS 00:09:42.448 --> 00:09:44.216 FINAL BUDGET IS SIMILAR TO THE 00:09:44.283 --> 00:09:45.318 ARCHITECTURE OF THE GOVERNOR'S 00:09:45.384 --> 00:09:47.053 MAY REVISION, AS WELL AS THE 00:09:47.119 --> 00:09:48.621 LEGISLATURE'S TWO PARTY PLAN. 00:09:48.688 --> 00:09:50.122 IT BALANCES THROUGH TWO FISCAL 00:09:50.189 --> 00:09:51.490 YEARS WITH A POSITIVE STATE 00:09:51.557 --> 00:09:52.858 FUND FOR ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY 00:09:52.925 --> 00:09:56.195 OR OUR SF Â YOU. WITH 4.5 00:09:56.262 --> 00:09:58.297 BILLION IN THE BUDGET YEAR 26, 00:09:58.364 --> 00:10:01.200 27 AND 403 MILLION IN THE 00:10:01.267 --> 00:10:04.036 FOLLOWING YEAR, 2728. IN 00:10:04.103 --> 00:10:05.304 ADDITION, THE BUDGET REDUCES 00:10:05.371 --> 00:10:06.706 THE OUTYEAR STRUCTURAL DEFICITS 00:10:06.772 --> 00:10:08.007 THAT WE IDENTIFIED AT THE 00:10:08.074 --> 00:10:10.076 GOVERNOR'S BUDGET. AND I'D LIKE 00:10:10.142 --> 00:10:11.944 TO POINT OUT THAT WE MORE THAN 00:10:12.011 --> 00:10:13.379 HALVED WHAT THOSE DEFICITS WERE 00:10:13.446 --> 00:10:15.081 OVER 20 BILLION AT THE 00:10:15.147 --> 00:10:16.582 GOVERNOR'S BUDGET IN THE OUT 00:10:16.649 --> 00:10:18.751 YEARS. THE BUDGET DOES NOT 00:10:18.818 --> 00:10:20.519 INCLUDE THE ASSUMED ADDITIONAL 00:10:20.586 --> 00:10:21.654 5 BILLION IN HIGHER REVENUES 00:10:21.721 --> 00:10:23.155 THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THE 00:10:23.222 --> 00:10:24.156 LEGISLATURE'S PLAN FOR THE 00:10:24.223 --> 00:10:26.325 CURRENT YEAR, AND IT REDUCES A 00:10:26.392 --> 00:10:27.526 SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF THE 00:10:27.593 --> 00:10:28.527 ADDITIONAL SPENDING THAT WAS 00:10:28.594 --> 00:10:29.595 INCLUDED IN THAT PLAN. AND 00:10:29.662 --> 00:10:30.997 THESE WERE TWO ISSUES THAT I 00:10:31.063 --> 00:10:32.865 FORMALLY NOTED CONCERN ABOUT 00:10:32.932 --> 00:10:34.834 HERE IN THIS COMMITTEE. INSTEAD, 00:10:34.900 --> 00:10:36.135 THIS BUDGET REPRESENTS A 00:10:36.202 --> 00:10:37.503 BALANCE OF PROGRAM REDUCTIONS 00:10:37.570 --> 00:10:38.671 AND INCREASED REVENUES TO 00:10:38.738 --> 00:10:40.406 ADDRESS THE NEAR-TERM BUDGET 00:10:40.473 --> 00:10:42.241 DEFICITS AND THE LONGER TERM 00:10:42.308 --> 00:10:44.710 STRUCTURAL DEFICITS. THE 2026 00:10:44.777 --> 00:10:45.811 BUDGET INCLUDES TOTAL 00:10:45.878 --> 00:10:49.081 EXPENDITURES, AS MENTIONED, OF 00:10:49.148 --> 00:10:51.283 351.7 BILLION, OF WHICH 251 00:10:51.350 --> 00:10:53.019 BILLION IS GENERAL FUND. THE 00:10:53.085 --> 00:10:54.854 BUDGET ALSO INCLUDES TOTAL 00:10:54.920 --> 00:10:58.024 RESERVES OF 28.8 BILLION, WHICH 00:10:58.090 --> 00:11:00.226 INCLUDES 4.5 BILLION IN THE SF 00:11:00.292 --> 00:11:02.762 BIÂU, 15.1 BILLION IN OUR RAINY 00:11:02.828 --> 00:11:04.797 DAY FUND AND 9.2 BILLION IN OUR 00:11:04.864 --> 00:11:06.399 SCHOOLS RAINY DAY FUND. AND 00:11:06.465 --> 00:11:07.800 ADDITIONALLY, THERE IS 6.4 00:11:07.867 --> 00:11:09.268 BILLION SET ASIDE IN THE 00:11:09.335 --> 00:11:11.370 SURPLUS HOLDING ACCOUNT. AND 00:11:11.437 --> 00:11:12.738 THESE ARE ANTICIPATED REVENUES 00:11:12.805 --> 00:11:14.607 THAT WILL BE SET ASIDE FOR 00:11:14.673 --> 00:11:15.608 ALLOCATION IN NEXT YEAR'S 00:11:15.674 --> 00:11:16.675 BUDGET. BUT TOGETHER, THERE ARE 00:11:16.742 --> 00:11:18.177 OVER 35 BILLION IN FUNDS THAT 00:11:18.244 --> 00:11:20.413 ARE SET ASIDE TO HELP BUILD 00:11:20.479 --> 00:11:21.814 FISCAL RESILIENCY IN THIS 00:11:21.881 --> 00:11:23.883 BUDGET. SO WITH THESE REMARKS, 00:11:23.949 --> 00:11:25.184 I WILL BEGIN THE PRESENTATION 00:11:25.251 --> 00:11:28.387 OF THE BILLS AND BEAR WITH ME. 00:11:28.454 --> 00:11:30.156 THERE ARE A LOT OF BILLS, BUT 00:11:30.222 --> 00:11:31.924 STARTING WITH A, B, SB 111, 00:11:31.991 --> 00:11:33.259 WHICH IS A BUDGET BILL JUNIOR 00:11:33.325 --> 00:11:37.963 THAT AMENDS AB 109, MOST 00:11:38.030 --> 00:11:41.634 NOTABLY, CHANGES TO THAT. THE 00:11:41.700 --> 00:11:42.701 LEGISLATURE'S BUDGET, WHICH WAS 00:11:42.768 --> 00:11:45.571 PART OF A B 109, INCLUDE 1.3 00:11:45.638 --> 00:11:47.406 BILLION GENERAL FUND IN BUDGET 00:11:47.473 --> 00:11:49.141 YEAR FOR MEDI-CAL TO IMPLEMENT 00:11:49.208 --> 00:11:51.477 H.R. ONE REQUIREMENTS, 300 00:11:51.544 --> 00:11:52.711 MILLION ONGOING HEALTH CARE 00:11:52.778 --> 00:11:53.746 AFFORDABILITY RESERVE FUND TO 00:11:53.813 --> 00:11:55.314 EXPAND THE STATE PREMIUM 00:11:55.381 --> 00:11:56.816 SUBSIDY PROGRAM TO ENROLLEES AT 00:11:56.882 --> 00:11:59.518 COVERED CALIFORNIA 250,000,001 00:11:59.585 --> 00:12:01.320 TIME GENERAL FUND IN 2627 TO 00:12:01.387 --> 00:12:03.989 SUPPORT PUBLIC HOSPITALS 90 00:12:04.056 --> 00:12:05.424 MILLION. ONE TIME GENERAL FUND 00:12:05.491 --> 00:12:07.126 FOR GRANTS TO DISTRESSED 00:12:07.193 --> 00:12:08.194 HOSPITALS AND WITH THE 00:12:08.260 --> 00:12:10.029 AUTHORITY TO ALLOW FOR AN 00:12:10.096 --> 00:12:11.897 ADDITIONAL 50 MILLION GENERAL 00:12:11.964 --> 00:12:13.799 FUND AUGMENTATION. FOR THIS 00:12:13.866 --> 00:12:15.434 PURPOSE, THERE'S 15.5 MILLION 00:12:15.501 --> 00:12:17.203 ONE TIME FOR CAL REX TO SUPPORT 00:12:17.269 --> 00:12:19.071 LOW COST EPINEPHRINE AND 00:12:19.138 --> 00:12:20.806 TUBERCULOSIS DRUGS, AND IT ALSO 00:12:20.873 --> 00:12:21.907 INCLUDES FISCALLY NEUTRAL 00:12:21.974 --> 00:12:23.275 FUNDING SHIFTS THAT ARE RELATED 00:12:23.342 --> 00:12:24.443 TO THE EDUCATION GOVERNANCE 00:12:24.510 --> 00:12:26.679 PROPOSAL INCLUDED IN AB 181, 00:12:26.745 --> 00:12:27.980 WHICH I WILL BE GOING OVER 00:12:28.047 --> 00:12:33.452 LATER. OKAY. AND MOVING ON TO 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:35.621 THE NEXT BILL, WHICH IS LET ME 00:12:35.688 --> 00:12:39.125 JUST FIRST, THANK YOU, BUT I'M 00:12:39.191 --> 00:12:40.793 JUST AT THE END OF EACH BILL 00:12:40.860 --> 00:12:42.094 GOING TO ASK THE LEGISLATIVE 00:12:42.161 --> 00:12:43.629 ANALYST IF YOU HAVE ANY 00:12:43.696 --> 00:12:46.365 COMMENTS. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. 00:12:46.432 --> 00:12:47.566 MEMBERS. ROSS BROWN WITH THE LÀ. 00:12:47.633 --> 00:12:48.634 OH, WE DON'T HAVE ANY 00:12:48.701 --> 00:12:50.369 ADDITIONAL COMMENTS ON ANY OF 00:12:50.436 --> 00:12:51.804 THE BILLS, BUT WE ARE AVAILABLE 00:12:51.871 --> 00:12:53.973 FOR QUESTIONS. THEN I WILL NOT 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:55.774 GO TO YOU WHEN SHE'S DONE FROM 00:12:55.841 --> 00:12:57.243 HERE ON OUT. YOU JUST SAVED US 00:12:57.309 --> 00:12:59.678 SOME TIME. THANK YOU, MISS LEE. 00:12:59.745 --> 00:13:04.016 ON TO CONTINUED. OKAY. 112AB112 00:13:04.083 --> 00:13:04.950 IS A BUDGET BILL JUNIOR THAT 00:13:05.017 --> 00:13:06.552 MAKES VARIOUS TECHNICAL 00:13:06.619 --> 00:13:08.420 CORRECTIONS TO PASS BUDGET ACTS 00:13:08.487 --> 00:13:10.523 AND PROVIDES A 4.2 BILLION 00:13:10.589 --> 00:13:13.025 GENERAL FUND AUGMENTATION IN 00:13:13.092 --> 00:13:14.193 2526 IN THE CURRENT YEAR FOR 00:13:14.260 --> 00:13:15.327 THE MEDI-CAL PROGRAM TO COVER 00:13:15.394 --> 00:13:17.696 THE CURRENT YEAR DEFICIENCY. IT 00:13:17.763 --> 00:13:20.399 ALSO REAPPROPRIATES 99.3 00:13:20.466 --> 00:13:22.434 MILLION GENERAL FUND FROM 2324 00:13:22.501 --> 00:13:23.702 TO RESOLVE A CURRENT YEAR 00:13:23.769 --> 00:13:28.240 DEFICIENCY FOR CDCR. MOVING ON 00:13:28.307 --> 00:13:32.111 TO THE NEXT BILL, WHICH IS A B 00:13:32.178 --> 00:13:34.413 126, A BILL ON EDUCATION. THIS 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:35.714 BILL PROVIDES SEVERAL 00:13:35.781 --> 00:13:37.149 SIGNIFICANT ONGOING PROPOSITION 00:13:37.216 --> 00:13:38.617 98 GENERAL FUND INVESTMENTS, 00:13:38.684 --> 00:13:41.520 WHICH INCLUDE 2.2 BILLION 00:13:41.587 --> 00:13:42.855 INCREASE TO THE LOCAL CONTROL 00:13:42.922 --> 00:13:44.790 FUNDING FORMULA FORMULA, OR 00:13:44.857 --> 00:13:47.359 LCFF, TO REFLECT A 2.87% COST 00:13:47.426 --> 00:13:50.196 OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT AND 1.1 00:13:50.262 --> 00:13:51.697 BILLION TO PROVIDE A SUPER COLA 00:13:51.764 --> 00:13:52.932 FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS, CHARTER 00:13:52.998 --> 00:13:54.433 SCHOOLS AND COUNTY OFFICES OF 00:13:54.500 --> 00:13:56.235 EDUCATION THROUGH THE LCFF. IN 00:13:56.302 --> 00:13:57.703 ADDITION TO ADDRESSING ONGOING 00:13:57.770 --> 00:13:58.637 COST PRESSURES FOR SCHOOLS, 00:13:58.704 --> 00:14:00.206 THESE FUNDS WILL ALSO OFFSET 00:14:00.272 --> 00:14:02.041 COSTS FOR LOCAL EDUCATIONAL 00:14:02.107 --> 00:14:03.075 AGENCIES TO PROVIDE EMPLOYEES 00:14:03.142 --> 00:14:05.578 WITH UP TO 14 WEEKS OF PAID 00:14:05.644 --> 00:14:07.146 PREGNANCY DISABILITY LEAVE. THE 00:14:07.213 --> 00:14:08.814 BILL ALSO PROVIDES SEVERAL 00:14:08.881 --> 00:14:09.582 SIGNIFICANT ONE TIME 00:14:09.648 --> 00:14:11.383 PROPOSITION 98 GENERAL FUND 00:14:11.450 --> 00:14:12.484 INVESTMENTS, INCLUDING 5 00:14:12.551 --> 00:14:13.719 BILLION FOR THE STUDENT SUPPORT 00:14:13.786 --> 00:14:15.254 AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, 00:14:15.321 --> 00:14:16.689 WHICH IS A DISCRETIONARY BLOCK 00:14:16.755 --> 00:14:17.856 GRANT AND PROVIDES 00:14:17.923 --> 00:14:18.891 DISCRETIONARY FUNDING TO LOCAL 00:14:18.958 --> 00:14:20.693 EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES TO MANAGE 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.430 RISING COSTS. ABOUT 757 ONE 00:14:24.496 --> 00:14:26.932 TIME, 757,000,001 TIME 00:14:26.999 --> 00:14:28.300 PROPOSITION 98 GENERAL FUND TO 00:14:28.367 --> 00:14:29.702 SUPPORT THE LEARNING RECOVERY 00:14:29.768 --> 00:14:31.170 EMERGENCY BLOCK GRANT, WHICH 00:14:31.237 --> 00:14:33.272 PROVIDES FUNDS TO LEAS TO 00:14:33.339 --> 00:14:34.840 ESTABLISH LEARNING RECOVERY 00:14:34.907 --> 00:14:36.976 INITIATIVES THROUGH THE 2728 00:14:37.042 --> 00:14:40.613 BUDGET. SORRY SCHOOL YEAR 428 00:14:40.679 --> 00:14:42.014 MILLION FOR EDUCATOR WORKFORCE 00:14:42.081 --> 00:14:42.648 INVESTMENTS TO SUPPORT THE 00:14:42.715 --> 00:14:44.483 STUDENT TEACHER STIPEND PROGRAM, 00:14:44.550 --> 00:14:45.951 THE CLASSIFIED SCHOOL EMPLOYEE 00:14:46.018 --> 00:14:47.419 TEACHER CREDENTIALING PROGRAM, 00:14:47.486 --> 00:14:49.121 AND THE PATHWAYS TO BILINGUAL 00:14:49.188 --> 00:14:51.724 TEACHING PROGRAM. AND NEXT, I 00:14:51.790 --> 00:14:53.726 WILL MOVE ON TO A B 135, WHICH 00:14:53.792 --> 00:14:55.661 IS THE TRAILER BILL ON HIGHER 00:14:55.728 --> 00:14:58.731 EDUCATION. A B 135 IS THIS BILL 00:14:58.797 --> 00:15:00.232 PROVIDES FUNDING AND POLICY 00:15:00.299 --> 00:15:01.634 DIRECTION FOR VARIOUS COMMUNITY 00:15:01.700 --> 00:15:04.270 COLLEGE PROGRAM AND ACTIVITIES, 00:15:04.336 --> 00:15:06.505 EXPANDS THE AVAILABILITY OF 00:15:06.572 --> 00:15:08.173 FINANCIAL AID, AND MAKES 00:15:08.240 --> 00:15:09.708 VARIOUS OTHER TECHNICAL OR 00:15:09.775 --> 00:15:11.810 CLARIFYING CHANGES, INCLUDING 00:15:11.877 --> 00:15:12.978 PROVIDING A FRAMEWORK FOR THE 00:15:13.045 --> 00:15:14.213 STATE'S IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 00:15:14.280 --> 00:15:16.115 NEW FEDERAL WORKFORCE. PELL 00:15:16.181 --> 00:15:18.417 GRANTS PELL GRANT PROGRAM TO 00:15:18.484 --> 00:15:19.718 MAKE PELL GRANT FUNDS AVAILABLE 00:15:19.785 --> 00:15:21.153 TO ELIGIBLE STUDENTS IN SHORT 00:15:21.220 --> 00:15:23.022 TERM WORKFORCE TRAINING 00:15:23.088 --> 00:15:24.123 PROGRAMS IN HIGH SKILL, HIGH 00:15:24.189 --> 00:15:26.258 WAGE OR IN-DEMAND INDUSTRY 00:15:26.325 --> 00:15:28.460 SECTORS OR OCCUPATIONS. IT 00:15:28.527 --> 00:15:29.828 EXPANDS THE STATE CAL GRANT 00:15:29.895 --> 00:15:31.597 TRANSFER ENTITLEMENT PROGRAM TO 00:15:31.664 --> 00:15:33.332 STUDENTS AGE 29 AND 30 FOR NEW 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:34.867 AND RENEWED FINANCIAL AID 00:15:34.933 --> 00:15:36.802 AWARDS. NEWLY ELIGIBLE STUDENTS 00:15:36.869 --> 00:15:38.871 WOULD BE ABLE TO RENEW THEIR 00:15:38.937 --> 00:15:40.706 AWARDS FOR FIVE YEARS. IT 00:15:40.773 --> 00:15:41.707 REQUIRES THE OFFICE OF THE 00:15:41.774 --> 00:15:44.610 CHANCELLOR OF CSU ANNUALLY TO 00:15:44.677 --> 00:15:45.711 DEVELOP ENROLLMENT TARGETS FOR 00:15:45.778 --> 00:15:47.780 EACH CAMPUS. CHANGES THE 00:15:47.846 --> 00:15:48.914 CALCULATION OF FUNDED CREDIT 00:15:48.981 --> 00:15:50.349 FULL TIME EQUIVALENT STUDENTS 00:15:50.416 --> 00:15:51.517 INCORPORATED INTO THE COMMUNITY 00:15:51.583 --> 00:15:52.584 COLLEGE'S STUDENT CENTERED 00:15:52.651 --> 00:15:54.386 FUNDING FORMULA FOR THREE YEAR. 00:15:54.453 --> 00:15:55.521 FOR THE THREE YEAR ROLLING 00:15:55.587 --> 00:15:56.922 AVERAGE TO THE GREATER OF THE 00:15:56.989 --> 00:15:57.990 THREE YEAR ROLLING AVERAGE, OR 00:15:58.057 --> 00:16:02.261 THE CURRENT YEAR FTE. AND IT 00:16:02.328 --> 00:16:03.395 REQUIRES COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO 00:16:03.462 --> 00:16:04.730 PROVIDE EMPLOYEES WITH UP TO 14 00:16:04.797 --> 00:16:05.831 WEEKS OF PAID PREGNANCY 00:16:05.898 --> 00:16:07.266 DISABILITY LEAVE BEGINNING 00:16:07.333 --> 00:16:11.670 JANUARY 1ST, 2027. OKAY, AND 00:16:11.737 --> 00:16:15.607 MOVING ON TO THE NEXT BILL. AB 00:16:15.674 --> 00:16:17.409 130 IS THE EARLY LEARNING AND 00:16:17.476 --> 00:16:20.979 CHILD CARE EDUCATION OMNIBUS. I 00:16:21.046 --> 00:16:24.950 THINK IT'S 150, AM I RIGHT? YES. 00:16:25.017 --> 00:16:28.487 EXCUSE ME. AB 150 YES. AND I 00:16:28.554 --> 00:16:30.656 HAVE MY GLASSES ON TO MADE A 00:16:30.723 --> 00:16:32.491 MISTAKE. OKAY. THANK YOU. THIS 00:16:32.558 --> 00:16:33.859 BILL IMPLEMENTS THE FOLLOWING 00:16:33.926 --> 00:16:35.361 SIGNIFICANT EARLY CHILDHOOD 00:16:35.427 --> 00:16:37.196 EDUCATION RELATED PROPOSALS. IT 00:16:37.262 --> 00:16:38.597 SETS THE CHILD CARE COST OF 00:16:38.664 --> 00:16:41.133 LIVING ADJUSTMENT TO 2.01%. IT 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:42.234 PROVIDES AUTHORITY TO THE 00:16:42.301 --> 00:16:44.002 DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES 00:16:44.069 --> 00:16:45.404 TO ADMINISTER A GRANT PROGRAM 00:16:45.471 --> 00:16:46.939 FOR CHILD CARE CENTERS AND 00:16:47.005 --> 00:16:48.340 FAMILY CHILD CARE HOMES, FOR 00:16:48.407 --> 00:16:49.308 INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING RELATED 00:16:49.375 --> 00:16:51.243 TO NATURAL DISASTERS, AND 00:16:51.310 --> 00:16:52.678 APPROPRIATES 25.7 MILLION 00:16:52.745 --> 00:16:54.813 FEDERAL FUNDS FOR THIS PURPOSE, 00:16:54.880 --> 00:16:56.982 AND FINALLY AUTHORIZES THE 00:16:57.049 --> 00:16:58.183 DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES 00:16:58.250 --> 00:16:59.818 TO TRANSFER FUNDING BETWEEN 00:16:59.885 --> 00:17:01.286 CHILD CARE CONTRACTORS WITHIN 00:17:01.353 --> 00:17:03.455 CHILD CARE PROGRAMS IN ORDER TO 00:17:03.522 --> 00:17:04.857 MAXIMIZE THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN 00:17:04.923 --> 00:17:07.726 BEING SERVED. THE NEXT BILL IS 00:17:07.793 --> 00:17:11.063 A B 152, THE HUMAN SERVICES 00:17:11.130 --> 00:17:12.798 OMNIBUS. THIS BILL IMPLEMENTS 00:17:12.865 --> 00:17:15.334 THE FOLLOWING PROPOSAL 00:17:15.401 --> 00:17:16.402 PROPOSALS. INCREASES THE 00:17:16.468 --> 00:17:18.570 CALWORKS MAXIMUM AID PAYMENT BY 00:17:18.637 --> 00:17:19.938 1.8%. EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1ST OF 00:17:20.005 --> 00:17:21.774 THIS YEAR. IT IMPLEMENTS NEW 00:17:21.840 --> 00:17:23.175 CALFRESH COUNTY DATA REPORTING 00:17:23.242 --> 00:17:24.743 POLICIES TO INCREASE 00:17:24.810 --> 00:17:26.478 TRANSPARENCY. IT WAIVES THE 00:17:26.545 --> 00:17:27.613 INCREASED COUNTY SHERIFF 00:17:27.679 --> 00:17:29.048 CALFRESH ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS 00:17:29.114 --> 00:17:31.150 DUE TO H.R. ONE FOR THREE YEARS. 00:17:31.216 --> 00:17:32.551 IT EXTENDS THE CALFRESH FRUIT 00:17:32.618 --> 00:17:34.153 AND VEGETABLE ELECTRONIC 00:17:34.219 --> 00:17:36.288 BENEFIT TRANSFER PILOT UNTIL 00:17:36.355 --> 00:17:38.724 JUNE 30TH OF 2028 TO ACCOMPANY 00:17:38.791 --> 00:17:40.459 A 20 MILLION BUDGET 00:17:40.526 --> 00:17:41.593 APPROPRIATION FOR THE PROGRAM. 00:17:41.660 --> 00:17:43.395 IT CLARIFIES THE USE OF 00:17:43.462 --> 00:17:44.430 ADOPTION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 00:17:44.496 --> 00:17:46.665 FUNDS FOR IN-STATE AND FOR 00:17:46.732 --> 00:17:48.100 IN-STATE, OUT OF HOME PLACEMENT 00:17:48.167 --> 00:17:49.268 AND WRAPAROUND SERVICES, 00:17:49.334 --> 00:17:51.703 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1ST OF 2028, 00:17:51.770 --> 00:17:52.638 AND IT REQUIRES THE DEPARTMENT 00:17:52.704 --> 00:17:54.273 OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO MAKE 00:17:54.339 --> 00:17:55.641 TRANSITION SUPPORT SERVICES 00:17:55.707 --> 00:17:56.875 AVAILABLE TO ADOPTIVE FAMILIES. 00:17:56.942 --> 00:17:58.277 WITH YOUTH RETURNING FROM OUT 00:17:58.343 --> 00:18:00.312 OF STATE PLACEMENTS, AND TO 00:18:00.379 --> 00:18:02.448 REPORT TO THE LEGISLATURE AS 00:18:02.514 --> 00:18:06.385 SPECIFIED. THE NEXT BILL IS A B 00:18:06.452 --> 00:18:07.920 163 DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES 00:18:07.986 --> 00:18:09.721 TRAILER BILL. THIS BILL 00:18:09.788 --> 00:18:12.224 IMPLEMENTS THE FOLLOWING 00:18:12.291 --> 00:18:13.258 PROPOSALS. IT STRENGTHENS 00:18:13.325 --> 00:18:14.793 REGIONAL CENTER GOVERNANCE, 00:18:14.860 --> 00:18:16.161 OVERSIGHT AND ADMINISTRATIVE 00:18:16.228 --> 00:18:17.629 EFFICIENCIES BY 00:18:17.696 --> 00:18:18.630 PROFESSIONALIZING BOARDS AND 00:18:18.697 --> 00:18:19.731 STREAMLINING FUNDING 00:18:19.798 --> 00:18:20.833 ALLOCATIONS. IT PRESERVES 00:18:20.899 --> 00:18:22.234 OVERTIME PROTECTIONS FOR 00:18:22.301 --> 00:18:24.036 PROVIDERS OF SUPPORTED LIVING 00:18:24.102 --> 00:18:25.571 SERVICES. IT REDUCES 00:18:25.637 --> 00:18:26.605 ADMINISTRATIVE BARRIERS FOR 00:18:26.672 --> 00:18:28.073 INDIVIDUALS SEEKING EMPLOYMENT 00:18:28.140 --> 00:18:29.341 SERVICES, AND IT ESTABLISHES A 00:18:29.408 --> 00:18:30.943 NEW FEDERALLY MANDATED PROCESS 00:18:31.009 --> 00:18:32.678 FOR INDIVIDUALS TO SUBMIT 00:18:32.744 --> 00:18:34.146 GRIEVANCES RELATED TO 00:18:34.213 --> 00:18:35.614 INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND SERVICE 00:18:35.681 --> 00:18:37.382 DELIVERY, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON 00:18:37.449 --> 00:18:39.952 ACCESSIBILITY AND TRANSPARENCY. 00:18:40.018 --> 00:18:43.922 THE NEXT BILL IS AB 164, THE 00:18:43.989 --> 00:18:46.825 HEALTH OMNIBUS, AND THIS BILL 00:18:46.892 --> 00:18:48.160 IMPLEMENTS THE FOLLOWING 00:18:48.227 --> 00:18:49.962 TRANSITIONS. INDIVIDUALS WITH 00:18:50.028 --> 00:18:51.129 UNSATISFACTORY IMMIGRATION 00:18:51.196 --> 00:18:52.498 STATUS TO THE FEE FOR SERVICE 00:18:52.564 --> 00:18:53.999 DELIVERY SYSTEM. EFFECTIVE 00:18:54.066 --> 00:18:55.734 JANUARY 1ST OF NEXT YEAR. IT 00:18:55.801 --> 00:18:57.769 IMPLEMENTS $50 MONTHLY PREMIUMS 00:18:57.836 --> 00:19:00.806 FOR ADULTS AGED 19 TO 59 WITH 00:19:00.873 --> 00:19:01.940 UNSATISFACTORY IMMIGRATION 00:19:02.007 --> 00:19:05.077 STATUS, EFFECTIVE JULY OF 2027, 00:19:05.143 --> 00:19:07.279 SUBJECT TO DETERMINATION IN THE 00:19:07.346 --> 00:19:10.215 2720 8TH MAY REVISION. IT 00:19:10.282 --> 00:19:11.550 REINSTATES THE MEDI-CAL ASSET 00:19:11.617 --> 00:19:14.419 LIMIT AT 21,000 FOR INDIVIDUALS, 00:19:14.486 --> 00:19:16.188 31,000 FOR COUPLES, EFFECTIVE 00:19:16.255 --> 00:19:18.123 JULY 1ST OF NEXT YEAR. IT 00:19:18.190 --> 00:19:20.058 DELAYS VARIOUS MEDI-CAL GENERAL 00:19:20.125 --> 00:19:22.394 FUND SOLUTIONS BY ONE YEAR TO 00:19:22.461 --> 00:19:24.129 JULY 1ST, 2027, INCLUDING THE 00:19:24.196 --> 00:19:25.264 ELIMINATION OF PROSPECTIVE 00:19:25.330 --> 00:19:26.565 PAYMENT SYSTEM, REIMBURSEMENT 00:19:26.632 --> 00:19:27.699 TO CLINICS FOR STATE ONLY 00:19:27.766 --> 00:19:29.601 FUNDED SERVICES, AND THE 00:19:29.668 --> 00:19:30.602 ELIMINATION OF DENTAL BENEFITS 00:19:30.669 --> 00:19:32.504 FOR ADULTS 19 AND OLDER WITH 00:19:32.571 --> 00:19:33.505 UNSATISFACTORY IMMIGRATION 00:19:33.572 --> 00:19:35.040 STATUS. AND FINALLY, IT 00:19:35.107 --> 00:19:37.142 APPROPRIATES UP TO 576 MILLION 00:19:37.209 --> 00:19:38.777 OVER FOUR YEARS FROM THE AIDS 00:19:38.844 --> 00:19:40.012 DRUG ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, OR 00:19:40.078 --> 00:19:42.548 ADAP REBATE FUND, TO SUPPORT 00:19:42.614 --> 00:19:43.749 SERVICES FOR THOSE LIVING WITH 00:19:43.815 --> 00:19:47.953 AND AT K 00:19:48.020 --> 00:19:51.890 BILL IS AB 165 ON SKILLED 00:19:51.957 --> 00:19:54.092 NURSING FACILITIES. AND 00:19:54.159 --> 00:19:55.193 GENERALLY SPEAKING, THIS BILL 00:19:55.260 --> 00:19:56.495 PROVIDES A ONE YEAR EXTENSION 00:19:56.562 --> 00:19:58.096 OF THE SKILLED NURSING FACILITY, 00:19:58.163 --> 00:19:59.431 QUALITY ASSURANCE FEE AND LONG 00:19:59.498 --> 00:20:02.401 TERM CARE REIMBURSEMENT ACT TO 00:20:02.467 --> 00:20:05.637 DECEMBER OF NEXT YEAR, 2027. 00:20:05.704 --> 00:20:08.140 THE NEXT BILL IS A B 166, WHICH 00:20:08.206 --> 00:20:10.275 IS THE RESOURCES TRAILER BILL, 00:20:10.342 --> 00:20:12.277 AND THIS IS A NATURAL RESOURCES 00:20:12.344 --> 00:20:13.645 AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 00:20:13.712 --> 00:20:14.913 TRAILER BILL THAT EXTENDS THE 00:20:14.980 --> 00:20:16.381 PLASTIC MARKET DEVELOPMENT 00:20:16.448 --> 00:20:18.617 PAYMENT PROGRAM TO 2029 AND 00:20:18.684 --> 00:20:19.885 PROVIDES CLARIFICATION, 00:20:19.952 --> 00:20:21.386 TECHNICAL CLEANUP AND NECESSARY 00:20:21.453 --> 00:20:23.221 UPDATES TO THE CALIFORNIA FIRE 00:20:23.288 --> 00:20:24.690 SERVICE TRAINING AND EDUCATION 00:20:24.756 --> 00:20:26.325 PROGRAM. THE CALIFORNIA FIRE 00:20:26.391 --> 00:20:28.327 AND ARSON TRAINING PROGRAM ACT, 00:20:28.393 --> 00:20:29.728 SORRY TRAINING ACT, AND THE 00:20:29.795 --> 00:20:32.564 GENERATION AND HANDLING FEE. 00:20:32.631 --> 00:20:34.333 AND LET ME SAY THANK YOU. WHEN 00:20:34.399 --> 00:20:36.134 I WAS RESOURCES SECRETARY ONE 00:20:36.201 --> 00:20:37.235 YEAR, THE RESOURCES TRAILER 00:20:37.302 --> 00:20:39.471 BILL WAS NEVER APPROVED. IN 00:20:39.538 --> 00:20:40.272 ANOTHER YEAR. IT WENT TO THE 00:20:40.339 --> 00:20:42.074 LAST WEEK. SO THIS IS 00:20:42.140 --> 00:20:43.442 UNBELIEVABLY TIMELY. SO THANK 00:20:43.508 --> 00:20:48.413 YOU. OKAY. THE NEXT BILL IS A B 00:20:48.480 --> 00:20:50.415 168. THE PUBLIC RESOURCES OR 00:20:50.482 --> 00:20:53.151 THE ENERGY TRAILER BILL. THIS 00:20:53.218 --> 00:20:54.219 BILL ESTABLISHES A NEW 00:20:54.286 --> 00:20:55.687 INCENTIVE PROGRAM FOR FIRST 00:20:55.754 --> 00:20:57.522 TIME BUYERS OF LIGHT DUTY, ZERO 00:20:57.589 --> 00:20:58.890 EMISSION VEHICLES. THE BUDGET 00:20:58.957 --> 00:21:01.827 INCLUDES 135.5 MILLION ONE TIME 00:21:01.893 --> 00:21:02.995 SPECIAL FUNDS. FOR THIS PURPOSE, 00:21:03.061 --> 00:21:04.963 IT AUTHORIZES FUNDS PREVIOUSLY 00:21:05.030 --> 00:21:06.798 PROVIDED FOR THE DISTRIBUTED 00:21:06.865 --> 00:21:08.500 ENERGY BACKUP ASSETS PROGRAM TO 00:21:08.567 --> 00:21:10.268 BE USED FOR THE DEMAND SIDE 00:21:10.335 --> 00:21:11.570 GRID SUPPORT PROGRAM. IT 00:21:11.637 --> 00:21:12.638 ADJUSTS THE ANNUAL SALARY OF 00:21:12.704 --> 00:21:13.705 THE VICE CHAIR OF THE 00:21:13.772 --> 00:21:15.374 CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION. 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:16.642 IT CLARIFIES THAT CONTRACTS 00:21:16.708 --> 00:21:18.310 WITH THE WESTERN CLIMATE 00:21:18.377 --> 00:21:20.445 INITIATIVE TO OPERATE THE CAP 00:21:20.512 --> 00:21:21.713 AND INVEST AUCTIONS ARE PART OF 00:21:21.780 --> 00:21:23.248 A MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT. AND 00:21:23.315 --> 00:21:24.650 FINALLY, IT MAKES CLARIFYING 00:21:24.716 --> 00:21:26.218 AND TECHNICAL CHANGES TO THE 00:21:26.284 --> 00:21:28.820 WILDFIRE FUND. AND THE NEXT 00:21:28.887 --> 00:21:33.759 BILL IS A B 169 TRANSPORTATION 00:21:33.825 --> 00:21:37.829 TRAILER BILL A B 169. AMONG 00:21:37.896 --> 00:21:39.564 VARIOUS CHANGES, SUPPORTS 00:21:39.631 --> 00:21:40.666 MODERNIZATION EFFORTS AT THE 00:21:40.732 --> 00:21:41.733 DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES 00:21:41.800 --> 00:21:43.168 THROUGH EFFICIENCIES, AS WELL 00:21:43.235 --> 00:21:44.903 AS AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF 00:21:44.970 --> 00:21:45.704 CALIFORNIANS THAT CAN RECEIVE A 00:21:45.771 --> 00:21:47.472 MOBILE DRIVER'S LICENSE THROUGH 00:21:47.539 --> 00:21:49.608 DMV PILOT PROGRAM. THE BILL 00:21:49.675 --> 00:21:51.009 ALSO INCLUDES ENABLING 00:21:51.076 --> 00:21:52.177 STATUTORY CHANGES AND 00:21:52.244 --> 00:21:53.645 ACCOMPANYING SAFEGUARDS FOR DMV 00:21:53.712 --> 00:21:55.747 TO MEET FEDERAL REAL ID 00:21:55.814 --> 00:21:57.215 REQUIREMENTS, AND AUTHORIZES 00:21:57.282 --> 00:21:58.617 AUTOMATED ENFORCEMENT FOR THE 00:21:58.684 --> 00:21:59.651 GAMES ROUTE NETWORK. THAT 00:21:59.718 --> 00:22:01.420 CALTRANS WILL STAND UP ON THE 00:22:01.486 --> 00:22:03.689 STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM FOR THE 00:22:03.755 --> 00:22:07.959 2028 LOS ANGELES OLYMPICS. THE 00:22:08.026 --> 00:22:11.596 NEXT BILL IS A B 170, WHICH IS 00:22:11.663 --> 00:22:13.398 THE GOVERNOR'S REORGANIZATION 00:22:13.465 --> 00:22:18.837 PLAN OF 2025 OR ON HOUSING. THE 00:22:18.904 --> 00:22:19.871 HOUSING AND HOMELESS TRAILER 00:22:19.938 --> 00:22:21.640 BILL CODIFIES THE GOVERNOR'S 00:22:21.707 --> 00:22:23.508 REORGANIZATION PLAN, OR GRP 00:22:23.575 --> 00:22:25.277 2025, WHICH DISSOLVES THE 00:22:25.343 --> 00:22:26.712 BUSINESS, CONSUMER SERVICES AND 00:22:26.778 --> 00:22:29.214 HOUSING AGENCY AND CREATES TWO 00:22:29.281 --> 00:22:30.315 STANDALONE CABINET LEVEL 00:22:30.382 --> 00:22:31.349 AGENCIES, THE FIRST BEING 00:22:31.416 --> 00:22:32.451 CALIFORNIA HOUSING AND 00:22:32.517 --> 00:22:34.720 HOMELESSNESS AGENCY, AND SECOND 00:22:34.786 --> 00:22:36.488 BEING BUSINESS AND CONSUMER 00:22:36.555 --> 00:22:38.223 SERVICES AGENCY, AND THIS 00:22:38.290 --> 00:22:41.159 BECOMES OPERATIONAL JULY 1ST OF 00:22:41.226 --> 00:22:45.363 2026. THE NEXT BILL IS AB 171 00:22:45.430 --> 00:22:48.266 AND IT IS A LABOR TRAILER BILL. 00:22:48.333 --> 00:22:50.469 THIS BILL ADOPTS COMPREHENSIVE 00:22:50.535 --> 00:22:51.903 REFORMS TO THE SUBSEQUENT 00:22:51.970 --> 00:22:53.672 INJURIES BENEFITS TRUST FUND 00:22:53.739 --> 00:22:55.340 PROGRAM TO REFOCUS THE PROGRAM 00:22:55.407 --> 00:22:56.742 ON ITS ORIGINAL INTENT AND 00:22:56.808 --> 00:22:58.110 PROTECT THE VIABILITY OF THE 00:22:58.176 --> 00:22:59.010 PROGRAM AND THE BENEFITS IT 00:22:59.077 --> 00:23:00.912 PROVIDES TO INJURED WORKERS. IT 00:23:00.979 --> 00:23:02.414 INCLUDES 3 BILLION IN 00:23:02.481 --> 00:23:03.815 PROPOSITION TWO FUNDING FOR THE 00:23:03.882 --> 00:23:05.250 CALPERS SUPPLEMENTAL PENSION 00:23:05.317 --> 00:23:07.018 PAYMENT IN THE BUDGET YEAR 00:23:07.085 --> 00:23:08.487 INCLUDES 1 MILLION GENERAL FUND 00:23:08.553 --> 00:23:09.488 FOR ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS TO 00:23:09.554 --> 00:23:11.123 IMPLEMENT THE FAIR SHARE ACT IF 00:23:11.189 --> 00:23:14.593 ENACTED BY AB, SB 177, IT MAKES 00:23:14.659 --> 00:23:18.196 OTHER VARIOUS TECHNICAL CHANGES, 00:23:18.263 --> 00:23:20.699 AND THE NEXT BILL IS AB 172, 00:23:20.766 --> 00:23:21.900 WHICH IS THE STATE GOVERNMENT 00:23:21.967 --> 00:23:23.235 OR GENERAL GOVERNMENT TRAILER 00:23:23.301 --> 00:23:25.604 BILL. AND THIS BILL INCREASES 00:23:25.670 --> 00:23:26.738 FEES FOR THE CALIFORNIA STATE 00:23:26.805 --> 00:23:28.306 ATHLETIC COMMISSION. IT 00:23:28.373 --> 00:23:29.341 AUTHORIZES THE OFFICE OF LAND 00:23:29.407 --> 00:23:31.143 USE AND CLIMATE INNOVATION TO 00:23:31.209 --> 00:23:32.210 ESTABLISH AND COLLECT FEES FOR 00:23:32.277 --> 00:23:34.312 THE SUBMISSION OF CALIFORNIA 00:23:34.379 --> 00:23:35.881 ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT 00:23:35.947 --> 00:23:37.015 DOCUMENTS TO SUPPORT THE COST 00:23:37.082 --> 00:23:38.383 OF OPERATING, MAINTAINING AND 00:23:38.450 --> 00:23:39.151 ENHANCING THE STATE 00:23:39.217 --> 00:23:40.919 CLEARINGHOUSE DATABASE. IT 00:23:40.986 --> 00:23:41.953 CODIFIES THE FARM TO SCHOOL 00:23:42.020 --> 00:23:42.821 PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF 00:23:42.888 --> 00:23:44.523 FOOD AND AGRICULTURE. IT SHIFTS 00:23:44.589 --> 00:23:45.957 CLERICAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE 00:23:46.024 --> 00:23:46.958 STATE RACETRACK LEASING 00:23:47.025 --> 00:23:47.926 COMMISSION FROM THE DEPARTMENT 00:23:47.993 --> 00:23:49.227 OF FINANCE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF 00:23:49.294 --> 00:23:51.363 FOOD AND AGRICULTURE, AND IT 00:23:51.429 --> 00:23:52.330 AUTHORIZES CERTAIN EXPENDITURES 00:23:52.397 --> 00:23:53.498 FROM THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 00:23:53.565 --> 00:23:55.433 FUND TO BE EXEMPT FROM THE CAP 00:23:55.500 --> 00:23:57.435 ON ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS FOR THE 00:23:57.502 --> 00:24:01.106 FUND. AND THE NEXT BILL IS AB 00:24:01.173 --> 00:24:03.208 174 THE COURT TRAILER BILL. THE 00:24:03.275 --> 00:24:04.743 COURT'S TRAILER BILL EXTENDS 00:24:04.810 --> 00:24:06.077 THE DEADLINE FOR SUPERIOR 00:24:06.144 --> 00:24:07.979 COURTS TO PROVIDE COURT USERS 00:24:08.046 --> 00:24:09.414 ACCESS TO LACTATION ROOMS FROM 00:24:09.481 --> 00:24:12.217 JULY 1ST, 2026 TO JULY 1ST, 00:24:12.284 --> 00:24:13.618 2029, AND IT EXTENDS THE 00:24:13.685 --> 00:24:15.086 AUTHORITY FOR COURTS TO CONDUCT 00:24:15.153 --> 00:24:16.855 REMOTE COURT PROCEEDINGS IN 00:24:16.922 --> 00:24:18.523 SPECIFIED CASES TO JANUARY 1ST 00:24:18.590 --> 00:24:24.429 OF 2032. AND THE NEXT BILL IS A 00:24:24.496 --> 00:24:28.033 B 179. THE TRAILER BILL ANOTHER 00:24:28.099 --> 00:24:30.902 TRAILER BILL ON HOUSING, MOST 00:24:30.969 --> 00:24:31.970 NOTABLY THE HOUSING AND 00:24:32.037 --> 00:24:33.438 HOMELESSNESS TRAILER BILL 00:24:33.505 --> 00:24:34.973 LANGUAGE DOES THE FOLLOWING. IT 00:24:35.040 --> 00:24:36.741 ALIGNS LOCAL POLICIES TO LOWER 00:24:36.808 --> 00:24:38.076 COSTS FOR STATE FUNDED HOUSING 00:24:38.143 --> 00:24:39.144 PROGRAMS BY DIRECTING STATE 00:24:39.211 --> 00:24:40.345 DOLLARS TOWARDS BUILDING 00:24:40.412 --> 00:24:41.713 AFFORDABLE HOUSING, RATHER THAN 00:24:41.780 --> 00:24:43.548 OFFSETTING LOCALLY IMPOSED 00:24:43.615 --> 00:24:44.950 COSTS. IT ESTABLISHES A 00:24:45.016 --> 00:24:46.117 DISASTER REBUILDING FUND, WHICH 00:24:46.184 --> 00:24:47.219 IS AIMED AT SUPPORTING 00:24:47.285 --> 00:24:48.520 RESIDENTIAL REBUILDING IN 00:24:48.587 --> 00:24:50.055 DISASTER IMPACTED AREAS AND HAS 00:24:50.121 --> 00:24:51.857 FUNDING INCLUDED IN THE BUDGET 00:24:51.923 --> 00:24:53.959 BILL. IT FURTHER INTEGRATES AND 00:24:54.025 --> 00:24:54.960 STRENGTHENS THE STATE'S 00:24:55.026 --> 00:24:55.760 AFFORDABLE HOUSING FINANCE 00:24:55.827 --> 00:24:57.262 SYSTEM BY IMPROVING THE 00:24:57.329 --> 00:24:58.663 ALIGNMENT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING 00:24:58.730 --> 00:24:59.731 PROGRAMS TO BETTER COORDINATE 00:24:59.798 --> 00:25:01.833 STATE HOUSING RESOURCES. IT 00:25:01.900 --> 00:25:02.801 MAKES PROGRAMMATIC CHANGES TO 00:25:02.868 --> 00:25:04.035 THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND 00:25:04.102 --> 00:25:05.203 SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES PROGRAM 00:25:05.270 --> 00:25:07.105 TO STREAMLINE ADMINISTRATION 00:25:07.172 --> 00:25:08.740 AND BETTER LEVERAGE 00:25:08.807 --> 00:25:10.475 COMPLEMENTARY HOUSING SUBSIDIES. 00:25:10.542 --> 00:25:11.977 IT INCLUDES THE ENHANCED 00:25:12.043 --> 00:25:13.078 ACCOUNTABILITY AND PERFORMANCE 00:25:13.144 --> 00:25:15.914 MEASURES FOR HOME FOR THE 00:25:15.981 --> 00:25:17.282 HOMELESS HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND 00:25:17.349 --> 00:25:19.150 PREVENTION PROGRAM. AS WE ALL 00:25:19.217 --> 00:25:20.852 KNOW, WE ALL KNOW THIS HAS 00:25:20.919 --> 00:25:24.623 HAPPENED. AND MOVING ON TO THE 00:25:24.689 --> 00:25:28.159 NEXT TRAILER BILL AB 180 IS THE 00:25:28.226 --> 00:25:30.028 TAXATION TRAILER BILL. THIS 00:25:30.095 --> 00:25:32.163 BILL REPLACES THE 1% CAP OF THE 00:25:32.230 --> 00:25:33.899 PROPERTY TAX POSTPONEMENT 00:25:33.965 --> 00:25:35.333 PROGRAM WITH A FIXED ANNUAL 00:25:35.400 --> 00:25:37.235 ALLOCATION OF UP TO 300,000 FOR 00:25:37.302 --> 00:25:38.937 MANUFACTURED HOME POSTPONEMENTS. 00:25:39.004 --> 00:25:40.305 IT EXTENDS THE CALIFORNIA 00:25:40.372 --> 00:25:41.806 COMPETES TAX CREDIT PROGRAM FOR 00:25:41.873 --> 00:25:43.074 FIVE YEARS, PROVIDING CERTAINTY 00:25:43.141 --> 00:25:44.709 FOR HOUSE FOR CALIFORNIA 00:25:44.776 --> 00:25:45.810 BUSINESSES. REGARDING THIS 00:25:45.877 --> 00:25:47.879 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE, 00:25:47.946 --> 00:25:49.581 AND IT EXCLUDES CONTRIBUTIONS 00:25:49.648 --> 00:25:51.116 TO THE NEW FEDERAL SAVINGS 00:25:51.182 --> 00:25:52.017 ACCOUNTS FOR CHILDREN REFERRED 00:25:52.083 --> 00:25:54.419 TO AS TRUMP ACCOUNTS FROM STATE 00:25:54.486 --> 00:25:55.820 TAXABLE INCOME CONFORMING WITH 00:25:55.887 --> 00:26:00.191 FEDERAL LAW. OKAY. AND THOSE 00:26:00.258 --> 00:26:03.929 WERE THE BUDGET RELATED BILLS 00:26:03.995 --> 00:26:05.563 AND TRAILER BILLS. SO MOVING ON 00:26:05.630 --> 00:26:08.099 TO AB 181, WHICH IS THE 00:26:08.166 --> 00:26:10.702 EDUCATION GOVERNANCE BILL. SO 00:26:10.769 --> 00:26:12.404 THIS BILL ESTABLISHES THE 00:26:12.470 --> 00:26:13.571 POSITION OF EDUCATION 00:26:13.638 --> 00:26:14.572 COMMISSIONER APPOINTED BY THE 00:26:14.639 --> 00:26:15.840 GOVERNOR AND CONFIRMED BY THE 00:26:15.907 --> 00:26:17.442 SENATE TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR 00:26:17.509 --> 00:26:18.476 THE DAILY MANAGEMENT OF THE 00:26:18.543 --> 00:26:19.644 CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF 00:26:19.711 --> 00:26:20.779 EDUCATION. BEGINNING ON JANUARY 00:26:20.845 --> 00:26:22.881 1ST OF 2027, THE STATE BOARD OF 00:26:22.948 --> 00:26:24.049 EDUCATION WOULD CONTINUE TO 00:26:24.115 --> 00:26:25.417 SERVE AS THE GOVERNING AND 00:26:25.483 --> 00:26:27.552 POLICY DETERMINING BODY OF THE 00:26:27.619 --> 00:26:29.054 DEPARTMENT. THE BILL ALSO 00:26:29.120 --> 00:26:30.522 LEVERAGES THE ROLES THE 00:26:30.588 --> 00:26:31.156 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC 00:26:31.222 --> 00:26:32.624 INSTRUCTION HAS ON THE CSU 00:26:32.691 --> 00:26:33.692 BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND UC 00:26:33.758 --> 00:26:35.060 REGENTS. BY ADDING THE 00:26:35.126 --> 00:26:36.561 SUPERINTENDENT AS A VOTING 00:26:36.628 --> 00:26:37.762 MEMBER TO BOTH THE STATE BOARD 00:26:37.829 --> 00:26:39.397 OF EDUCATION AND THE CALIFORNIA 00:26:39.464 --> 00:26:40.865 COMMUNITY COLLEGES BOARD OF 00:26:40.932 --> 00:26:42.334 GOVERNORS. EMPOWERING THE 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:43.435 SUPERINTENDENT TO BE A POLICY 00:26:43.501 --> 00:26:44.736 LEADER ACROSS OUR PUBLIC 00:26:44.803 --> 00:26:49.841 EDUCATION SYSTEM. AND. THE LAST 00:26:49.908 --> 00:26:52.510 BILL IS ANOTHER POLICY, BILL 00:26:52.577 --> 00:26:54.579 8182. THIS POLICY BILL IS AN 00:26:54.646 --> 00:26:56.348 URGENCY STATUTE THAT HAS NO 00:26:56.414 --> 00:26:58.183 FISCAL IMPACT. THIS BILL IS 00:26:58.249 --> 00:26:59.250 NECESSARY FOR THE SECRETARY OF 00:26:59.317 --> 00:27:00.352 STATE AND COUNTY ELECTION 00:27:00.418 --> 00:27:01.619 OFFICIALS TO PREPARE BALLOTS 00:27:01.686 --> 00:27:03.588 AND RELATED MATERIALS FOR THE 00:27:03.655 --> 00:27:04.990 NOVEMBER 3RD, 2026 STATEWIDE 00:27:05.056 --> 00:27:07.492 GENERAL ELECTION, AND THEREFORE 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:09.661 MUST TAKE EFFECT IMMEDIATELY. 00:27:09.728 --> 00:27:11.563 THIS BILL SPECIFIES THAT FIVE 00:27:11.629 --> 00:27:12.397 PARTICULAR MEASURES SUBMITTED 00:27:12.464 --> 00:27:14.199 TO THE VOTERS AT THE NOVEMBER 00:27:14.265 --> 00:27:15.500 3RD STATEWIDE GENERAL ELECTION 00:27:15.567 --> 00:27:16.835 WILL BE THE FIRST FIVE MEASURES 00:27:16.901 --> 00:27:19.004 TO APPEAR ON THE BALLOT. THE 00:27:19.070 --> 00:27:20.105 BILL WILL NOT AFFECT THE 00:27:20.171 --> 00:27:21.172 PLACEMENT OR NUMBERING OF ANY 00:27:21.239 --> 00:27:22.907 OTHER MEASURE THAT WILL BE 00:27:22.974 --> 00:27:24.042 SUBMITTED TO THE VOTERS AT THE 00:27:24.109 --> 00:27:26.644 SAME ELECTION, AND THE BALLOT 00:27:26.711 --> 00:27:27.979 MEASURES ARE TO BE NUMBERED AS 00:27:28.046 --> 00:27:29.814 FOLLOWS. PROPOSITION ONE IS THE 00:27:29.881 --> 00:27:30.782 VETERANS AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING 00:27:30.849 --> 00:27:33.318 BOND ACT OF 2026. PROPOSITION 00:27:33.385 --> 00:27:34.486 TWO IS THE SAVE FOR 00:27:34.552 --> 00:27:36.621 CALIFORNIA'S FUTURE ACT. 00:27:36.688 --> 00:27:37.756 PROPOSITION THREE IS THE 00:27:37.822 --> 00:27:39.057 CALIFORNIA CHILDREN'S EDUCATION 00:27:39.124 --> 00:27:40.158 AND HEALTH CARE PROTECTION ACT 00:27:40.225 --> 00:27:42.827 OF 2026. PROPOSITION FOUR IS A 00:27:42.894 --> 00:27:43.928 CALIFORNIA FAIR ELECTIONS ACT 00:27:43.995 --> 00:27:45.997 OF 2026. AND LASTLY, 00:27:46.064 --> 00:27:47.132 PROPOSITION FIVE IS THE SENATE 00:27:47.198 --> 00:27:47.999 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, ONE 00:27:48.066 --> 00:27:51.202 OF THE 2324 REGULAR SESSION. 00:27:51.269 --> 00:27:52.937 AND WITH THAT, I AM DONE WITH 00:27:53.004 --> 00:27:54.039 THE PRESENTATION OF THE BILLS. 00:27:54.105 --> 00:27:55.840 THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 00:27:55.907 --> 00:27:58.376 LET ME ASK. OKAY. NOTHING FROM 00:27:58.443 --> 00:28:01.179 THE LÀ Ó, BUT THEY ARE HERE. 00:28:01.246 --> 00:28:02.981 LET ME JUST SAY TO MEMBERS OR 00:28:03.048 --> 00:28:04.416 MEMBER STAFFS, IF YOU'RE 00:28:04.482 --> 00:28:05.517 LISTENING, WE ONLY HAVE SEVEN 00:28:05.583 --> 00:28:06.618 PEOPLE HERE. WE'RE THREE SHORT 00:28:06.684 --> 00:28:08.520 OF A QUORUM. WE ARE ABOUT TO 00:28:08.586 --> 00:28:10.288 MOVE TO QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS 00:28:10.355 --> 00:28:11.856 FROM COMMITTEE MEMBERS. YOU 00:28:11.923 --> 00:28:13.625 COULD MISS THAT IF YOU DON'T 00:28:13.691 --> 00:28:16.361 COME TO THE ROOM. SO LET ME ASK 00:28:16.428 --> 00:28:17.896 WHO WOULD LIKE TO ASK QUESTIONS 00:28:17.962 --> 00:28:22.700 OR COMMENTS? I'LL CREATE A LIST. 00:28:22.767 --> 00:28:33.611 OKAY, THIS. OKAY. SENATOR 00:28:33.678 --> 00:28:34.979 RICHARDSON, DID I SEE YOUR HAND? 00:28:35.046 --> 00:28:37.916 YES. OKAY. OF COURSE. I'LL GO 00:28:37.982 --> 00:28:43.955 AFTER HER. OKAY. ANYONE ELSE? 00:28:44.022 --> 00:28:49.794 OKAY. GREAT. THEN WE WILL BRING 00:28:49.861 --> 00:28:52.564 THE MATTER BACK AND WE'LL START 00:28:52.630 --> 00:28:54.499 WITH SENATOR SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS 00:28:54.566 --> 00:28:58.303 AND SENATOR BARRASSO IS ON DECK. 00:28:58.369 --> 00:29:01.206 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. AND GOOD 00:29:01.272 --> 00:29:03.141 MORNING, COLLEAGUES, AND REALLY 00:29:03.208 --> 00:29:07.378 APPRECIATE THE VERY SPEEDY 00:29:07.445 --> 00:29:09.914 OVERVIEW OF ALL OF THE BUDGET 00:29:09.981 --> 00:29:12.383 ITEMS AND AND SOME OF THE PUNCH 00:29:12.450 --> 00:29:15.353 LINES ON THE BUDGET. I THINK WE 00:29:15.420 --> 00:29:17.155 HAVE BEEN IN A LONG 00:29:17.222 --> 00:29:18.957 CONVERSATION. THIS BUDGET HAS 00:29:19.023 --> 00:29:21.759 BEEN CERTAINLY A DIFFICULT ONE 00:29:21.826 --> 00:29:24.295 IN SO MANY WAYS, AND IT REALLY 00:29:24.362 --> 00:29:26.965 IS A MOMENT FOR US TO DEMAND 00:29:27.031 --> 00:29:30.068 SOME HONESTY HERE IN TERMS OF 00:29:30.135 --> 00:29:31.970 WHERE WE'RE GOING, IN TERMS OF 00:29:32.036 --> 00:29:34.038 WHO WE'RE LEAVING BEHIND AND 00:29:34.105 --> 00:29:37.976 WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TO TO 00:29:38.042 --> 00:29:41.579 FIX THAT? THESE ARE, YOU KNOW, 00:29:41.646 --> 00:29:43.815 THESE VOTES ARE NOT ACCIDENTAL 00:29:43.882 --> 00:29:45.850 TODAY. A LOT OF IT HAS COME 00:29:45.917 --> 00:29:47.652 FROM WASHINGTON. A LOT OF IT 00:29:47.719 --> 00:29:49.220 HAS BEEN ABOUT THE DECISIONS 00:29:49.287 --> 00:29:52.390 MADE AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL AND 00:29:52.457 --> 00:29:53.458 WASHINGTON ESSENTIALLY TURNING 00:29:53.525 --> 00:29:55.260 ITS BACK ON WORKING PEOPLE, 00:29:55.326 --> 00:29:56.461 PARTICULARLY THOSE WORKING IN 00:29:56.528 --> 00:29:59.264 LOW WAGE SECTORS WHO RELY ON 00:29:59.330 --> 00:30:02.433 MEDI-CAL SERVICES, FOOD 00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:04.536 SERVICES AND THE SAFETY NET AND 00:30:04.602 --> 00:30:06.004 STATES LIKE CALIFORNIA. IT'S 00:30:06.070 --> 00:30:07.906 REALLY OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO 00:30:07.972 --> 00:30:10.742 MAKE SURE THAT THOSE WORKING 00:30:10.808 --> 00:30:12.210 FAMILIES ARE NOT ARE NOT 00:30:12.277 --> 00:30:13.578 STANDING ALONE. AND I THINK 00:30:13.645 --> 00:30:15.780 THIS BUDGET ATTEMPTS TO DO THAT 00:30:15.847 --> 00:30:18.149 IN A SERIOUS WAY FOR SOME, BUT 00:30:18.216 --> 00:30:20.952 CERTAINLY NOT NOT FOR ALL. AND 00:30:21.019 --> 00:30:26.157 I WANT TO CALL ATTENTION TO. A 00:30:26.224 --> 00:30:30.061 B 171 IN PARTICULAR, SECTION 26 00:30:30.128 --> 00:30:32.664 OF THIS MEASURE FOR FUNDING FOR 00:30:32.730 --> 00:30:34.399 THE SHARE FAIR SHARE FOR FOR 00:30:34.465 --> 00:30:36.935 BIG CORPORATIONS ACT. THIS IS 00:30:37.001 --> 00:30:37.936 SOMETHING A LOT OF OUR 00:30:38.002 --> 00:30:39.404 COLLEAGUES IN THE SENATE, 00:30:39.470 --> 00:30:41.906 INCLUDING MYSELF, WORKED ON 00:30:41.973 --> 00:30:44.108 BECAUSE OUR CONSTITUENTS FELT 00:30:44.175 --> 00:30:46.978 IT WAS AN ISSUE OF FAIRNESS, 00:30:47.045 --> 00:30:49.847 THAT IT WAS ABOUT MAKING SURE 00:30:49.914 --> 00:30:52.050 THAT WORKING PEOPLE ALONE WERE 00:30:52.116 --> 00:30:53.818 NOT CARRYING THE BURDEN 00:30:53.885 --> 00:30:55.587 THEMSELVES. AND WE TRIED TO GET 00:30:55.653 --> 00:30:57.522 AS FAR AS WE COULD WITH THIS. 00:30:57.589 --> 00:30:59.624 BUT APPRECIATING THIS LANDING 00:30:59.691 --> 00:31:01.392 PLACE, WHICH TO ME IS REALLY A 00:31:01.459 --> 00:31:02.860 SPRINGBOARD INTO THE WORK THAT 00:31:02.927 --> 00:31:06.397 WE HAVE TO DO NEXT YEAR. RIGHT 00:31:06.464 --> 00:31:09.567 NOW, WE ARE ASKING COMMUNITIES, 00:31:09.634 --> 00:31:11.402 PARTICULARLY OUR LOW WAGE 00:31:11.469 --> 00:31:12.837 COMMUNITIES, ARE UNDOCUMENTED 00:31:12.904 --> 00:31:14.672 COMMUNITIES, OUR IMMIGRANT 00:31:14.739 --> 00:31:16.841 COMMUNITIES, TO ABSORB AN 00:31:16.908 --> 00:31:19.377 INCREDIBLE BURDEN, WHILE AT THE 00:31:19.444 --> 00:31:20.778 SAME TIME WE HAVE SOME OF THE 00:31:20.845 --> 00:31:23.248 MOST PROFITABLE CORPORATIONS IN 00:31:23.314 --> 00:31:25.550 THE WORLD WHO ARE ESSENTIALLY 00:31:25.617 --> 00:31:27.986 SHIFTING THEIR COSTS FOR THEIR 00:31:28.052 --> 00:31:31.289 HEALTH CARE ON TO WORKING 00:31:31.356 --> 00:31:35.994 FAMILIES. THIS IS NOT A BALANCE 00:31:36.060 --> 00:31:37.195 FORMULA, AND I THINK FAIR SHARE 00:31:37.262 --> 00:31:39.197 IS ABOUT GETTING US TO A 00:31:39.264 --> 00:31:42.800 BALANCED AND FAIR FORMULA. WE 00:31:42.867 --> 00:31:45.303 CANNOT BUILD A STRONG ECONOMY 00:31:45.370 --> 00:31:47.405 ON UNSTABLE COMMUNITIES, AND I 00:31:47.472 --> 00:31:51.075 WANT IT TO BE CLEAR THAT THIS 00:31:51.142 --> 00:31:53.645 IS KICKING THE CAN DOWN ANOTHER 00:31:53.711 --> 00:31:57.582 YEAR. BUT IN THIS TIME, WE ARE 00:31:57.649 --> 00:31:59.684 ALREADY SEEING ABOUT 300,000 00:31:59.751 --> 00:32:01.886 FOLKS LOSE THEIR MEDI-CAL 00:32:01.953 --> 00:32:05.089 BENEFITS IN L.A. COUNTY ALREADY. 00:32:05.156 --> 00:32:07.558 FOLKS ARE VERY CONFUSED ABOUT 00:32:07.625 --> 00:32:10.461 THEIR FOOD BENEFITS. AND WHEN 00:32:10.528 --> 00:32:13.064 YOU TAKE FOOD AND YOU TAKE 00:32:13.131 --> 00:32:15.300 HEALTH CARE AWAY, THOSE ARE THE 00:32:15.366 --> 00:32:16.801 THINGS THAT ARE RIGHTS. THOSE 00:32:16.868 --> 00:32:18.536 ARE THE THINGS THAT MAKE US 00:32:18.603 --> 00:32:20.204 HUMAN IN TERMS OF OUR SAFETY 00:32:20.271 --> 00:32:22.473 NET AND OUR CARE FOR ONE 00:32:22.540 --> 00:32:24.542 ANOTHER. AND WHEN WE TAKE THOSE 00:32:24.609 --> 00:32:26.077 THINGS AWAY, IT CREATES A LEVEL 00:32:26.144 --> 00:32:29.213 OF DESPERATION THAT CAUSES A 00:32:29.280 --> 00:32:30.815 VERY SERIOUS RIPPLE EFFECT. AND 00:32:30.882 --> 00:32:34.552 I WANT TO SAY SOUTH CENTRAL HAS 00:32:34.619 --> 00:32:36.387 BEEN A TESTING GROUND FOR THESE 00:32:36.454 --> 00:32:39.257 KINDS OF DRAMATIC SHIFTS IN OUR 00:32:39.324 --> 00:32:40.725 ECONOMY AND DRAMATIC CUTS TO 00:32:40.792 --> 00:32:44.662 OUR SAFETY NET. AND THAT 00:32:44.729 --> 00:32:46.130 DESPERATION TURNS INTO AN 00:32:46.197 --> 00:32:48.266 UNSAFE SITUATION FOR FAMILIES, 00:32:48.333 --> 00:32:50.435 FOR NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES, 00:32:50.501 --> 00:32:53.738 FOR OUR ENTIRE STATE. SO WE WE 00:32:53.805 --> 00:32:56.207 KNOW THIS IS A STEP, BUT A STEP 00:32:56.274 --> 00:32:58.776 IS NOT ENOUGH. WE NEED A SYSTEM, 00:32:58.843 --> 00:33:01.279 A SYSTEM WHERE WE CAN SHARE 00:33:01.346 --> 00:33:02.347 RESPONSIBILITY AND SHARE 00:33:02.413 --> 00:33:04.816 PROSPERITY. AND FOR ME, I THINK 00:33:04.882 --> 00:33:06.984 FAIR SHARE IS, IS, IS HOW WE'RE 00:33:07.051 --> 00:33:10.922 GOING TO DO IT. I WILL BE FULLY 00:33:10.988 --> 00:33:13.491 SUPPORTING THIS BILL AND WILL 00:33:13.558 --> 00:33:15.226 CONTINUE TO WORK AND HOPE THAT 00:33:15.293 --> 00:33:18.129 THE SENATE WILL WORK BOTH SIDES 00:33:18.196 --> 00:33:19.664 OF THE AISLE, BECAUSE THIS 00:33:19.731 --> 00:33:21.132 ISSUE OF FAIR SHARE IS ONE THAT 00:33:21.199 --> 00:33:25.036 IS UNDERSTOOD AND SUPPORTED BY 00:33:25.103 --> 00:33:27.171 REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS AND 00:33:27.238 --> 00:33:28.940 INDEPENDENTS ALIKE, IN TERMS OF 00:33:29.006 --> 00:33:30.775 WHAT THE DATA IS SHOWING US. 00:33:30.842 --> 00:33:32.577 AND CERTAINLY WE DON'T WANT 00:33:32.643 --> 00:33:34.112 CALIFORNIA TO BE THE OUTLIER AS 00:33:34.178 --> 00:33:37.248 NEW JERSEY AND COLORADO AND 00:33:37.315 --> 00:33:39.083 OTHER STATES, MARYLAND, ARE 00:33:39.150 --> 00:33:40.551 MOVING FORWARD WITH THESE 00:33:40.618 --> 00:33:42.420 INITIATIVES IN THIS BUDGET YEAR 00:33:42.487 --> 00:33:44.822 TO DEAL WITH H.R. ONE. SO I 00:33:44.889 --> 00:33:49.527 WANT TO SUPPORT THAT. I WANT TO 00:33:49.594 --> 00:33:57.769 ASK ONE QUESTION ON THE. ON THE 00:33:57.835 --> 00:34:00.671 ITEM AND FORGIVE ME. WHERE IS 00:34:00.738 --> 00:34:08.579 THIS ITEM ON? ON THE DELAYING 00:34:08.646 --> 00:34:18.689 OF RESOURCES ON AB 163. WELL, 00:34:18.756 --> 00:34:21.192 I'M SORRY. AB 164 I'M CURIOUS, 00:34:21.259 --> 00:34:24.095 DO WE HAVE A SENSE OF WHAT WILL 00:34:24.162 --> 00:34:28.699 HAPPEN TO THESE POPULATIONS WHO 00:34:28.766 --> 00:34:30.601 STAND TO LOSE THEIR BENEFITS ON 00:34:30.668 --> 00:34:34.338 JANUARY 1ST, 2027? DO WE HAVE A 00:34:34.405 --> 00:34:36.641 SENSE OF WHAT WHAT RECOURSE 00:34:36.707 --> 00:34:39.577 WILL THEY HAVE IN TERMS OF 00:34:39.644 --> 00:34:41.612 THEIR ACCESS TO CARE? AND DO WE 00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:43.448 HAVE A NUMBER OF HOW MANY 00:34:43.514 --> 00:34:46.017 FAMILIES WILL BE IMPACTED BY 00:34:46.083 --> 00:34:50.021 THESE NEW RULES TO TO DROP 00:34:50.087 --> 00:34:51.322 SERVICES FOR THESE POPULATIONS? 00:34:51.389 --> 00:34:54.992 AND THAT'S FOR THE MOVING, THE 00:34:55.059 --> 00:34:56.060 UNSATISFACTORY IMMIGRATION, 00:34:56.127 --> 00:34:57.962 THOSE WITH UNSATISFACTORY 00:34:58.029 --> 00:35:00.765 IMMIGRATION STATUS TO FEE FOR 00:35:00.832 --> 00:35:07.705 SERVICE. OKAY. SHE'S WONDERING 00:35:07.772 --> 00:35:19.884 WHAT THE IMPACTS ARE. CASELOAD. 00:35:19.951 --> 00:35:26.290 THE 39. THANK YOU SENATOR. SO. 00:35:26.357 --> 00:35:29.227 OH SORRY. DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. 00:35:29.293 --> 00:35:35.399 SO. IN TERMS OF OF THE 00:35:35.466 --> 00:35:37.401 TRANSITION, THE BUDGET OR THE 00:35:37.468 --> 00:35:39.971 BILL INCLUDES 39 MILLION FOR 00:35:40.037 --> 00:35:41.839 CARE COORDINATION SERVICES. AND 00:35:41.906 --> 00:35:43.207 THIS WILL PROVIDE FOR A 00:35:43.274 --> 00:35:45.176 CONTRACT TO FACILITATE THINGS 00:35:45.243 --> 00:35:48.579 LIKE AN ADVICE NURSE LINE AND, 00:35:48.646 --> 00:35:53.684 AND RESOURCES TO STAND UP. 00:35:53.751 --> 00:35:55.119 COORDINATION OF CARE FOR THESE 00:35:55.186 --> 00:35:56.020 INDIVIDUALS AS THEY TRANSITION 00:35:56.087 --> 00:35:58.956 TO THE FEE FOR SERVICE DELIVERY 00:35:59.023 --> 00:36:01.826 SYSTEM. AND I JUST, I JUST 00:36:01.893 --> 00:36:02.994 WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT 00:36:03.060 --> 00:36:04.862 THAT 39 MILLION IS, IS ON TOP 00:36:04.929 --> 00:36:06.797 OF WHAT WAS WE DISCUSSED AT THE 00:36:06.864 --> 00:36:08.099 TWO PARTY PLAN AFTER HAVING 00:36:08.165 --> 00:36:09.500 FURTHER DISCUSSIONS WITH 00:36:09.567 --> 00:36:11.002 LEGISLATURE IN TERMS OF THEIR 00:36:11.068 --> 00:36:12.803 CONCERNS, WE WORKED WITH THE 00:36:12.870 --> 00:36:16.707 DEPARTMENT IN ORDER TO CREATE A 00:36:16.774 --> 00:36:18.910 PATHWAY SO THAT WE COULD HAVE 00:36:18.976 --> 00:36:20.077 COORDINATION, BETTER 00:36:20.144 --> 00:36:21.512 COORDINATION OF CARE. SO I JUST 00:36:21.579 --> 00:36:23.047 WANT TO POINT THAT OUT, THAT 00:36:23.114 --> 00:36:24.248 THAT WAS IN RESPONSE TO SOME OF 00:36:24.315 --> 00:36:26.083 THE CONCERNS THAT WERE RAISED 00:36:26.150 --> 00:36:28.653 AT THE TWO PARTY PLAN. OKAY. 00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:31.088 AND FEE FOR SERVICE. THOSE 00:36:31.155 --> 00:36:35.126 FAMILIES THAT CAN'T AFFORD THAT 00:36:35.192 --> 00:36:38.663 SYSTEM AND PROCESS OR WHO ARE 00:36:38.729 --> 00:36:41.332 AND ARE ACUTELY ILL, WHERE WILL 00:36:41.399 --> 00:36:45.536 THEY GO TO GET THEIR CARE? SO 00:36:45.603 --> 00:36:46.971 IF I'M UNDERSTANDING YOUR 00:36:47.038 --> 00:36:48.639 QUESTION CORRECTLY, INDIVIDUALS 00:36:48.706 --> 00:36:50.541 WHO CURRENTLY QUALIFY IN THE 00:36:50.608 --> 00:36:51.976 SYSTEM UNDER MANAGED CARE, 00:36:52.043 --> 00:36:53.444 THEY'LL THEY'LL STILL QUALIFY 00:36:53.511 --> 00:36:56.814 UNDER FEE FOR SERVICE AS AS IT 00:36:56.881 --> 00:36:57.815 IS NOW, THEY'RE JUST 00:36:57.882 --> 00:36:58.883 TRANSITIONING TO A DIFFERENT 00:36:58.950 --> 00:37:03.888 DELIVERY SYSTEM. AND UNDER THAT 00:37:03.955 --> 00:37:07.825 SYSTEM, HOW HOW IS IS THE CARE 00:37:07.892 --> 00:37:08.926 COVERED BY THE STATE OF 00:37:08.993 --> 00:37:12.563 CALIFORNIA? SO IN THE FEE FOR 00:37:12.630 --> 00:37:14.332 SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEM, UNLIKE 00:37:14.398 --> 00:37:16.233 MANAGED CARE, THERE'S NO LONGER 00:37:16.300 --> 00:37:22.039 A PLAN THAT THAT FACILITATES 00:37:22.106 --> 00:37:23.207 PAYMENTS TO PROVIDERS. THE 00:37:23.274 --> 00:37:24.809 PAYMENTS ARE PROVIDED DIRECTLY 00:37:24.875 --> 00:37:26.344 THROUGH THE WHAT WE CALL THE 00:37:26.410 --> 00:37:27.812 FEE FOR SERVICE SYSTEM BY THE 00:37:27.878 --> 00:37:29.580 STATE. SO THERE'S NOT THAT THAT 00:37:29.647 --> 00:37:32.917 IN BETWEEN OF A PLAN. OKAY. AND 00:37:32.984 --> 00:37:34.852 IS THERE A SENSE OF WHAT'S THE 00:37:34.919 --> 00:37:35.853 TOTAL NUMBER THAT WE'RE 00:37:35.920 --> 00:37:36.921 SHIFTING OVER? I UNDERSTAND THE 00:37:36.988 --> 00:37:38.089 POPULATION, BUT CAN YOU GIVE ME 00:37:38.155 --> 00:37:40.458 A SENSE OF THE NUMBERS OF 00:37:40.524 --> 00:37:48.699 INDIVIDUALS? SURE. SURE. I 00:37:48.766 --> 00:37:50.101 THINK YEAH, I THINK 00:37:50.167 --> 00:37:51.535 APPROXIMATELY 2 MILLION 00:37:51.602 --> 00:37:53.738 INDIVIDUALS WILL TRANSITION TO 00:37:53.804 --> 00:37:56.574 FEE FOR SERVICE WHO CURRENTLY 00:37:56.641 --> 00:37:59.610 ARE CONSIDERED INDIVIDUALS WITH 00:37:59.677 --> 00:38:00.544 UNSATISFACTORY IMMIGRATION 00:38:00.611 --> 00:38:03.447 STATUS. OKAY. ANOTHER QUESTION 00:38:03.514 --> 00:38:07.351 I HAVE. SO IF A CONSTITUENT OF 00:38:07.418 --> 00:38:10.688 MINE IS UNDOCUMENTED IN 00:38:10.755 --> 00:38:15.359 SOUTHEAST LOS ANGELES AND IS 00:38:15.426 --> 00:38:17.528 NOT IN ANY OF THESE EXISTING 00:38:17.595 --> 00:38:20.297 BUCKETS IN TERMS OF FEE FOR 00:38:20.364 --> 00:38:24.635 SERVICE, IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, 00:38:24.702 --> 00:38:27.538 CURRENTLY ENROLLED, WHERE WOULD 00:38:27.605 --> 00:38:30.107 THEY GO TO GET CARE UNDER THIS 00:38:30.174 --> 00:38:31.475 NEW SYSTEM? AND I WANT TO 00:38:31.542 --> 00:38:32.309 CLARIFY, BECAUSE WE'VE GONE 00:38:32.376 --> 00:38:34.045 THROUGH SO MANY DIFFERENT 00:38:34.111 --> 00:38:36.614 CHANGES AND SHIFTS OVER TIME, I 00:38:36.681 --> 00:38:38.182 JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I'M 00:38:38.249 --> 00:38:39.250 UNDERSTANDING WHERE THEY WILL 00:38:39.316 --> 00:38:41.952 GO FOR CARE UNDER THIS NEW 00:38:42.019 --> 00:38:44.121 FUNDING RUBRIC. IF THAT 00:38:44.188 --> 00:38:45.589 INDIVIDUAL IS CURRENTLY A 00:38:45.656 --> 00:38:46.924 MEDI-CAL MEMBER, THEY WILL 00:38:46.991 --> 00:38:48.793 CONTINUE RECEIVING SERVICES 00:38:48.859 --> 00:38:50.327 THROUGH MEDI-CAL PROVIDERS WHO 00:38:50.394 --> 00:38:52.129 ALSO PROVIDE FOR FEE FOR 00:38:52.196 --> 00:38:53.931 SERVICE AND. AND PERHAPS IT'S 00:38:53.998 --> 00:38:56.534 HELPFUL TO ALSO MENTION THAT 00:38:56.600 --> 00:38:57.968 WITH THE PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS 00:38:58.035 --> 00:38:59.370 THAT LOOKS. AT SIX MONTHS OF 00:38:59.437 --> 00:39:00.805 DATA, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 00:39:00.871 --> 00:39:01.806 CARE SERVICES FOUND THAT 00:39:01.872 --> 00:39:04.442 APPROXIMATELY 79% OF MANAGED 00:39:04.508 --> 00:39:06.744 CARE PROVIDERS WHO SERVE THE. 00:39:06.811 --> 00:39:08.779 WE CALL THEM U. I S INDIVIDUALS 00:39:08.846 --> 00:39:10.815 WITH UNSATISFACTORY IMMIGRATION 00:39:10.881 --> 00:39:12.550 STATUS WHO SERVE U. I S MEMBERS 00:39:12.616 --> 00:39:15.820 ARE CURRENTLY. FEE FOR SERVICE 00:39:15.886 --> 00:39:21.892 PROVIDERS. 79% CORRECT. AND SO 00:39:21.959 --> 00:39:25.129 THE REMAINING PERCENT. WHAT 00:39:25.196 --> 00:39:27.665 WHAT WHAT SAFETY NET OR SYSTEM 00:39:27.732 --> 00:39:32.269 DO THEY FALL INTO? SO THE 79% 00:39:32.336 --> 00:39:35.573 IS PROVIDERS. SO 79% OF MANAGED 00:39:35.639 --> 00:39:37.341 CARE PROVIDERS ARE ALSO FEE FOR 00:39:37.408 --> 00:39:42.179 SERVICE PROVIDERS. SO I GUESS 00:39:42.246 --> 00:39:43.814 I'M TRYING TO UNDER OKAY. I'M 00:39:43.881 --> 00:39:44.915 SORRY. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE 00:39:44.982 --> 00:39:46.150 PROVIDERS. I'M TRYING TO 00:39:46.217 --> 00:39:47.852 UNDERSTAND WHERE DO THE 00:39:47.918 --> 00:39:48.953 INDIVIDUALS WHERE ARE THOSE 00:39:49.019 --> 00:39:51.088 INDIVIDUALS ABLE TO GO FOR CARE 00:39:51.155 --> 00:39:53.691 UNDER THE NEW FUNDING SYSTEMS? 00:39:53.758 --> 00:39:56.894 SORRY, I'M TRYING TO LOOK. OKAY. 00:39:56.961 --> 00:39:59.063 SO ARE YOU ASKING ABOUT IF 00:39:59.130 --> 00:40:00.898 SOMEONE IS CURRENTLY A MEDI-CAL 00:40:00.965 --> 00:40:02.600 MEMBER? NÓ IF THEY'RE NOT A 00:40:02.666 --> 00:40:04.034 MEDI-CAL MEMBER? SO IF THEY'RE 00:40:04.101 --> 00:40:07.671 NOT A MEDI-CAL MEMBER, THEN 00:40:07.738 --> 00:40:11.642 THEN THEY WOULD FALL INTO A 00:40:11.709 --> 00:40:14.178 CATEGORY OF INDIVIDUALS WHO WHO 00:40:14.245 --> 00:40:15.179 WOULD NOT RECEIVE FEE FOR 00:40:15.246 --> 00:40:16.947 SERVICE CARE. THEY NEED TO BE 00:40:17.014 --> 00:40:18.983 MEDI-CAL MEMBER TO RECEIVE CARE. 00:40:19.049 --> 00:40:21.352 OKAY. OKAY. SENATOR SMALLWOOD, 00:40:21.418 --> 00:40:22.753 IF YOU WOULD HOLD THAT THOUGHT, 00:40:22.820 --> 00:40:24.321 A QUORUM WALKED IN THE ROOM. 00:40:24.388 --> 00:40:26.991 AND I'M GOING TO ASK FOR A CALL 00:40:27.057 --> 00:40:30.661 OF THE ROLL. SENATORS HERE. 00:40:30.728 --> 00:40:33.631 MILO. HERE. ARCHULETA. 00:40:33.697 --> 00:40:35.833 SHAKESPEARE. HERE. CABALDON. 00:40:35.900 --> 00:40:40.437 CHOI. ALSO. GROVE. HURTADO. 00:40:40.504 --> 00:40:43.274 MCNERNEY. MENGIBAR. OCHOA. BOGH. 00:40:43.340 --> 00:40:47.178 PEREZ. REYES. RICHARDSON. 00:40:47.244 --> 00:40:50.147 SALADO. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. 00:40:50.214 --> 00:40:53.017 WEBER. PEARSON. WE HAVE A 00:40:53.083 --> 00:40:54.652 QUORUM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 00:40:54.718 --> 00:40:56.887 LET ME GO BACK TO SENATOR 00:40:56.954 --> 00:40:58.789 SMALLWOOD. YEAH, I'M. I GUESS 00:40:58.856 --> 00:41:00.524 WHAT I'M GETTING AT AND I'M. I 00:41:00.591 --> 00:41:03.127 WANT TO JUST CLARIFY THE THE 00:41:03.194 --> 00:41:04.962 DIFFERENT BUCKETS OF RESOURCES 00:41:05.029 --> 00:41:06.297 AND IT SOUNDS. WHAT WE'RE 00:41:06.363 --> 00:41:08.933 SAYING IS THERE IS A PERCENTAGE 00:41:08.999 --> 00:41:10.734 OF FOLKS WHO ARE NOT ENROLLED 00:41:10.801 --> 00:41:13.170 WHO WILL NOT HAVE CARE. AND 00:41:13.237 --> 00:41:17.107 ULTIMATELY, IF THEY BECOME ILL, 00:41:17.174 --> 00:41:18.976 ACUTELY ILL, THEY WILL NEED TO 00:41:19.043 --> 00:41:21.111 SEEK CARE. AND THAT CARE WILL 00:41:21.178 --> 00:41:24.381 LIKELY BE AT A NEIGHBORHOOD 00:41:24.448 --> 00:41:28.752 EMERGENCY ROOM. CORRECT. OKAY. 00:41:28.819 --> 00:41:31.121 THE OTHER THE OTHER QUESTION 00:41:31.188 --> 00:41:37.328 THAT I HAD IS. IS THERE IS 00:41:37.394 --> 00:41:39.763 THERE A BECAUSE THAT'S ONE 00:41:39.830 --> 00:41:40.965 GROUP OF FOLKS WHO ARE GOING TO 00:41:41.031 --> 00:41:43.033 BE COMING TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM 00:41:43.100 --> 00:41:45.002 AS WE'RE JUST FINALIZING WHERE 00:41:45.069 --> 00:41:46.503 THESE DIFFERENT BUCKETS OF 00:41:46.570 --> 00:41:49.506 RESOURCES ARE TODAY. THE OTHER 00:41:49.573 --> 00:41:50.908 GROUP I'M CONCERNED ABOUT ARE 00:41:50.975 --> 00:41:54.845 THOSE WORKERS WHO ARE WORKING 00:41:54.912 --> 00:41:58.616 FAMILIES WHO ARE REQUIRED TO 00:41:58.682 --> 00:42:02.186 MEET THESE ARDUOUS ELIGIBILITY 00:42:02.253 --> 00:42:03.654 REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE NEW HR 00:42:03.721 --> 00:42:06.924 ONE SYSTEM. ONE OF THE THINGS 00:42:06.991 --> 00:42:10.494 RAISED WAS THAT AS WE'RE TRYING 00:42:10.561 --> 00:42:12.830 TO CREATE A WAY TO STREAMLINE 00:42:12.897 --> 00:42:15.766 THE ELIGIBILITY PROCESS, WE'RE 00:42:15.833 --> 00:42:17.935 ALSO INVESTING IN ELIGIBILITY 00:42:18.002 --> 00:42:19.403 WORKERS ON THE GROUND TO 00:42:19.470 --> 00:42:21.939 SUPPORT THOSE WORKERS. MY 00:42:22.006 --> 00:42:24.842 QUESTION IS, IS THERE. AND MY 00:42:24.909 --> 00:42:26.610 QUESTION EARLIER IN THE IN THE 00:42:26.677 --> 00:42:27.745 PROCESS, JUST TRYING TO CLARIFY 00:42:27.811 --> 00:42:29.146 IF THERE ARE RESOURCES PUT 00:42:29.213 --> 00:42:32.983 TOWARD THIS, IS THERE A 00:42:33.050 --> 00:42:34.184 INVESTMENT IN WORKFORCE 00:42:34.251 --> 00:42:39.223 TRAINING PROGRAMS OR EMPLOYMENT 00:42:39.290 --> 00:42:42.426 OPPORTUNITY THAT WOULD HELP OUR 00:42:42.493 --> 00:42:43.827 WORKING FAMILIES WHO MAY FALL 00:42:43.894 --> 00:42:46.363 IN AND OUT OF EMPLOYMENT IN THE 00:42:46.430 --> 00:42:51.168 MIDST OF THEIR BEING ELIGIBLE 00:42:51.235 --> 00:42:53.938 FOR BENEFITS? OR MAYBE THERE'S 00:42:54.004 --> 00:42:56.573 JUST A TIMING ISSUE IN TERMS OF 00:42:56.640 --> 00:42:58.409 THEY HAVE A JOB, BUT IT'S NOT 00:42:58.475 --> 00:43:00.778 ON THE RECORD YET. AND THEIR 00:43:00.844 --> 00:43:04.715 ELIGIBILITY REVIEW PROCESS IS, 00:43:04.782 --> 00:43:07.384 IS, IS, IS PENDING. WHAT IS 00:43:07.451 --> 00:43:09.853 THERE A WAY THAT WE OR IS THERE 00:43:09.920 --> 00:43:11.622 INVESTMENT IN SOME PROGRAM THAT 00:43:11.689 --> 00:43:14.124 COULD HELP HOLD FOLKS IN THAT 00:43:14.191 --> 00:43:16.327 TEMPORARY TRAINING OPPORTUNITY 00:43:16.393 --> 00:43:18.195 THAT WOULD ALLOW THEM TO 00:43:18.262 --> 00:43:20.297 QUALIFY AND MEET THE 00:43:20.364 --> 00:43:21.298 ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS? THE 00:43:21.365 --> 00:43:23.000 REASON I ASKED THIS QUESTION IS 00:43:23.067 --> 00:43:24.501 THERE ARE SOME COMMUNITIES AS, 00:43:24.568 --> 00:43:26.804 AS YOU KNOW, IN PARTS OF MY 00:43:26.870 --> 00:43:27.871 DISTRICT, PARTICULARLY IN THE 00:43:27.938 --> 00:43:30.040 BLACK SECTIONS, COMMUNITIES OF 00:43:30.107 --> 00:43:32.977 OF SOUTH LA, WE ARE SEEING 00:43:33.043 --> 00:43:35.045 UNEMPLOYMENT RATES NOW OF ABOUT 00:43:35.112 --> 00:43:37.448 12%, WHICH IS FAR INTO 00:43:37.514 --> 00:43:41.185 RECESSIONARY LEVELS. THERE IS A 00:43:41.251 --> 00:43:44.321 THE, THE, THE IMPACT OF, OF THE 00:43:44.388 --> 00:43:45.856 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON OUR 00:43:45.923 --> 00:43:47.324 BUSINESS COMMUNITY HAS CREATED 00:43:47.391 --> 00:43:49.393 A CHILLING EFFECT FOR THE 00:43:49.460 --> 00:43:51.161 HIRING OF WORKERS, PARTICULARLY 00:43:51.228 --> 00:43:54.431 AT THE ENTRY LEVEL. THAT'S ALSO 00:43:54.498 --> 00:43:55.833 DOCUMENTED. AND SO MY QUESTION 00:43:55.899 --> 00:43:58.669 IS, GIVEN THESE ECONOMIC 00:43:58.736 --> 00:44:02.306 WORKPLACE FORCES, WHAT IS THE 00:44:02.373 --> 00:44:05.209 SAFETY NET TO ENSURE THAT WE 00:44:05.275 --> 00:44:09.446 CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THE ABILITY 00:44:09.513 --> 00:44:13.917 FOR WORKERS TO DOCUMENT THAT 00:44:13.984 --> 00:44:16.220 THE THE CHALLENGING OPPORTUNITY 00:44:16.286 --> 00:44:19.690 THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW FOR 00:44:19.757 --> 00:44:22.126 CONSISTENT EMPLOYMENT THROUGH 00:44:22.192 --> 00:44:24.261 THIS ARDUOUS ELIGIBILITY 00:44:24.328 --> 00:44:26.563 PROCESS IS, IS A RESOURCES 00:44:26.630 --> 00:44:27.898 DEVOTED TO ENSURING THAT THERE 00:44:27.965 --> 00:44:30.467 ARE SAFETY NET WORKFORCE 00:44:30.534 --> 00:44:32.536 PROGRAMS TO HELP US INCREASE 00:44:32.603 --> 00:44:39.043 ELIGIBILITY. I CAN'T SPEAK TO 00:44:39.109 --> 00:44:40.477 WORKFORCE PROGRAMS, BUT I DO 00:44:40.544 --> 00:44:42.346 WANT TO MENTION THAT THE BILL 00:44:42.413 --> 00:44:45.215 DOES INCLUDE 197 MILLION 00:44:45.282 --> 00:44:48.052 GENERAL FUND, 32 MILLION OF 00:44:48.118 --> 00:44:49.453 WHICH IS A COST OF DOING 00:44:49.520 --> 00:44:52.356 BUSINESS ADJUSTMENT FOR COUNTY 00:44:52.423 --> 00:44:56.393 ELIGIBILITY WORKERS TO TO TO, 00:44:56.460 --> 00:44:58.495 TO PROCESS WORKLOAD ASSOCIATED 00:44:58.562 --> 00:44:59.630 WITH H.R. ONE. AND THAT 00:44:59.696 --> 00:45:01.331 INCLUDES THE WORKING COMMUNITY 00:45:01.398 --> 00:45:02.132 ENGAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS THAT 00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:04.635 YOU'RE YOU'RE SPEAKING ABOUT. 00:45:04.701 --> 00:45:06.003 I'M APPRECIATING THAT. AND I 00:45:06.070 --> 00:45:09.239 THINK THAT WE NEED WE NEED BOTH. 00:45:09.306 --> 00:45:12.810 AND, AND I DO AGREE THAT WE 00:45:12.876 --> 00:45:15.646 NEED THE, THE GREATER CAPACITY 00:45:15.712 --> 00:45:17.047 FOR OUR ELIGIBILITY WORKERS. 00:45:17.114 --> 00:45:20.451 BUT AT THE SAME TIME, THE 00:45:20.517 --> 00:45:21.885 EMPLOYMENT SITUATION IS SO 00:45:21.952 --> 00:45:25.656 TENUOUS. AND I THINK INVESTING 00:45:25.722 --> 00:45:27.624 IN OUR WORKFORCE SYSTEM TO BE 00:45:27.691 --> 00:45:31.228 ABLE TO SUPPORT BOTH COUNTY AND 00:45:31.295 --> 00:45:36.300 OUR. STATE WORKERS WOULD BE 00:45:36.366 --> 00:45:37.367 INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT. AS WE 00:45:37.434 --> 00:45:41.271 LOOK AT WHAT IS HAPPENING, 00:45:41.338 --> 00:45:43.474 PARTICULARLY FOR VULNERABLE 00:45:43.540 --> 00:45:45.242 POPULATIONS WITH BARRIERS TO 00:45:45.309 --> 00:45:47.077 EMPLOYMENT. AND IN THIS 00:45:47.144 --> 00:45:48.512 ECONOMIC REALITY, I KNOW WE 00:45:48.579 --> 00:45:50.180 HAVE TO VOTE, MR. CHAIR, ON 00:45:50.247 --> 00:45:51.415 THIS BILL, BUT I'M SAYING THERE 00:45:51.482 --> 00:45:53.150 ARE I KNOW, MORE OPPORTUNITIES 00:45:53.217 --> 00:45:56.053 TO WORK THESE THINGS THROUGH. 00:45:56.120 --> 00:45:58.255 I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THOSE 00:45:58.322 --> 00:46:00.090 POPULATIONS THAT HAVE 00:46:00.157 --> 00:46:02.726 CHALLENGES AROUND EMPLOYMENT, 00:46:02.793 --> 00:46:05.762 SUSTAINABILITY. AND I THINK 00:46:05.829 --> 00:46:07.197 THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE 00:46:07.264 --> 00:46:08.665 HAVE TO CONTINUE TO WATCH AND 00:46:08.732 --> 00:46:11.635 ACCOUNT FOR MOVING FORWARD. AND 00:46:11.702 --> 00:46:13.170 WHY FAIR SHARE IS SO IMPORTANT, 00:46:13.237 --> 00:46:14.571 WHY FAIR SHARE IS SO IMPORTANT. 00:46:14.638 --> 00:46:15.906 WE NEED MORE RESOURCES IN THE 00:46:15.973 --> 00:46:18.342 SYSTEM TO BE ABLE TO, TO 00:46:18.408 --> 00:46:21.211 PROTECT ALL OF OUR WORKERS, AND 00:46:21.278 --> 00:46:21.945 PARTICULARLY ALL OF THE 00:46:22.012 --> 00:46:23.113 CHALLENGES THAT THEY FACE IN 00:46:23.180 --> 00:46:25.249 THIS MOMENT IN TIME. AND I 00:46:25.315 --> 00:46:26.984 WOULD JUST ADD THAT WE WILL 00:46:27.050 --> 00:46:28.585 CONTINUE TO MONITOR WHAT'S 00:46:28.652 --> 00:46:29.686 HAPPENING ON THE GROUND. AND A 00:46:29.753 --> 00:46:31.788 LOT OF THINGS ARE CHANGING, 00:46:31.855 --> 00:46:33.524 EVEN REAL TIME IN REGARDS TO 00:46:33.590 --> 00:46:35.626 H.R. ONE, THE CHANGES IN WHAT 00:46:35.692 --> 00:46:37.861 WE ANTICIPATED WOULD BE 00:46:37.928 --> 00:46:38.862 CASELOAD DROPS HAVE CHANGED 00:46:38.929 --> 00:46:39.997 SINCE JANUARY, HAVE CHANGED 00:46:40.063 --> 00:46:41.131 SINCE EVEN MAY REVISION. AND SO 00:46:41.198 --> 00:46:43.200 I THINK SOME OF WHAT WE'VE 00:46:43.267 --> 00:46:45.769 ADDED IN IS, IS TO HELP SUPPORT 00:46:45.836 --> 00:46:48.605 COUNTIES AND THE STATE AS WE 00:46:48.672 --> 00:46:49.673 TRANSITION H.R. ONE. BUT WE 00:46:49.740 --> 00:46:51.475 OBVIOUSLY WILL BE LOOKING TO 00:46:51.542 --> 00:46:53.510 SEE WHAT ELSE MIGHT BE REQUIRED 00:46:53.577 --> 00:46:57.581 OR CHANGED IN THE FUTURE. THANK 00:46:57.648 --> 00:46:59.149 COMPLETE YOUR QUESTIONS. THANK 00:46:59.216 --> 00:47:00.517 YOU VERY MUCH. WE'LL GO TO 00:47:00.584 --> 00:47:02.619 SENATOR BARRASSO, AND SENATOR 00:47:02.686 --> 00:47:06.690 RICHARDSON IS ON DECK. THANK. 00:47:06.757 --> 00:47:09.059 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR, AND I 00:47:09.126 --> 00:47:10.227 APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS JUST 00:47:10.294 --> 00:47:13.063 MADE BY MY COLLEAGUE. THIS IS 00:47:13.130 --> 00:47:15.632 AN AGREEMENT WE HAVE, AND I'M 00:47:15.699 --> 00:47:18.535 VOTING FOR IT. BUT PASSAGE DOES 00:47:18.602 --> 00:47:22.105 NOT MEAN RESOLUTION. WE DELAYED 00:47:22.172 --> 00:47:23.907 CUTS TO IMMIGRANT HEALTH 00:47:23.974 --> 00:47:26.410 COVERAGE, DENTAL AND CLINIC 00:47:26.476 --> 00:47:29.346 PAYMENTS UNTIL JULY OF 2027. WE 00:47:29.413 --> 00:47:32.115 DID NOT REJECT THEM. WE KEPT 00:47:32.182 --> 00:47:33.650 WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR 00:47:33.717 --> 00:47:35.018 IMMIGRANTS WHO WILL BE FROZEN 00:47:35.085 --> 00:47:37.120 OUT OF HEALTH CARE IF THEY 00:47:37.187 --> 00:47:38.655 CANNOT PROVE THEIR EMPLOYMENT 00:47:38.722 --> 00:47:41.225 STATUS. WE STARTED A PROCESS ON 00:47:41.291 --> 00:47:42.960 FAIR SHARE, AND THAT'S A GOOD 00:47:43.026 --> 00:47:46.597 NEXT STEP, BUT WE WILL NOT 00:47:46.663 --> 00:47:49.399 COLLECT A SINGLE DOLLAR FROM 00:47:49.466 --> 00:47:51.668 CORPORATIONS THAT ARE ALREADY 00:47:51.735 --> 00:47:53.837 SHIFTING OR HAVE SHIFTED THEIR 00:47:53.904 --> 00:47:56.273 EMPLOYEES ON TO MEDI-CAL, 00:47:56.340 --> 00:47:58.041 ANOTHER CYCLE OF LARGE 00:47:58.108 --> 00:48:00.277 CORPORATIONS PAYING NOTHING 00:48:00.344 --> 00:48:01.678 WHILE THEY'RE UNDERPAID. 00:48:01.745 --> 00:48:03.880 WORKERS STAY ON MEDI-CAL, AND 00:48:03.947 --> 00:48:06.717 WE FOOT THE BILL AS TAXPAYERS. 00:48:06.783 --> 00:48:09.586 THIS IS A BUDGET THAT BOUGHT 00:48:09.653 --> 00:48:14.324 TIME. MEDI-CAL DELAYED, NOT 00:48:14.391 --> 00:48:17.861 RESOLVED. NOT RESTORED. NOTHING 00:48:17.928 --> 00:48:21.498 IN AB 111 CREATES A RESTORATION 00:48:21.565 --> 00:48:25.402 MECHANISM. HOWEVER, I AM 00:48:25.469 --> 00:48:27.271 GRATEFUL, VERY GRATEFUL TO OUR 00:48:27.337 --> 00:48:30.107 BUDGET COMMITTEE STAFF. I KNOW 00:48:30.173 --> 00:48:32.609 YOU HAVE WORKED TIRELESSLY IN 00:48:32.676 --> 00:48:35.178 THESE IMPOSSIBLE CONDITIONS. I 00:48:35.245 --> 00:48:37.748 AM GRATEFUL FOR EIGHT YEARS OF 00:48:37.814 --> 00:48:40.550 WORKING WITH YOU THROUGH A 00:48:40.617 --> 00:48:43.487 PANDEMIC AND AN ECONOMIC CRISIS, 00:48:43.553 --> 00:48:45.622 THROUGH THE CREATION, IN FACT, 00:48:45.689 --> 00:48:49.159 OF NEW LIFE CHANGING PROGRAMS. 00:48:49.226 --> 00:48:51.094 WE'VE HEARD HUNDREDS OF HOURS 00:48:51.161 --> 00:48:53.530 OF BUDGET HEARINGS WHERE WE 00:48:53.597 --> 00:48:55.866 HEARD POLICY EXPERTS, AND WE 00:48:55.932 --> 00:48:57.901 HEARD FROM THE WORKING POOR 00:48:57.968 --> 00:48:59.503 ABOUT THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS 00:48:59.569 --> 00:49:01.638 IN WAGE THEFT THAT THEY HAVE TO 00:49:01.705 --> 00:49:03.640 GO THROUGH AND THE IMPACT ON 00:49:03.707 --> 00:49:05.542 THEIR FAMILIES. WE HEARD FROM 00:49:05.609 --> 00:49:07.244 GARMENT WORKERS AND FARM 00:49:07.311 --> 00:49:09.379 WORKERS AND TRUCK DRIVERS ALL 00:49:09.446 --> 00:49:11.248 COMING FORWARD, TALKING TO US 00:49:11.315 --> 00:49:12.616 ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE GOING 00:49:12.683 --> 00:49:14.851 THROUGH ON THE GROUND, WHAT IT 00:49:14.918 --> 00:49:16.987 MEANS AND WHAT IT MEANS TO OUR 00:49:17.054 --> 00:49:19.456 ECONOMY, WHY WE SHOULD ALL CARE, 00:49:19.523 --> 00:49:21.625 AND THE IMPACT ON THEIR 00:49:21.692 --> 00:49:25.629 FAMILIES. YOU ARE SO SMART. YOU 00:49:25.696 --> 00:49:29.032 ARE SO COMMITTED. YOU ARE SO 00:49:29.099 --> 00:49:30.400 CARING. I'M PROUD TO HAVE 00:49:30.467 --> 00:49:32.836 WORKED WITH YOU AND AND FEEL 00:49:32.903 --> 00:49:37.107 THAT FROM YOU. YOUR WORK IS 00:49:37.174 --> 00:49:38.575 CHANGING THE LIVES OF SO MANY 00:49:38.642 --> 00:49:40.744 AND I'M TRULY GRATEFUL TO YOU. 00:49:40.811 --> 00:49:42.579 THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR 00:49:42.646 --> 00:49:45.082 YOUR THOUGHTFULNESS AND CARE. I 00:49:45.148 --> 00:49:46.483 LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH 00:49:46.550 --> 00:49:50.487 YOU IN MY NEXT CAPACITY. I KNOW 00:49:50.554 --> 00:49:51.922 CALIFORNIA WILL CONTINUE TO 00:49:51.988 --> 00:49:54.424 WEATHER THIS STORM OF HUMAN 00:49:54.491 --> 00:49:56.927 CRUELTY COMING FROM THE TRUMP 00:49:56.993 --> 00:49:59.830 ADMINISTRATION. I KNOW 00:49:59.896 --> 00:50:02.766 CALIFORNIA WILL WEATHER THE 00:50:02.833 --> 00:50:05.268 FISCAL HARM AND WE WILL COME 00:50:05.335 --> 00:50:08.071 OUT STRONGER. BUT LET'S NOT 00:50:08.138 --> 00:50:10.607 FORGET FOR ANY MOMENT, FOR ANY 00:50:10.674 --> 00:50:12.743 TIME, FORGET THE WORKING 00:50:12.809 --> 00:50:14.945 FAMILIES WHO BUILD OUR ECONOMY 00:50:15.011 --> 00:50:17.848 EVERY SINGLE DAY. AND I 00:50:17.914 --> 00:50:19.015 APPRECIATE THANK YOU FOR GIVING 00:50:19.082 --> 00:50:22.786 ME SOME TIME, MR. CHAIR. THANK 00:50:22.853 --> 00:50:25.689 YOU. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO 00:50:25.756 --> 00:50:27.090 SENATOR RICHARDSON AND SENATOR 00:50:27.157 --> 00:50:32.195 BLAKE SPEARS ON DECK. THANK YOU, 00:50:32.262 --> 00:50:35.165 MR. CHAIRMAN. LET ME FIRST 00:50:35.232 --> 00:50:37.567 START OFF MY COMMENTS, REALLY, 00:50:37.634 --> 00:50:40.804 FOR THE PUBLIC TO SAY THAT HOW 00:50:40.871 --> 00:50:42.372 GRATEFUL I'VE BEEN TO HAVE BEEN 00:50:42.439 --> 00:50:44.808 A PART OF THIS PROCESS. THIS IS 00:50:44.875 --> 00:50:47.644 MY SECOND YEAR BEING OR YEAH, 00:50:47.711 --> 00:50:49.780 MY SECOND YEAR BEING CHAIR OF 00:50:49.846 --> 00:50:53.784 BUDGET SUB FIVE. AND I CAN 00:50:53.850 --> 00:50:55.552 DEFINITELY SAY THAT THIS YEAR 00:50:55.619 --> 00:50:58.388 THERE WAS INCLUSION, THERE WAS 00:50:58.455 --> 00:50:59.489 TRANSPARENCY. AND FRANKLY, 00:50:59.556 --> 00:51:02.092 THERE WAS ALSO ACCOUNTABILITY 00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:04.294 ON US TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE 00:51:04.361 --> 00:51:05.996 DOING THE RIGHT THINGS FOR 00:51:06.062 --> 00:51:08.165 CALIFORNIANS. SO I WANT TO 00:51:08.231 --> 00:51:11.835 APPLAUD TÊ PRO TEM LIMÓN AND 00:51:11.902 --> 00:51:14.271 OUR CHAIR, LAIRD, FOR REALLY 00:51:14.337 --> 00:51:17.874 WORKING FROM DAY ONE TO CRAFT 00:51:17.941 --> 00:51:18.942 SOMETHING THAT I'M GOING TO 00:51:19.009 --> 00:51:20.043 SHARE WITH YOU. JUST SOME 00:51:20.110 --> 00:51:21.478 HIGHLIGHTS THAT I THINK ARE 00:51:21.545 --> 00:51:24.014 MONUMENTAL. SECOND, I WANT TO 00:51:24.080 --> 00:51:26.149 BUILD ON SENATOR DEROSA'S 00:51:26.216 --> 00:51:27.250 COMMENTS. I DON'T THINK STAFF 00:51:27.317 --> 00:51:28.685 GET ENOUGH CREDIT. I WAS A 00:51:28.752 --> 00:51:30.487 STAFF MEMBER FOR TEN YEARS, SO 00:51:30.554 --> 00:51:32.656 I CAN SPEAK TO THE FACT THAT 00:51:32.722 --> 00:51:34.758 WHAT YOU SEE US DOING UP HERE 00:51:34.825 --> 00:51:36.359 IS ONLY A GLIMPSE OF WHAT 00:51:36.426 --> 00:51:37.861 THEY'VE BEEN DOING FOR QUITE 00:51:37.928 --> 00:51:39.029 SOME TIME, AND THAT INCLUDES 00:51:39.095 --> 00:51:41.264 THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, LÀ, 00:51:41.331 --> 00:51:43.800 Þ AND OUR STAFF THAT WE'VE HAD. 00:51:43.867 --> 00:51:46.002 THE TEAM THAT I'VE HAD OF NORA, 00:51:46.069 --> 00:51:48.872 EUNICE AND DIEGO HAVE BEEN JUST 00:51:48.939 --> 00:51:50.674 AMAZING. BUT I'M SURE ALL THE 00:51:50.740 --> 00:51:51.708 STAFF. MORE RECENTLY, I'VE 00:51:51.775 --> 00:51:53.910 WORKED A LITTLE MORE WITH SCOTT 00:51:53.977 --> 00:51:56.379 AND ALYSSA AND ALSO CHRIS WOODS. 00:51:56.446 --> 00:51:59.616 BUT YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN 00:51:59.683 --> 00:52:01.818 EXTREMELY RESPONSIVE, AVAILABLE 00:52:01.885 --> 00:52:04.321 24 OVER SEVEN. AND WE CERTAINLY 00:52:04.387 --> 00:52:05.789 WOULD NOT BE AT THIS POINT 00:52:05.856 --> 00:52:07.324 WITHOUT YOU. SO I THINK WE 00:52:07.390 --> 00:52:08.458 WOULD BE REMISS WITHOUT SAYING 00:52:08.525 --> 00:52:12.429 THANK YOU. IN TERMS OF 00:52:12.496 --> 00:52:13.530 ACCOUNTABILITY AND 00:52:13.597 --> 00:52:14.598 RESPONSIBILITY OF WHAT I 00:52:14.664 --> 00:52:16.466 REFERENCE, CHAIRMAN LAIRD, I 00:52:16.533 --> 00:52:17.868 THINK IT SHOULD NOT GO 00:52:17.934 --> 00:52:19.703 UNNOTICED THAT WE HAVE NOW 00:52:19.769 --> 00:52:21.838 DOUBLED OUR COMMITMENT TO 00:52:21.905 --> 00:52:25.041 RESERVES FROM 10% TO 20%. THAT 00:52:25.108 --> 00:52:27.210 IS NOT AN EASY FEAT FOR A STATE 00:52:27.277 --> 00:52:30.080 THAT HAS TREMENDOUS NEEDS. SO 00:52:30.146 --> 00:52:31.982 FOR THIS LEGISLATURE TO TAKE 00:52:32.048 --> 00:52:34.584 THE RESPONSIBILITY AND SAY THAT 00:52:34.651 --> 00:52:38.021 WE REALIZE OUR ECONOMY IS 00:52:38.088 --> 00:52:39.823 VOLATILE, WE REALIZE THAT THERE 00:52:39.890 --> 00:52:41.525 ARE TREMENDOUS CHALLENGES. BUT 00:52:41.591 --> 00:52:43.360 IN LIGHT OF THAT, WE KNOW THAT 00:52:43.426 --> 00:52:45.595 WE ALSO MUST BE FISCALLY 00:52:45.662 --> 00:52:47.764 RESPONSIBLE. AND SO I WANT TO 00:52:47.831 --> 00:52:49.132 APPLAUD FROM THE LÀ Þ TO 00:52:49.199 --> 00:52:51.334 DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE TO OUR 00:52:51.401 --> 00:52:52.903 CHAIR, FOR JUST REALLY HITTING 00:52:52.969 --> 00:52:54.538 A HOME RUN OF GETTING US TO 00:52:54.604 --> 00:52:57.007 THAT POINT. WITH THAT, I'M JUST 00:52:57.073 --> 00:52:58.875 GOING TO FOCUS ON THREE 00:52:58.942 --> 00:53:00.410 SECTIONS OF ALL OF THE BILLS 00:53:00.477 --> 00:53:02.512 AND THE TRAILER BILLS, AND I 00:53:02.579 --> 00:53:07.150 WILL GO IN ORDER. AB 164 OF 00:53:07.217 --> 00:53:09.719 HEALTH. THAT HAS TO DO WITH 00:53:09.786 --> 00:53:11.821 DISTRESSED HOSPITALS AND PUBLIC 00:53:11.888 --> 00:53:14.224 HOSPITALS. I JUST WANT TO GO ON 00:53:14.291 --> 00:53:16.092 THE RECORD FOR A COUPLE POINTS, 00:53:16.159 --> 00:53:18.428 AND I MAY HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS. 00:53:18.495 --> 00:53:20.230 NUMBER ONE, THE CURRENT 00:53:20.297 --> 00:53:21.598 DISTRESSED HOSPITAL LOAN 00:53:21.665 --> 00:53:24.334 PROGRAM THAT HAS BEEN EXPLAINED 00:53:24.401 --> 00:53:27.671 TO ME BY STAFF CURRENTLY THAT 00:53:27.737 --> 00:53:30.674 HOSPITALS THAT SOUGHT MONEY FOR 00:53:30.740 --> 00:53:33.543 THAT HAVE THE ABILITY TO, ONE, 00:53:33.610 --> 00:53:35.045 REQUEST A FORBEARANCE, WHICH IS 00:53:35.111 --> 00:53:37.113 AN EXTENSION OF 12 MONTHS TO 00:53:37.180 --> 00:53:39.983 MAKE PAYMENT AND TWO, TO BEGIN 00:53:40.050 --> 00:53:42.552 TO ASK FOR FORGIVENESS OF THOSE 00:53:42.619 --> 00:53:43.987 PAYMENTS. WHAT I WANT TO 00:53:44.054 --> 00:53:45.188 CLARIFY FOR THE RECORD, BECAUSE 00:53:45.255 --> 00:53:47.557 IT HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN CLEAR, 00:53:47.624 --> 00:53:49.426 AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE 00:53:49.492 --> 00:53:51.494 PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT 00:53:51.561 --> 00:53:53.763 HOSPITALS HAVE TO ASK ANNUALLY 00:53:53.830 --> 00:53:55.165 FOR THAT FORGIVENESS. THAT'S 00:53:55.231 --> 00:53:57.334 NOT JUST A YOU GET A 00:53:57.400 --> 00:53:58.501 FORBEARANCE FOR 12 MONTHS AND 00:53:58.568 --> 00:54:00.170 THEN YOU CAN REQUEST 00:54:00.236 --> 00:54:01.137 FORGIVENESS. NO, THEY'RE HAVING 00:54:01.204 --> 00:54:02.739 TO DO IT ANNUALLY. AND I 00:54:02.806 --> 00:54:04.507 LEARNED THAT THIS MORNING AT 00:54:04.574 --> 00:54:06.576 8:00. SO WHAT I'D LIKE FOR US 00:54:06.643 --> 00:54:09.479 TO CONSIDER FROM NOW UNTIL WE 00:54:09.546 --> 00:54:12.115 GO INTO AUGUST OF DOING 00:54:12.182 --> 00:54:14.217 POSSIBLY A JUNIOR TRAILERS AND 00:54:14.284 --> 00:54:16.052 OTHER DISCUSSIONS THAT WE MIGHT 00:54:16.119 --> 00:54:17.854 HAVE IS THAT WE WOULD CONSIDER 00:54:17.921 --> 00:54:20.090 A COUPLE THINGS. ONE, CONSIDER 00:54:20.156 --> 00:54:22.092 THAT HOSPITALS NOT HAVE TO DO 00:54:22.158 --> 00:54:23.927 THIS ANNUALLY IF THEY'RE 00:54:23.994 --> 00:54:25.362 CLEARLY A DISTRESSED HOSPITAL. 00:54:25.428 --> 00:54:26.830 THEY WERE A DISTRESSED HOSPITAL 00:54:26.896 --> 00:54:28.164 BEFORE AND THERE ARE STILL A 00:54:28.231 --> 00:54:30.033 DISTRESSED HOSPITAL. NOW, WHY 00:54:30.100 --> 00:54:32.869 ARE WE ADDING TO THIS CONTINUAL 00:54:32.936 --> 00:54:35.038 REPORTING AND TIME AND ALL OF 00:54:35.105 --> 00:54:37.374 THAT? THE OTHER ISSUE OF HAVING 00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:39.843 IT ON THEIR BOOKS ANNUALLY IS 00:54:39.909 --> 00:54:41.845 THAT IMPACTS THEM FINANCIALLY. 00:54:41.911 --> 00:54:44.814 SO IF WE KNOW ULTIMATELY BY 00:54:44.881 --> 00:54:47.384 2030, WE ARE GOING TO ALLOW A 00:54:47.450 --> 00:54:49.219 FORGIVENESS, I THINK IT SHOULD 00:54:49.285 --> 00:54:50.587 SERIOUSLY BE CONSIDERED TO DO 00:54:50.654 --> 00:54:52.689 IT NOW BECAUSE THAT WOULD CLEAR 00:54:52.756 --> 00:54:54.190 THEIR BOOKS. IT GIVES THEM THE 00:54:54.257 --> 00:54:56.726 ABILITY TO DO FINANCING OF 00:54:56.793 --> 00:54:58.528 IMPORTANT EQUIPMENT AND OTHER 00:54:58.595 --> 00:55:01.398 THINGS. THE SECOND THING IS, I 00:55:01.464 --> 00:55:04.300 WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT BY 00:55:04.367 --> 00:55:06.069 PARTICIPATING IN THE FIRST 00:55:06.136 --> 00:55:07.971 CURRENT DISTRESSED HOSPITAL 00:55:08.038 --> 00:55:09.339 LOAN PROGRAM, WHICH IS ALSO, I 00:55:09.406 --> 00:55:11.841 THINK, CALLED DISH, THAT THAT 00:55:11.908 --> 00:55:14.644 WOULD NOT HINDER THOSE SAME 00:55:14.711 --> 00:55:16.513 HOSPITALS FROM THEN APPLYING 00:55:16.579 --> 00:55:18.348 FOR THE NEW PROGRAM THAT IS 00:55:18.415 --> 00:55:20.583 BEFORE US TODAY. SO I JUST WANT 00:55:20.650 --> 00:55:22.385 TO MAKE SURE FOR THE RECORD, 00:55:22.452 --> 00:55:23.987 IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT'S 00:55:24.054 --> 00:55:25.622 THE CASE, BUT I JUST WANT TO 00:55:25.689 --> 00:55:27.590 MAKE SURE THAT HOSPITALS THEN 00:55:27.657 --> 00:55:31.161 THAT HAVE AN OUTSTANDING LOAN 00:55:31.227 --> 00:55:32.996 UNDER THE CURRENT PROGRAM, THAT 00:55:33.063 --> 00:55:35.865 THAT WOULD NOT HINDER THEIR 00:55:35.932 --> 00:55:38.034 APPLICATION AND POTENTIAL AWARD 00:55:38.101 --> 00:55:39.869 FOR THE NEW PROGRAM. AND SO 00:55:39.936 --> 00:55:42.405 I'LL PAUSE FOR CONFIRMATION ON 00:55:42.472 --> 00:55:44.207 THAT. GOOD MORNING WITH THE 00:55:44.274 --> 00:55:45.208 DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. YES, 00:55:45.275 --> 00:55:46.710 SENATOR RICHARDSON, IT IS 00:55:46.776 --> 00:55:49.245 CORRECT. SO LONG AS THEY MEET 00:55:49.312 --> 00:55:50.814 THE OTHER ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA, 00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:52.115 THERE WOULD NOT BE ANYTHING 00:55:52.182 --> 00:55:53.116 PROHIBITING THEM IN CURRENT 00:55:53.183 --> 00:55:55.051 STATUTE FROM APPLYING FOR THE 00:55:55.118 --> 00:55:56.920 NEW GRANT PROGRAM AND ALSO 00:55:56.986 --> 00:55:58.888 BEING A RECIPIENT OF OTHER 00:55:58.955 --> 00:56:00.323 FUNDING. OKAY, PERFECT. THANK 00:56:00.390 --> 00:56:02.625 YOU. AND THEN MY SECOND PART 00:56:02.692 --> 00:56:05.128 HAS TO DO WITH THE ASSEMBLY'S 00:56:05.195 --> 00:56:07.530 PORTION OF THE PUBLIC HOSPITALS. 00:56:07.597 --> 00:56:09.332 I'D LIKE TO RESPECTFULLY 00:56:09.399 --> 00:56:11.201 REQUEST THAT WE WORK ON THE 00:56:11.267 --> 00:56:13.002 DEFINITION GOING FORWARD OF 00:56:13.069 --> 00:56:14.704 PUBLIC HOSPITALS. AND WHAT I 00:56:14.771 --> 00:56:16.573 MEAN BY THAT IS, AS I'VE 00:56:16.639 --> 00:56:18.742 REVIEWED THE CURRENT PROGRAM, 00:56:18.808 --> 00:56:20.510 PUBLIC HOSPITALS ARE HOSPITALS 00:56:20.577 --> 00:56:23.747 THAT ARE FUNDED BY THE COUNTY. 00:56:23.813 --> 00:56:25.915 IN MANY CASES, THEY HAVE 00:56:25.982 --> 00:56:28.551 UNIVERSITY AFFILIATIONS, AND 00:56:28.618 --> 00:56:30.353 THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY SERVING THE 00:56:30.420 --> 00:56:33.156 PUBLIC. WHAT'S INTERESTING IS A 00:56:33.223 --> 00:56:34.958 MAJOR HOSPITAL THAT'S SERVING 00:56:35.024 --> 00:56:37.894 ALL OF LOS ANGELES IS NOT 00:56:37.961 --> 00:56:39.662 CONSIDERED A PUBLIC HOSPITAL. 00:56:39.729 --> 00:56:41.798 AND THE REASON, AS I'VE BEEN 00:56:41.865 --> 00:56:43.900 DELVING INTO THIS, MR. CHAIRMAN, 00:56:43.967 --> 00:56:47.604 IS THAT BACK IN 2018, WHEN THE 00:56:47.670 --> 00:56:49.405 HOSPITAL THAT I'M REFERRING TO 00:56:49.472 --> 00:56:53.143 WAS CLOSED, CMS REFUSED TO GIVE 00:56:53.209 --> 00:56:55.478 THEM A NEW LICENSE IF THEY 00:56:55.545 --> 00:56:57.647 CONTINUED UNDER COUNTY 00:56:57.714 --> 00:56:58.715 MANAGEMENT BECAUSE, FRANKLY, 00:56:58.782 --> 00:57:00.483 THERE WERE VERY SERIOUS ISSUES 00:57:00.550 --> 00:57:02.385 THAT WERE WELL PUBLICIZED ON 00:57:02.452 --> 00:57:04.821 THE NEWS AND SO ON. SO THEY 00:57:04.888 --> 00:57:07.791 WERE NOT AFFORDED TO BE IN THAT, 00:57:07.857 --> 00:57:09.859 QUOTE, JUST ONLY CALLED PUBLIC 00:57:09.926 --> 00:57:12.762 HOSPITAL, BUT THEY ARE CALLED A 00:57:12.829 --> 00:57:15.665 PRIVATE NONPROFIT HOSPITAL. AND 00:57:15.732 --> 00:57:17.734 SO I WOULD RESPECTFULLY REQUEST 00:57:17.801 --> 00:57:19.536 THAT BETWEEN NOW AND AUGUST, 00:57:19.602 --> 00:57:21.838 WHEN WE RETURN, THAT WE REALLY 00:57:21.905 --> 00:57:24.207 LOOK AT THAT DEFINITION AND 00:57:24.274 --> 00:57:27.510 POTENTIALLY CONSIDER PUBLIC AND 00:57:27.577 --> 00:57:29.679 PRIVATE NONPROFIT HOSPITALS 00:57:29.746 --> 00:57:32.982 THAT ARE SERVING MORE THAN 80% 00:57:33.049 --> 00:57:35.852 OF MEDI-CAL PATIENTS THAT 00:57:35.919 --> 00:57:38.321 CLEARLY WOULD MEET EVERY OTHER 00:57:38.388 --> 00:57:39.722 CATEGORY, EXCEPT FOR THE FACT 00:57:39.789 --> 00:57:41.457 THAT THEY ARE NOT GOVERNED BY 00:57:41.524 --> 00:57:43.726 THE COUNTY. AND IT'S MY 00:57:43.793 --> 00:57:45.461 UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS WAS A 00:57:45.528 --> 00:57:47.463 REQUIREMENT OF CMS, THAT THEY 00:57:47.530 --> 00:57:49.132 COULD NOT BE GOVERNED BY THE 00:57:49.199 --> 00:57:50.900 COUNTY, AND SO THEY CERTAINLY 00:57:50.967 --> 00:57:52.468 SHOULD NOT BE PENALIZED WHEN 00:57:52.535 --> 00:57:54.938 THEY ARE MORE THAN EXCEEDING 00:57:55.004 --> 00:57:58.107 ALL OF THE OTHER HOSPITALS, 00:57:58.174 --> 00:58:00.677 PATIENTS, THE MOST PATIENTS IN 00:58:00.743 --> 00:58:03.847 THE ENTIRE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 00:58:03.913 --> 00:58:06.416 PUBLIC PATIENTS, THE HIGHEST 00:58:06.482 --> 00:58:11.120 HOSPITAL THAT IS RECEIVING THE 00:58:11.187 --> 00:58:12.922 LOWEST REIMBURSEMENT FROM 00:58:12.989 --> 00:58:15.124 GOVERNMENT, AND I'M SORRY, HAS 00:58:15.191 --> 00:58:16.926 THE HIGHEST AMOUNT OF MEDI-CAL 00:58:16.993 --> 00:58:19.395 MEDICAID PATIENTS. AND YET THE 00:58:19.462 --> 00:58:21.531 LOWEST AMOUNT OF PRIVATE 00:58:21.598 --> 00:58:23.299 INSURANCE COMING IN. SO I WOULD 00:58:23.366 --> 00:58:25.168 JUST RESPECTFULLY REQUEST AND 00:58:25.235 --> 00:58:27.237 HOPE TO WORK WITH YOU ALL TO 00:58:27.303 --> 00:58:28.771 SERIOUSLY LOOK AT THAT 00:58:28.838 --> 00:58:29.906 DEFINITION, TO MAKE SURE THAT 00:58:29.973 --> 00:58:33.042 WE ARE NOT UNINTENTIONALLY 00:58:33.109 --> 00:58:36.246 MISSING THE MARK ON A MAJOR 00:58:36.312 --> 00:58:38.481 HOSPITAL THAT SHOULD QUALIFY, 00:58:38.548 --> 00:58:40.149 FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, 00:58:40.216 --> 00:58:42.819 UNDER THE PUBLIC SECTION AS 00:58:42.886 --> 00:58:45.788 WELL, THAT I'M ASSUMING WE'RE 00:58:45.855 --> 00:58:47.056 OPEN TO THAT. I'M GETTING SOME 00:58:47.123 --> 00:58:48.524 NODS AND SMILES, SO I THINK 00:58:48.591 --> 00:58:51.027 WE'RE GOOD. THE SECOND BILL I'D 00:58:51.094 --> 00:58:54.364 LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IS A B 169 00:58:54.430 --> 00:58:57.500 OF TRANSPORTATION, AND ON THAT 00:58:57.567 --> 00:59:01.504 ONE, I WANT TO COMMEND STAFF. 00:59:01.571 --> 00:59:05.108 THE CHAIRMAN AGAIN AND TÊ LIMÓN 00:59:05.174 --> 00:59:07.610 FOR THEIR EXTENSIVE WORK IN 00:59:07.677 --> 00:59:10.513 GETTING SOME REALLY GOOD POINTS 00:59:10.580 --> 00:59:13.383 TO PROTECT CALIFORNIANS SUCH AS 00:59:13.449 --> 00:59:15.952 NUMBER D UNDER ONE D THAT 00:59:16.019 --> 00:59:17.186 REQUIRES ANNUAL REPORTING TO 00:59:17.253 --> 00:59:19.489 THE LEGISLATURE. E THAT 00:59:19.555 --> 00:59:21.357 REQUIRES DMV TO ADOPT AND 00:59:21.424 --> 00:59:28.164 MAINTAIN A MONITORING PLAN. C J 00:59:28.231 --> 00:59:31.067 THAT REQUIRES DMV TO NOTIFY THE 00:59:31.134 --> 00:59:32.869 LEGISLATURE AT LEAST 30 DAYS IN 00:59:32.936 --> 00:59:35.038 ADVANCE. AND THE ONE I WOULD 00:59:35.104 --> 00:59:37.273 LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT MAYBE 00:59:37.340 --> 00:59:39.275 SHOULD BE CONSIDERED. AND THAT 00:59:39.342 --> 00:59:41.477 IS K, WHICH REQUIRES THE STATE 00:59:41.544 --> 00:59:43.947 AUDITOR TO CONDUCT AN AUDIT OF 00:59:44.013 --> 00:59:46.449 DMV S COMPLIANCE WITH THESE 00:59:46.516 --> 00:59:48.351 REQUIREMENTS NO LATER THAN 00:59:48.418 --> 00:59:50.820 JANUARY 1ST, 2030. THAT DATE 00:59:50.887 --> 00:59:52.689 SEEMS A LITTLE FAR OUT TO ME, 00:59:52.755 --> 00:59:54.857 GIVEN THE VULNERABILITY OF WHAT 00:59:54.924 --> 00:59:57.060 WE HAVE OF THE DATA. AND FOR 00:59:57.126 --> 00:59:58.795 THAT, I JUST WANT TO MAKE NOTE. 00:59:58.861 --> 01:00:01.631 FOR THE RECORD, I HAVE TWO 01:00:01.698 --> 01:00:03.466 QUESTIONS THAT I THINK THE 01:00:03.533 --> 01:00:04.767 PUBLIC NEEDS TO MAKE SURE THAT 01:00:04.834 --> 01:00:08.071 THEY UNDERSTAND. ONE, UPON US 01:00:08.137 --> 01:00:09.539 APPROVING THIS AND 01:00:09.605 --> 01:00:11.341 PARTICIPATING IN THIS PROGRAM, 01:00:11.407 --> 01:00:15.578 THE FULL DATA OF COMMERCIAL AND 01:00:15.645 --> 01:00:18.214 NONCOMMERCIAL DRIVERS WOULD BE 01:00:18.281 --> 01:00:20.383 PROVIDED TO THIS ORGANIZATION. 01:00:20.450 --> 01:00:22.118 SO IT'S NOT LIKE SOME PEOPLE 01:00:22.185 --> 01:00:24.287 HAVE DESCRIBED IT THAT, OH, 01:00:24.354 --> 01:00:25.722 CALIFORNIA DMV, WE STILL HOLD 01:00:25.788 --> 01:00:28.224 THE INFORMATION AND AS 01:00:28.291 --> 01:00:29.993 INDIVIDUAL REQUESTS ARE MADE, 01:00:30.059 --> 01:00:32.028 THEN INFORMATION IS PROVIDED. 01:00:32.095 --> 01:00:33.363 AND IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING 01:00:33.429 --> 01:00:35.798 THAT'S NOT THE CASE. WE WILL BE 01:00:35.865 --> 01:00:37.233 PROVIDING. AND PEOPLE NEED TO 01:00:37.300 --> 01:00:39.402 UNDERSTAND THIS. THE FULL DATA 01:00:39.469 --> 01:00:42.705 SET NAME, DATE OF BIRTH, SOCIAL 01:00:42.772 --> 01:00:45.141 SECURITY NUMBER, AND SO ON. AT 01:00:45.208 --> 01:00:47.744 THE POINT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION 01:00:47.810 --> 01:00:49.178 IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS PROGRAM. 01:00:49.245 --> 01:00:50.313 SO COULD YOU FIRST OF ALL, 01:00:50.380 --> 01:00:52.081 PLEASE CONFIRM THAT THE DMV 01:00:52.148 --> 01:00:55.685 WILL BE PROVIDING A M VÆ Ã THE 01:00:55.752 --> 01:01:00.423 FULL TRANCHE OF DATA. GOOD 01:01:00.490 --> 01:01:01.424 MORNING. I'M IN MELBOURNE 01:01:01.491 --> 01:01:03.159 DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. AND YES, 01:01:03.226 --> 01:01:05.428 ONCE THE DMV INITIATES THE 01:01:05.495 --> 01:01:06.796 SYSTEM, THERE WILL BE A CHECK 01:01:06.863 --> 01:01:09.699 AGAINST ALL OTHER STATES FOR 01:01:09.766 --> 01:01:11.034 DUPLICATE RECORDS. AND SO THERE 01:01:11.100 --> 01:01:12.602 WILL BE A TRANSFER OF DATA 01:01:12.668 --> 01:01:15.438 INITIALLY. YES. OKAY. SO THAT'S 01:01:15.505 --> 01:01:17.673 VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE ALL 01:01:17.740 --> 01:01:19.075 UNDERSTAND. AND THEN THE SECOND 01:01:19.142 --> 01:01:21.411 PIECE IS I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND 01:01:21.477 --> 01:01:23.346 THIS IN THE HEARING AS CLEARLY 01:01:23.413 --> 01:01:26.582 AS I DO NOW, BUT IT'S ALSO MY 01:01:26.649 --> 01:01:28.384 UNDERSTANDING THAT THE FULL 01:01:28.451 --> 01:01:30.553 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OF 01:01:30.620 --> 01:01:32.288 NONCOMMERCIAL DRIVERS IS 01:01:32.355 --> 01:01:34.891 PROVIDED THE, I'M SORRY, OF 01:01:34.957 --> 01:01:36.826 COMMERCIAL DRIVERS, FIVE DIGITS 01:01:36.893 --> 01:01:39.128 ARE PROVIDED OF NONCOMMERCIAL. 01:01:39.195 --> 01:01:41.397 BUT ULTIMATELY THE REMAINING 01:01:41.464 --> 01:01:43.299 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS COULD 01:01:43.366 --> 01:01:45.301 BE PROVIDED OF THE 01:01:45.368 --> 01:01:48.204 NONCOMMERCIAL. ONCE AGAIN, 01:01:48.271 --> 01:01:49.405 THAT'S CORRECT. THE INITIAL 01:01:49.472 --> 01:01:50.773 PING OF THE SYSTEM IS AGAINST 01:01:50.840 --> 01:01:51.808 THE FIVE DIGITS, AND IF THERE 01:01:51.874 --> 01:01:54.010 IS A MATCH, WE DO PROVIDE THE 01:01:54.077 --> 01:01:54.877 FULL VEHICLE RECORD, WHICH 01:01:54.944 --> 01:01:55.845 WOULD INCLUDE THE SOCIAL 01:01:55.912 --> 01:01:57.580 SECURITY NUMBER. OKAY. AND SO 01:01:57.647 --> 01:02:00.483 FOR THAT REASON IS WHY THESE 01:02:00.550 --> 01:02:02.251 PROTECTIONS ARE SO IMPORTANT 01:02:02.318 --> 01:02:05.088 AND WHY I ALSO THINK WE SHOULD 01:02:05.154 --> 01:02:08.024 HOPEFULLY CONSIDER THAT THIS 01:02:08.091 --> 01:02:10.493 2030 OF DOING THE AUDIT, THAT 01:02:10.560 --> 01:02:12.395 ONE PARTICULARLY STANDS OUT TO 01:02:12.462 --> 01:02:14.297 ME. THAT SHOULD POTENTIALLY BE 01:02:14.363 --> 01:02:17.333 A SHORTER TIME FRAME, GIVEN OUR 01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:18.468 VULNERABILITY OF HAVING THE 01:02:18.534 --> 01:02:21.003 DATA OUT THERE. THE THIRD AND 01:02:21.070 --> 01:02:23.139 LAST BILL THAT I'D LIKE TO TALK 01:02:23.206 --> 01:02:26.042 ABOUT HAS TO DO WITH THE COURTS, 01:02:26.109 --> 01:02:32.882 AND THAT BILL NUMBER IS. 17174. 01:02:32.949 --> 01:02:34.650 YES. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN, 01:02:34.717 --> 01:02:36.519 FOR THAT ONE. I WOULD JUST LIKE 01:02:36.586 --> 01:02:39.255 TO MAKE THREE POINTS. ONE, AND 01:02:39.322 --> 01:02:40.723 THIS IS SOMETHING YOU AND I 01:02:40.790 --> 01:02:42.959 SPOKE ABOUT, MR. CHAIRMAN, SOME 01:02:43.025 --> 01:02:46.129 OF THE REPORTS FOR REGARDING 01:02:46.195 --> 01:02:48.030 COURTHOUSE, CONSTRUCTION, 01:02:48.097 --> 01:02:49.031 COURTHOUSE, DEFERRED 01:02:49.098 --> 01:02:51.134 MAINTENANCE AND JUDGESHIPS ARE 01:02:51.200 --> 01:02:53.002 OLDER REPORTS, SOME OF THEM 01:02:53.069 --> 01:02:58.441 DATING BACK TO 2018 2022. AND 01:02:58.508 --> 01:03:00.576 GIVEN THE SUBSTANTIAL 01:03:00.643 --> 01:03:01.644 INVESTMENT THAT WE'RE GOING TO 01:03:01.711 --> 01:03:03.846 BE MAKING, I REALLY DO BELIEVE 01:03:03.913 --> 01:03:06.682 THE LANGUAGE SHOULD INCLUDE, 01:03:06.749 --> 01:03:08.084 AND I'M WILLING TO WORK WITH 01:03:08.151 --> 01:03:10.920 YOU AND THE THIRD PARTY, THE 01:03:10.987 --> 01:03:12.655 SPEAKER AS WELL AS DEPARTMENT 01:03:12.722 --> 01:03:14.557 OF FINANCE, BUT I REALLY THINK 01:03:14.624 --> 01:03:17.026 WE WOULD BE AMISS NOT TO 01:03:17.093 --> 01:03:19.295 INCLUDE SOMETHING TO ASK FOR 01:03:19.362 --> 01:03:22.431 SOME REVISION OR UPDATE, 01:03:22.498 --> 01:03:24.500 SOMETHING TO BE ALLOCATING THIS 01:03:24.567 --> 01:03:26.435 KIND OF MONEY. AND NOW I'M 01:03:26.502 --> 01:03:27.436 TALKING ABOUT, FOR EXAMPLE, 01:03:27.503 --> 01:03:29.272 WITH THE CONSTRUCTION, WHEN 01:03:29.338 --> 01:03:32.608 YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ALMOST $2 01:03:32.675 --> 01:03:34.677 BILLION, AND THEN TO MAKE THE 01:03:34.744 --> 01:03:36.145 INVESTMENT IN JUDGESHIPS AS 01:03:36.212 --> 01:03:38.080 WELL, WITHOUT MAKING SURE THAT 01:03:38.147 --> 01:03:40.082 THE MOST CURRENT INFORMATION IS 01:03:40.149 --> 01:03:42.318 AVAILABLE BEFORE WE MAKE THESE 01:03:42.385 --> 01:03:44.487 INVESTMENTS, I THINK WOULD BE A 01:03:44.554 --> 01:03:45.621 DERELICTION, DERELICTION OF 01:03:45.688 --> 01:03:47.690 DUTY, FRANKLY, ON OUR PART, 01:03:47.757 --> 01:03:49.859 BECAUSE COURTHOUSES HAVE 01:03:49.926 --> 01:03:51.661 CHANGED. WHAT WAS A COURTHOUSE, 01:03:51.727 --> 01:03:53.162 FOR EXAMPLE, IN MY DISTRICT, 01:03:53.229 --> 01:03:55.998 MAYBE IN 2018 IS VERY DIFFERENT 01:03:56.065 --> 01:03:57.767 TODAY, ALMOST TEN YEARS LATER, 01:03:57.833 --> 01:04:01.003 IN 2026, WHERE WE'VE HAD 01:04:01.070 --> 01:04:03.439 FLOODING, REPEATED FLOODING, 01:04:03.506 --> 01:04:05.641 MANY, MANY ISSUES. AND SO I 01:04:05.708 --> 01:04:07.810 WOULD RESPECTFULLY REQUEST 01:04:07.877 --> 01:04:11.047 BETWEEN NOW AND AUGUST THAT WE 01:04:11.113 --> 01:04:12.448 CONTINUE TO HAVE THOSE 01:04:12.515 --> 01:04:14.283 DISCUSSIONS ABOUT WHETHER 01:04:14.350 --> 01:04:15.718 LANGUAGE COULD INCLUDE SOME 01:04:15.785 --> 01:04:18.688 SORT OF UPDATE, REVISION OF 01:04:18.754 --> 01:04:20.790 FORMULAS AND SO ON. AND THEN 01:04:20.856 --> 01:04:23.993 THE SECOND PIECE HAS TO DO WITH 01:04:24.060 --> 01:04:27.263 THE UPDATED LANGUAGE SPECIFIC 01:04:27.330 --> 01:04:30.499 TO THE COURTHOUSES, JUDGES AND 01:04:30.566 --> 01:04:33.002 COURTHOUSE CONSTRUCTION JUDGES 01:04:33.069 --> 01:04:35.871 AND MAINTENANCE. IT SHOULD 01:04:35.938 --> 01:04:38.374 INCLUDE, IF WE WERE TO DO AN 01:04:38.441 --> 01:04:40.576 UPDATED OR REVISE REPORT, IT 01:04:40.643 --> 01:04:42.445 SHOULD INCLUDE AN UPDATE OF THE 01:04:42.511 --> 01:04:44.247 CURRENT STATUS OF THE 01:04:44.313 --> 01:04:45.648 FACILITIES, THE CURRENT 01:04:45.715 --> 01:04:47.416 COURTHOUSE WORKLOADS, AND THE 01:04:47.483 --> 01:04:49.919 CURRENT POPULATIONS SERVED. ALL 01:04:49.986 --> 01:04:51.887 OF THAT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE 01:04:51.954 --> 01:04:53.556 WHAT MAY HAVE BEEN A BUSY 01:04:53.623 --> 01:04:55.758 COURTHOUSE, WE ALL KNOW 01:04:55.825 --> 01:04:56.826 POPULATIONS HAVE MOVED 01:04:56.892 --> 01:04:58.294 THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF 01:04:58.361 --> 01:04:59.795 CALIFORNIA. SO WHAT MIGHT HAVE 01:04:59.862 --> 01:05:01.964 BEEN A VERY BUSY COURTHOUSE TEN 01:05:02.031 --> 01:05:04.700 YEARS AGO MAY NOW BE NOT AS 01:05:04.767 --> 01:05:06.936 BUSY AND COURTHOUSES THAT MAYBE 01:05:07.003 --> 01:05:09.405 WEREN'T BUSY NOW ARE. AND SO 01:05:09.472 --> 01:05:11.641 THE IMPORTANCE TO UPDATE THAT 01:05:11.707 --> 01:05:13.409 INFORMATION IS CLEAR. AND THEN 01:05:13.476 --> 01:05:16.212 MY THIRD AND FINAL POINT IS 01:05:16.279 --> 01:05:19.548 THAT I HOPE THAT THE THIRD 01:05:19.615 --> 01:05:22.752 PARTY GROUP, MEANING THE 01:05:22.818 --> 01:05:23.919 ADMINISTRATION, THE CHAIRMAN 01:05:23.986 --> 01:05:26.656 AND THE SPEAKER, WOULD CONSIDER 01:05:26.722 --> 01:05:31.060 LANGUAGE TO INCLUDE CONTRACTED 01:05:31.127 --> 01:05:32.828 CONSTRUCTION, PROJECT 01:05:32.895 --> 01:05:34.630 MANAGEMENT PRIOR TO WORK BEING 01:05:34.697 --> 01:05:36.465 DONE. NOW, WHEN I SAY 01:05:36.532 --> 01:05:38.968 CONTRACTED CONSTRUCTION PROJECT 01:05:39.035 --> 01:05:40.436 MANAGEMENT, I MEAN, OF COURSE, 01:05:40.503 --> 01:05:43.306 IN LINE WITH P L, A S AND ALL 01:05:43.372 --> 01:05:47.176 REQUIREMENTS OF LABOR FORCES. 01:05:47.243 --> 01:05:50.446 BUT THIS IS SOMETHING, MR. 01:05:50.513 --> 01:05:51.881 CHAIRMAN, YOU AND I HAVE ALSO 01:05:51.947 --> 01:05:55.084 TALKED ABOUT, THAT THE CURRENT 01:05:55.151 --> 01:05:57.687 CAPACITY OF THE COURTS 01:05:57.753 --> 01:06:00.156 DEPARTMENT TO DO EFFECTIVE 01:06:00.222 --> 01:06:02.325 PRIOR TO DOING ALL THIS 01:06:02.391 --> 01:06:03.793 CONSTRUCTION, TO BE ABLE TO 01:06:03.859 --> 01:06:07.029 PROPERLY DO TIMELY CONSTRUCTION 01:06:07.096 --> 01:06:08.798 PROJECT MANAGEMENT, TO MAKE 01:06:08.864 --> 01:06:11.067 SURE WE COULD MAXIMIZE THE 01:06:11.133 --> 01:06:13.469 FUNDS IN A TIMELY FASHION, NOT 01:06:13.536 --> 01:06:15.471 TAKING 2 OR 3 YEARS TO DO 01:06:15.538 --> 01:06:16.739 PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND THEN 01:06:16.806 --> 01:06:19.642 FINALLY GET TO DO CONSTRUCTION, 01:06:19.709 --> 01:06:21.043 THAT I WOULD STRONGLY SUGGEST 01:06:21.110 --> 01:06:23.546 WE ENGAGE A PARTY THAT IS 01:06:23.612 --> 01:06:24.947 AUTHORIZED WITH THE STATE, 01:06:25.014 --> 01:06:26.749 FOLLOWING STATE LABOR 01:06:26.816 --> 01:06:28.884 REQUIREMENTS, TO ASSIST US IN 01:06:28.951 --> 01:06:31.854 DOING THIS PROJECT MANAGEMENT, 01:06:31.921 --> 01:06:33.956 QUICK REVISIONS AND SO ON THAT 01:06:34.023 --> 01:06:36.759 WERE PROPERLY MAXIMIZING AND 01:06:36.826 --> 01:06:38.094 PUTTING THE DOLLARS WHERE THEY 01:06:38.160 --> 01:06:40.196 SHOULD BE. SO WITH THAT, THOSE 01:06:40.262 --> 01:06:42.598 ARE MY COMMENTS. AGAIN, I 01:06:42.665 --> 01:06:45.501 APPRECIATE THE WORK OF EVERYONE. 01:06:45.568 --> 01:06:48.037 DON'T TAKE MY COMMENTS AS 01:06:48.104 --> 01:06:49.839 COMPLAINTS. THEY'RE MAKING 01:06:49.905 --> 01:06:51.307 THINGS BETTER, WHICH IS WHAT 01:06:51.374 --> 01:06:53.042 ALL OF OUR ROLE IS. BUT 01:06:53.109 --> 01:06:54.510 EVERYONE IS REALLY DONE A 01:06:54.577 --> 01:06:56.679 YEOMAN'S JOB, I WOULD SAY, AND 01:06:56.746 --> 01:06:58.581 I FEEL VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE 01:06:58.647 --> 01:07:00.383 BEEN A PART OF THIS PROCESS. 01:07:00.449 --> 01:07:02.218 THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 01:07:02.284 --> 01:07:03.619 WE'RE GOING TO GO TO SENATOR 01:07:03.686 --> 01:07:05.388 GROVE NEXT AND THEN SENATOR 01:07:05.454 --> 01:07:07.256 BLAKE SPEAR ON DECK. THANK YOU. 01:07:07.323 --> 01:07:08.958 I WANT TO ECHO MY COLLEAGUE'S 01:07:09.024 --> 01:07:10.393 COMMENTS ABOUT THANKING STAFF. 01:07:10.459 --> 01:07:12.628 OUR STAFF GOT ALL THIS 01:07:12.695 --> 01:07:14.029 INFORMATION PILED ON THEM 01:07:14.096 --> 01:07:15.431 FRIDAY NIGHT OR FRIDAY 01:07:15.498 --> 01:07:16.899 AFTERNOON, AND THEY WORKED OVER 01:07:16.966 --> 01:07:19.535 THE WEEKEND, PROBABLY 40, 50 01:07:19.602 --> 01:07:21.237 HOURS JUST ON ONE WEEKEND TO 01:07:21.303 --> 01:07:23.038 MAKE SURE THAT WE GOT THE THE 01:07:23.105 --> 01:07:24.140 INFORMATION THAT WE WERE 01:07:24.206 --> 01:07:25.875 PROVIDED TO SEE WHAT YOU GUYS 01:07:25.941 --> 01:07:26.942 HAVE BEEN WORKING ON FOR ALL 01:07:27.009 --> 01:07:30.880 THESE MONTHS. I DO HAVE SOME 01:07:30.946 --> 01:07:32.982 QUESTIONS AND I'M GOING TO JUST 01:07:33.048 --> 01:07:36.252 START, I GUESS, WITH THE A, B, 01:07:36.318 --> 01:07:40.322 AND SB 111. I DO, AND I'LL JUST 01:07:40.389 --> 01:07:42.858 TRY TO GET RESPONSES. THE 01:07:42.925 --> 01:07:44.593 BUDGET CONTINUES TO SPEND 01:07:44.660 --> 01:07:45.728 UNSUSTAINABLE AT RECORD HIGH 01:07:45.795 --> 01:07:46.962 LEVELS. THE PROJECTED LEAVE 01:07:47.029 --> 01:07:48.330 OPERATING DEFICITS IN THE RANGE 01:07:48.397 --> 01:07:52.568 OF 8 TO $10 BILLION ANNUALLY. 01:07:52.635 --> 01:07:54.603 AND I KNOW THAT MY COLLEAGUES 01:07:54.670 --> 01:07:55.805 BRAG THAT THEY'VE REDUCED THE 01:07:55.871 --> 01:08:00.476 ONGOING DEFICITS. I'D LIKE TO 01:08:00.543 --> 01:08:02.178 SEE WHERE THAT MONEY IS COMING. 01:08:02.244 --> 01:08:04.713 EVEN WHEN THE NONPARTISAN LÀ Þ 01:08:04.780 --> 01:08:07.316 OFFICE HAS SAID AND POINTED OUT, 01:08:07.383 --> 01:08:09.552 THAT INCREASES IN RECENT YEARS 01:08:09.618 --> 01:08:12.421 ARE NOT SUSTAINABLE, SO CAN THE 01:08:12.488 --> 01:08:15.191 LAL BACK UP THAT COMMENT, OR IS 01:08:15.257 --> 01:08:16.492 THAT DO YOU THINK THE INCREASED 01:08:16.559 --> 01:08:18.060 SPENDING THAT WE'VE GOT WHEN 01:08:18.127 --> 01:08:21.163 WE'VE GONE FROM A TOTAL OF $251 01:08:21.230 --> 01:08:22.565 MILLION. GENERAL FUND $352 01:08:22.631 --> 01:08:24.233 BILLION STATE FUNDS, FEDERAL 01:08:24.300 --> 01:08:27.803 FUNDS. SO A TOTAL OF 535. 01:08:27.870 --> 01:08:29.238 $3,039 BILLION IN TOTAL DOLLARS 01:08:29.305 --> 01:08:31.240 FOR THE BUDGET IN JUST FOUR 01:08:31.307 --> 01:08:33.142 YEARS AGO OR TWO YEARS AGO IT 01:08:33.209 --> 01:08:34.310 WAS 320 BILLION. DO YOU THINK 01:08:34.376 --> 01:08:35.478 THIS FUND, THIS SPENDING THAT 01:08:35.544 --> 01:08:37.480 WE HAVE IN THE STATE IS 01:08:37.546 --> 01:08:41.183 SUSTAINABLE? ROSS BROWN WITH 01:08:41.250 --> 01:08:43.319 THE LA0, YEAH. SO THIS IS AN 01:08:43.385 --> 01:08:44.420 ISSUE THAT WE'VE BEEN 01:08:44.487 --> 01:08:45.821 HIGHLIGHTING FOR THE LAST YEAR 01:08:45.888 --> 01:08:48.357 OR TWO, WHERE OVER THE LAST 01:08:48.424 --> 01:08:50.059 SEVERAL YEARS, THE STATE'S 01:08:50.125 --> 01:08:51.861 BUDGET HAS GOTTEN OUT OF 01:08:51.927 --> 01:08:52.928 BALANCE IN TERMS OF THE 01:08:52.995 --> 01:08:54.163 EXPENDITURES AND THE REVENUE 01:08:54.230 --> 01:08:56.298 STRUCTURE. AND SO EARLIER IN 01:08:56.365 --> 01:08:58.834 THIS YEAR, THOSE ESTIMATES OF 01:08:58.901 --> 01:09:00.202 SORT OF THAT STRUCTURAL 01:09:00.269 --> 01:09:02.171 IMBALANCE WAS IN THE 20 TO $30 01:09:02.238 --> 01:09:04.440 BILLION RANGE. THIS BUDGET 01:09:04.507 --> 01:09:06.442 PACKAGE HERE, THE ESTIMATES 01:09:06.509 --> 01:09:07.510 FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE 01:09:07.576 --> 01:09:09.612 ARE THAT IT WOULD SHRINK IT TO 01:09:09.678 --> 01:09:11.146 A LITTLE LESS THAN 10 BILLION. 01:09:11.213 --> 01:09:12.982 I THINK IT'S ABOUT 8 BILLION IN 01:09:13.048 --> 01:09:14.917 SORT OF STRUCTURAL DEFICITS. 01:09:14.984 --> 01:09:17.686 SOME OF THAT IS DUE TO PROGRAM 01:09:17.753 --> 01:09:19.255 ANNUALLY. EXCUSE ME, GOING 01:09:19.321 --> 01:09:20.789 FORWARD. CORRECT. SOME OF THAT 01:09:20.856 --> 01:09:23.926 IS DUE TO SOME OF THE SPENDING 01:09:23.993 --> 01:09:25.060 REDUCTIONS THAT WERE PROPOSED 01:09:25.127 --> 01:09:26.862 IN THE MAY REVISION. AND THE 01:09:26.929 --> 01:09:29.698 THE PACKAGE HERE ADOPTS ADOPTS 01:09:29.765 --> 01:09:31.934 THOSE WITH SOME DELAYS AND SOME 01:09:32.001 --> 01:09:33.802 SOME CHANGES, AS WELL AS SOME 01:09:33.869 --> 01:09:35.504 OF THE REVENUE INCREASES THAT 01:09:35.571 --> 01:09:38.340 WERE ADOPTED AS PART OF THE 01:09:38.407 --> 01:09:39.808 BILLS THAT WERE ADOPTED LAST 01:09:39.875 --> 01:09:41.610 LAST WEEK, I BELIEVE. SO I 01:09:41.677 --> 01:09:42.778 GUESS MY QUESTION IS, IS THAT 01:09:42.845 --> 01:09:44.613 THE LA IS OFFICE. HOW COME 01:09:44.680 --> 01:09:45.681 NOBODY'S LISTENING TO YOU? IF 01:09:45.748 --> 01:09:47.616 IF I MEAN, I'M JUST HOW COME 01:09:47.683 --> 01:09:48.684 NOBODY'S LISTENING TO YOU? YOU 01:09:48.751 --> 01:09:49.785 ARE THE LEGISLATIVE ANALYST'S 01:09:49.852 --> 01:09:51.320 OFFICE. YOU'RE INDEPENDENT AND 01:09:51.387 --> 01:09:52.588 YOU ARE SAYING THAT CALIFORNIA 01:09:52.655 --> 01:09:54.723 IS GOING TO HAVE A 8 TO $10 01:09:54.790 --> 01:09:56.525 BILLION BILLION WITH A B 01:09:56.592 --> 01:09:57.793 DEFICIT EVERY YEAR. AND THE 01:09:57.860 --> 01:10:01.797 SPENDING IS NOT SUSTAINABLE. 01:10:01.864 --> 01:10:03.699 IT'S A VERY ETHEREAL QUESTION 01:10:03.766 --> 01:10:04.934 TO ASK WHY PEOPLE AREN'T 01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:07.937 LISTENING TO HIM. CAN I JUST 01:10:08.003 --> 01:10:10.806 ADD SENATOR. ABSOLUTELY. OKAY. 01:10:10.873 --> 01:10:12.007 THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION. I 01:10:12.074 --> 01:10:12.942 APPRECIATE THAT YOU'RE 01:10:13.008 --> 01:10:13.842 HIGHLIGHTING SOMETHING THAT I 01:10:13.909 --> 01:10:15.811 THINK WE'VE ALL BOTH LÀ Ó, AS 01:10:15.878 --> 01:10:16.845 WELL AS THE DEPARTMENT OF 01:10:16.912 --> 01:10:17.846 FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION, HAS 01:10:17.913 --> 01:10:18.914 BEEN HIGHLIGHTING FOR OVER A 01:10:18.981 --> 01:10:21.850 YEAR NOW AS A I THINK THE THE 01:10:21.917 --> 01:10:23.018 WORD WE'VE BEEN USING IS 01:10:23.085 --> 01:10:24.720 PERSISTENT, A PERSISTENT 01:10:24.787 --> 01:10:26.622 STRUCTURAL DEFICIT. SO WE 01:10:26.689 --> 01:10:28.824 SOLVED FOR THE BUDGET YEAR AS 01:10:28.891 --> 01:10:30.492 WELL AS BUDGET YEAR PLUS ONE. 01:10:30.559 --> 01:10:31.627 THAT'S THE SHORT TERM. BUT WE 01:10:31.694 --> 01:10:33.829 ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT OUR REVENUE 01:10:33.896 --> 01:10:35.698 GROWTH WAS NOT KEEPING UP WITH 01:10:35.764 --> 01:10:37.032 OUR EXPENDITURE. GROWTH AND 01:10:37.099 --> 01:10:38.467 EXPENDITURE GROWTH WAS FAR 01:10:38.534 --> 01:10:39.969 EXCEEDING THAT. AND SO LAST 01:10:40.035 --> 01:10:42.037 YEAR, THIS BODY AND THE 01:10:42.104 --> 01:10:43.505 GOVERNOR MADE VERY TOUGH 01:10:43.572 --> 01:10:45.040 DECISIONS AND REDUCED ONGOING 01:10:45.107 --> 01:10:47.376 SPENDING BY $12 BILLION IN LAST 01:10:47.443 --> 01:10:50.012 YEAR'S BUDGET. THIS YEAR, WE 01:10:50.079 --> 01:10:51.380 WANTED TO ADDRESS THE 01:10:51.447 --> 01:10:52.748 STRUCTURAL DEFICITS IN THE OUT 01:10:52.815 --> 01:10:54.483 YEAR. AND I WOULD SAY ONE THING, 01:10:54.550 --> 01:10:56.251 TWO THINGS. ONE THING IS WE DID 01:10:56.318 --> 01:10:57.820 LISTEN TO THE LÀ Ó BECAUSE AT 01:10:57.886 --> 01:10:59.321 THE GOVERNOR'S BUDGET, WE WERE 01:10:59.388 --> 01:11:01.857 OVER 20 BILLION IN DEFICIT IN 01:11:01.924 --> 01:11:04.326 THE BUDGET YEAR, TWO, THREE, 01:11:04.393 --> 01:11:06.295 FOUR. SO THE OUT YEARS AS PART 01:11:06.362 --> 01:11:08.030 OF THE MAY REVISION, WE OFFERED 01:11:08.097 --> 01:11:10.399 BOTH REVENUE PROPOSALS AS WELL 01:11:10.466 --> 01:11:12.668 AS SOLUTIONS FOR REDUCTION 01:11:12.735 --> 01:11:14.737 REDUCTIONS IN PROGRAMS TO 01:11:14.803 --> 01:11:17.673 SHRINK THAT BY MORE THAN HALF 01:11:17.740 --> 01:11:19.174 AND AS WELL AS THE TWO PARTY 01:11:19.241 --> 01:11:20.242 PLAN, THEY DID SOMETHING 01:11:20.309 --> 01:11:23.178 SIMILAR, OR THE LEGISLATURE'S 01:11:23.245 --> 01:11:24.980 PLAN INCLUDED, BUT INCLUDED 5 01:11:25.047 --> 01:11:26.348 BILLION IN EXTRA REVENUE THAT 01:11:26.415 --> 01:11:27.716 WE DIDN'T ANTICIPATE COMING IN. 01:11:27.783 --> 01:11:29.585 SO AS PART OF THE THREE PARTY 01:11:29.652 --> 01:11:31.787 AGREEMENT, THAT 5 BILLION IS NO 01:11:31.854 --> 01:11:33.188 LONGER THERE, BECAUSE WE DON'T 01:11:33.255 --> 01:11:34.590 ANTICIPATE AT THIS POINT THAT 01:11:34.657 --> 01:11:36.825 THAT WE SHOULD DEPEND ON THOSE 01:11:36.892 --> 01:11:38.661 REVENUES. BUT WE STILL ADDRESS 01:11:38.727 --> 01:11:40.729 THE ONGOING STRUCTURAL DEFICIT. 01:11:40.796 --> 01:11:43.899 AND, AS MY COLLEAGUE SAID, THAT 01:11:43.966 --> 01:11:47.903 26 BILLION THAT WAS IN 2728 IS 01:11:47.970 --> 01:11:50.439 NOW 10.5 BILLION. SO MORE THAN 01:11:50.506 --> 01:11:54.443 HALF NEGATIVE. AND THEN THE 01:11:54.510 --> 01:11:55.077 22,000,000,023 BILLION DEFICITS 01:11:55.144 --> 01:11:58.080 IN 2029 HAVE SHRUNK TO ALMOST A 01:11:58.147 --> 01:11:59.481 LITTLE OVER 8 BILLION. SO WHILE 01:11:59.548 --> 01:12:01.583 WE COULDN'T ERADICATE IT 01:12:01.650 --> 01:12:03.018 COMPLETELY, WE HAVE ADDRESSED 01:12:03.085 --> 01:12:05.154 IT, I THINK, SIGNIFICANTLY, 01:12:05.220 --> 01:12:08.223 BOTH BY INCREASING REVENUES AND 01:12:08.290 --> 01:12:09.858 WHICH WE DISCUSSED LAST WEEK, 01:12:09.925 --> 01:12:11.660 AS WELL AS SOME OF THE 01:12:11.727 --> 01:12:13.462 DIFFICULT DECISIONS THAT THIS 01:12:13.529 --> 01:12:15.597 BODY HAS MADE IN TERMS OF 01:12:15.664 --> 01:12:17.533 REDUCING PROGRAMS, EVEN WITH 01:12:17.599 --> 01:12:18.834 DELAYING THEM, BUT STILL 01:12:18.901 --> 01:12:20.736 COUNTING SOME OF THE THE 01:12:20.803 --> 01:12:22.137 REDUCTION IN GENERAL FUND COSTS. 01:12:22.204 --> 01:12:23.505 SO I WOULD SAY THAT WE DID 01:12:23.572 --> 01:12:25.274 LISTEN. IN FACT, I DON'T KNOW 01:12:25.340 --> 01:12:27.242 IF IT WAS SO MUCH LISTEN AS WE 01:12:27.309 --> 01:12:28.310 AGREED THAT SOMETHING HAD TO BE 01:12:28.377 --> 01:12:30.145 DONE. AND THE LEGISLATURE, THIS 01:12:30.212 --> 01:12:32.514 ADMINISTRATION IS DOING THE 01:12:32.581 --> 01:12:33.515 DIFFICULT TASK OF MAKING THAT 01:12:33.582 --> 01:12:34.683 HAPPEN THROUGH THIS BUDGET. 01:12:34.750 --> 01:12:37.586 THANK YOU. THERE'S BEEN A LOT 01:12:37.653 --> 01:12:38.687 OF TALK ABOUT PRESIDENT TRUMP 01:12:38.754 --> 01:12:40.589 AND H.R. ONE. IT CAME COME WHAT 01:12:40.656 --> 01:12:41.590 CAME FROM THE FEDERAL 01:12:41.657 --> 01:12:42.991 GOVERNMENT. SO H.R. ONE DID NOT 01:12:43.058 --> 01:12:44.827 ALLOW CALIFORNIA TO USE ANY 01:12:44.893 --> 01:12:46.895 TAXPAYER RESOURCES TO FUND 01:12:46.962 --> 01:12:49.498 UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS, 01:12:49.565 --> 01:12:50.566 MEDI-CAL, UNLESS THEY WERE IN 01:12:50.632 --> 01:12:52.801 EMERGENCY ROOM OR PREGNANCY. 01:12:52.868 --> 01:12:54.603 CORRECT. THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY, 01:12:54.670 --> 01:12:56.405 SO I NOTICED THAT YOU SCORED A 01:12:56.472 --> 01:12:58.807 SAVINGS ON HEALTH FOR 471. 01:12:58.874 --> 01:13:02.411 EXCUSE ME, $471.6 MILLION IN 01:13:02.478 --> 01:13:03.912 GENERAL FUND SAVINGS. AND IT 01:13:03.979 --> 01:13:06.782 SAYS FOR THE FOR UNSATISFACTORY 01:13:06.849 --> 01:13:08.617 IMMIGRATION STATUS. SO DID THE 01:13:08.684 --> 01:13:09.785 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FORCE 01:13:09.852 --> 01:13:12.855 YOU GUYS TO SAVE $471 MILLION 01:13:12.921 --> 01:13:14.323 IN TAXPAYER MONEY FOR 01:13:14.389 --> 01:13:16.125 CALIFORNIANS? I THINK WHAT THAT 01:13:16.191 --> 01:13:17.793 IS, IS A SORT OF REALIZATION 01:13:17.860 --> 01:13:20.462 THAT SOME OF THE NEW 01:13:20.529 --> 01:13:21.897 REQUIREMENTS WOULD LIKELY 01:13:21.964 --> 01:13:24.366 RESTRICT CASELOAD SO THAT THERE 01:13:24.433 --> 01:13:26.301 WOULD BE A FALL OFF OF 01:13:26.368 --> 01:13:28.036 INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE CURRENTLY 01:13:28.103 --> 01:13:29.538 RECEIVING HEALTH CARE, WOULD 01:13:29.605 --> 01:13:31.640 NOT BE ELIGIBLE OR WOULD HAVE 01:13:31.707 --> 01:13:32.808 DIFFICULTY RE ENROLLING. AND SO 01:13:32.875 --> 01:13:34.843 THIS IS JUST SORT OF EYES WIDE 01:13:34.910 --> 01:13:35.944 OPEN, UNDERSTANDING THAT THAT 01:13:36.011 --> 01:13:37.012 CASELOAD WOULD BE REDUCED. AND 01:13:37.079 --> 01:13:39.448 AS A RESULT, THE COST ON THE 01:13:39.515 --> 01:13:40.949 STATE WOULD BE REDUCED. WE ARE 01:13:41.016 --> 01:13:42.618 TRYING TO MITIGATE SOME OF THAT, 01:13:42.684 --> 01:13:44.553 AS DISCUSSED EARLIER, BY 01:13:44.620 --> 01:13:45.654 PROVIDING SOME ADDITIONAL 01:13:45.721 --> 01:13:48.857 FUNDING TO ASSIST COUNTIES. SO 01:13:48.924 --> 01:13:49.591 ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY 01:13:49.658 --> 01:13:50.626 ADMINISTRATION FUNDING TO HELP 01:13:50.692 --> 01:13:53.228 MITIGATE SOME OF THAT. BUT I 01:13:53.295 --> 01:13:54.897 THINK THE REALITY IS THAT THERE 01:13:54.963 --> 01:13:56.899 WILL BE MORE PEOPLE THAT ARE 01:13:56.965 --> 01:13:58.433 KNOCKED OFF ROLES, AND WE'RE 01:13:58.500 --> 01:14:02.137 ABLE TO HELP MAINTAIN THEIR 01:14:02.204 --> 01:14:03.138 INSURANCE, AND THAT'S BECAUSE 01:14:03.205 --> 01:14:04.139 WE'RE SWITCHING THEM FROM 01:14:04.206 --> 01:14:07.843 MANAGED CARE TO FEE FOR SERVICE. 01:14:07.910 --> 01:14:09.344 NO, I THINK IT'S LARGELY 01:14:09.411 --> 01:14:10.779 BECAUSE SOME OF THE WORK 01:14:10.846 --> 01:14:13.282 REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE INVOLVED, 01:14:13.348 --> 01:14:15.517 THE THE SHIFT FROM MANAGED CARE 01:14:15.584 --> 01:14:17.419 TO FEE FOR SERVICE IS AS A 01:14:17.486 --> 01:14:19.354 RESULT OF THE REQUIREMENT, AS 01:14:19.421 --> 01:14:22.224 YOU MENTIONED, FOR H.R. ONE. 01:14:22.291 --> 01:14:23.692 AND WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 01:14:23.759 --> 01:14:25.828 WILL ALLOW WON'T ALLOW. BUT 01:14:25.894 --> 01:14:27.796 SOME OF A LOT OF THE SAVINGS, 01:14:27.863 --> 01:14:29.865 AS YOU NOTED, ARE GOING TO COME 01:14:29.932 --> 01:14:32.367 FROM THE REDUCED ROLES, THE 01:14:32.434 --> 01:14:33.735 REDUCED ROLES. SO THERE'S NO 01:14:33.802 --> 01:14:35.204 REDUCTION IN. THERE'S NO 01:14:35.270 --> 01:14:36.605 REDUCTION IN. YOU DON'T SEE A 01:14:36.672 --> 01:14:37.806 REDUCTION IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR 01:14:37.873 --> 01:14:41.076 FORM OF GOING FROM MANAGED CARE 01:14:41.143 --> 01:14:42.845 TO FEE FOR SERVICE. I WILL LET 01:14:42.911 --> 01:14:43.846 MY COLLEAGUES SPEAK A LITTLE 01:14:43.912 --> 01:14:45.714 BIT MORE ABOUT THE THE SYSTEM. 01:14:45.781 --> 01:14:46.849 SHE'S MUCH MORE EXPERT AT THAT 01:14:46.915 --> 01:14:50.686 THAN I AM. HI. HI, MEGAN. 01:14:50.752 --> 01:14:53.622 DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. SO THERE 01:14:53.689 --> 01:14:56.291 THERE IS A SAVINGS ASSOCIATED 01:14:56.358 --> 01:14:57.559 WITH THE SHIFT TO FEE FOR 01:14:57.626 --> 01:14:59.828 SERVICE. IT'S IT'S ABOUT 506 01:14:59.895 --> 01:15:03.432 MILLION, 5 MILLION GENERAL FUND. 01:15:03.498 --> 01:15:05.500 AND THE EXPLANATION FOR THAT IS 01:15:05.567 --> 01:15:06.602 THAT MANAGED CARE RIGHT NOW 01:15:06.668 --> 01:15:08.070 WILL TAKE SOMEBODY WITH 01:15:08.136 --> 01:15:09.104 UNSATISFACTORY IMMIGRATION 01:15:09.171 --> 01:15:10.138 STATUS AND UNDOCUMENTED 01:15:10.205 --> 01:15:12.040 INDIVIDUAL. AND THEY WILL SAY 01:15:12.107 --> 01:15:14.109 THE PERSON COMES IN FOR CANCER 01:15:14.176 --> 01:15:15.744 OR SOME TYPE OF TREATMENT THAT 01:15:15.811 --> 01:15:18.213 THEY NEED, AND THAT MANAGED 01:15:18.280 --> 01:15:20.082 CARE SYSTEM WILL GO, I WILL GET 01:15:20.148 --> 01:15:21.316 YOU IN WITH THIS CANCER DOCTOR 01:15:21.383 --> 01:15:23.118 OR THIS WHATEVER DOCTOR, CARDIO 01:15:23.185 --> 01:15:24.219 DOCTOR DOESN'T MATTER, WHATEVER 01:15:24.286 --> 01:15:26.655 THE SITUATION IS. BUT NOW THAT 01:15:26.722 --> 01:15:28.490 INDIVIDUAL THAT IS LOOKING FOR 01:15:28.557 --> 01:15:29.524 TREATMENT WILL HAVE TO GO 01:15:29.591 --> 01:15:31.393 ONLINE, FIND THEIR OWN DOCTOR, 01:15:31.460 --> 01:15:33.061 MAKE SURE ACCEPTS MEDI-CAL. SO 01:15:33.128 --> 01:15:35.731 THERE'S NO LIKE FACILITATOR I 01:15:35.797 --> 01:15:37.933 GUESS. AND MOST PEOPLE WILL 01:15:38.000 --> 01:15:40.002 DROP OFF THAT SITUATION FOR, I 01:15:40.068 --> 01:15:43.005 DON'T KNOW, ANY NUMBER OF 01:15:43.071 --> 01:15:45.474 REASONS, LANGUAGE BARRIERS, NO 01:15:45.540 --> 01:15:46.575 EDUCATION OUT THERE, NOT THEM 01:15:46.642 --> 01:15:47.843 BEING EDUCATED, BUT NO, LIKE, 01:15:47.910 --> 01:15:49.745 HOW DO WE GO AND GET OUR OWN 01:15:49.811 --> 01:15:52.281 DOCTOR AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS? 01:15:52.347 --> 01:15:55.484 IS THAT PART OF IT? OKAY, SO 01:15:55.550 --> 01:15:57.119 THERE'S A FEW POINTS TO ADDRESS 01:15:57.185 --> 01:15:58.353 AND I'LL, I'LL TRY TO ADDRESS 01:15:58.420 --> 01:16:00.222 THEM IN ORDER. AND IF I MISS 01:16:00.289 --> 01:16:01.323 ANYTHING. NO, IT'S OKAY. I'M 01:16:01.390 --> 01:16:02.457 JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IT. 01:16:02.524 --> 01:16:04.126 SO THE SAVINGS ASSUMED IS 01:16:04.192 --> 01:16:05.260 ASSOCIATED WITH A FEW THINGS. 01:16:05.327 --> 01:16:07.729 ONE IS THAT CURRENTLY IN THE 01:16:07.796 --> 01:16:09.131 MANAGED CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM, 01:16:09.197 --> 01:16:11.800 PLANS RECEIVE A CAPITATION RATE. 01:16:11.867 --> 01:16:14.269 SO WITH FEWER MEMBERS THE 01:16:14.336 --> 01:16:17.172 CAPITATION GOES DOWN. IT DOES 01:16:17.239 --> 01:16:19.274 THE SAVINGS. IT DOES ALSO 01:16:19.341 --> 01:16:21.143 ASSUME DECREASED UTILIZATION. 01:16:21.209 --> 01:16:24.346 SO THAT IS CORRECT. AND THEN 01:16:24.413 --> 01:16:26.815 YOUR POINT ABOUT THE PROCESS OF 01:16:26.882 --> 01:16:28.283 SOMEONE FINDING CARE IN THE FEE 01:16:28.350 --> 01:16:29.918 FOR SERVICE DELIVERY SYSTEM 01:16:29.985 --> 01:16:31.987 THAT GETS BACK TO THAT 39 01:16:32.054 --> 01:16:34.022 MILLION THAT WE, WE TALKED 01:16:34.089 --> 01:16:35.791 ABOUT A LITTLE BIT EARLIER. SO 01:16:35.857 --> 01:16:37.659 THAT'S FUNDING FOR THE 01:16:37.726 --> 01:16:38.627 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CARE 01:16:38.694 --> 01:16:40.228 SERVICES TO PROP UP CARE 01:16:40.295 --> 01:16:41.263 COORDINATION. AND THAT INCLUDES 01:16:41.330 --> 01:16:43.732 A PROVIDER DIRECTORY NURSE 01:16:43.799 --> 01:16:47.736 ADVICE LINE TO TRY AND CREATE 01:16:47.803 --> 01:16:49.104 SYSTEMS AND SUPPORTS FOR THESE 01:16:49.171 --> 01:16:51.673 INDIVIDUALS AS THEY TRANSITION. 01:16:51.740 --> 01:16:53.041 OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THAT. I 01:16:53.108 --> 01:16:55.177 ALSO NOTICED THAT I WANT TO GO 01:16:55.243 --> 01:16:59.648 BACK TO THE FRONT, I BELIEVE. 01:16:59.715 --> 01:17:06.822 SO. THIS BUDGET ON A B 111 01:17:06.888 --> 01:17:08.957 INCLUDES ABOUT $200 MILLION IN 01:17:09.024 --> 01:17:12.527 LIKE HANDOUTS. IT ALSO HAS AN 01:17:12.594 --> 01:17:13.595 UNSTABLE, UNSUSTAINABLE RECORD 01:17:13.662 --> 01:17:15.797 HIGH OF PROTECTIVE OPERATING 01:17:15.864 --> 01:17:16.898 COSTS, WHICH I JUST TALKED 01:17:16.965 --> 01:17:20.669 ABOUT. AND THEN IT PROVIDES UP 01:17:20.736 --> 01:17:22.971 TO 140 MILLION, BUT ONLY 90 01:17:23.038 --> 01:17:24.439 MILLION GUARANTEED FOR 01:17:24.506 --> 01:17:25.907 FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED 01:17:25.974 --> 01:17:27.242 HOSPITALS. SO MY QUESTION IS, 01:17:27.309 --> 01:17:29.444 IS THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON 01:17:29.511 --> 01:17:30.912 THE FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED 01:17:30.979 --> 01:17:33.782 HOSPITAL SYSTEM FOR AT LEAST 01:17:33.849 --> 01:17:35.584 FOUR YEARS WITH SENATOR 01:17:35.650 --> 01:17:38.053 CABALLERO WHEN SHE STARTED IT, 01:17:38.120 --> 01:17:39.588 AND WE DID AN EMERGENCY 01:17:39.654 --> 01:17:40.355 ALLOCATION A FEW YEARS AGO. 01:17:40.422 --> 01:17:41.823 FORGET THE BUDGET YEAR WHERE 01:17:41.890 --> 01:17:43.158 THEY COULD APPLY FOR IT. THANK 01:17:43.225 --> 01:17:44.626 YOU FOR GETTING MY HOSPITAL IN 01:17:44.693 --> 01:17:46.661 RIDGECREST $5 MILLION SO THEY 01:17:46.728 --> 01:17:48.230 STILL WOULDN'T BE HERE TODAY. 01:17:48.296 --> 01:17:49.931 AND ALSO KAWEAH HEALTH IN THE 01:17:49.998 --> 01:17:51.600 CENTRAL VALLEY WHERE FRESNO AND 01:17:51.666 --> 01:17:53.268 AFTER MADERA CLOSED, KAWEAH AND 01:17:53.335 --> 01:17:54.669 FRESNO WERE TAKING AN ABUNDANT 01:17:54.736 --> 01:17:56.138 AMOUNT OF PATIENTS BECAUSE 01:17:56.204 --> 01:17:58.006 THERE WASN'T A HOSPITAL NORTH 01:17:58.073 --> 01:18:00.375 OF THEM. SO I APPRECIATE THAT. 01:18:00.442 --> 01:18:02.611 BUT MY CONCERN IS, IS THAT ON 01:18:02.677 --> 01:18:04.346 THE FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED 01:18:04.413 --> 01:18:06.581 HOSPITAL SITUATION, JUST A 01:18:06.648 --> 01:18:07.883 MONTH AGO, I SAT WITH THE 01:18:07.949 --> 01:18:09.451 BUDGET CHAIR AND WE ALLOCATED 01:18:09.518 --> 01:18:12.320 $25 MILLION IN EMERGENCY MONEY 01:18:12.387 --> 01:18:14.990 THAT SEVEN HOSPITALS WERE GOING 01:18:15.057 --> 01:18:16.458 TO CLOSE. THEY HAD WHAT 3010 01:18:16.525 --> 01:18:19.261 DAYS WORTH OF CASH LEFT. WAS IT 01:18:19.327 --> 01:18:20.495 10 OR 3010 DAYS WORTH OF CASH 01:18:20.562 --> 01:18:22.464 LEFT. AND WE ALLOCATED THEM $25 01:18:22.531 --> 01:18:25.067 MILLION. THEY REQUESTED $100 01:18:25.133 --> 01:18:26.201 MILLION TO STAY AFLOAT. AND I 01:18:26.268 --> 01:18:27.936 KNOW WE'VE BEEN SENDING THEM 01:18:28.003 --> 01:18:29.137 MORE MONEY AS THEY GO FORWARD. 01:18:29.204 --> 01:18:30.205 WE JUST RECENTLY HAD A 01:18:30.272 --> 01:18:31.940 COMMITTEE HEARING WHERE WE HAD 01:18:32.007 --> 01:18:33.008 MARTIN LUTHER KING HOSPITAL IN 01:18:33.075 --> 01:18:34.309 HERE, NOT BEING ABLE TO BE 01:18:34.376 --> 01:18:35.944 SUSTAINABLE ON DROP OFFS AND 01:18:36.011 --> 01:18:37.079 THINGS LIKE THAT BECAUSE OF THE 01:18:37.145 --> 01:18:38.647 LOW AGAIN, IT'S BECAUSE OF 01:18:38.713 --> 01:18:39.614 REIMBURSEMENT RATE. WE KEEP 01:18:39.681 --> 01:18:41.149 PUTTING BAND-AIDS ON IT. WE 01:18:41.216 --> 01:18:42.517 RAISE MEDI-CAL REIMBURSEMENT 01:18:42.584 --> 01:18:43.585 RATES, IT WILL SOLVE IT, 01:18:43.652 --> 01:18:44.820 THEY'LL TREAT PEOPLE, AND THERE 01:18:44.886 --> 01:18:47.322 WON'T BE A LACK OF FUNDING. BUT 01:18:47.389 --> 01:18:49.057 MY QUESTION IS, IS THAT THE 01:18:49.124 --> 01:18:50.358 SEVEN APPLICANT HOSPITALS FOR 01:18:50.425 --> 01:18:52.661 THE EMERGENCY TEN DAY NOTICE 01:18:52.727 --> 01:18:55.630 WERE REQUESTED MORE THAN $100 01:18:55.697 --> 01:18:56.765 MILLION WORTH OF MONEY TO BE 01:18:56.832 --> 01:18:59.067 ABLE TO STAY AFLOAT. AND YET 01:18:59.134 --> 01:19:01.670 THIS THIS BUDGET DECREASES THE 01:19:01.736 --> 01:19:02.637 AMOUNT THAT WAS COMMITTED TO 01:19:02.704 --> 01:19:06.274 THEM FROM 140 MILLION TO 90 01:19:06.341 --> 01:19:07.409 MILLION ON THE TOTAL STATE 01:19:07.476 --> 01:19:08.510 BUDGET. HOW IS THAT GOING TO 01:19:08.577 --> 01:19:10.946 HELP OUR CONSTITUENTS MAINTAIN 01:19:11.012 --> 01:19:13.248 ADEQUATE HEALTH CARE AND KEEP 01:19:13.315 --> 01:19:14.950 OUR HOSPITALS OPEN? OR DO YOU 01:19:15.016 --> 01:19:16.885 GUYS HAVE A PLAN TO GIVE THEM 01:19:16.952 --> 01:19:18.053 ANOTHER 100 MILLION IN A COUPLE 01:19:18.120 --> 01:19:19.855 OF MONTHS? AND WE'RE JUST GOING 01:19:19.921 --> 01:19:21.056 TO DO THAT EVERY FEW MONTHS, 01:19:21.123 --> 01:19:22.858 LIKE IN AUGUST. AND THEN BACK 01:19:22.924 --> 01:19:23.859 IN JANUARY, GUADALUPE MANRIQUEZ 01:19:23.925 --> 01:19:25.393 WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. 01:19:25.460 --> 01:19:27.162 SO THE THE FINAL BUDGET 01:19:27.229 --> 01:19:28.630 INCLUDES, AS YOU NOTED, 90 01:19:28.697 --> 01:19:30.765 MILLION FOR THE FOR DISTRESSED 01:19:30.832 --> 01:19:32.968 HOSPITALS. THE BUDGET ALSO 01:19:33.034 --> 01:19:34.769 ALLOWS FOR AN AUGMENTATION OF 01:19:34.836 --> 01:19:36.071 50 MILLION. SO AS YOU NOTED, 01:19:36.138 --> 01:19:37.239 ONE OF THE DATA POINTS TO 01:19:37.305 --> 01:19:40.142 INFORM THIS NUMBER WAS FOR THE 01:19:40.208 --> 01:19:43.378 CURRENT YEAR GRANT PROGRAM FOR 01:19:43.445 --> 01:19:44.446 IMMEDIATELY DISTRESSED 01:19:44.513 --> 01:19:47.482 HOSPITALS, A HOSPITAL SUBMITTED 01:19:47.549 --> 01:19:49.784 REQUEST FOR 123 MILLION. SO AS 01:19:49.851 --> 01:19:51.720 WE HAVE MORE DATA, THIS BUDGET 01:19:51.786 --> 01:19:53.822 ALSO ESTABLISHES THE HOSPITAL 01:19:53.889 --> 01:19:54.890 STABILITY UNIT, WHO WILL BE 01:19:54.956 --> 01:19:56.224 PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE 01:19:56.291 --> 01:19:57.425 TO HOSPITALS WHO ARE IN 01:19:57.492 --> 01:20:00.695 DISTRESS. SO AS WE, AS THE 01:20:00.762 --> 01:20:01.463 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CARE 01:20:01.530 --> 01:20:02.764 ACCESS AND INFORMATION DEVELOPS, 01:20:02.831 --> 01:20:06.468 THE PROGRAM DESIGN AND 01:20:06.535 --> 01:20:09.271 EVALUATES, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT, 01:20:09.337 --> 01:20:10.672 WHAT WE'RE HEARING IN THE FIELD, 01:20:10.739 --> 01:20:12.307 WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO 01:20:12.374 --> 01:20:14.709 AUGMENT BY 50 MILLION MORE NEXT, 01:20:14.776 --> 01:20:17.946 IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR. SO I 01:20:18.013 --> 01:20:19.648 JUST WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO 01:20:19.714 --> 01:20:21.249 THE PUBLIC THAT WE GAVE WE'RE 01:20:21.316 --> 01:20:23.385 SECURING $90 MILLION FOR ALL 01:20:23.451 --> 01:20:25.120 HOSPITALS ACROSS THE STATE OF 01:20:25.187 --> 01:20:26.321 CALIFORNIA, EVEN THE 01:20:26.388 --> 01:20:27.722 FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED 01:20:27.789 --> 01:20:29.024 HOSPITALS. AND WE KNOW OF AT 01:20:29.090 --> 01:20:31.493 LEAST 22 OF THEM. OKAY. SEVEN 01:20:31.560 --> 01:20:33.395 OF THEM ARE ON THE BRINK OF 01:20:33.461 --> 01:20:34.362 BANKRUPTCY CLOSING BECAUSE OF 01:20:34.429 --> 01:20:36.598 THE TEN DAY RUNNING OUT OF CASH, 01:20:36.665 --> 01:20:37.866 NOT BEING ABLE TO PAY EMPLOYEES. 01:20:37.933 --> 01:20:39.634 WE'RE GIVING ALL OF THEM $90 01:20:39.701 --> 01:20:41.336 MILLION. AND THAT'S ALL 01:20:41.403 --> 01:20:42.470 AVAILABLE ONLINE WHERE THE 01:20:42.537 --> 01:20:44.206 PEOPLE CAN HAVE ACCESS TO WHAT 01:20:44.272 --> 01:20:46.141 HOSPITAL GETS WHAT. AND 01:20:46.208 --> 01:20:46.775 BASICALLY, I THINK THE 01:20:46.841 --> 01:20:48.210 HOSPITALS HAVE TO REPORT TO THE 01:20:48.276 --> 01:20:49.878 STATE GOVERNMENT ABOUT HOW THEY 01:20:49.945 --> 01:20:53.348 SPEND THAT MONEY, CORRECT? YES. 01:20:53.415 --> 01:20:56.885 THAT'S SUBMIT INFORMATION ON 01:20:56.952 --> 01:20:58.587 THE THE HOW THEY'RE GOING TO 01:20:58.653 --> 01:20:59.721 SPEND THE GRANT FUNDS. GOT IT. 01:20:59.788 --> 01:21:01.590 YES. IT IS ALL PUBLIC. SO 01:21:01.656 --> 01:21:02.691 PEOPLE KNOW WHERE THAT THEIR 01:21:02.757 --> 01:21:03.792 TAXPAYER DOLLARS ARE GOING, AND 01:21:03.858 --> 01:21:05.594 THEY CAN BE ASSURED THAT IT'S 01:21:05.660 --> 01:21:06.728 GOING TO HEALTH CARE TO MAKE 01:21:06.795 --> 01:21:08.597 SURE THAT THEY STILL HAVE A 01:21:08.663 --> 01:21:09.831 HOSPITAL TO GO TO WHEN NEEDED. 01:21:09.898 --> 01:21:10.865 IT'S TO ENSURE THAT THE 01:21:10.932 --> 01:21:11.866 HOSPITAL STAYS OPEN AND 01:21:11.933 --> 01:21:13.602 CONTINUES TO SERVE. AND AGAIN, 01:21:13.668 --> 01:21:14.769 IT'S $90 MILLION IN THE FINAL 01:21:14.836 --> 01:21:15.870 BUDGET. YES, 90 MILLION WITH 01:21:15.937 --> 01:21:17.606 THE AUTHORITY TO AUGMENT 50 01:21:17.672 --> 01:21:18.773 MILLION MORE. LET ME MOVE OVER 01:21:18.840 --> 01:21:19.941 TO THE PLANNED PARENTHOOD 01:21:20.008 --> 01:21:21.977 ALLOCATION FOR $90 MILLION. SO 01:21:22.043 --> 01:21:23.478 THERE'S A $90 MILLION 01:21:23.545 --> 01:21:24.813 ALLOCATION EQUAL TO FINANCIALLY 01:21:24.879 --> 01:21:26.648 DISTRESSED HOSPITAL, BUT THAT 01:21:26.715 --> 01:21:29.985 HAS SOME TYPE OF THAT HAS SOME 01:21:30.051 --> 01:21:33.555 TYPE OF LANGUAGE IN IT. SB 106 01:21:33.622 --> 01:21:35.357 LANGUAGE THAT WAS ADOPTED. AND 01:21:35.423 --> 01:21:38.193 IT ACTUALLY SAYS THAT THAT 01:21:38.260 --> 01:21:40.028 WHERE THAT MONEY GOES IS NOT 01:21:40.095 --> 01:21:41.496 AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC RECORDS 01:21:41.563 --> 01:21:43.598 ACT. WHY IS PLANNED 01:21:43.665 --> 01:21:45.400 PARENTHOOD'S $90 MILLION NOT 01:21:45.467 --> 01:21:46.868 AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC RECORDS 01:21:46.935 --> 01:21:49.037 ACT? AND I THINK EVERY WELL, 01:21:49.104 --> 01:21:50.238 OTHER THAN THE ANNEX, THAT'S 01:21:50.305 --> 01:21:51.973 NOT AVAILABLE EITHER, BUT EVERY 01:21:52.040 --> 01:21:54.142 OTHER GOVERNMENT ENTITY HAS TO 01:21:54.209 --> 01:21:55.877 HAVE IT AVAILABLE. WHAT'S THE 01:21:55.944 --> 01:21:57.212 PURPOSE OF THAT? YEAH. SO THAT 01:21:57.279 --> 01:21:59.080 IS DUE TO THE SENSITIVITY OF 01:21:59.147 --> 01:22:01.650 THE INFORMATION AND THE PATIENT 01:22:01.716 --> 01:22:03.718 DATA RELATED TO REPRODUCTIVE 01:22:03.785 --> 01:22:05.453 HEALTH CARE. THE RATIONALE FOR 01:22:05.520 --> 01:22:07.222 THAT 90 MILLION, AS YOU RECALL, 01:22:07.289 --> 01:22:09.958 IS BECAUSE WE HR ONE PROHIBITS 01:22:10.025 --> 01:22:13.161 KHÓ, PROHIBITS ENTITIES SUCH AS 01:22:13.228 --> 01:22:13.928 PLANNED PARENTHOOD FROM 01:22:13.995 --> 01:22:16.031 CLAIMING FEDERAL DOLLARS. AND 01:22:16.097 --> 01:22:18.199 SO GIVEN THE SENSITIVITY OF THE 01:22:18.266 --> 01:22:20.302 DATA THAT WAS INCLUDED IN THAT 01:22:20.368 --> 01:22:22.470 LANGUAGE. SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT 01:22:22.537 --> 01:22:23.905 WHEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 01:22:23.972 --> 01:22:25.340 SAID NO MORE FEDERAL DOLLARS TO 01:22:25.407 --> 01:22:26.608 FUND ABORTION, TAXPAYER DOLLARS 01:22:26.675 --> 01:22:28.576 TO FUND ABORTION, WE BACKFILLED. 01:22:28.643 --> 01:22:30.412 YOU GUYS BACKFILLED. THE BUDGET 01:22:30.478 --> 01:22:32.147 PROPOSAL IS TO BACKFILL PLANNED 01:22:32.213 --> 01:22:34.382 PARENTHOOD'S LOSS. AND YOU SAID 01:22:34.449 --> 01:22:35.817 IT'S SENSITIVE INFORMATION. 01:22:35.884 --> 01:22:37.285 SOMEBODY'S GOING FOR CARDIAC 01:22:37.352 --> 01:22:38.320 WHATEVER HAPPENS IN THE 01:22:38.386 --> 01:22:39.187 HOSPITAL. I MEAN, I ENDED UP 01:22:39.254 --> 01:22:41.323 THERE LAST THURSDAY. SO ALL OF 01:22:41.389 --> 01:22:42.824 THAT IS SENSITIVE INFORMATION 01:22:42.891 --> 01:22:47.028 OR NOT SENSITIVE INFORMATION. 01:22:47.095 --> 01:22:48.463 AND THERE ARE PROTECTIONS LIKE 01:22:48.530 --> 01:22:50.365 HIPAA FOR INFORMATION. THE SAME 01:22:50.432 --> 01:22:51.232 WITH PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS 01:22:51.299 --> 01:22:52.801 UNDER HIPAA TOO, CORRECT? I'M 01:22:52.867 --> 01:22:53.802 NOT ASKING FOR PATIENT 01:22:53.868 --> 01:22:54.836 INFORMATION. I'M ASKING WHERE 01:22:54.903 --> 01:22:56.338 PLANNED PARENTHOOD SPENDS THEIR 01:22:56.404 --> 01:22:59.207 MONEY. WHY IS THAT CONFIDENTIAL? 01:22:59.274 --> 01:23:02.143 I AM GOING TO CALL DEPUTY 01:23:02.210 --> 01:23:03.578 DIRECTOR SCOTT KREISMAN TO HELP 01:23:03.645 --> 01:23:06.381 ME WITH THIS RESPONSE. NO, 01:23:06.448 --> 01:23:11.186 ABSOLUTELY. SORRY. SORRY. SO I 01:23:11.252 --> 01:23:13.088 GUESS THIS IS MY QUESTION I'M 01:23:13.154 --> 01:23:14.222 TRYING TO GET TO IS THAT 01:23:14.289 --> 01:23:15.457 AGENCIES THAT GET MONEY FROM 01:23:15.523 --> 01:23:17.325 THE STATE GOVERNMENT, WE 01:23:17.392 --> 01:23:19.761 REQUIRE SOME TYPE OF PUBLIC 01:23:19.828 --> 01:23:21.129 DISCLOSURE. I'M NOT ASKING FOR 01:23:21.196 --> 01:23:23.031 PATIENTS THAT GO IN AND USE 01:23:23.098 --> 01:23:24.032 SERVICES FROM PLANNED 01:23:24.099 --> 01:23:25.033 PARENTHOOD. I'M NOT ASKING FOR 01:23:25.100 --> 01:23:27.302 A PATIENT LIST. I'M ASKING WHAT 01:23:27.369 --> 01:23:28.770 HOW CAN WE, AS THE PUBLIC, 01:23:28.837 --> 01:23:30.939 DOESN'T KNOW WHERE PLANNED 01:23:31.005 --> 01:23:33.475 PARENTHOOD SENDS THAT MONEY? SO 01:23:33.541 --> 01:23:36.244 I JUST WANT SCOTT, I JUST WANT 01:23:36.311 --> 01:23:38.880 TO CLARIFY ON THE DISTRESSED 01:23:38.947 --> 01:23:41.416 HOSPITAL LOAN PROGRAM, WE DON'T 01:23:41.483 --> 01:23:43.118 ACTUALLY PUBLISH THE TURNAROUND 01:23:43.184 --> 01:23:44.686 PLANS. THEY ARE PRIVY TO PUBLIC 01:23:44.753 --> 01:23:46.454 RECORDS ACT REQUEST. YES. SO 01:23:46.521 --> 01:23:48.223 THE DISTINCTION ON THE PLANNED 01:23:48.289 --> 01:23:49.691 PARENTHOOD, I THINK THERE'S 01:23:49.758 --> 01:23:50.725 TRANSPARENCY THAT THE FUNDS ARE 01:23:50.792 --> 01:23:52.193 GOING TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD. 01:23:52.260 --> 01:23:53.228 THERE'S NOT SPECIFIC 01:23:53.294 --> 01:23:54.729 TRANSPARENCY OR NOT RELEASED TO 01:23:54.796 --> 01:23:57.132 PUBLIC RECORDS. SO THERE'S NO 01:23:57.198 --> 01:23:58.566 PUBLIC RECORDS ACT REQUEST TO 01:23:58.633 --> 01:24:00.535 SEE WHERE THAT MONEY, THAT $90 01:24:00.602 --> 01:24:02.937 MILLION GOES TO. I MEAN, TO 01:24:03.004 --> 01:24:04.506 PLANNED PARENTHOOD. NO ONE IS 01:24:04.572 --> 01:24:05.807 ALLOWED TO KNOW THAT. WELL, 01:24:05.874 --> 01:24:07.542 WELL, THE FACT THAT IT'S GOING 01:24:07.609 --> 01:24:08.676 TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS KNOWN. 01:24:08.743 --> 01:24:10.111 THE ASSUMPTION IS IT'S USED TO 01:24:10.178 --> 01:24:11.179 BACKFILL SERVICES THAT ARE 01:24:11.246 --> 01:24:12.881 BEING FUNDED BY THE FEDERAL 01:24:12.947 --> 01:24:14.215 GOVERNMENT. I KNOW THAT'S THE 01:24:14.282 --> 01:24:15.016 ASSUMPTION THAT YOU'RE SAYING. 01:24:15.083 --> 01:24:16.885 I'M JUST I JUST WANT YOU TO 01:24:16.951 --> 01:24:18.086 MAKE IT CLEAR THAT THE PUBLIC 01:24:18.153 --> 01:24:19.287 HAS NO AVAILABILITY FOR PUBLIC 01:24:19.354 --> 01:24:21.222 RECORDS ACT FOR $90 MILLION 01:24:21.289 --> 01:24:22.490 GOING TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD. 01:24:22.557 --> 01:24:23.391 THAT'S ALL THAT THAT'S CORRECT. 01:24:23.458 --> 01:24:25.160 THAT'S THE THAT'S ALL I NEEDED. 01:24:25.226 --> 01:24:26.127 THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 01:24:26.194 --> 01:24:28.830 APPRECIATE THAT. OKAY. AND THEN 01:24:28.897 --> 01:24:31.499 GOING TO JUST A FEW THINGS THAT 01:24:31.566 --> 01:24:33.668 ARE ON HERE. YOU KNOW, IT'S $12 01:24:33.735 --> 01:24:34.669 MILLION IN GENERAL FOR 01:24:34.736 --> 01:24:36.771 PERFORMING ARTS. IT IS ALSO $5 01:24:36.838 --> 01:24:38.306 MILLION. AND THESE ARE LIKE 01:24:38.373 --> 01:24:40.108 SMALL THINGS LIKE, YOU KNOW, 01:24:40.175 --> 01:24:41.543 FOR THE CALIFORNIA MEN'S 01:24:41.609 --> 01:24:42.644 SERVICE CHALLENGE. WHAT IS THAT 01:24:42.710 --> 01:24:43.778 LIKE? WHAT ARE THESE THINGS? 01:24:43.845 --> 01:24:45.547 ALL THESE THINGS ADD UP TO 01:24:45.613 --> 01:24:48.116 ROUGHLY ALMOST $1 BILLION, $1.4 01:24:48.183 --> 01:24:49.350 MILLION FOR CAL EXPORT FOR 01:24:49.417 --> 01:24:51.219 NEWLY NAMED INTERNATIONAL TRADE 01:24:51.286 --> 01:24:52.687 EXPORT PROMOTION PROGRAM. I 01:24:52.754 --> 01:24:53.955 MEAN, ALL OF THIS MONEY WHEN 01:24:54.022 --> 01:24:55.690 WE'RE TRYING TO SAVE MONEY. I 01:24:55.757 --> 01:24:56.825 WAS JUST CURIOUS ABOUT AND 01:24:56.891 --> 01:24:59.461 AGAIN, IT'S JUST FIVE PAGES OF, 01:24:59.527 --> 01:25:02.030 YOU KNOW, $500,000 ORANGE 01:25:02.096 --> 01:25:03.498 COUNTY UNITED WAY, WHICH THAT'S 01:25:03.565 --> 01:25:04.866 COMMON. YOU WOULD SEE THAT. I 01:25:04.933 --> 01:25:06.501 KNOW WHAT THAT IS, BUT THERE 01:25:06.568 --> 01:25:07.769 ARE A LOT OF THINGS IN HERE 01:25:07.836 --> 01:25:09.971 THAT GO TO THE GENERAL FUND OR 01:25:10.038 --> 01:25:11.706 COME FROM THE GENERAL FUND THAT 01:25:11.773 --> 01:25:14.242 THAT AREN'T THEY'RE STRANGE TO 01:25:14.309 --> 01:25:17.078 ME. SO WHO PICKS THOSE THINGS? 01:25:17.145 --> 01:25:18.880 HI. GOOD MORNING, JUSTIN 01:25:18.947 --> 01:25:21.716 NEEDLEMAN. SO I JUST WANT TO 01:25:21.783 --> 01:25:23.651 NOTE THAT A LOT OF THESE WERE 01:25:23.718 --> 01:25:24.853 IN THE TWO PARTY PLAN THAT. 01:25:24.919 --> 01:25:27.856 OKAY. AND THERE WAS A BIGGER 01:25:27.922 --> 01:25:30.525 BUCKET AS WELL FOR GENERAL FUND 01:25:30.592 --> 01:25:31.526 EXPENDITURES. THAT HAS BEEN 01:25:31.593 --> 01:25:32.527 SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED IN THIS 01:25:32.594 --> 01:25:34.095 THREE PARTY ACT ACT. SO I JUST 01:25:34.162 --> 01:25:36.164 WANT TO NOTE THAT AND ALSO 01:25:36.231 --> 01:25:38.032 ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE 01:25:38.099 --> 01:25:40.468 SEVERAL SMALL, GENERALLY SMALL 01:25:40.535 --> 01:25:42.237 GENERAL FUND ALLOCATIONS TO 01:25:42.303 --> 01:25:44.706 VARIOUS ENTITIES, AGAIN, MANY 01:25:44.772 --> 01:25:46.241 OF WHICH WERE PART OF THE TWO 01:25:46.307 --> 01:25:48.376 PARTY. OKAY. NO, I GOT IT. 01:25:48.443 --> 01:25:50.545 THANK YOU. SO AND THEN AGAIN, 01:25:50.612 --> 01:25:53.314 JUST TO REFLECT THAT $471.6 01:25:53.381 --> 01:25:54.883 MILLION SAVINGS OF REFLECTED 01:25:54.949 --> 01:25:56.384 THAT WE JUST TALKED ABOUT FOR 01:25:56.451 --> 01:25:57.619 MEDI-CAL, FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS 01:25:57.685 --> 01:25:58.920 WHO ARE EITHER GOING TO FALL 01:25:58.987 --> 01:26:00.088 OFF OR CAN'T GET MEDI-CAL OR 01:26:00.154 --> 01:26:01.823 WHATEVER. AND YOU SAID THERE 01:26:01.890 --> 01:26:02.957 WERE OTHER PROGRAMS OUT THERE, 01:26:03.024 --> 01:26:04.459 LIKE THE COUNTY SERVICES, YOU 01:26:04.526 --> 01:26:06.127 KNOW, PROPPING UP SOME DOLLARS 01:26:06.194 --> 01:26:08.329 FOR THEM. SO HOW MUCH OF THAT, 01:26:08.396 --> 01:26:12.267 OR ROUGHLY $471.6 MILLION, AND 01:26:12.333 --> 01:26:13.601 YOU'RE OFFSETTING SOME OF THAT 01:26:13.668 --> 01:26:14.869 LOSS? HOW MUCH OF THAT IS GOING 01:26:14.936 --> 01:26:17.572 TO GO TOWARDS LIKE THE COUNTY 01:26:17.639 --> 01:26:19.107 SERVICES THAT YOU MENTIONED 01:26:19.173 --> 01:26:20.308 EARLIER? AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO 01:26:20.375 --> 01:26:22.477 BE AN EXACT NUMBER. SURE. AND I 01:26:22.544 --> 01:26:24.512 JUST WANT TO SAY THAT A LOT OF 01:26:24.579 --> 01:26:25.680 THE SAVINGS THAT YOU'RE SEEING 01:26:25.747 --> 01:26:27.382 ACROSS OUR SOLUTIONS ARE GOING 01:26:27.448 --> 01:26:29.517 TO HELP THE THE BUDGET, THE 01:26:29.584 --> 01:26:30.818 BASELINE BUDGET. SO WE NEEDED 01:26:30.885 --> 01:26:32.086 THOSE SAVINGS BECAUSE WE WERE 01:26:32.153 --> 01:26:34.622 WE WERE COMING IN AGAIN, HIGHER 01:26:34.689 --> 01:26:36.724 EXPENDITURES THAN REVENUES. THE 01:26:36.791 --> 01:26:37.759 39 MILLION THAT YOU'RE 01:26:37.825 --> 01:26:38.760 REFERENCING IS SOMETHING THAT 01:26:38.826 --> 01:26:39.894 WAS NEWLY ADDED SINCE THE TWO 01:26:39.961 --> 01:26:43.231 PARTY LEGISLATIVE AGREEMENT, 01:26:43.298 --> 01:26:44.699 ACKNOWLEDGING THAT WE WANT TO 01:26:44.766 --> 01:26:46.467 DO THE MOST WE CAN TO KEEP 01:26:46.534 --> 01:26:47.569 PEOPLE FROM FALLING OFF AND TO 01:26:47.635 --> 01:26:49.470 KEEP THEM ON. AND SO THERE 01:26:49.537 --> 01:26:51.472 ISN'T NECESSARILY IT'S AN 01:26:51.539 --> 01:26:53.274 ADDITIONAL COST TO THAT SAVINGS. 01:26:53.341 --> 01:26:56.444 SO IT'S, AGAIN, A LOT OF THE 01:26:56.511 --> 01:26:58.580 SAVINGS, THE REVENUE GENERATION 01:26:58.646 --> 01:27:01.182 WAS PART OF THE OVERALL BUDGET 01:27:01.249 --> 01:27:02.617 FRAMEWORK IN ORDER TO GET US TO 01:27:02.684 --> 01:27:04.018 A POSITIVE STATE FUND FOR 01:27:04.085 --> 01:27:05.253 ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY IN BOTH 01:27:05.320 --> 01:27:06.821 THE BUDGET YEAR AS WELL AS 01:27:06.888 --> 01:27:08.156 BUDGET YEAR PLUS ONE. OKAY. AND 01:27:08.222 --> 01:27:09.824 SO THAT MAKES SENSE. WHEN YOU 01:27:09.891 --> 01:27:10.959 SAID THAT IT'S, IT REFLECTS 01:27:11.025 --> 01:27:12.727 PART OF THE SAVINGS, BUT THEN 01:27:12.794 --> 01:27:13.962 WE HAVE EXPENSES TO OFFSET SOME 01:27:14.028 --> 01:27:15.730 OF THOSE SAVINGS. SO LIKE, IT 01:27:15.797 --> 01:27:17.532 REFLECTS A COST OF $303.2 01:27:17.599 --> 01:27:19.534 MILLION FOR DELAY IN TRANSITION 01:27:19.601 --> 01:27:21.336 TRANSITION FOR THE POPULATION. 01:27:21.402 --> 01:27:26.274 SO SO THE YOU SCORED THE $471.6 01:27:26.341 --> 01:27:27.241 MILLION SAVINGS, BUT WE'RE 01:27:27.308 --> 01:27:29.410 GOING TO SPEND 303.2 MILLION TO 01:27:29.477 --> 01:27:31.145 DELAY THE TRANSITION THAT IS 01:27:31.212 --> 01:27:33.548 CAUSED BY HR ONE. RIGHT. SO 01:27:33.615 --> 01:27:35.350 THERE ARE A LOT OF SOLUTIONS. 01:27:35.416 --> 01:27:37.952 OKAY. IN IN THE BUDGET THAT 01:27:38.019 --> 01:27:39.587 TOGETHER WITH THE REVENUES GIVE 01:27:39.654 --> 01:27:42.156 US THAT POSITIVE SF BIÂU THERE 01:27:42.223 --> 01:27:45.493 ARE ALSO NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE 01:27:45.560 --> 01:27:47.562 LEGISLATURE TO PUT OFF SOME OF 01:27:47.629 --> 01:27:49.797 THE, THE START DATES FOR SOME 01:27:49.864 --> 01:27:51.566 OF THE SOLUTIONS, BECAUSE THAT 01:27:51.633 --> 01:27:54.769 WAS AN IMPORTANT PRIORITY FOR 01:27:54.836 --> 01:27:56.604 FOR THE LEGISLATURE. THAT WAS 01:27:56.671 --> 01:27:58.072 NOT PART OF OUR MAY REVISION 01:27:58.139 --> 01:27:59.407 NECESSARILY, BUT WE CAME TO 01:27:59.474 --> 01:28:00.608 NEGOTIATION, AS WE ALWAYS DO 01:28:00.675 --> 01:28:03.478 WITH THE FINAL BUDGET. AND SO 01:28:03.544 --> 01:28:06.447 IN TOTALITY, THE THE SAVINGS 01:28:06.514 --> 01:28:08.549 THE REVENUE GENERATION IS 01:28:08.616 --> 01:28:10.351 OFFSET SOME BY SOME OF THESE 01:28:10.418 --> 01:28:12.353 ADDITIONAL COSTS. BUT AGAIN, AS 01:28:12.420 --> 01:28:14.922 WE DISCUSSED EARLIER, THE 01:28:14.989 --> 01:28:16.724 OVERALL REDUCTION IS BOTH IN 01:28:16.791 --> 01:28:17.792 BUDGET YEAR, BUDGET YEAR PLUS 01:28:17.859 --> 01:28:19.994 ONE AS WELL AS IN THE OUT YEARS. 01:28:20.061 --> 01:28:24.332 OKAY. SO I'M GOING TO GO TO THE 01:28:24.399 --> 01:28:27.368 DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES A B 163. 01:28:27.435 --> 01:28:29.837 THERE'S A LOT OF CHANGES TO THE 01:28:29.904 --> 01:28:31.172 COMPETENCY COMPETENCY 01:28:31.239 --> 01:28:32.440 REQUIREMENTS FOR THE REGIONAL 01:28:32.507 --> 01:28:33.708 CENTER GOVERNING BOARDS. AND 01:28:33.775 --> 01:28:36.944 THEN THERE'S ALSO A STRUCTURE 01:28:37.011 --> 01:28:39.080 THAT FOR CONTRACT CODE 01:28:39.147 --> 01:28:41.616 EXEMPTIONS AND THEN SOME OTHER 01:28:41.683 --> 01:28:43.084 ISSUES. I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, 01:28:43.151 --> 01:28:44.285 IS THAT I WAS HEARING THE 01:28:44.352 --> 01:28:46.087 ASSEMBLY WHEN WE SHUT DOWN THE 01:28:46.154 --> 01:28:47.088 DEVELOPMENTAL CENTERS WHERE WE 01:28:47.155 --> 01:28:49.023 JUST BASICALLY WHEN I WENT AND 01:28:49.090 --> 01:28:50.091 VISITED SONOMA AND FAIRVIEW, IT 01:28:50.158 --> 01:28:52.026 MADE ME SICK TO MY STOMACH. YOU 01:28:52.093 --> 01:28:53.161 KNOW, THEY WOULD THEY HAVE 16 01:28:53.227 --> 01:28:55.596 DEATHS. THEY HAD INJURIES, 01:28:55.663 --> 01:28:56.998 BROKEN ARMS. THERE WAS A 01:28:57.065 --> 01:28:59.367 HISTORY OF ABUSE IN THESE 01:28:59.434 --> 01:29:01.035 FACILITIES. PEOPLE DESCRIBED 01:29:01.102 --> 01:29:02.370 WHAT THEY SAID WAS DUMMY SLIP 01:29:02.437 --> 01:29:03.571 AND SLIDE. LIKE THEY WOULD SOAP 01:29:03.638 --> 01:29:04.706 UP THE HALLWAYS AND THROW 01:29:04.772 --> 01:29:06.374 PEOPLE DOWN THE HALLWAYS LIKE 01:29:06.441 --> 01:29:07.575 STAFF. IT REALLY I MEAN, IT'S 01:29:07.642 --> 01:29:08.609 THERE'S ARTICLES ABOUT IT OUT 01:29:08.676 --> 01:29:10.578 THERE. SO WE HAD, I WORKED WITH 01:29:10.645 --> 01:29:12.513 HOLLY MITCHELL AND WE ACTUALLY 01:29:12.580 --> 01:29:13.681 CLOSED DOWN THOSE FACILITIES 01:29:13.748 --> 01:29:15.383 AND WE USED THAT FUNDING THE 01:29:15.450 --> 01:29:16.918 SAVINGS IN THOSE FACILITIES TO 01:29:16.984 --> 01:29:19.020 FUND COMMUNITY CARE. AND SO 01:29:19.087 --> 01:29:20.655 INDIVIDUALS WEREN'T JUST 01:29:20.722 --> 01:29:21.756 WAREHOUSED. THEY GOT TO BE IN 01:29:21.823 --> 01:29:22.924 THE COMMUNITY AND MAYBE THEY 01:29:22.990 --> 01:29:24.726 REQUIRED A 24 HOUR FRIEND. SO 01:29:24.792 --> 01:29:25.860 THEY DIDN'T RUN OUT IN THE 01:29:25.927 --> 01:29:27.662 MIDDLE OF THE HIGHWAY OR 01:29:27.729 --> 01:29:28.796 WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, BUT 01:29:28.863 --> 01:29:30.665 IT WAS LESS EXPENSIVE AND IT 01:29:30.732 --> 01:29:31.866 SAVED THE STATE A SIGNIFICANT 01:29:31.933 --> 01:29:32.867 AMOUNT OF MONEY. AND NOW IT 01:29:32.934 --> 01:29:34.769 LOOKS LIKE YOU GUYS, THIS THREE 01:29:34.836 --> 01:29:36.037 PARTY DEAL BETWEEN THE GOVERNOR, 01:29:36.104 --> 01:29:38.473 THE SPEAKER, AND THE PRO TEM, 01:29:38.539 --> 01:29:39.974 IT LOOKS LIKE TO ME THAT WHAT 01:29:40.041 --> 01:29:41.075 THEY HAVE DONE IS THEY'RE 01:29:41.142 --> 01:29:43.177 TRYING TO DISMANTLE THE 01:29:43.244 --> 01:29:44.212 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION THAT 01:29:44.278 --> 01:29:46.013 TAKES CARE OF OUR MOST 01:29:46.080 --> 01:29:47.515 VULNERABLE MEMBERS OF OUR 01:29:47.582 --> 01:29:48.816 SOCIETY. SO I HAVE A HUGE 01:29:48.883 --> 01:29:50.118 CONCERN WITH THAT. WE'RE 01:29:50.184 --> 01:29:51.252 REDUCING THE DOLLARS THAT GO TO 01:29:51.319 --> 01:29:53.154 THEM, AND WE'RE RESTRUCTURING 01:29:53.221 --> 01:29:53.988 THEIR BOARD TO WHERE 01:29:54.055 --> 01:29:56.491 INDIVIDUALS WITH ID, WITH 01:29:56.557 --> 01:29:57.959 INDIVIDUAL INTELLECTUAL 01:29:58.025 --> 01:29:59.260 DISABILITIES, THERE IS A MEMBER 01:29:59.327 --> 01:30:00.895 OF THAT POPULATION THAT SITS ON 01:30:00.962 --> 01:30:02.029 SOME OF THESE GOVERNING BOARDS, 01:30:02.096 --> 01:30:04.065 SO THAT THEY HAVE A REAL LIFE 01:30:04.132 --> 01:30:05.900 EXPERIENCE INPUT, AND THAT'S 01:30:05.967 --> 01:30:07.401 NOT GOING TO BE ALLOWED UNDER 01:30:07.468 --> 01:30:09.570 THE NEW CURRENT STRUCTURE. AND 01:30:09.637 --> 01:30:13.775 THEN. I REALIZE THAT YOU, YOU 01:30:13.841 --> 01:30:15.443 KNOW, IT SAYS IN THE POSITIVE 01:30:15.510 --> 01:30:16.444 THINGS, YOU KNOW, REGIONAL 01:30:16.511 --> 01:30:17.578 CENTERS MUST HAVE SOME TYPE OF 01:30:17.645 --> 01:30:18.813 STATE OVERSIGHT, BUT WE DON'T 01:30:18.880 --> 01:30:20.414 OVERSEE OUR HOSPICE PROGRAMS. 01:30:20.481 --> 01:30:21.649 THERE'S RAMPANT FRAUD THERE. WE 01:30:21.716 --> 01:30:23.217 DON'T OVERSEE. AND THERE HAS 01:30:23.284 --> 01:30:24.986 BEEN NO EVIDENCE OF FRAUD IN 01:30:25.052 --> 01:30:27.555 OUR COMMUNITIES. AND AS A 01:30:27.622 --> 01:30:29.457 MATTER OF FACT, BECAUSE OF THE 01:30:29.524 --> 01:30:30.658 WAGE INCREASES THAT ARE 01:30:30.725 --> 01:30:32.426 CALCULATED AND THE DECREASE IN 01:30:32.493 --> 01:30:33.961 FUNDING FOR THESE ORGANIZATIONS, 01:30:34.028 --> 01:30:34.996 THEY ARE REALLY STRUGGLING TO 01:30:35.062 --> 01:30:37.198 DELIVER SERVICES TO THE 01:30:37.265 --> 01:30:38.199 INDIVIDUALS WHO REALLY NEED 01:30:38.266 --> 01:30:39.400 THEM, WHETHER IT'S DAYCARE, 01:30:39.467 --> 01:30:41.536 WHETHER IT'S WHETHER IT'S 01:30:41.602 --> 01:30:42.570 CLASSES WHERE THERE'S AN 01:30:42.637 --> 01:30:43.805 OPPORTUNITY FOR A WORK PROGRAM 01:30:43.871 --> 01:30:45.139 SO THEY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO 01:30:45.206 --> 01:30:48.209 WORK AND MATCH WAGES. SO I HAVE 01:30:48.276 --> 01:30:49.544 HUGE CONCERNS OF THAT. YOU WANT 01:30:49.610 --> 01:30:51.412 TO TELL ME WHY YOU CUT AID 01:30:51.479 --> 01:30:52.647 FUNDING AND NOT HIGH SPEED RAIL 01:30:52.713 --> 01:30:53.915 FUNDING, JUST FOR AN EXAMPLE? 01:30:53.981 --> 01:30:55.516 DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT EXACT 01:30:55.583 --> 01:30:58.686 COMPARISON. OMAR SANCHEZ, 01:30:58.753 --> 01:31:00.288 DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE THANK YOU. 01:31:00.354 --> 01:31:02.290 I WILL NOTE ON THIS ONE. SO FOR 01:31:02.356 --> 01:31:03.391 THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL 01:31:03.457 --> 01:31:05.193 SERVICES, WHAT YOU'RE 01:31:05.259 --> 01:31:06.594 REFERENCING IN REGARDS TO THE 01:31:06.661 --> 01:31:08.429 REGIONAL CENTER OVERSIGHT IS 01:31:08.496 --> 01:31:10.965 NOT CUTTING RESOURCES FOR THE 01:31:11.032 --> 01:31:12.800 DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES, BUT 01:31:12.867 --> 01:31:14.602 IT'S TO IMPROVE TRANSPARENCY 01:31:14.669 --> 01:31:16.003 AND OVERSIGHT OF THE RESOURCES 01:31:16.070 --> 01:31:17.805 THAT FLOW TO THE REGIONAL 01:31:17.872 --> 01:31:19.807 CENTER GOVERNING BOARDS AND TO 01:31:19.874 --> 01:31:21.042 THE REGIONAL CENTERS. SO THE 01:31:21.108 --> 01:31:23.177 INTENT BEHIND THE PROPOSAL IS 01:31:23.244 --> 01:31:27.348 REALLY TO TO DO A FEW THINGS TO 01:31:27.415 --> 01:31:28.583 AND PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF THIS 01:31:28.649 --> 01:31:30.351 IS WHAT YOU'RE REFERENCING, BUT 01:31:30.418 --> 01:31:32.253 TO PROFESSIONALIZE THE FORWARD 01:31:32.320 --> 01:31:33.754 AND REALLY EQUIP THE BOARD TO 01:31:33.821 --> 01:31:35.756 OVERSEE THE RESOURCES AND THE 01:31:35.823 --> 01:31:36.858 FUNCTIONS OF THE REGIONAL 01:31:36.924 --> 01:31:38.993 CENTER TO TO DO THAT IN A WAY 01:31:39.060 --> 01:31:43.464 THAT REALLY FOCUSES ON, ON THE, 01:31:43.531 --> 01:31:46.267 YOU KNOW, JUST THE RESOURCE, 01:31:46.334 --> 01:31:47.335 THE RESOURCE ALLOCATION AND THE 01:31:47.401 --> 01:31:49.937 WAY THAT THE, THE, THE REGIONAL 01:31:50.004 --> 01:31:52.406 CENTER IS ACTUALLY FUNCTIONING. 01:31:52.473 --> 01:31:56.344 IN ADDITION TO THAT, IT ALSO 01:31:56.410 --> 01:31:57.845 REQUIRES THAT THE BOARD, YOU 01:31:57.912 --> 01:31:59.614 MENTIONED THE LAYOUT OF THE THE 01:31:59.680 --> 01:32:00.681 REGIONAL CENTER BOARD AND HOW 01:32:00.748 --> 01:32:03.584 THAT FUNCTION LAYOUT WORKS. IT 01:32:03.651 --> 01:32:08.990 IT ADDS IT ADDS BOARD MEMBER 01:32:09.056 --> 01:32:11.125 PROFESSIONALIZATION AND ALSO 01:32:11.192 --> 01:32:12.126 EXPERIENCE THAT'S NEEDED AS 01:32:12.193 --> 01:32:14.061 PART OF THE, THE, THE BOARD TO 01:32:14.128 --> 01:32:15.429 REALLY AS PART OF THE 01:32:15.496 --> 01:32:16.230 PROFESSIONALIZATION, TO MAKE 01:32:16.297 --> 01:32:17.498 SURE THAT THE FOLKS THAT ARE 01:32:17.565 --> 01:32:19.300 WORKING ON THE BOARDS WHO ARE 01:32:19.367 --> 01:32:20.067 PARTICIPATING, PART OF THE 01:32:20.134 --> 01:32:22.670 BOARDS ARE, ARE EQUIPPED WITH 01:32:22.737 --> 01:32:27.608 THOSE SKILL SETS NEEDED. SO 01:32:27.675 --> 01:32:29.010 YOU'RE SAYING THERE'S NO CUTS 01:32:29.076 --> 01:32:34.115 TO DSS IN THE BUDGET? THIS THIS 01:32:34.181 --> 01:32:37.385 IS MAINTAINING THE BUDGET? YES. 01:32:37.451 --> 01:32:38.786 FOR THE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF 01:32:38.853 --> 01:32:40.288 DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES. AND 01:32:40.354 --> 01:32:43.891 YOU'RE SAYING THERE'S NO CUTS? 01:32:43.958 --> 01:32:45.960 THAT'S CORRECT. FOR FOR THE 01:32:46.027 --> 01:32:47.228 DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENTAL 01:32:47.295 --> 01:32:49.697 SERVICES. OKAY. I'M GOING TO 01:32:49.764 --> 01:32:51.198 CHECK YOU ON THAT. AS SOON AS I 01:32:51.265 --> 01:32:53.134 PULL UP THIS NUMBER, AS SOON AS 01:32:53.200 --> 01:32:55.102 I FIND IT. BUT I'M GOING TO 01:32:55.169 --> 01:32:56.304 MOVE ON TO SOMETHING ELSE. I 01:32:56.370 --> 01:32:58.172 DON'T EVEN WANT TO GO OVER FILE 01:32:58.239 --> 01:32:59.273 ITEM NINE, WHICH IS THE 01:32:59.340 --> 01:33:01.075 160AB165. OUR WAR ON SENIORS IS 01:33:01.142 --> 01:33:02.243 JUST UPSETTING IN THIS BUDGET, 01:33:02.310 --> 01:33:04.378 AND I'LL PROBABLY CRY BECAUSE I 01:33:04.445 --> 01:33:07.348 HAD TO TAKE CARE OF MY MOM WHEN 01:33:07.415 --> 01:33:09.083 SHE WAS DEMENTIA RELATED THE 01:33:09.150 --> 01:33:10.518 WHOLE BIT. AND WHAT YOU GUYS 01:33:10.584 --> 01:33:11.652 ARE DOING TO THESE SKILLED 01:33:11.719 --> 01:33:12.486 NURSING FACILITIES IS 01:33:12.553 --> 01:33:14.021 COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. I DO 01:33:14.088 --> 01:33:20.628 HAVE A CONCERN ABOUT. AGAIN, 01:33:20.695 --> 01:33:21.629 I'M JUST GOING TO MAKE A 01:33:21.696 --> 01:33:23.197 COMMENT. YOU'RE REQUIRING 01:33:23.264 --> 01:33:23.731 TRANSPARENCY, WHICH THEY 01:33:23.798 --> 01:33:25.466 ALREADY PROVIDE TRANSPARENCY 01:33:25.533 --> 01:33:27.101 FOR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES 01:33:27.168 --> 01:33:28.402 BOARDS, BUT NO TRANSPARENCY 01:33:28.469 --> 01:33:29.904 UNDER $90 MILLION GIVEN TO 01:33:29.971 --> 01:33:33.674 PLANNED PARENTHOOD. THIS THIS 01:33:33.741 --> 01:33:35.409 BILL ON FILE ITEM 12, WHICH IS 01:33:35.476 --> 01:33:37.812 THE A B 169. IT ALLOWS THE HIGH 01:33:37.878 --> 01:33:40.514 SPEED RAIL INSPECTOR TO KEEP 01:33:40.581 --> 01:33:41.515 CERTAIN AUDITS AND REVIEWS 01:33:41.582 --> 01:33:43.284 ASSOCIATED WITH THESE MATERIALS. 01:33:43.351 --> 01:33:44.618 CONFIDENTIAL, CONFIDENTIAL. 01:33:44.685 --> 01:33:47.521 AGAIN, NO PUBLIC RECORDS ACT 01:33:47.588 --> 01:33:54.362 REQUEST. IS THAT TRUE? OH, HI. 01:33:54.428 --> 01:33:56.130 SORRY, I DIDN'T SEE YOU COMING 01:33:56.197 --> 01:34:04.438 UP, I APOLOGIZE. GOOD MORNING, 01:34:04.505 --> 01:34:05.606 DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. YES. FOR 01:34:05.673 --> 01:34:07.375 THE INSPECTOR GENERAL, IT 01:34:07.441 --> 01:34:09.877 ALLOWS HIM TO PROTECT CERTAIN 01:34:09.944 --> 01:34:12.780 RECORDS THAT ARE RELATED TO 01:34:12.847 --> 01:34:13.881 WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINTS AND 01:34:13.948 --> 01:34:15.383 SENSITIVE DATA, WHILE 01:34:15.449 --> 01:34:16.350 CONTINUALLY REASSESSING WHETHER 01:34:16.417 --> 01:34:17.852 OR NOT THE NEED FOR THAT 01:34:17.918 --> 01:34:19.320 CONFIDENTIALITY IS REQUIRED AND 01:34:19.387 --> 01:34:20.688 WHAT WOULD BE DEFINED AS 01:34:20.755 --> 01:34:22.523 SENSITIVE DATA. THERE'S NO 01:34:22.590 --> 01:34:27.962 DEFINITION COST. IT WOULD BE 01:34:28.029 --> 01:34:29.730 SPECIFIC INFORMATION THAT COULD 01:34:29.797 --> 01:34:31.465 BE COMPROMISING EITHER TO THE 01:34:31.532 --> 01:34:34.268 INDIVIDUAL OR AS DETERMINED BY 01:34:34.335 --> 01:34:39.807 THE INSPECTOR GENERAL. SORRY. 01:34:39.874 --> 01:34:41.142 WHAT WOULD BE COMPROMISING TO 01:34:41.208 --> 01:34:42.643 THE INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR THE 01:34:42.710 --> 01:34:50.918 PUBLIC TO KNOW? I THINK THIS IS 01:34:50.985 --> 01:34:52.386 LARGELY TO DO WITH 01:34:52.453 --> 01:34:53.220 WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINTS THAT 01:34:53.287 --> 01:34:54.455 ARE PROVIDED DIRECTLY TO THE 01:34:54.522 --> 01:34:56.023 INSPECTOR GENERAL. AND IN ORDER 01:34:56.090 --> 01:34:58.526 TO PROTECT THAT, THAT THOSE 01:34:58.592 --> 01:34:59.427 COMPLAINTS OR THOSE PEOPLE WHO 01:34:59.493 --> 01:35:02.830 ARE COMPLAINT, THAT WOULD BE 01:35:02.897 --> 01:35:03.864 REPORTING TO THE INSPECTOR 01:35:03.931 --> 01:35:07.168 GENERAL. BUT HE'S REQUIRED TO 01:35:07.234 --> 01:35:08.569 PUBLICLY ARTICULATE THE 01:35:08.636 --> 01:35:09.703 RATIONALE FOR HOLDING A REPORT 01:35:09.770 --> 01:35:11.505 OR A PORTION OF THE REPORT 01:35:11.572 --> 01:35:13.240 CONFIDENTIAL AND CONTINUOUSLY, 01:35:13.307 --> 01:35:15.409 CONTINUALLY REASSESS EVERY 120 01:35:15.476 --> 01:35:17.411 DAYS WHETHER OR NOT THAT REPORT 01:35:17.478 --> 01:35:18.946 OR PORTION OF THE REPORT SHOULD 01:35:19.013 --> 01:35:21.482 REMAIN CONFIDENTIAL. SO JUST 01:35:21.549 --> 01:35:22.983 BASED ON WHAT YOU'RE WHAT YOU 01:35:23.050 --> 01:35:24.351 SAID, LIKE IN JUST LIKE REAL 01:35:24.418 --> 01:35:25.953 WORLD, SO THE TWO PEOPLE WHO 01:35:26.020 --> 01:35:27.154 GOT KILLED OR DIED AND WERE 01:35:27.221 --> 01:35:29.757 STASHED IN ONE OF THE, THE 01:35:29.824 --> 01:35:30.925 ELECTRICAL PANEL BOXES 01:35:30.991 --> 01:35:32.226 UNDERNEATH THE HIGH SPEED RAIL 01:35:32.293 --> 01:35:34.095 IN FRESNO, LIKE SOMEBODY WHO 01:35:34.161 --> 01:35:36.630 WHISTLEBLOWER THAT WOULD BE 01:35:36.697 --> 01:35:39.467 PROTECTED OR THE PEOPLE WHO DID 01:35:39.533 --> 01:35:42.436 IT WOULD BE PROTECTED. I'M NOT 01:35:42.503 --> 01:35:43.471 SPECIFICALLY FAMILIAR WITH THAT 01:35:43.537 --> 01:35:45.306 CASE. OKAY. WHAT ABOUT THE 01:35:45.372 --> 01:35:47.007 SINKHOLE THAT'S CAUSING ONE OF 01:35:47.074 --> 01:35:48.509 THE BRIDGES TO BE NOT STABLE? 01:35:48.576 --> 01:35:49.376 THAT'S ALREADY BEEN BUILT? I 01:35:49.443 --> 01:35:51.212 MEAN, IT'S BILLIONS OF TONS OF 01:35:51.278 --> 01:35:53.147 CEMENT, AND IT'S ON A SINKING 01:35:53.214 --> 01:35:54.949 VALLEY FLOOR. SO THERE ARE 01:35:55.015 --> 01:35:55.649 SINKHOLES OUT THERE, AND 01:35:55.716 --> 01:35:56.784 THEY'RE TRYING TO DESPERATELY 01:35:56.851 --> 01:35:58.652 TRY TO FIX ONE OF THE. SO IS, 01:35:58.719 --> 01:36:00.654 IS THAT WHISTLEBLOWER COMPLAINT? 01:36:00.721 --> 01:36:02.089 NO, I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT WOULD 01:36:02.156 --> 01:36:04.291 BE PART OF THIS. OKAY. OKAY. SO 01:36:04.358 --> 01:36:07.161 JUST FOR PERSONAL COMMENT, IN 01:36:07.228 --> 01:36:08.963 2008, PROPOSITION ONE, A 01:36:09.029 --> 01:36:09.730 GUARANTEED THE VOTERS THAT 01:36:09.797 --> 01:36:12.833 WOULD BE $9.95 BILLION IN BONDS. 01:36:12.900 --> 01:36:14.135 AND WE HAVE A HIGH SPEED TRAIN 01:36:14.201 --> 01:36:15.836 FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO LOS 01:36:15.903 --> 01:36:16.904 ANGELES. IT WOULD TAKE TWO 01:36:16.971 --> 01:36:19.373 HOURS AND 40 MINUTES. IT IS NOW 01:36:19.440 --> 01:36:20.908 2026. THE TOTAL COST OF THAT 01:36:20.975 --> 01:36:23.711 BOND WAS, VOTERS WERE TOLD WAS 01:36:23.777 --> 01:36:24.945 33 TO $45 BILLION. AND WE WOULD 01:36:25.012 --> 01:36:27.414 BE ON THAT TRAIN IN 2020. IT IS 01:36:27.481 --> 01:36:30.184 IN 2026. NOW THERE IS NO ACTIVE 01:36:30.251 --> 01:36:31.585 THERE'S NOT ANY TRACK LAID. 01:36:31.652 --> 01:36:33.087 THERE'S NOTHING. I DRIVE BY 01:36:33.154 --> 01:36:35.856 THIS MONSTROSITY EVERY DAY ON 01:36:35.923 --> 01:36:38.092 MONDAY OR SUNDAY. AND ON MY WAY 01:36:38.159 --> 01:36:42.062 BACK ON THURSDAY, WE ACTUALLY 01:36:42.129 --> 01:36:43.164 VIDEOTAPE IT. YOU CAN IT'S 01:36:43.230 --> 01:36:44.565 PROBABLY THE LENGTH OF THIS 01:36:44.632 --> 01:36:46.000 BUILDING. WE'VE SPENT ALL THESE 01:36:46.066 --> 01:36:47.501 YEARS, AND A PORTION OF THAT 01:36:47.568 --> 01:36:48.702 PROJECT IS PROBABLY THE LENGTH 01:36:48.769 --> 01:36:50.371 OF THE Þ STREET BUILDING. YOU 01:36:50.437 --> 01:36:51.572 CAN WALK IT. AND I WALKED IT 01:36:51.639 --> 01:36:53.574 WITH A TV CAMERA IN LIKE FOUR 01:36:53.641 --> 01:36:55.409 MINUTES. IT'S NOT A IT'S NOT A 01:36:55.476 --> 01:36:57.144 LONG WALK. AND WE CONTINUE TO, 01:36:57.211 --> 01:36:59.313 TO FUND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS 01:36:59.380 --> 01:37:02.149 INTO THIS. AND IT SAYS THAT 01:37:02.216 --> 01:37:03.417 IT'S GOING TO BE BUILT IN 2020, 01:37:03.484 --> 01:37:05.152 EXCUSE ME, 2033, BUT THAT'S 01:37:05.219 --> 01:37:07.288 ONLY BAKERSFIELD TO MERCED. THE 01:37:07.354 --> 01:37:08.956 VOTERS WERE LIED TO. AND WHY DO 01:37:09.023 --> 01:37:10.891 WE LÀ. OH, I'LL ASK YOU, WHY DO 01:37:10.958 --> 01:37:12.693 WE CONTINUE TO APPROPRIATE 01:37:12.760 --> 01:37:14.428 MONEY? DO YOU RECOMMEND THIS 01:37:14.495 --> 01:37:16.530 THAT WE CONTINUE TO OFFER MONEY 01:37:16.597 --> 01:37:20.634 FOR HIGH SPEED RAIL? AND I 01:37:20.701 --> 01:37:22.570 THINK OUR VIEW IS, EXCUSE ME, 01:37:22.636 --> 01:37:24.805 THIS IS A MATTER OF LEGISLATIVE 01:37:24.872 --> 01:37:26.006 PRIORITIES OF HOW IT WOULD LIKE 01:37:26.073 --> 01:37:27.708 TO ALLOCATE ITS DIFFERENT 01:37:27.775 --> 01:37:29.176 RESOURCES. I THINK OUR MAIN 01:37:29.243 --> 01:37:32.379 MESSAGE HAS BEEN, IF THE 01:37:32.446 --> 01:37:33.847 LEGISLATURE WANTS TO PROCEED IN 01:37:33.914 --> 01:37:35.015 KIND OF MOVING FORWARD WITH THE 01:37:35.082 --> 01:37:36.951 PROJECT, TO TRY TO COME UP WITH 01:37:37.017 --> 01:37:38.586 A FUNDING PLAN, BECAUSE WE, YOU 01:37:38.652 --> 01:37:41.322 KNOW, THERE'S A GAP IN SORT OF 01:37:41.388 --> 01:37:43.224 THE AVAILABLE FUNDS AND THE 01:37:43.290 --> 01:37:44.592 FUNDS THAT WOULD BE NEEDED FOR 01:37:44.658 --> 01:37:49.530 THE PUBLIC'S AWARENESS. 230 01:37:49.597 --> 01:37:50.631 BILLION. I'M GOING TO HAVE TO 01:37:50.698 --> 01:37:52.600 GET BACK TO YOU ON ON THE 01:37:52.666 --> 01:37:54.535 SPECIFIC NUMBER. OKAY. SO I'D 01:37:54.602 --> 01:37:55.669 BE CURIOUS ABOUT HOW CALIFORNIA 01:37:55.736 --> 01:37:57.738 IS GOING TO COME UP WITH $230 01:37:57.805 --> 01:37:59.406 BILLION TO FUND HIGH SPEED RAIL. 01:37:59.473 --> 01:38:02.042 AND I'D ALSO BE CURIOUS ABOUT 01:38:02.109 --> 01:38:03.143 WHAT THE POSITION IS AS THE 01:38:03.210 --> 01:38:04.678 VOTERS WERE GUARANTEED OR TOLD 01:38:04.745 --> 01:38:06.013 ON THE BALLOT MEASURE, BECAUSE 01:38:06.080 --> 01:38:07.681 IT WAS A PRETTY CLASSY LOOKING 01:38:07.748 --> 01:38:08.983 PROJECT. BUT NOW IT'S ESTIMATED 01:38:09.049 --> 01:38:10.951 TO BE THE LARGEST, MOST 01:38:11.018 --> 01:38:12.119 EXPENSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE 01:38:12.186 --> 01:38:15.022 PROJECT IN THE WORLD. SO AT 01:38:15.089 --> 01:38:16.056 COMPLETION AND AGAIN, 01:38:16.123 --> 01:38:17.491 COMPLETION IS ONLY GOING TO BE 01:38:17.558 --> 01:38:20.027 ESTIMATED AT 2033. EXCUSE ME, 01:38:20.094 --> 01:38:21.862 2033 FROM BAKERSFIELD TO MERCED, 01:38:21.929 --> 01:38:23.631 I DRIVE IT EVEN IF I WAS STILL 01:38:23.697 --> 01:38:25.733 UP HERE. YOU IF I DROVE FROM 01:38:25.799 --> 01:38:26.867 BAKERSFIELD, I TOOK IT FROM 01:38:26.934 --> 01:38:27.801 BAKERSFIELD. MERCED. HOW WOULD 01:38:27.868 --> 01:38:29.803 I GET THE REST OF THE WAY HERE 01:38:29.870 --> 01:38:31.739 TO COME TO WORK? AND WHAT WOULD 01:38:31.805 --> 01:38:33.674 I DO WHEN I GOT TO MERCED? I 01:38:33.741 --> 01:38:34.975 GUESS ARE MY QUESTIONS. I THINK 01:38:35.042 --> 01:38:36.777 YOU GUYS SHOULD TAKE A TOUR OF 01:38:36.844 --> 01:38:38.646 THIS PROJECT. I THINK IT'D BE 01:38:38.712 --> 01:38:39.747 VERY INTERESTING. SO THE LAST 01:38:39.813 --> 01:38:40.948 THING I HAVE ON THE QUESTIONS 01:38:41.015 --> 01:38:44.718 THAT I HAVE IS I HAVE TO FIND 01:38:44.785 --> 01:38:49.423 THE. THE SENIOR CITIZENS AND 01:38:49.490 --> 01:38:51.659 DISABLED CITIZENS PROPERTY TAX 01:38:51.725 --> 01:38:54.228 POSTPONEMENT PROGRAM. I MET A 01:38:54.295 --> 01:38:56.397 LADY NAMED HAZEL. SHE WAS 01:38:56.463 --> 01:38:58.832 HOMELESS. SHE WAS A BLACK LADY. 01:38:58.899 --> 01:39:00.334 AND SHE'S CARRYING SOME 01:39:00.401 --> 01:39:02.736 SHOPPING CARTS BECAUSE I COME 01:39:02.803 --> 01:39:04.571 DOWN 12TH STREET AND IT'S JUST 01:39:04.638 --> 01:39:05.673 A HORRIFIC SIGHT DOWN THERE. 01:39:05.739 --> 01:39:07.474 SHE SAID THAT HER PROPERTY TAX 01:39:07.541 --> 01:39:08.976 WENT UP SO MUCH EVEN AFTER HER 01:39:09.043 --> 01:39:10.477 HUSBAND DIED. SHE OWNED HER 01:39:10.544 --> 01:39:11.578 HOME, BUT HER PROPERTY TAXES 01:39:11.645 --> 01:39:12.980 WERE SO MUCH, SHE LOST 01:39:13.047 --> 01:39:14.348 EVERYTHING BECAUSE TAXES WENT 01:39:14.415 --> 01:39:16.483 UP. HOW COME WE DON'T LET 01:39:16.550 --> 01:39:18.319 SENIOR CITIZENS AND DISABLED 01:39:18.385 --> 01:39:19.553 COMMUNITIES AND OUR UNITED 01:39:19.620 --> 01:39:21.155 STATES MILITARY VETERANS HAVE 01:39:21.221 --> 01:39:22.623 PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONS IN THE 01:39:22.690 --> 01:39:24.458 STATE OF CALIFORNIA? AND WHAT'S 01:39:24.525 --> 01:39:27.328 THE PURPOSE OF MAKING THEM? 01:39:27.394 --> 01:39:28.429 WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THAT? AND 01:39:28.495 --> 01:39:30.964 THE STATE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, 01:39:31.031 --> 01:39:33.434 IT SAYS THE STATE COMPTROLLER'S 01:39:33.500 --> 01:39:34.902 OFFICE ADMINISTERS A PROPERTY 01:39:34.968 --> 01:39:36.737 TAX POSTPONEMENT PROGRAM. HOW 01:39:36.804 --> 01:39:38.105 COME WE'RE POSTPONING IT IN 01:39:38.172 --> 01:39:42.443 THIS BUDGET? HI. SORRY. 01:39:42.509 --> 01:39:45.679 BRINGING YOU ALL BACK. MARY 01:39:45.746 --> 01:39:47.147 ALTMAN, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. 01:39:47.214 --> 01:39:49.950 THANK YOU. SO THIS PROGRAM IS 01:39:50.017 --> 01:39:53.187 FOR FOR SENIORS, BLIND AND 01:39:53.253 --> 01:39:54.688 DISABLED HOMEOWNERS THAT ARE 01:39:54.755 --> 01:39:55.756 DEFERRING THE CURRENT YEAR 01:39:55.823 --> 01:39:58.225 PROPERTY TAXES. SO WE'RE 01:39:58.292 --> 01:40:00.394 INCREASING THE CAP TO ALLOW ALL 01:40:00.461 --> 01:40:03.630 OF THE APPLICATIONS THAT ARE IN 01:40:03.697 --> 01:40:04.732 BACKLOG TO BE PROCESSED TO 01:40:04.798 --> 01:40:08.302 ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. OKAY, SO 01:40:08.369 --> 01:40:10.904 I MISREAD THAT. THANK YOU, 01:40:10.971 --> 01:40:13.307 THANK YOU, I APOLOGIZE. THAT'S 01:40:13.374 --> 01:40:14.775 NOT THE WAY I READ THAT. THANK 01:40:14.842 --> 01:40:16.977 YOU. OKAY. THAT'S ALL I HAVE, 01:40:17.044 --> 01:40:18.412 MR. CHAIR. THANK YOU. AND I 01:40:18.479 --> 01:40:19.713 APPRECIATE YOU. YOU KNOW THAT 01:40:19.780 --> 01:40:20.814 YOU ALWAYS GIVE ME GOOD 01:40:20.881 --> 01:40:21.815 INFORMATION. THANK YOU, THANK 01:40:21.882 --> 01:40:24.151 YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I 01:40:24.218 --> 01:40:25.919 WOULD JUST SAY I STILL HAVE 01:40:25.986 --> 01:40:27.588 I'VE BEEN REALLY RESPECTFUL. 01:40:27.654 --> 01:40:29.623 I'VE NOT SHORTENED ANYBODY IN 01:40:29.690 --> 01:40:30.958 ANY WAY. BUT WE STILL HAVE 01:40:31.024 --> 01:40:33.894 PUBLIC COMMENT AND VOTING TO 01:40:33.961 --> 01:40:35.662 COME. SO WE HAVE SENATOR BLAKE 01:40:35.729 --> 01:40:37.164 SPEAR AND SENATOR WEBBER 01:40:37.231 --> 01:40:39.233 PEARSON ON DECK. OKAY. THANK 01:40:39.299 --> 01:40:41.835 YOU. WELL THANK YOU. I WANT TO 01:40:41.902 --> 01:40:43.637 REITERATE THE THANKS TO THE 01:40:43.704 --> 01:40:45.439 BUDGET CHAIR AND ALSO TO THE 01:40:45.506 --> 01:40:47.908 BUDGET SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIRS AND 01:40:47.975 --> 01:40:49.376 ALSO YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY 01:40:49.443 --> 01:40:51.078 AND THE WORK THAT YOU PUT IN TO 01:40:51.145 --> 01:40:52.246 GETTING THIS ALL TOGETHER IN 01:40:52.312 --> 01:40:54.448 THE LAST JUST SEVERAL DAYS, 01:40:54.515 --> 01:40:56.049 WHICH I KNOW IS ALSO MANY WEEKS 01:40:56.116 --> 01:40:57.951 AND MONTHS OF WORK. I WAS 01:40:58.018 --> 01:40:59.386 GRATEFUL TO SERVE ON BUDGET SUB 01:40:59.453 --> 01:41:00.654 TWO. SO I WANT TO START WITH 01:41:00.721 --> 01:41:02.456 SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE 01:41:02.523 --> 01:41:05.225 RELATED TO THAT BUDGET SUB. AND 01:41:05.292 --> 01:41:08.328 JUST NOTE THAT I WAS HAPPY TO 01:41:08.395 --> 01:41:11.031 SEE A REAPPROPRIATION OF 14 01:41:11.098 --> 01:41:13.367 MILLION FOR PROJECTS CONSISTENT 01:41:13.434 --> 01:41:14.868 WITH THE NATURAL AND WORKING 01:41:14.935 --> 01:41:18.238 LANDS CLIMATE SMART STRATEGY. 01:41:18.305 --> 01:41:20.007 THESE INVESTMENTS MATTER 01:41:20.073 --> 01:41:22.276 BECAUSE CONSERVATION, HABITAT 01:41:22.342 --> 01:41:23.243 RESTORATION, PUBLIC ACCESS, AND 01:41:23.310 --> 01:41:25.078 CLIMATE RESILIENCE ARE ALL 01:41:25.145 --> 01:41:26.580 CONNECTED. HEALTHY LANDS AND 01:41:26.647 --> 01:41:27.648 WATERS HELP COMMUNITIES ADAPT 01:41:27.714 --> 01:41:30.017 TO CLIMATE CHANGE, AND THEY ARE 01:41:30.083 --> 01:41:31.919 CRUCIAL FOR US AS HUMANS AND 01:41:31.985 --> 01:41:34.021 ANIMALS ON THIS PLANET. I ALSO 01:41:34.087 --> 01:41:35.489 APPRECIATE THE TARGETED 01:41:35.556 --> 01:41:37.191 INVESTMENTS IN POINT REYES 01:41:37.257 --> 01:41:38.625 INVASIVE SPECIES PREVENTION IN 01:41:38.692 --> 01:41:40.527 MOJAVE DESERT. TORTOISE 01:41:40.594 --> 01:41:41.662 RECOVERY. I WISH THERE WERE A 01:41:41.728 --> 01:41:43.730 FEW MORE THINGS IN THERE, BUT I 01:41:43.797 --> 01:41:45.532 ALSO JUST WANT TO NOTE THAT I 01:41:45.599 --> 01:41:46.667 AM DISAPPOINTED THAT THE BUDGET 01:41:46.733 --> 01:41:48.135 DOES NOT INCLUDE FUNDING FOR 01:41:48.202 --> 01:41:49.536 WILDLIFE COEXISTENCE PROGRAM, 01:41:49.603 --> 01:41:51.305 THE HUMAN WILDLIFE CONFLICT 01:41:51.371 --> 01:41:53.106 THAT WE INCREASINGLY ARE SEEING 01:41:53.173 --> 01:41:54.508 THROUGHOUT THE STATE. IT IS A 01:41:54.575 --> 01:41:56.710 STATEWIDE ISSUE AND PROACTIVE 01:41:56.777 --> 01:41:58.579 CONFLICT PREVENTION IS CHEAPER, 01:41:58.645 --> 01:42:00.314 MORE HUMANE AND MORE EFFECTIVE 01:42:00.380 --> 01:42:01.782 THAN RESPONDING ONLY AFTER 01:42:01.849 --> 01:42:03.851 CONFLICTS ESCALATE. AND WE CAN 01:42:03.917 --> 01:42:06.854 ALSO, WITH EDUCATION ABOUT HOW 01:42:06.920 --> 01:42:08.288 TO AVOID CONFLICTS BETWEEN 01:42:08.355 --> 01:42:10.023 HUMAN AND WILDLIFE. WE COULD 01:42:10.090 --> 01:42:12.226 REALLY DO SO MUCH MORE IN 01:42:12.292 --> 01:42:13.594 PREVENTION, BUT PEOPLE HAVE TO 01:42:13.660 --> 01:42:15.429 UNDERSTAND NOT TO FEED ANIMALS 01:42:15.496 --> 01:42:17.965 AND FILM THEM, POSTING THEM ON 01:42:18.031 --> 01:42:19.066 SOCIAL MEDIA. A LOT OF 01:42:19.132 --> 01:42:20.901 DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE DO SEE 01:42:20.968 --> 01:42:23.103 HAPPENING, AND THAT DOES LEAD 01:42:23.170 --> 01:42:25.939 TO MORE CONFLICTS. SO I JUST 01:42:26.006 --> 01:42:27.407 WANT TO MAKE SURE TO NOTE THAT 01:42:27.474 --> 01:42:29.243 I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT 01:42:29.309 --> 01:42:30.244 I'M GRATEFUL THAT WE'RE 01:42:30.310 --> 01:42:31.245 CONTINUING THE STATE PARKS 01:42:31.311 --> 01:42:32.446 LIBRARY PASS PROGRAM. THIS 01:42:32.513 --> 01:42:35.148 THERE WAS 6.75 MILLION IN THE 01:42:35.215 --> 01:42:37.050 GENERAL FUND ONGOING FOR THAT. 01:42:37.117 --> 01:42:38.619 THAT IS SO IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE 01:42:38.685 --> 01:42:40.988 TO ACCESS OUR STATE PARKS IN 01:42:41.054 --> 01:42:42.756 CALIFORNIA. AND THEN ALSO, 01:42:42.823 --> 01:42:45.993 THERE WAS 17.5 MILLION FOR THE 01:42:46.059 --> 01:42:47.828 STATE PARK AND RECREATION FUND. 01:42:47.895 --> 01:42:48.662 ESSENTIALLY, IT SOUNDS LIKE 01:42:48.729 --> 01:42:50.364 IT'S RELATED TO THE RESERVATION 01:42:50.430 --> 01:42:52.499 SYSTEM AGREEMENT. AND I KNOW 01:42:52.566 --> 01:42:54.001 THAT THIS HAS BEEN AN ONGOING 01:42:54.067 --> 01:42:56.036 PROBLEM THAT PEOPLE CAMPSITES 01:42:56.103 --> 01:42:57.838 ARE SITTING EMPTY AND THAT 01:42:57.905 --> 01:42:59.673 PEOPLE. THE RESERVATION SYSTEM 01:42:59.740 --> 01:43:02.943 WE HAD WAS PROMOTING, RESERVING 01:43:03.010 --> 01:43:04.711 LARGE NUMBERS OF DAYS, ONLY 01:43:04.778 --> 01:43:06.246 SHOWING UP FOR ONE OF THEM OR 01:43:06.313 --> 01:43:08.448 NONE OF THEM HAVING ALMOST NO 01:43:08.515 --> 01:43:09.950 PENALTIES. AND THEN AS THE PARK 01:43:10.017 --> 01:43:10.918 SYSTEM NOT BEING ABLE TO 01:43:10.984 --> 01:43:12.452 ADEQUATELY FILL THOSE SITES BY 01:43:12.519 --> 01:43:13.654 OPENING THEM TO THE PUBLIC, WHO 01:43:13.720 --> 01:43:15.589 MIGHT EVEN BE IN LINE TO GET IN. 01:43:15.656 --> 01:43:17.457 SO HAVING THIS MONEY FOR THE 01:43:17.524 --> 01:43:18.892 RESERVATION SYSTEM, I'M HOPEFUL 01:43:18.959 --> 01:43:20.961 THAT THAT IS GOING TO CONTINUE 01:43:21.028 --> 01:43:22.496 TO WORK TOWARD IMPROVING THAT. 01:43:22.563 --> 01:43:23.830 WE DID TALK ABOUT THIS 01:43:23.897 --> 01:43:24.531 EXTENSIVELY IN THE BUDGET 01:43:24.598 --> 01:43:26.099 SESSION, AND IT SEEMS LIKE 01:43:26.166 --> 01:43:27.167 EVERYBODY IS AWARE OF THE 01:43:27.234 --> 01:43:29.102 PROBLEM AND WORKING ON IT. SO I 01:43:29.169 --> 01:43:30.337 JUST WANT TO GIVE VOICE TO THE 01:43:30.404 --> 01:43:31.438 RECOGNITION THAT IT'S IMPORTANT 01:43:31.505 --> 01:43:33.540 WE CONTINUE TO DO THAT. ALSO, 01:43:33.607 --> 01:43:35.709 THE THERE WAS NO LONGER THE 01:43:35.776 --> 01:43:37.911 ELIMINATION OF POSITION SWEEPS. 01:43:37.978 --> 01:43:39.279 SO THAT'S ALSO A REALLY 01:43:39.346 --> 01:43:42.182 IMPORTANT THING. AND THEN ALSO 01:43:42.249 --> 01:43:43.584 CAP AND INVEST, IT SEEMS, HAS 01:43:43.650 --> 01:43:47.254 BEEN PUNTED TO MAYBE FURTHER 01:43:47.321 --> 01:43:49.489 NEGOTIATION. AND I, I HOPE THAT 01:43:49.556 --> 01:43:50.958 WE'RE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT 01:43:51.024 --> 01:43:52.726 THE LEGISLATURE'S PRIORITIES 01:43:52.793 --> 01:43:53.560 AND SOME OF THE IMPORTANT 01:43:53.627 --> 01:43:55.028 THINGS WE FUNDED THROUGH CAP 01:43:55.095 --> 01:43:56.229 AND INVEST DON'T ALL GET ZEROED 01:43:56.296 --> 01:43:59.099 OUT. SO REOPENING OF THAT 01:43:59.166 --> 01:44:00.567 NEGOTIATION IS SOMETHING THAT'S 01:44:00.634 --> 01:44:02.369 IMPORTANT. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO 01:44:02.436 --> 01:44:03.837 SEEING WHAT COMES OF THAT. I 01:44:03.904 --> 01:44:05.238 JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IT'S 01:44:05.305 --> 01:44:08.508 NOTED. SO I DO HAVE A COUPLE 01:44:08.575 --> 01:44:09.242 QUESTIONS, BUT I'LL ALSO 01:44:09.309 --> 01:44:10.577 CONTINUE JUST MAKING SOME 01:44:10.644 --> 01:44:12.846 GENERAL STATEMENTS. I I'M 01:44:12.913 --> 01:44:14.948 REALLY HAPPY TO SEE 900 MILLION 01:44:15.015 --> 01:44:17.851 FOR HALF AROUND SEVEN. IT IS 01:44:17.918 --> 01:44:19.286 REALLY CRITICAL THAT WE HAVE 01:44:19.353 --> 01:44:20.454 RESOURCES FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 01:44:20.520 --> 01:44:21.622 WHO ARE TRYING TO MOVE PEOPLE 01:44:21.688 --> 01:44:22.889 OFF THE STREETS AND INTO 01:44:22.956 --> 01:44:24.391 SHELTER, HOUSING AND SERVICES. 01:44:24.458 --> 01:44:26.493 I ALSO APPRECIATE THAT THAT 01:44:26.560 --> 01:44:28.695 MONEY, MONEY IS PAIRED WITH 01:44:28.762 --> 01:44:29.730 ACCOUNTABILITY BECAUSE 01:44:29.796 --> 01:44:31.064 TAXPAYERS DESERVE TO KNOW THAT 01:44:31.131 --> 01:44:32.332 HOMELESS DOLLARS ARE BEING 01:44:32.399 --> 01:44:34.368 SPENT EFFECTIVELY, AND ALSO 01:44:34.434 --> 01:44:36.503 THAT GOVERNMENTS ARE MAKING 01:44:36.570 --> 01:44:38.372 PROGRESS, AND WE REALLY HAVE TO 01:44:38.438 --> 01:44:39.539 CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON OUTCOMES, 01:44:39.606 --> 01:44:41.141 NOT JUST PROGRESS. BEING 01:44:41.208 --> 01:44:43.343 SOMEONE WAS HANDED A FLIER OR 01:44:43.410 --> 01:44:44.444 SEVERAL DOZEN MEETINGS WERE 01:44:44.511 --> 01:44:46.213 HELD, BUT WHAT IS ACTUALLY 01:44:46.279 --> 01:44:47.014 HAPPENING FOR PEOPLE SO THAT 01:44:47.080 --> 01:44:49.149 THEY ARE ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO 01:44:49.216 --> 01:44:50.951 MOVE OUT OF HOMELESSNESS AND 01:44:51.018 --> 01:44:53.754 STABILIZE THEIR LIVES? I AM I 01:44:53.820 --> 01:44:55.155 REMAIN CONCERNED ABOUT THE LACK 01:44:55.222 --> 01:44:56.590 OF PREDICTABLE FUNDING, THOUGH. 01:44:56.657 --> 01:44:58.091 IT IS REALLY HARD FOR CITIES 01:44:58.158 --> 01:45:00.060 AND COUNTIES TO ENTER INTO 01:45:00.127 --> 01:45:01.428 CONTRACTS AND LEASES WHEN THEY 01:45:01.495 --> 01:45:03.163 DON'T HAVE ANY CERTAINTY ABOUT 01:45:03.230 --> 01:45:04.264 THE ABILITY TO FUND THOSE 01:45:04.331 --> 01:45:05.766 PROGRAMS INTO THE FUTURE. SO I 01:45:05.832 --> 01:45:07.501 WISH THAT WE COULD GET ON A 3 01:45:07.567 --> 01:45:09.469 OR 5 YEAR FUNDING SCHEDULE WHEN 01:45:09.536 --> 01:45:11.672 IT CAME TO HAP, AND I ALSO JUST 01:45:11.738 --> 01:45:13.940 WANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT I 01:45:14.007 --> 01:45:16.209 CONTINUE TO SEE A MAJOR LACK 01:45:16.276 --> 01:45:18.345 AROUND OUR BOTH POLICY AND 01:45:18.412 --> 01:45:20.747 FUNDING FOR INTERIM HOUSING, 01:45:20.814 --> 01:45:22.282 WHICH IS THE LEVEL OF HOUSING 01:45:22.349 --> 01:45:23.684 DIRECTLY UP FROM BEING HOMELESS 01:45:23.750 --> 01:45:25.519 AND LIVING ON THE STREETS. AND 01:45:25.585 --> 01:45:28.388 SO THE WE DON'T HAVE MONEY THAT 01:45:28.455 --> 01:45:29.823 FUNDS INTERIM HOUSING IN THE 01:45:29.890 --> 01:45:31.658 HOUSING BOND THAT WE WILL BE 01:45:31.725 --> 01:45:33.527 PUTTING IN FRONT OF THE VOTERS. 01:45:33.593 --> 01:45:36.129 AND WE DON'T I DON'T SEE THAT 01:45:36.196 --> 01:45:38.498 ALSO IN THIS FUNDING DOCUMENT. 01:45:38.565 --> 01:45:40.467 BUT WE KNOW THAT WHEN PEOPLE 01:45:40.534 --> 01:45:41.902 RAISE THEIR HAND AND SAY, I 01:45:41.968 --> 01:45:43.170 WOULD LIKE A BED INSIDE TONIGHT 01:45:43.236 --> 01:45:45.405 TO STAY IN, ONLY 1 IN 10 IS 01:45:45.472 --> 01:45:46.840 ACTUALLY ABLE TO GET ONE 01:45:46.907 --> 01:45:48.008 BECAUSE WE JUST ARE NOT 01:45:48.075 --> 01:45:49.342 PROVIDING ENOUGH OF THAT. AND 01:45:49.409 --> 01:45:50.744 THAT'S REALLY A RESPONSIBILITY 01:45:50.811 --> 01:45:52.479 OF ALL OF US. BUT IT STARTS 01:45:52.546 --> 01:45:53.680 WITH THE STATE. I'M ALSO 01:45:53.747 --> 01:45:55.048 SUPPORTIVE OF ORANGE COUNTY'S 01:45:55.115 --> 01:45:57.984 UNITED WAY PROGRAM PILOT 01:45:58.051 --> 01:45:59.553 PROGRAM, BECAUSE PEOPLE DO NEED 01:45:59.619 --> 01:46:01.054 TO KNOW ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES 01:46:01.121 --> 01:46:03.690 THAT ARE AVAILABLE. AND I I'M 01:46:03.757 --> 01:46:05.525 HOPEFUL THAT THAT WILL HELP 01:46:05.592 --> 01:46:08.562 REDUCE BARRIERS. I WANT TO TALK 01:46:08.628 --> 01:46:11.598 A LITTLE BIT ABOUT TRANSIT. SO 01:46:11.665 --> 01:46:14.234 TRANSIT. I STRONGLY SUPPORT THE 01:46:14.301 --> 01:46:16.269 300 MILLION THAT IS THE LOW SAN 01:46:16.336 --> 01:46:18.839 CORRIDOR LIQUIDATION EXTENSION, 01:46:18.905 --> 01:46:20.240 BECAUSE THIS LOW SAN CORRIDOR 01:46:20.307 --> 01:46:22.008 IS NOT JUST A REGIONAL LINE, 01:46:22.075 --> 01:46:24.144 IT'S A CRITICAL PASSENGER RAIL 01:46:24.211 --> 01:46:25.579 FREIGHT MILITARY ECONOMIC 01:46:25.645 --> 01:46:27.080 CORRIDOR FOR SOUTHERN 01:46:27.147 --> 01:46:28.849 CALIFORNIA. AND THE EXTENSION 01:46:28.915 --> 01:46:30.383 WILL ALLOW THE CORRIDOR 01:46:30.450 --> 01:46:31.818 RESILIENCY WORK TO CONTINUE 01:46:31.885 --> 01:46:33.253 TAKING PLACE. THE PLANNING, 01:46:33.320 --> 01:46:34.621 PERMITTING, INTERAGENCY 01:46:34.688 --> 01:46:36.156 COORDINATION AND SUSTAINED 01:46:36.223 --> 01:46:38.291 FUNDING. I ALSO SUPPORT 01:46:38.358 --> 01:46:39.993 SUSPENDING FARE BOX PENALTY 01:46:40.060 --> 01:46:41.461 REQUIREMENTS FOR TRANSIT 01:46:41.528 --> 01:46:43.063 OPERATORS. Ã RIDERSHIP 01:46:43.130 --> 01:46:44.431 PATTERNS HAVE CHANGED, AND 01:46:44.498 --> 01:46:45.799 AGENCIES SHOULD NOT BE PUNISHED 01:46:45.866 --> 01:46:47.167 FOR OPERATING ESSENTIAL 01:46:47.234 --> 01:46:48.735 SERVICES WHILE THEY RECOVER. 01:46:48.802 --> 01:46:50.237 BUT WE ALSO NEED TO REMEMBER 01:46:50.303 --> 01:46:52.272 THAT FAREBOX RELIEF IS NOT THE 01:46:52.339 --> 01:46:54.307 SAME AS TRANSIT STABILIZATION, 01:46:54.374 --> 01:46:57.711 AND WE ARE STILL REALLY NOT 01:46:57.778 --> 01:46:58.845 MEANINGFULLY ADDRESSING THE 01:46:58.912 --> 01:47:00.147 OPERATING DEFICITS THAT ARE 01:47:00.213 --> 01:47:01.648 GOING TO LEAD AND ALREADY ARE 01:47:01.715 --> 01:47:03.717 LEADING TO SERVICE CUTS IN 01:47:03.784 --> 01:47:04.885 TRANSIT. AND THAT REALLY 01:47:04.951 --> 01:47:05.886 UNDERMINES OUR EQUITY GOALS, 01:47:05.952 --> 01:47:09.189 OUR CLIMATE GOALS. AND I REMAIN 01:47:09.256 --> 01:47:10.624 CONCERNED THAT WE'RE WE'RE 01:47:10.690 --> 01:47:13.160 DOING THIS SHORT TERM TRANSIT 01:47:13.226 --> 01:47:14.895 STABILIZATION FUNDING. BUT IF 01:47:14.961 --> 01:47:17.164 WE WANT CLEANER AIR, SAFER 01:47:17.230 --> 01:47:18.665 MOBILITY, AND RELIABLE TRANSIT, 01:47:18.732 --> 01:47:20.734 WE HAVE TO HELP OUR TRANSIT 01:47:20.801 --> 01:47:21.735 AGENCIES TO MAINTAIN THEIR 01:47:21.802 --> 01:47:23.937 SERVICE LEVELS. AND THAT'S NOT 01:47:24.004 --> 01:47:25.038 SOMETHING THAT THAT REALLY 01:47:25.105 --> 01:47:26.506 WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING IN OUR 01:47:26.573 --> 01:47:28.575 BUDGET. I WANTED TO ASK A 01:47:28.642 --> 01:47:30.777 LITTLE BIT ABOUT PROP 36. SO 01:47:30.844 --> 01:47:32.245 WHEN WHEN WE HAVE THIS QUOTE, 01:47:32.312 --> 01:47:34.815 NET ZERO, PROP 36, SHIFT 01:47:34.881 --> 01:47:37.250 INCREASE IMPLEMENTATION, WHAT 01:47:37.317 --> 01:47:39.452 EXACTLY IS THAT DOING? WHAT IS 01:47:39.519 --> 01:47:43.390 WHAT IS NET ZERO? PROP 36 SHIFT 01:47:43.456 --> 01:47:45.158 INCREASE IMPLEMENTATION 01:47:45.225 --> 01:47:51.832 CAPACITY MEAN? GOOD MORNING, 01:47:51.898 --> 01:47:52.732 JUSTIN ADELMAN DEPARTMENT OF 01:47:52.799 --> 01:47:54.835 FINANCE SO THE A B 109 THE TWO 01:47:54.901 --> 01:47:56.469 PARTY AGREEMENT INCLUDED 01:47:56.536 --> 01:47:58.305 50,000,001 TIME FOR PROPOSITION 01:47:58.371 --> 01:47:59.806 36. AND THAT WAS ALL ALLOCATED 01:47:59.873 --> 01:48:00.974 IN THE JUDICIAL COUNCIL. THE 01:48:01.041 --> 01:48:02.943 COURT'S BUDGET, THE NET ZERO 01:48:03.009 --> 01:48:04.477 SHIFT WAS TO DISBURSE THAT AS 01:48:04.544 --> 01:48:05.478 PART OF THE THREE PARTY 01:48:05.545 --> 01:48:06.947 AGREEMENT, SO THAT 20 MILLION 01:48:07.013 --> 01:48:08.014 GOES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF 01:48:08.081 --> 01:48:09.015 MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, 20 01:48:09.082 --> 01:48:10.684 MILLION TO COURTS, AND THEN THE 01:48:10.750 --> 01:48:12.853 FINAL 10 MILLION ALSO TO COURTS 01:48:12.919 --> 01:48:16.857 FOR THEIR WORKLOAD. OKAY, OKAY. 01:48:16.923 --> 01:48:21.661 YES. SO WE IN ORDER FOR THAT TO 01:48:21.728 --> 01:48:23.530 BE EFFECTIVE, I THINK WE DO 01:48:23.597 --> 01:48:24.731 NEED TO CONTINUE TO SUPPORT IT. 01:48:24.798 --> 01:48:26.533 SO WE'VE HAD 100 MILLION THE 01:48:26.600 --> 01:48:28.768 FIRST YEAR NOW 50 MILLION. YOU 01:48:28.835 --> 01:48:30.570 KNOW, THERE WAS AN ASK THAT WAS 01:48:30.637 --> 01:48:32.305 SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER THAN THAT. 01:48:32.372 --> 01:48:35.175 AND, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A LOT 01:48:35.242 --> 01:48:37.077 OF ELEMENTS TO THAT. BUT THE 01:48:37.143 --> 01:48:38.311 ONE THAT'S PARTICULARLY RELATED 01:48:38.378 --> 01:48:39.946 TO OUR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEM, 01:48:40.013 --> 01:48:41.014 YOU KNOW, THAT IS REALLY 01:48:41.081 --> 01:48:42.449 IMPORTANT FOR US TO BE ABLE TO 01:48:42.515 --> 01:48:45.285 BE SUCCESSFUL. SO I, I WANT TO 01:48:45.352 --> 01:48:47.387 CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR US TO 01:48:47.454 --> 01:48:49.222 SUPPORT THAT. I WANTED TO ASK 01:48:49.289 --> 01:48:51.458 ABOUT THE CARE REFERRAL AND 01:48:51.524 --> 01:48:54.127 PETITION PIPELINE. SO THERE ARE 01:48:54.194 --> 01:48:55.996 A LOT OF PARTS OF CARE, AND I'M 01:48:56.062 --> 01:48:57.197 JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT 01:48:57.264 --> 01:48:59.032 PROBLEM IS THE STATE ADDRESSING 01:48:59.099 --> 01:49:01.167 WITH THAT EXACT PART. CARE, 01:49:01.234 --> 01:49:02.535 REFERRAL AND PETITION PIPELINE? 01:49:02.602 --> 01:49:05.071 IS THAT MEANT TO ADDRESS THE 01:49:05.138 --> 01:49:08.808 LACK OF REFERRALS OR INCOMPLETE 01:49:08.875 --> 01:49:10.543 PETITIONS OR DELAYS IN CARE? 01:49:10.610 --> 01:49:11.611 COURT IS REALLY NOT SERVING 01:49:11.678 --> 01:49:13.046 ANYWHERE NEAR THE NUMBER 01:49:13.113 --> 01:49:14.648 EXPECTED. BUT SO I WANTED TO 01:49:14.714 --> 01:49:16.716 UNDERSTAND THAT. SO THE BUDGET 01:49:16.783 --> 01:49:18.385 INCLUDES 3.5 MILLION ONE TIME 01:49:18.451 --> 01:49:19.519 GENERAL FUND FOR PUBLIC 01:49:19.586 --> 01:49:20.887 DEFENDERS TO INCREASE CARE ACT 01:49:20.954 --> 01:49:22.055 PETITIONS AND REFERRALS, 01:49:22.122 --> 01:49:23.456 HELPING TO INTEGRATE CARE COURT 01:49:23.523 --> 01:49:25.392 AS A FIRST INTERVENTION. IT 01:49:25.458 --> 01:49:27.027 ALSO INCLUDES 1.5 MILLION ONE 01:49:27.093 --> 01:49:28.762 TIME GENERAL FUND TO THE 01:49:28.828 --> 01:49:29.763 CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND HUMAN 01:49:29.829 --> 01:49:31.731 SERVICES AGENCY TO TRAIN AND 01:49:31.798 --> 01:49:32.832 SUPPORT FIRST RESPONDERS, 01:49:32.899 --> 01:49:33.967 HOMELESS OUTREACH WORKERS AND 01:49:34.034 --> 01:49:36.102 STREET MEDICINE TEAMS TO 01:49:36.169 --> 01:49:37.103 STRENGTHEN AGAIN THAT CARE 01:49:37.170 --> 01:49:40.473 REFERRAL PROCESS. OKAY, OKAY. 01:49:40.540 --> 01:49:41.608 IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S THERE 01:49:41.675 --> 01:49:43.944 WAS A LOT PUT IN THERE, SO 01:49:44.010 --> 01:49:44.978 WE'LL SEE WHERE THAT TRICKLES 01:49:45.045 --> 01:49:46.513 DOWN TO. MORE SPECIFICALLY, DID 01:49:46.579 --> 01:49:47.614 YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO ADD TO 01:49:47.681 --> 01:49:55.422 THAT? NO. OKAY. OKAY. YEAH. 01:49:55.488 --> 01:49:56.923 CARE COURT IS ONLY USEFUL IF 01:49:56.990 --> 01:49:57.891 FAMILIES AND PROVIDERS AND 01:49:57.958 --> 01:49:59.492 LOCAL SYSTEMS CAN ACTUALLY MOVE 01:49:59.559 --> 01:50:00.994 THROUGH IT, ACCESS IT, HAVE IT 01:50:01.061 --> 01:50:03.396 HELP PEOPLE. I WAS REALLY 01:50:03.463 --> 01:50:04.798 FORTUNATE TO WITNESS CARE COURT 01:50:04.864 --> 01:50:06.800 IN ACTION, AND IT WAS HELPING 01:50:06.866 --> 01:50:09.235 THE PEOPLE WHO WERE ABLE TO 01:50:09.302 --> 01:50:11.438 UTILIZE IT. SO PEOPLE WERE 01:50:11.504 --> 01:50:13.473 GRATEFUL TO BE THERE. IT WAS 01:50:13.540 --> 01:50:14.607 DEFINITELY DEMONSTRATING THAT 01:50:14.674 --> 01:50:16.076 THEY WERE RECEIVING CARE AND 01:50:16.142 --> 01:50:17.110 HOUSING THAT THEY WOULDN'T BE 01:50:17.177 --> 01:50:18.878 OTHERWISE. SO HELPING MORE 01:50:18.945 --> 01:50:20.714 PEOPLE ACCESS IT IN A WAY 01:50:20.780 --> 01:50:22.515 THAT'S EFFECTIVE AND COST 01:50:22.582 --> 01:50:24.317 EFFECTIVE IS REALLY IMPORTANT. 01:50:24.384 --> 01:50:26.953 I ALSO STRONGLY SUPPORT THE 15 01:50:27.020 --> 01:50:28.722 MILLION FOR JOURNALISM 01:50:28.788 --> 01:50:30.457 FELLOWSHIPS. I THINK JOURNALISM 01:50:30.523 --> 01:50:32.492 IS IS PART OF OUR CIVIC 01:50:32.559 --> 01:50:33.994 INFRASTRUCTURE, AND WE 01:50:34.060 --> 01:50:35.462 COMMUNITIES NEED RELIABLE, FACT 01:50:35.528 --> 01:50:36.796 BASED REPORTING TO UNDERSTAND 01:50:36.863 --> 01:50:38.665 WHAT'S HAPPENING. BUT WE ALSO 01:50:38.732 --> 01:50:40.700 SO, YOU KNOW, 15 MILLION IS A 01:50:40.767 --> 01:50:42.268 REALLY GREAT INVESTMENT. BUT I 01:50:42.335 --> 01:50:43.370 JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE THE 01:50:43.436 --> 01:50:45.171 CONTINUED NEED FOR BROADER 01:50:45.238 --> 01:50:46.973 CIVIC JOURNALISM FUNDING, 01:50:47.040 --> 01:50:48.375 BECAUSE FELLOWSHIPS ARE REALLY 01:50:48.441 --> 01:50:50.176 IMPORTANT, BUT THE LOCAL NEWS 01:50:50.243 --> 01:50:51.311 ECOSYSTEM NEEDS TO HAVE 01:50:51.378 --> 01:50:54.547 SUSTAINED SUPPORT. AND THEN THE 01:50:54.614 --> 01:50:56.383 LAST THING I'LL MENTION, THIS 01:50:56.449 --> 01:51:01.421 WAS MENTIONED. BY I WANT TO 01:51:01.488 --> 01:51:04.691 UPLIFT WHAT WAS SAID BY SENATOR 01:51:04.758 --> 01:51:06.059 RICHARDSON ABOUT COURTS AND 01:51:06.126 --> 01:51:07.560 JUDGES AND NEEDING TO CONTINUE 01:51:07.627 --> 01:51:09.729 TO SUPPORT THAT AND DIVE INTO 01:51:09.796 --> 01:51:10.864 MAKING SURE THAT WORKS, BECAUSE 01:51:10.930 --> 01:51:11.898 THAT'S REALLY AN ACCESS TO 01:51:11.965 --> 01:51:13.266 JUSTICE ISSUE. WHEN WE DON'T 01:51:13.333 --> 01:51:16.202 HAVE IF WE HAVE LONG BACK 01:51:16.269 --> 01:51:17.904 DELAYS FOR PEOPLE TO BE 01:51:17.971 --> 01:51:18.805 INVOLVED IN OUR COURT SYSTEM, 01:51:18.872 --> 01:51:20.874 IT'S REALLY, TRULY, DEEPLY 01:51:20.940 --> 01:51:22.642 PROBLEMATIC. AND THEN I ALSO 01:51:22.709 --> 01:51:25.278 WANTED TO JUST RECOGNIZE THE 01:51:25.345 --> 01:51:28.715 DISTRESSED HOSPITAL FUNDING. I 01:51:28.782 --> 01:51:30.583 HAVE A HOSPITAL IN MY DISTRICT, 01:51:30.650 --> 01:51:33.753 TRI-CITY MEDICAL CENTER, AND 01:51:33.820 --> 01:51:35.989 FINANCIAL STABILITY IS REALLY 01:51:36.056 --> 01:51:37.457 CRITICAL FOR OUR HOSPITALS. SO 01:51:37.524 --> 01:51:39.092 I SUPPORT THE CREATION OF A 01:51:39.159 --> 01:51:40.860 HEALTH CARE ACCESS STABILITY 01:51:40.927 --> 01:51:42.896 UNIT AT H. Kò BECAUSE WE NEED 01:51:42.962 --> 01:51:44.931 BETTER INFORMATION BEFORE THE 01:51:44.998 --> 01:51:46.166 HOSPITAL IS ON THE BRINK. YOU 01:51:46.232 --> 01:51:48.902 KNOW, WE TOOK ACTION TO HELP 01:51:48.968 --> 01:51:50.437 THE HOSPITALS THAT WERE SO 01:51:50.503 --> 01:51:52.272 CLOSE TO CLOSING. BUT I THINK 01:51:52.338 --> 01:51:54.174 WE NEED TO BE LOOKING MORE AT 01:51:54.240 --> 01:51:55.375 THAT LONG TERM LOAN FORGIVENESS 01:51:55.442 --> 01:51:57.577 WHERE IT'S APPROPRIATE, BECAUSE 01:51:57.644 --> 01:51:59.746 KEEPING HOSPITALS OPEN SHOULD 01:51:59.813 --> 01:52:01.014 BE WHERE WE'RE HEADING TOWARD, 01:52:01.081 --> 01:52:02.949 NOT JUST DELAYING OUR NEXT 01:52:03.016 --> 01:52:05.085 CRISIS. SO WITH THAT, THANK YOU, 01:52:05.151 --> 01:52:07.954 CHAIR, FOR THE OPPORTUNITY, AND 01:52:08.021 --> 01:52:09.756 I'LL TURN IT BACK TO YOU. THANK 01:52:09.823 --> 01:52:11.724 YOU VERY MUCH. WE'RE GOING TO 01:52:11.791 --> 01:52:13.693 GO TO SENATOR WEBBER PEARSON 01:52:13.760 --> 01:52:15.929 AND SENATOR GÓMEZ REYES IS ON 01:52:15.995 --> 01:52:19.065 DECK. THANK YOU. CHAIR, I WILL 01:52:19.132 --> 01:52:21.401 BE VERY QUICK WITH MY COMMENTS. 01:52:21.468 --> 01:52:23.470 I WANT TO THANK ALL OF THE 01:52:23.536 --> 01:52:27.407 STAFF THAT HAVE WORKED ON THIS 01:52:27.474 --> 01:52:29.075 IN THE LEGISLATURE, BUT ALSO IN 01:52:29.142 --> 01:52:30.343 THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE AND THE 01:52:30.410 --> 01:52:33.346 LÀ Ó. WE DEFINITELY APPRECIATE 01:52:33.413 --> 01:52:34.547 ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE. IT HAS 01:52:34.614 --> 01:52:36.282 NOT BEEN EASY. THIS IS NOT AN 01:52:36.349 --> 01:52:38.118 EASY BUDGET YEAR. LAST YEAR WAS 01:52:38.184 --> 01:52:39.285 NOT AN EASY BUDGET YEAR, AND 01:52:39.352 --> 01:52:40.720 I'M SURE, UNFORTUNATELY OUR 01:52:40.787 --> 01:52:42.188 NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS WON'T BE 01:52:42.255 --> 01:52:46.059 EASY AS WELL. WANTED TO JUST 01:52:46.126 --> 01:52:53.399 POINT OUT AN ISSUE IN THE AB 01:52:53.466 --> 01:52:57.971 164 OR SB 164 THAT DEALS WITH 01:52:58.037 --> 01:53:02.308 MENOPAUSE. I KNOW THAT THERE 01:53:02.375 --> 01:53:05.879 WERE SOME AMENDMENTS FROM, I 01:53:05.945 --> 01:53:09.149 BELIEVE, ACOG THAT WERE NOT 01:53:09.215 --> 01:53:11.317 ADDRESSED, AND I WANT YOU ALL 01:53:11.384 --> 01:53:15.622 TO, AS WE'RE THINKING ABOUT 01:53:15.688 --> 01:53:17.390 TRAILER LANGUAGE IN THE FUTURE, 01:53:17.457 --> 01:53:20.326 REALLY RECONSIDER THAT. SO I 01:53:20.393 --> 01:53:24.597 KNOW ONE SECTION WAS 01:53:24.664 --> 01:53:29.302 SUBDIVISION C THREE OF SECTION 01:53:29.369 --> 01:53:31.538 1367.252, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT 01:53:31.604 --> 01:53:33.006 ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A POLICY 01:53:33.072 --> 01:53:35.041 TO PROVIDE ENROLLEES WHO MAY 01:53:35.108 --> 01:53:36.242 EXPERIENCE MENOPAUSE AND WHO 01:53:36.309 --> 01:53:38.311 ARE 40 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER, 01:53:38.378 --> 01:53:41.214 BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. SO, YOU KNOW, 01:53:41.281 --> 01:53:44.717 ANY FEMALE WITH A FUNCTIONAL 01:53:44.784 --> 01:53:46.553 UTERUS AND OVARIES MAY 01:53:46.619 --> 01:53:47.754 EXPERIENCE MENOPAUSE AND WILL 01:53:47.820 --> 01:53:49.556 BE VERY CLEAR THAT MENOPAUSE IS 01:53:49.622 --> 01:53:51.658 NOT HOT FLASHES, IRRITABILITY, 01:53:51.724 --> 01:53:53.026 MOOD CHANGES. THAT'S NOT WHAT 01:53:53.092 --> 01:53:54.894 MENOPAUSE IS. MENOPAUSE IS WHEN 01:53:54.961 --> 01:53:56.996 YOU STOP HAVING CYCLES, RIGHT? 01:53:57.063 --> 01:53:58.198 EVERYTHING BEFORE THAT, IT'S 01:53:58.264 --> 01:53:59.699 CALLED PERIMENOPAUSAL PERIOD. 01:53:59.766 --> 01:54:03.102 AND THOSE ARE SYMPTOMS. SO ANY 01:54:03.169 --> 01:54:05.038 FUNCTIONAL FEMALE, ANY FEMALE 01:54:05.104 --> 01:54:07.473 WITH A FUNCTIONAL UTERUS AND 01:54:07.540 --> 01:54:09.742 OVARIES MAY STOP HAVING MENSES 01:54:09.809 --> 01:54:11.744 AT SOME POINT. BUT NOT ALL OF 01:54:11.811 --> 01:54:14.681 THEM MAY EXPERIENCE 01:54:14.747 --> 01:54:15.748 PERIMENOPAUSAL SYMPTOMS. AND 01:54:15.815 --> 01:54:17.183 THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO GET 01:54:17.250 --> 01:54:18.551 AT WITH THIS PARTICULAR BILL 01:54:18.618 --> 01:54:21.521 AND LEGISLATION TO ENSURE THAT 01:54:21.588 --> 01:54:23.990 WE ARE COUNSELING AND 01:54:24.057 --> 01:54:25.525 ADDRESSING INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE 01:54:25.592 --> 01:54:29.095 AT RISK FOR HOT FLASHES, MOOD 01:54:29.162 --> 01:54:32.298 CHANGES, SLEEP DISTURBANCES, 01:54:32.365 --> 01:54:34.901 MEMORY ISSUES. SO IF I'M A 40 01:54:34.968 --> 01:54:36.636 YEAR OLD PATIENT AND I'M ON 01:54:36.703 --> 01:54:38.371 HORMONAL THERAPY, AND 01:54:38.438 --> 01:54:42.075 EVENTUALLY MY DOCTOR GRADUALLY 01:54:42.141 --> 01:54:43.943 TAPERS ME OFF, THAT IS VERY 01:54:44.010 --> 01:54:45.511 DIFFERENT THAN A 40 YEAR OLD 01:54:45.578 --> 01:54:46.746 WHO'S NOT ON ANY FORM OF 01:54:46.813 --> 01:54:48.548 HORMONES, WHO HAS THAT SUDDEN 01:54:48.615 --> 01:54:50.750 DROP OR SUDDEN FLUCTUATION IN 01:54:50.817 --> 01:54:52.552 THEIR HORMONE LEVELS, THEREFORE 01:54:52.619 --> 01:54:54.254 HAVING THOSE SYMPTOMS. AND SO 01:54:54.320 --> 01:54:56.789 WHEN THE RECOMMENDATION WAS TO 01:54:56.856 --> 01:54:58.625 CHANGE IT FROM MAY EXPERIENCE 01:54:58.691 --> 01:55:00.360 MENOPAUSE TO PERIMENOPAUSAL, 01:55:00.426 --> 01:55:01.394 WHICH IS ACTUALLY WHAT YOU'RE 01:55:01.461 --> 01:55:03.630 TRYING TO GET AT SYMPTOMS, I 01:55:03.696 --> 01:55:05.431 WOULD STRONGLY RECOMMEND THAT 01:55:05.498 --> 01:55:09.402 YOU LOOK AT THAT AGAIN. 01:55:09.469 --> 01:55:11.938 ADDITIONALLY, WHEN YOU LOOK AT 01:55:12.005 --> 01:55:14.774 SUBDIVISION C FIVE OF THAT SAME 01:55:14.841 --> 01:55:18.711 SECTION, IT SAYS ESTABLISH AND 01:55:18.778 --> 01:55:22.348 MAINTAIN A POLICY TO CONTRACT 01:55:22.415 --> 01:55:24.817 WITH PROVIDERS DELIVERING 01:55:24.884 --> 01:55:26.019 PRIMARY CARE WHO ARE 01:55:26.085 --> 01:55:28.288 CREDENTIALED IN MENOPAUSE. WHEN 01:55:28.354 --> 01:55:29.922 WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION IN 01:55:29.989 --> 01:55:31.491 COMMITTEE, I BELIEVE LAST YEAR, 01:55:31.557 --> 01:55:33.326 IT WAS NOT ABOUT CONTRACTING, 01:55:33.393 --> 01:55:35.395 IT WAS ABOUT PROVIDING AN 01:55:35.461 --> 01:55:36.763 INCENTIVE. WHEN YOU'RE TALKING 01:55:36.829 --> 01:55:38.665 ABOUT WHO AND WHO YOU ARE GOING 01:55:38.731 --> 01:55:40.700 TO CONTRACT WITH AS FAR AS 01:55:40.767 --> 01:55:42.835 HEALTH POLICY AND WHO YOU'RE 01:55:42.902 --> 01:55:45.004 NOT GOING TO CONTRACT WITH, OR 01:55:45.071 --> 01:55:46.506 WHO YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE 01:55:46.572 --> 01:55:48.608 PREFERENTIAL CONTRACTS TO, WHAT 01:55:48.675 --> 01:55:50.810 YOU'RE DOING IS DECREASING THE 01:55:50.877 --> 01:55:52.245 AVAILABILITY FOR PROVIDERS 01:55:52.312 --> 01:55:54.380 WITHIN THE NETWORK. AND I KNOW 01:55:54.447 --> 01:55:55.581 THAT AT THIS TIME, WHEN WE'RE 01:55:55.648 --> 01:55:56.716 HAVING SO MANY ISSUES WITHIN 01:55:56.783 --> 01:55:58.451 OUR HEALTH CARE SPACE, WHEN WE 01:55:58.518 --> 01:55:59.585 TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE 01:55:59.652 --> 01:56:01.688 HAVE PROVIDER SHORTAGES, 01:56:01.754 --> 01:56:03.723 WHETHER IT'S MD, D, OES, NPS, 01:56:03.790 --> 01:56:04.857 WHATEVER, THE LAST THING THAT 01:56:04.924 --> 01:56:06.826 WE NEED TO DO IS BE PUTTING IN 01:56:06.893 --> 01:56:08.861 A POLICY THAT WOULD ALLOW FOR 01:56:08.928 --> 01:56:10.596 LESS PROVIDERS TO BE COVERED 01:56:10.663 --> 01:56:13.132 VIA CONTRACT. THE INCENTIVE 01:56:13.199 --> 01:56:17.503 THAT WE DISCUSSED WITH CME, OR 01:56:17.570 --> 01:56:18.571 HOWEVER THEY WANT TO 01:56:18.638 --> 01:56:20.006 INCENTIVIZE PEOPLE IS VERY 01:56:20.073 --> 01:56:22.041 DIFFERENT LANGUAGE THAN WHO YOU 01:56:22.108 --> 01:56:23.576 ARE GOING TO CONTRACT WITH. SO 01:56:23.643 --> 01:56:26.813 I WONDER IF I ME, FOR EXAMPLE, 01:56:26.879 --> 01:56:28.948 I SEE PATIENTS WHO ARE, YOU 01:56:29.015 --> 01:56:30.950 KNOW, 40, BUT I DO NOT I'M A 01:56:31.017 --> 01:56:33.986 VERY SPECIALIZED KIND OF OB GYN, 01:56:34.053 --> 01:56:35.755 ALONG WITH OTHERS WHO DO HIGH 01:56:35.822 --> 01:56:38.658 RISK PREGNANCIES. WE DON'T I'M 01:56:38.725 --> 01:56:40.259 NOT DOING ANYTHING IN THE 01:56:40.326 --> 01:56:41.494 MENOPAUSAL SPACE. THEY DON'T DO 01:56:41.561 --> 01:56:42.562 ANYTHING IN THE MENOPAUSAL 01:56:42.628 --> 01:56:44.464 SPACE. WILL WE STILL BE 01:56:44.530 --> 01:56:46.733 CONTRACTED TO PROVIDE CARE WITH 01:56:46.799 --> 01:56:48.401 THIS PARTICULAR LANGUAGE? SO, 01:56:48.468 --> 01:56:53.106 YOU KNOW, I WOULD STRONGLY 01:56:53.172 --> 01:56:54.874 RECOMMEND THAT YOU GO BACK 01:56:54.941 --> 01:56:56.075 DURING YOUR TRAILER LANGUAGE 01:56:56.142 --> 01:56:57.910 AND LOOK AT THE WAY IN WHICH 01:56:57.977 --> 01:56:59.011 THIS IS WORDED, BECAUSE WE WANT 01:56:59.078 --> 01:57:00.880 TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT WE'RE 01:57:00.947 --> 01:57:03.182 PUTTING OUT IS MEDICALLY 01:57:03.249 --> 01:57:06.119 FACTUAL SOUND AND ALSO IS NOT 01:57:06.185 --> 01:57:07.120 SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO 01:57:07.186 --> 01:57:08.321 ULTIMATELY DECREASE THE ABILITY 01:57:08.388 --> 01:57:12.525 FOR PEOPLE TO GET PROVIDERS FOR 01:57:12.592 --> 01:57:13.593 COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH CARE, 01:57:13.659 --> 01:57:14.894 WOMEN'S HEALTH CARE COVERAGE IN 01:57:14.961 --> 01:57:17.630 THE FUTURE. AND SO THANK YOU 01:57:17.697 --> 01:57:19.198 FOR ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE, BUT 01:57:19.265 --> 01:57:20.366 REALLY NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT 01:57:20.433 --> 01:57:21.501 WE'RE GETTING THIS RIGHT. THANK 01:57:21.567 --> 01:57:26.339 YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 01:57:26.406 --> 01:57:28.741 SENATOR GÓMEZ REYES AND SENATOR 01:57:28.808 --> 01:57:30.209 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS, IF SHE COMES 01:57:30.276 --> 01:57:32.178 BACK, HAD A FOLLOW UP QUESTION. 01:57:32.245 --> 01:57:34.547 SO LET'S GO TO SENATOR GÓMEZ 01:57:34.614 --> 01:57:36.616 REYES THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR. I 01:57:36.682 --> 01:57:39.252 WANT TO ALSO ECHO THE COMMENTS 01:57:39.318 --> 01:57:40.686 OF MY COLLEAGUES IN THANKING 01:57:40.753 --> 01:57:43.823 YOU, MR. CHAIR. THANK YOU. 01:57:43.890 --> 01:57:45.892 THANKING OUR TÊ LIMÓN SPEAKER 01:57:45.958 --> 01:57:47.627 RIVAS, THE GOVERNOR AND HIS 01:57:47.693 --> 01:57:50.897 TEAM, OUR VICE CHAIR, SENATOR 01:57:50.963 --> 01:57:53.399 NILO AS WELL, ALL THE CHAIRS 01:57:53.466 --> 01:57:54.934 THAT HAVE WORKED SO HARD TO TRY 01:57:55.001 --> 01:57:57.937 TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE CARE 01:57:58.004 --> 01:57:59.605 OF OUR SECTIONS, SO WE CAN THEN 01:57:59.672 --> 01:58:02.141 PRESENT IT TO THE REST OF THE 01:58:02.208 --> 01:58:04.610 COMMITTEE AND HAVE SOUND 01:58:04.677 --> 01:58:06.712 COMMENTS TO BE MADE ABOUT IT. 01:58:06.779 --> 01:58:08.648 CHRIS, SCOTT AND ALYSSA HAVE 01:58:08.714 --> 01:58:12.685 BEEN JUST ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY 01:58:12.752 --> 01:58:14.654 IN THIS PROCESS TO MAKE SURE 01:58:14.720 --> 01:58:16.556 THAT WE ARE ASKING THE RIGHT 01:58:16.622 --> 01:58:17.857 QUESTIONS AND WE'RE GETTING THE 01:58:17.924 --> 01:58:19.392 RIGHT ANSWERS. AND WHEN WE 01:58:19.459 --> 01:58:20.893 DON'T HAVE THE ANSWERS, THAT 01:58:20.960 --> 01:58:23.729 THEY ARE VERY RESOURCEFUL. AND 01:58:23.796 --> 01:58:25.865 FOR ME PERSONALLY, JOE AND AND 01:58:25.932 --> 01:58:28.134 EUNICE HAVE BEEN INVALUABLE TO 01:58:28.201 --> 01:58:30.837 MAKE SURE THAT OUR SUB TWO IS 01:58:30.903 --> 01:58:33.406 ABLE TO HAVE MEANINGFUL 01:58:33.473 --> 01:58:35.575 HEARINGS. I ALSO WANT TO THANK 01:58:35.641 --> 01:58:37.376 MY COLLEAGUE, SENATOR DURAZZO, 01:58:37.443 --> 01:58:38.811 WHO WILL BE LEAVING US, IS 01:58:38.878 --> 01:58:42.081 GOING TO BE A COUNTY SUPERVISOR 01:58:42.148 --> 01:58:43.749 IN LOS ANGELES. IT'S GOOD TO 01:58:43.816 --> 01:58:45.985 HAVE PARTNERS OUTSIDE OF THE 01:58:46.052 --> 01:58:48.488 STATE BUILDING, WHETHER IT'S 01:58:48.554 --> 01:58:51.090 OUR COUNTY SUPERVISORS OR OTHER 01:58:51.157 --> 01:58:53.693 MEMBERS OF THE OF THE CITY OF 01:58:53.759 --> 01:58:55.094 THEIR CITIES. THEY'RE THE ONES 01:58:55.161 --> 01:58:56.762 THAT ARE SUFFERING THE MOST 01:58:56.829 --> 01:58:58.598 WITH MANY OF THE CUTS THAT WE 01:58:58.664 --> 01:59:00.733 PUT TOGETHER. AND I'M LOOKING 01:59:00.800 --> 01:59:03.636 FORWARD TO NEW LEADERSHIP IN 01:59:03.703 --> 01:59:05.505 CONGRESS. WE HAVE A NUMBER OF 01:59:05.571 --> 01:59:06.873 PEOPLE THAT I THINK WILL BE 01:59:06.939 --> 01:59:08.341 JOINING, AND I'M VERY EXCITED 01:59:08.407 --> 01:59:11.744 ABOUT THAT AS WELL. MY COMMENTS 01:59:11.811 --> 01:59:15.281 ARE MORE GENERAL. I THINK THAT 01:59:15.348 --> 01:59:17.116 WHAT WE HAVE IN THIS BUDGET IS 01:59:17.183 --> 01:59:19.485 THAT WE'RE ABLE TO LOOK AT 01:59:19.552 --> 01:59:20.887 ISSUES THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING 01:59:20.953 --> 01:59:23.789 ABOUT AFFORDABILITY, HEALTH 01:59:23.856 --> 01:59:25.591 PROTECTIONS, JUSTICE, AIR 01:59:25.658 --> 01:59:27.727 QUALITY, EDUCATION, HOUSING, 01:59:27.793 --> 01:59:29.529 BROADBAND VETERANS, SO MANY 01:59:29.595 --> 01:59:31.330 ISSUES THAT ARE BEING COVERED 01:59:31.397 --> 01:59:34.267 WITHIN THIS, WITHIN THIS BUDGET 01:59:34.333 --> 01:59:36.802 IN EDUCATION. I'M PLEASED TO 01:59:36.869 --> 01:59:37.970 SEE THAT THERE ARE HIGHER 01:59:38.037 --> 01:59:39.338 EDUCATION PROTECTIONS. I'M GLAD 01:59:39.405 --> 01:59:40.673 THAT WE'RE FINDING A WAY TO 01:59:40.740 --> 01:59:42.575 MAKE SURE THAT THOSE WHO 01:59:42.642 --> 01:59:44.010 QUALIFY ARE GOING TO GET 01:59:44.076 --> 01:59:45.111 CALFRESH, AND WE DON'T HAVE 01:59:45.177 --> 01:59:47.213 THEM GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE 01:59:47.280 --> 01:59:48.347 HOOPS TO TRY TO GET THE 01:59:48.414 --> 01:59:50.049 BENEFITS FOR PROVIDING MORE 01:59:50.116 --> 01:59:53.352 RESEARCH, CAREER ONLINE, HIGH 01:59:53.419 --> 01:59:55.421 SCHOOL, GETTING HIGH SCHOOL 01:59:55.488 --> 01:59:58.024 DIPLOMAS, ONLINE TEACHER 01:59:58.090 --> 01:59:59.425 RECRUITMENT. SO IMPORTANT TO 01:59:59.492 --> 02:00:01.227 MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE TEACHER 02:00:01.294 --> 02:00:02.695 RECRUITMENT, OUR DREAM RESOURCE 02:00:02.762 --> 02:00:05.631 CENTERS, OUR LGBTQ RESOURCE 02:00:05.698 --> 02:00:06.766 CENTERS, THESE ARE ALL THINGS 02:00:06.832 --> 02:00:10.403 THAT MAKE MAKE IT EASIER BETTER 02:00:10.469 --> 02:00:11.537 FOR OUR STUDENTS AS THEY'RE 02:00:11.604 --> 02:00:14.874 GETTING THEIR THEIR DEGREES IN 02:00:14.941 --> 02:00:17.777 HOUSING, AFFORDABLE HOUSING 02:00:17.843 --> 02:00:19.645 OPPORTUNITIES, FIRST TIME HOME 02:00:19.712 --> 02:00:22.882 BUYERS, THE $10 MILLION FOR 02:00:22.949 --> 02:00:25.318 DISASTER REBUILDING. THESE ARE 02:00:25.384 --> 02:00:26.819 THINGS THAT ARE EXTREMELY 02:00:26.886 --> 02:00:28.988 IMPORTANT FOR OUR COMMUNITIES 02:00:29.055 --> 02:00:30.389 IN LABOR. I'M REALLY GOOD. I'M 02:00:30.456 --> 02:00:31.824 REALLY GLAD TO SEE THE 02:00:31.891 --> 02:00:33.626 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT WHETHER 02:00:33.693 --> 02:00:35.094 IT'S THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF 02:00:35.161 --> 02:00:36.529 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS OUR 02:00:36.596 --> 02:00:38.497 COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOR THOSE IN 02:00:38.564 --> 02:00:40.166 THE PORTS WHO ARE LOSING THEIR 02:00:40.232 --> 02:00:42.268 JOBS BECAUSE OF AUTOMATION, 02:00:42.335 --> 02:00:44.103 JAILS TO JOBS, AND ALSO 02:00:44.170 --> 02:00:44.904 OUTREACH, THESE ARE THINGS THAT 02:00:44.971 --> 02:00:46.505 ARE SO IMPORTANT, AS WELL AS 02:00:46.572 --> 02:00:48.407 THE SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS FOR 02:00:48.474 --> 02:00:49.875 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, 02:00:49.942 --> 02:00:53.112 THE SEED PROGRAM IN 02:00:53.179 --> 02:00:54.180 TRANSPORTATION, OUR ZERO 02:00:54.246 --> 02:00:55.615 EMISSION VEHICLES, WHETHER IT'S 02:00:55.681 --> 02:00:57.750 OUR LIGHT DUTY OR MEDIUM AND 02:00:57.817 --> 02:00:58.851 HEAVY DUTY, MEDIUM AND HEAVY 02:00:58.918 --> 02:01:00.019 DUTY, HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT 02:01:00.086 --> 02:01:01.921 HAS BEEN SO IMPORTANT TO ME. 02:01:01.988 --> 02:01:04.523 AND I'M GLAD TO SEE 135 MILLION 02:01:04.590 --> 02:01:07.093 BEING PUT SPECIFICALLY FOR HFIP 02:01:07.159 --> 02:01:08.861 TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CONTINUE 02:01:08.928 --> 02:01:10.730 PROVIDING THOSE INCENTIVES TO 02:01:10.796 --> 02:01:12.665 THOSE HEAVY DUTY, ESPECIALLY 02:01:12.732 --> 02:01:14.800 HEAVY DUTY DIESEL TRUCKS THAT 02:01:14.867 --> 02:01:17.903 ARE LOOKING TO, TO, TO TRANSFER 02:01:17.970 --> 02:01:21.574 TO, TO, TO ZEVS. THESE ARE 02:01:21.641 --> 02:01:23.309 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. I, I 02:01:23.376 --> 02:01:25.111 APPRECIATE MY COLLEAGUE, 02:01:25.177 --> 02:01:27.647 SENATOR CHAIR RICHARDSON AND 02:01:27.713 --> 02:01:29.849 HER LEADERSHIP, ESPECIALLY 02:01:29.915 --> 02:01:31.917 REGARDING THE NEW JUDGESHIPS 02:01:31.984 --> 02:01:34.920 CARE COURT ON PROP 36, 20 02:01:34.987 --> 02:01:37.356 MILLION FOR PRETRIAL SERVICES, 02:01:37.423 --> 02:01:38.557 10 MILLION FOR THE COURTS, AND 02:01:38.624 --> 02:01:39.859 ANOTHER 20 MILLION FOR 02:01:39.925 --> 02:01:42.428 BEHAVIORAL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH. 02:01:42.495 --> 02:01:44.563 MAKING SURE THAT PROP 36, WE'RE 02:01:44.630 --> 02:01:46.165 COVERING ALL OF THOSE AREAS 02:01:46.232 --> 02:01:47.767 THAT THE VOTERS WANTED US TO 02:01:47.833 --> 02:01:49.368 COVER AND MAKING SURE THAT IT'S 02:01:49.435 --> 02:01:50.770 FUNDED. AND I APPRECIATE THAT 02:01:50.836 --> 02:01:52.838 THAT WAS PUT THAT WAS PUT IN 02:01:52.905 --> 02:01:56.342 THERE IN HEALTH. A LOT OF THIS 02:01:56.409 --> 02:01:57.810 HAS BEEN TALKED ABOUT. THE 02:01:57.877 --> 02:01:59.779 REIMBURSEMENT FOR OUR COMMUNITY 02:01:59.845 --> 02:02:02.982 CLINICS, ESPECIALLY FOR 02:02:03.049 --> 02:02:05.418 MEDI-CAL PATIENTS, FOR OUR 02:02:05.484 --> 02:02:07.253 ASYLEES AND VICTIMS OF HUMAN 02:02:07.319 --> 02:02:09.789 TRAFFICKING WHO ARE MEDI-CAL. 02:02:09.855 --> 02:02:11.590 ALSO, THE DISTRESSED HOSPITALS 02:02:11.657 --> 02:02:13.693 AND THE THE PUBLIC HOSPITALS 02:02:13.759 --> 02:02:15.161 PROVIDING SOME ASSISTANCE TO 02:02:15.227 --> 02:02:17.396 THEM. WE CAN ALWAYS SAY IT'S 02:02:17.463 --> 02:02:19.298 NOT ENOUGH AND IT WILL NEVER BE 02:02:19.365 --> 02:02:21.033 ENOUGH. AND I THINK THAT AS 02:02:21.100 --> 02:02:22.768 THINGS PROGRESS AND WE FIND 02:02:22.835 --> 02:02:24.470 THAT THERE ARE THERE ARE 02:02:24.537 --> 02:02:27.039 GREATER GAPS, JUST AS WE DID 02:02:27.106 --> 02:02:28.774 EARLIER THIS YEAR, WHEN WE 02:02:28.841 --> 02:02:31.310 FOUND THOSE HOSPITALS THAT WERE 02:02:31.377 --> 02:02:34.947 WITHIN TEN DAYS OF, OF, OF 02:02:35.014 --> 02:02:37.116 BEING WITHOUT CASH, WE FOUND A 02:02:37.183 --> 02:02:39.318 WAY TO TRY TO, TO HELP HELP 02:02:39.385 --> 02:02:41.420 THEIR, THE DELAY IN THE 02:02:41.487 --> 02:02:43.222 ELIMINATION OF DENTAL BENEFITS. 02:02:43.289 --> 02:02:44.857 WE'VE HEARD FROM SO MANY OF, OF 02:02:44.924 --> 02:02:46.058 OUR CONSTITUENTS ABOUT HOW 02:02:46.125 --> 02:02:48.260 IMPORTANT THAT WAS. AND 02:02:48.327 --> 02:02:49.829 MIDWIFERY, WE'RE FINDING THAT 02:02:49.895 --> 02:02:52.131 WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH OB GYNS TO 02:02:52.198 --> 02:02:54.433 COVER ALL OF OUR OUR RURAL 02:02:54.500 --> 02:02:56.302 AREAS AND SO ON. THE EDUCATION 02:02:56.368 --> 02:02:58.337 AND TRAINING FOR OUR MIDWIVES, 02:02:58.404 --> 02:02:59.572 SOMETHING EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. 02:02:59.638 --> 02:03:01.207 I APPRECIATE THAT SOME MONEY 02:03:01.273 --> 02:03:03.642 WAS PUT INTO THAT. ADDITIONALLY, 02:03:03.709 --> 02:03:05.911 THE $15 MILLION FOR THE 02:03:05.978 --> 02:03:07.379 PROMOTORAS, WE KNOW THAT WE 02:03:07.446 --> 02:03:09.148 NEED TO GET THE MESSAGE OUT TO 02:03:09.215 --> 02:03:11.283 THE COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT IS AND 02:03:11.350 --> 02:03:13.853 ISN'T COVERED AND WHERE THE 02:03:13.919 --> 02:03:14.920 RESOURCES ARE, AND THE 02:03:14.987 --> 02:03:17.790 PROMOTORAS HAVE BEEN AN 02:03:17.857 --> 02:03:21.026 INVALUABLE PART OF OF PROVIDING 02:03:21.093 --> 02:03:23.562 THE OUTREACH TO OUR COMMUNITIES, 02:03:23.629 --> 02:03:25.364 AND I APPRECIATE THAT THEY WERE 02:03:25.431 --> 02:03:28.601 INCLUDED. CHILD CARE SPACES. I 02:03:28.667 --> 02:03:30.369 KNOW THAT'S BEEN MENTIONED. I 02:03:30.436 --> 02:03:32.171 APPRECIATE THE EXPANSION OF 02:03:32.238 --> 02:03:37.576 ANOTHER 22,700 FOR ADOPTION 02:03:37.643 --> 02:03:40.079 ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS FOR THE 02:03:40.146 --> 02:03:41.947 WRAPAROUND SERVICES. THAT'S 02:03:42.014 --> 02:03:43.616 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. AND THESE 02:03:43.682 --> 02:03:45.918 MAY SOUND LIKE SMALL THINGS, 02:03:45.985 --> 02:03:48.420 BUT FOR THOSE WHO REQUIRE THESE 02:03:48.487 --> 02:03:50.156 SERVICES, THEY ARE EXTREMELY 02:03:50.222 --> 02:03:53.392 IMPORTANT FOR OUR DEVELOPMENTAL 02:03:53.459 --> 02:03:55.628 DEVELOPMENT SERVICES. THE 02:03:55.694 --> 02:03:57.363 EXTENSION OF THE REMOTE ACCESS 02:03:57.429 --> 02:03:59.565 THAT WAS GOING TO SUNSET. AND 02:03:59.632 --> 02:04:01.267 NOW WITH THIS INCLUSION IN THE 02:04:01.333 --> 02:04:03.102 TRAILER BILL LANGUAGE, IT WILL 02:04:03.169 --> 02:04:06.038 BE IT WILL BE EXTENDED. AND 02:04:06.105 --> 02:04:07.540 THEY ARE SO GRATEFUL. AND WE'RE 02:04:07.606 --> 02:04:09.942 HEARING FROM THEM ABOUT THAT. 02:04:10.009 --> 02:04:12.144 THERE IS SO MUCH IN THIS BUDGET, 02:04:12.211 --> 02:04:14.346 SO MUCH WORK THAT WENT INTO IT. 02:04:14.413 --> 02:04:16.282 I AS I SAID AT THE BEGINNING, 02:04:16.348 --> 02:04:18.584 I'M GRATEFUL TO ALL THOSE WHO 02:04:18.651 --> 02:04:20.452 TOOK A LEADERSHIP ROLE, WHO 02:04:20.519 --> 02:04:21.854 SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS IN 02:04:21.921 --> 02:04:23.956 PUTTING THIS TOGETHER. IT'LL 02:04:24.023 --> 02:04:25.991 NEVER BE PERFECT, BUT IT NEVER 02:04:26.058 --> 02:04:27.693 HAS BEEN PERFECT, JUST AS WE 02:04:27.760 --> 02:04:29.595 ARE NOT PERFECT. BUT WE SURE 02:04:29.662 --> 02:04:31.630 DID OUR VERY BEST. AND I THINK 02:04:31.697 --> 02:04:33.399 THAT THIS IS A BUDGET THAT I'M 02:04:33.465 --> 02:04:35.301 VERY PROUD TO SUPPORT AND TO 02:04:35.367 --> 02:04:37.069 VOTE ON LATER TODAY. THANK YOU 02:04:37.136 --> 02:04:38.437 SO MUCH. AND THANK YOU, MR. 02:04:38.504 --> 02:04:41.006 CHAIR. THANK YOU. THAT 02:04:41.073 --> 02:04:42.675 COMPLETES OUR LIST. AND I WAS 02:04:42.741 --> 02:04:45.010 GOING TO GO BACK TO SENATOR 02:04:45.077 --> 02:04:46.712 SMALLWOOD CUEVAS, AND I THINK 02:04:46.779 --> 02:04:48.280 SENATOR WEBER PEARSON IS GOING 02:04:48.347 --> 02:04:50.316 TO ASK THE QUESTION FOR HER. I 02:04:50.382 --> 02:04:51.750 WAS GOING TO MAKE A COUPLE. 02:04:51.817 --> 02:04:53.652 YEAH. OKAY. JUST SIGNAL TO ME. 02:04:53.719 --> 02:04:55.621 I'LL ADD YOU TO THE LIST. BUT 02:04:55.688 --> 02:04:56.822 I'M GOING TO LET THE QUESTION 02:04:56.889 --> 02:04:58.657 BE ASKED AND THEN I'LL GO TO 02:04:58.724 --> 02:05:02.228 YOU. SO GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. SO 02:05:02.294 --> 02:05:06.165 I AM ASKING THIS ON BEHALF OF 02:05:06.232 --> 02:05:08.033 SENATOR SMALLWOOD CUEVAS, BUT 02:05:08.100 --> 02:05:10.502 IS DEFINITELY A CONCERN AND A 02:05:10.569 --> 02:05:11.270 QUESTION FROM EVERY MEMBER OF 02:05:11.337 --> 02:05:12.671 THE CALIFORNIA LEGISLATIVE 02:05:12.738 --> 02:05:14.306 BLACK CAUCUS. SO ONE OF THE 02:05:14.373 --> 02:05:16.909 ISSUES THAT WE NOTICE IS THAT 02:05:16.976 --> 02:05:18.911 WITH THE LEGAL SERVICES THAT 02:05:18.978 --> 02:05:21.280 WE'RE FUNDING IMMIGRATION 02:05:21.347 --> 02:05:22.648 DOLLARS THIS PAST TIME, VERY 02:05:22.715 --> 02:05:24.183 FEW WAS BEING FUNNELED INTO 02:05:24.250 --> 02:05:27.586 OTHER IMMIGRANT, NON HISPANIC 02:05:27.653 --> 02:05:30.689 OR LATINO COMMUNITIES. AND, YOU 02:05:30.756 --> 02:05:32.458 KNOW, ALTHOUGH BLACK IMMIGRANTS 02:05:32.524 --> 02:05:35.327 MAKE UP ONLY ABOUT 7% OF 02:05:35.394 --> 02:05:36.395 NON-CITIZENS IN THE UNITED 02:05:36.462 --> 02:05:37.129 STATES, THEY ACCOUNT FOR MORE 02:05:37.196 --> 02:05:39.265 THAN 10% OF PEOPLE IN REMOVAL 02:05:39.331 --> 02:05:40.799 PROCEEDINGS. AND MORE THAN 20% 02:05:40.866 --> 02:05:43.202 OF THOSE FACING DEPORTATION ON 02:05:43.269 --> 02:05:45.004 CRIMINAL GROUNDS. THEY ALSO 02:05:45.070 --> 02:05:46.839 FACE DISTINCT BARRIERS TO 02:05:46.906 --> 02:05:48.340 RELIEF, INCLUDING LIMITED 02:05:48.407 --> 02:05:50.509 ACCESS TO CULTURALLY COMPETENT, 02:05:50.576 --> 02:05:51.877 MULTILINGUAL COUNSEL AND TO 02:05:51.944 --> 02:05:54.647 COUNTRY CONDITIONS. EXPERIENCE 02:05:54.713 --> 02:05:56.982 FOR CERTAIN BLACK NATIONS, MANY 02:05:57.049 --> 02:05:59.084 HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO REPRESENT 02:05:59.151 --> 02:06:00.953 THEMSELVES IN AN EXTREMELY 02:06:01.020 --> 02:06:03.088 COMPLEX SYSTEM. THESE ARE OUR 02:06:03.155 --> 02:06:05.124 COMMUNITIES THAT SPEAK 02:06:05.190 --> 02:06:08.861 ETHIOPIAN, FRENCH, SWAHILI AND 02:06:08.928 --> 02:06:10.629 HAVE BEEN REPORTEDLY 02:06:10.696 --> 02:06:12.731 UNDERSERVED IN THE PAST. AS FAR 02:06:12.798 --> 02:06:14.667 AS SOME OF THE FUNDS THAT WE 02:06:14.733 --> 02:06:17.169 HAVE EARMARKED PRIOR TO THIS, 02:06:17.236 --> 02:06:18.504 IN AN EARLIER VERSION OF THE 02:06:18.570 --> 02:06:21.106 BILL, THERE WAS $5 MILLION THAT 02:06:21.173 --> 02:06:24.310 WAS ALLOCATED TO BY THE BLACK 02:06:24.376 --> 02:06:25.811 ALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE 02:06:25.878 --> 02:06:29.081 IMMIGRATION. IS THAT STILL A 02:06:29.148 --> 02:06:31.517 PART OF THIS BUDGET? SHE 02:06:31.583 --> 02:06:34.486 NOTICED THAT IT WASN'T HERE AND 02:06:34.553 --> 02:06:35.854 WASN'T SURE IF IT'S BECAUSE 02:06:35.921 --> 02:06:37.723 THIS IS ONLY NOTING CHANGES, OR 02:06:37.790 --> 02:06:39.058 WAS WONDERING IF IT WAS 02:06:39.124 --> 02:06:40.826 ACTUALLY REMOVED, MORE OR LESS. 02:06:40.893 --> 02:06:42.594 WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, 02:06:42.661 --> 02:06:43.662 I BELIEVE YOU'RE REFERRING TO 02:06:43.729 --> 02:06:44.863 THE $5 MILLION THAT REMAINS IN 02:06:44.930 --> 02:06:48.734 THE BUDGET. OKAY. THANK YOU. 02:06:48.801 --> 02:06:51.403 GREAT. SENATOR COR, THANK YOU 02:06:51.470 --> 02:06:54.640 VERY MUCH. AND AND I THINK A 02:06:54.707 --> 02:06:55.874 LOT OF THE REALLY GOOD PARTS OF 02:06:55.941 --> 02:06:58.577 THE BUDGET HAVE BEEN BEEN 02:06:58.644 --> 02:07:00.212 TALKED ABOUT BY MY COLLEAGUES 02:07:00.279 --> 02:07:02.081 UP HERE, AND, AND I DO 02:07:02.147 --> 02:07:03.515 APPRECIATE THAT, YOU KNOW, OUR 02:07:03.582 --> 02:07:06.385 OUR BUDGET STAFF STAYED UP ALL 02:07:06.452 --> 02:07:08.554 WEEKEND TRYING TO PREPARE 02:07:08.620 --> 02:07:10.723 SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DIGEST 02:07:10.789 --> 02:07:13.425 OVERNIGHT AND THEN RESPONSIBLY 02:07:13.492 --> 02:07:15.227 COME IN HERE AND VOTE ON. I 02:07:15.294 --> 02:07:16.795 HAVE JUST A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. 02:07:16.862 --> 02:07:20.466 NUMBER ONE, SO, YOU KNOW, 02:07:20.532 --> 02:07:22.301 READING THROUGH THE LIST OF 02:07:22.368 --> 02:07:24.536 THINGS THAT GOT FUNDING FOR 5 02:07:24.603 --> 02:07:25.871 MILLION HERE AND 10 MILLION 02:07:25.938 --> 02:07:28.474 THERE AND, AND 15 MILLION IN 02:07:28.540 --> 02:07:31.043 OTHER PLACES, HOW MUCH DO WE 02:07:31.110 --> 02:07:33.045 HAVE A LIST OF WHAT WE'RE WHAT 02:07:33.112 --> 02:07:34.780 PORTION OF THIS BUDGET IS 02:07:34.847 --> 02:07:37.316 DISTRICT ASKS AND, AND WHERE 02:07:37.383 --> 02:07:40.185 THOSE ASKS CAME FROM SO THAT WE 02:07:40.252 --> 02:07:41.687 UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH IS GOING 02:07:41.754 --> 02:07:51.063 INTO MEMBER REQUESTS. THE 02:07:51.130 --> 02:07:53.966 FINANCE PERSON IS LOOKING AT ME 02:07:54.033 --> 02:07:57.536 AT THIS POINT. AT THIS POINT, 02:07:57.603 --> 02:07:59.738 THERE ARE NO SENATE DISTRICT 02:07:59.805 --> 02:08:00.806 REQUESTS IN THE BUDGET, BUT 02:08:00.873 --> 02:08:02.641 THERE'S A CHANCE THAT WE WILL 02:08:02.708 --> 02:08:05.010 COME BACK IN AUGUST. OKAY, AND 02:08:05.077 --> 02:08:06.445 DEAL WITH THAT. AND THE REASON 02:08:06.512 --> 02:08:07.780 I ASK THAT IS BECAUSE IT'S HARD 02:08:07.846 --> 02:08:09.615 FOR ME TO BELIEVE THAT SOMEBODY 02:08:09.681 --> 02:08:10.649 ACTUALLY WOKE UP ONE MORNING 02:08:10.716 --> 02:08:12.584 AND THOUGHT, AND SOME OF THESE, 02:08:12.651 --> 02:08:14.753 THESE REQUESTS HERE THAT ARE IN 02:08:14.820 --> 02:08:15.921 THERE THAT MADE IT INTO THE 02:08:15.988 --> 02:08:18.390 BUDGET, THE ONE THING, AND 02:08:18.457 --> 02:08:20.192 MAYBE YOU DIDN'T ASK THE RIGHT 02:08:20.259 --> 02:08:22.227 QUESTION. THE ONE THING IS, IS 02:08:22.294 --> 02:08:24.129 THAT SOME OF THE CAUCUS 02:08:24.196 --> 02:08:26.331 REQUESTS ARE IN THE BUDGET FROM 02:08:26.398 --> 02:08:28.067 INDIVIDUAL CAUCUSES, BUT NOT 02:08:28.133 --> 02:08:31.737 FROM INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS. A 02:08:31.804 --> 02:08:34.973 LITTLE BIT OF SEMANTICS. BUT 02:08:35.040 --> 02:08:36.308 ANYWAY, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL 02:08:36.375 --> 02:08:38.143 FOR US TO UNDERSTAND WHERE SOME 02:08:38.210 --> 02:08:39.978 OF THESE COME FROM, BECAUSE IN 02:08:40.045 --> 02:08:41.780 THE BIG SCHEME OF THINGS, WHEN 02:08:41.847 --> 02:08:44.283 SOME OF US ARE OUT THERE AT THE 02:08:44.349 --> 02:08:46.885 MERCY OF OF THE STRUCTURE THAT 02:08:46.952 --> 02:08:50.189 WE HAVE TRYING TO GET PROJECTS 02:08:50.255 --> 02:08:52.624 IN THEIR COMMUNITIES ADDRESSED, 02:08:52.691 --> 02:08:54.426 WHETHER IT'S AN INTERCHANGE 02:08:54.493 --> 02:08:56.095 PROJECT, WHETHER IT'S A IT'S A 02:08:56.161 --> 02:08:57.930 FIRE STATION PROJECT, SOMETHING 02:08:57.996 --> 02:08:59.531 TO DO WITH PUBLIC SAFETY. ALL 02:08:59.598 --> 02:09:01.333 OF THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE SEE 02:09:01.400 --> 02:09:04.069 AS AS HIGH PRIORITY ITEMS THAT 02:09:04.136 --> 02:09:05.904 COME BEFORE WE SPEND ALL OUR 02:09:05.971 --> 02:09:07.272 MONEY ON THE OTHER STUFF. 02:09:07.339 --> 02:09:09.141 BECAUSE WHAT IT LEAVES US WITH, 02:09:09.208 --> 02:09:11.310 WITH, WITH WHAT IT EVENTUALLY 02:09:11.376 --> 02:09:13.412 LEAVES US WITH IS DOING BONDS, 02:09:13.479 --> 02:09:14.880 YOU KNOW, BORROWING FOR THE 02:09:14.947 --> 02:09:16.248 MONEY, THE STUFF THAT WE NEED. 02:09:16.315 --> 02:09:18.150 AND WHILE WE SPEND MONEY ON ALL 02:09:18.217 --> 02:09:20.052 THIS OTHER STUFF THAT ACTUALLY 02:09:20.119 --> 02:09:21.420 SHOULD COME IN THE BACK OF THE 02:09:21.487 --> 02:09:23.388 BUDGET, IF WE HAVE, IF WE HAVE 02:09:23.455 --> 02:09:24.623 LEFTOVER MONEY AFTER WE'VE 02:09:24.690 --> 02:09:26.158 TAKEN CARE OF ALL OUR REAL 02:09:26.225 --> 02:09:27.893 NEEDS, THEN THAT'S WHEN WE 02:09:27.960 --> 02:09:29.261 SHOULD BE DIVVYING UP THAT 02:09:29.328 --> 02:09:31.063 MONEY TO BE ABLE TO, TO HELP 02:09:31.130 --> 02:09:33.432 SOME OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS OUT 02:09:33.499 --> 02:09:34.867 AND, AND START SPENDING SOME OF 02:09:34.933 --> 02:09:37.002 THAT MONEY. SO YEAH, SO THAT 02:09:37.069 --> 02:09:38.871 WAS ONE OF MY MAJOR CONCERNS. 02:09:38.937 --> 02:09:40.439 THE OTHER CONCERN I HAVE WAS 02:09:40.506 --> 02:09:42.374 REGARDING THE, THE LAST ITEM 02:09:42.441 --> 02:09:44.843 HERE, AND I THINK THAT'S. 182 02:09:44.910 --> 02:09:48.480 YEAH. 182 AND AND THAT REGARD 02:09:48.547 --> 02:09:49.515 THAT'S REGARDING THE 02:09:49.581 --> 02:09:50.516 PROPOSITION, WHAT'S THE NORMAL 02:09:50.582 --> 02:09:53.752 PROCESS FOR DETERMINING WHAT 02:09:53.819 --> 02:09:55.587 BALLOT OR WHAT PROPOSITIONS GO 02:09:55.654 --> 02:09:57.756 WHERE ON THE BALLOT? BECAUSE I 02:09:57.823 --> 02:09:59.224 DON'T RECALL THIS BEING PART OF 02:09:59.291 --> 02:10:02.027 THE PROCESS PRIOR TO, TO THIS 02:10:02.094 --> 02:10:03.562 YEAR AND PROBABLY THE LAST TIME 02:10:03.629 --> 02:10:05.597 WE HAD SOME BALLOTS, BECAUSE I 02:10:05.664 --> 02:10:07.432 KNOW THERE ARE 15, 15 02:10:07.499 --> 02:10:08.867 PROPOSITIONS I THINK THAT HAVE 02:10:08.934 --> 02:10:11.036 QUALIFIED, AND MOST OF THEM ARE 02:10:11.103 --> 02:10:13.539 CITIZEN INITIATED. BUT SOMEHOW 02:10:13.605 --> 02:10:16.408 WE COME UP WITH THIS POLICY, 02:10:16.475 --> 02:10:18.277 AND THIS POLICY SAYS ALL OF THE 02:10:18.343 --> 02:10:20.078 GOVERNMENT ONES THAT THEY WANT 02:10:20.145 --> 02:10:22.981 ARE UP FRONT. SO WHO THOUGHT 02:10:23.048 --> 02:10:24.583 WHO THOUGHT THAT ONE UP? I'M 02:10:24.650 --> 02:10:26.151 NOT FAMILIAR WITH THAT PROCESS. 02:10:26.218 --> 02:10:29.755 BUT THIS A B 182 IS NOT A 02:10:29.821 --> 02:10:30.923 BUDGET BILL. IT'S A POLICY BILL 02:10:30.989 --> 02:10:33.091 THAT WE ARE HEARING TODAY, IN 02:10:33.158 --> 02:10:35.294 PART BECAUSE OF THE URGENCY AND 02:10:35.360 --> 02:10:37.963 THE TIMING. IT'S NOT A BUDGET 02:10:38.030 --> 02:10:41.333 BILL, BUT WE'RE IN BUDGET. OKAY. 02:10:41.400 --> 02:10:42.734 AND I THINK THE REASON IT'S AN 02:10:42.801 --> 02:10:44.336 URGENCY ITEM IS BECAUSE THEY 02:10:44.403 --> 02:10:47.806 NEED TO GET IT DONE BY WHEN. 02:10:47.873 --> 02:10:49.675 BECAUSE THIS IS CLEARLY A 02:10:49.741 --> 02:10:51.310 POLICY THAT WE'RE DEVELOPING A 02:10:51.376 --> 02:10:53.178 NEW POLICY FOR HOW TO PUT 02:10:53.245 --> 02:10:54.680 THINGS ON THE BALLOT, HOW TO 02:10:54.746 --> 02:10:56.215 NUMBER WHAT GOES FIRST AND WHAT 02:10:56.281 --> 02:10:57.516 GOES IN FRONT OF THE OTHER 02:10:57.583 --> 02:11:01.887 THING. I CAN'T GIVE YOU A 02:11:01.954 --> 02:11:03.589 SPECIFIC DATE ON WHEN WHEN IT 02:11:03.655 --> 02:11:04.990 NEEDS TO BE ADOPTED, BUT I 02:11:05.057 --> 02:11:06.191 THINK THERE, THERE CLEARLY IS A 02:11:06.258 --> 02:11:08.026 SENSE OF URGENCY IN ORDER TO 02:11:08.093 --> 02:11:09.728 PREPARE THE BALLOT MATERIALS IN 02:11:09.795 --> 02:11:11.930 TIME. AND I, I GUESS I WILL ADD, 02:11:11.997 --> 02:11:13.332 THERE HAVE BEEN SOME INSTANCES 02:11:13.398 --> 02:11:14.399 IN THE PAST WHERE THE 02:11:14.466 --> 02:11:17.436 LEGISLATURE HAS SPECIFIED 02:11:17.502 --> 02:11:18.103 PROPOSITION NUMBER FOR 02:11:18.170 --> 02:11:19.471 DIFFERENT PROPOSITIONS. 02:11:19.538 --> 02:11:20.339 OTHERWISE, THERE'S A PROCESS 02:11:20.405 --> 02:11:22.007 THAT GOES ON AT THE, I BELIEVE, 02:11:22.074 --> 02:11:23.442 THE SECRETARY OF STATE WHERE 02:11:23.508 --> 02:11:25.611 THEY GO IN ORDER. AND THEN IT 02:11:25.677 --> 02:11:27.145 RESETS AFTER A SPECIFIC TIME 02:11:27.212 --> 02:11:29.181 PERIOD. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR 02:11:29.248 --> 02:11:31.016 THAT. THE LAST COMMENT I'M 02:11:31.083 --> 02:11:34.653 GOING TO MAKE IS, IS CONCERNING 02:11:34.720 --> 02:11:37.456 WHAT I FEEL IS AN INTRUSION OF 02:11:37.522 --> 02:11:40.025 POLICY INTO OUR BUDGET. AND 02:11:40.092 --> 02:11:41.460 IT'S A LOT OF THIS POLICY 02:11:41.526 --> 02:11:42.494 SHOULD HAVE GONE THROUGH THE 02:11:42.561 --> 02:11:44.363 PROCESS WE HAVE FOR DEVELOPING 02:11:44.429 --> 02:11:45.731 POLICY, WHICH IS THE 02:11:45.797 --> 02:11:47.232 LEGISLATURE IN THE FORM OF 02:11:47.299 --> 02:11:49.001 BILLS, SO THAT WE CAN DISCUSS 02:11:49.067 --> 02:11:51.837 THOSE. AND AND THE THE PUBLIC 02:11:51.903 --> 02:11:54.172 CAN HEAR THEM PUTTING THEM INTO 02:11:54.239 --> 02:11:56.174 THE BUDGET AND TRAILER BILLS, 02:11:56.241 --> 02:11:57.943 BECAUSE I HOPE YOU WOULD AGREE, 02:11:58.010 --> 02:11:59.544 THERE'S A LOT OF POLICY IN HERE 02:11:59.611 --> 02:12:00.946 THAT HAS NOT BEEN VETTED 02:12:01.013 --> 02:12:03.081 THROUGH OUR NORMAL PROCESS. SO 02:12:03.148 --> 02:12:04.816 IT FEELS LIKE THERE'S TWO 02:12:04.883 --> 02:12:06.652 TRACKS, THERE'S THE LEGISLATIVE 02:12:06.718 --> 02:12:08.754 PROCESS, AND THERE'S THE THREE 02:12:08.820 --> 02:12:11.290 PERSON AGREEMENT PROCESS AND 02:12:11.356 --> 02:12:12.424 OUR THREE PARTY AGREEMENT. 02:12:12.491 --> 02:12:14.559 THAT'S WHAT WE CALL IT. AND, 02:12:14.626 --> 02:12:16.528 AND THAT'S NOT THE TRANSPARENCY 02:12:16.595 --> 02:12:18.163 THAT THE PUBLIC SEEKS WHEN 02:12:18.230 --> 02:12:20.032 WE'RE CHANGING POLICY ON THEM, 02:12:20.098 --> 02:12:21.400 JUST LIKE CHANGING THE POLICY 02:12:21.466 --> 02:12:23.135 FOR HOW WE PUT THINGS ON THE 02:12:23.201 --> 02:12:24.670 BALLOT. SO THOSE ARE A FEW 02:12:24.736 --> 02:12:26.071 THINGS THAT I HAVE CONCERNS 02:12:26.138 --> 02:12:27.506 ABOUT THE BUDGET. VERY HARD FOR 02:12:27.572 --> 02:12:29.274 ME TO SUPPORT A LOT OF THIS 02:12:29.341 --> 02:12:31.777 BECAUSE FRANKLY, I JUST HAVEN'T. 02:12:31.843 --> 02:12:34.079 I DIDN'T SPEND 12 HOURS LAST 02:12:34.146 --> 02:12:35.247 NIGHT STAYING UP ALL NIGHT. SO 02:12:35.314 --> 02:12:37.082 I COULD READ THIS BECAUSE WE 02:12:37.149 --> 02:12:38.150 GOT COMMITTEES TODAY THAT WE 02:12:38.216 --> 02:12:40.252 HAVE TO BE AWAKE FOR. SO THERE 02:12:40.319 --> 02:12:41.586 ARE SOME GOOD THINGS AND BAD 02:12:41.653 --> 02:12:43.689 THINGS. AND, AND, YOU KNOW, A 02:12:43.755 --> 02:12:45.524 LOT OF THE THINGS THAT, LIKE I 02:12:45.590 --> 02:12:46.658 SAID, IT'S HARD TO SUPPORT 02:12:46.725 --> 02:12:48.493 SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE NO IDEA 02:12:48.560 --> 02:12:50.162 WHAT'S IN IT. THANKS. THANK YOU 02:12:50.228 --> 02:12:51.596 VERY MUCH FOR YOUR COMMENTS. 02:12:51.663 --> 02:12:53.765 WE'LL GO TO THE LAST PERSON, 02:12:53.832 --> 02:12:59.671 SENATOR LAST. I LIKE THAT. TWO 02:12:59.738 --> 02:13:03.141 QUESTIONS AND SOME OF IT FIRST. 02:13:03.208 --> 02:13:05.744 YES. FIRST AND LAST TWO 02:13:05.811 --> 02:13:08.213 QUESTIONS. SOME OF THIS MAY BE 02:13:08.280 --> 02:13:09.314 CLARIFICATION BECAUSE I'M NOT 02:13:09.381 --> 02:13:12.150 SURE I FULLY DIGESTED IT. BUT 02:13:12.217 --> 02:13:15.020 IF I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY, THIS 02:13:15.087 --> 02:13:18.690 BILL REMOVES LEGAL IMMIGRANTS 02:13:18.757 --> 02:13:21.893 LIKE REFUGEES, PEOPLE HERE ON 02:13:21.960 --> 02:13:24.062 ASYLUM, DOMESTIC TRAFFICKING, 02:13:24.129 --> 02:13:27.332 VICTIMS OFF OF FULL SCOPE 02:13:27.399 --> 02:13:30.268 MEDI-CAL AND YET PRESERVES IT 02:13:30.335 --> 02:13:33.438 FOR IMMIGRANTS THAT ARE NOT 02:13:33.505 --> 02:13:38.443 HERE LEGALLY. I DON'T 02:13:38.510 --> 02:13:43.849 UNDERSTAND THAT. AND MAYBE I'M 02:13:43.915 --> 02:13:46.752 MISTAKEN. MEGAN. DEPARTMENT OF 02:13:46.818 --> 02:13:49.621 FINANCE. THE THE BILL MAINTAINS 02:13:49.688 --> 02:13:50.989 COVERAGE FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS 02:13:51.056 --> 02:13:53.892 IN THE BUDGET YEAR, BUT IT 02:13:53.959 --> 02:13:57.929 DELAYS IT. BEG YOUR PARDON? THE 02:13:57.996 --> 02:14:00.065 BILL MAINTAINS MEDI-CAL 02:14:00.132 --> 02:14:01.933 COVERAGE FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS. 02:14:02.000 --> 02:14:05.437 FULL SCOPE AND BUDGET YEAR, BUT 02:14:05.504 --> 02:14:08.373 DELAYS IT DELAYS THE SHIFT OF 02:14:08.440 --> 02:14:10.075 THOSE INDIVIDUALS TO RESTRICTED 02:14:10.142 --> 02:14:11.977 SCOPE MEDI-CAL FROM FULL SCOPE. 02:14:12.043 --> 02:14:18.717 MEDI-CAL IN 2020 728. SO IN THE 02:14:18.784 --> 02:14:20.552 FOLLOWING BUDGET YEAR, THEY 02:14:20.619 --> 02:14:24.122 WILL NOT BE COVERED. CORRECT. 02:14:24.189 --> 02:14:27.592 BUT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS 02:14:27.659 --> 02:14:30.495 WILL BE. CAN I CAN I JUST ADD 02:14:30.562 --> 02:14:34.366 THAT I THINK THE THE POINT OF I 02:14:34.433 --> 02:14:35.700 GUESS THEY'RE CALLED QUALIFIED 02:14:35.767 --> 02:14:36.234 NON-CITIZENS IS THAT'S THE 02:14:36.301 --> 02:14:37.269 GROUP THAT YOU'RE SPEAKING 02:14:37.335 --> 02:14:38.336 ABOUT THAT THERE WAS A CHANGE 02:14:38.403 --> 02:14:40.205 AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL IN TERMS 02:14:40.272 --> 02:14:41.139 OF THEIR ELIGIBILITY FOR 02:14:41.206 --> 02:14:44.042 FEDERAL COVERAGE. AND SO THE 02:14:44.109 --> 02:14:45.377 PROPOSAL, I THINK IT WAS THAT 02:14:45.444 --> 02:14:47.279 PROVISION THAT WAS INCLUDED WAS 02:14:47.345 --> 02:14:51.817 TO MOVE THIS POPULATION TO. 02:14:51.883 --> 02:14:54.453 LIMITED, RESTRICTED SCOPE 02:14:54.519 --> 02:14:55.587 MEDI-CAL, BECAUSE THEY WOULD 02:14:55.654 --> 02:14:58.023 OTHERWISE BE FULL, FULLY STATE 02:14:58.089 --> 02:14:59.691 COVERED. IT WOULD BE A COST OF 02:14:59.758 --> 02:15:00.992 OVER $1 BILLION FOR THE STATE 02:15:01.059 --> 02:15:02.694 TO TAKE THAT ON. THAT IS 02:15:02.761 --> 02:15:04.062 SOMETHING THAT WE COULD NOT 02:15:04.129 --> 02:15:06.832 AFFORD. IT WAS, AGAIN, PART OF 02:15:06.898 --> 02:15:08.366 THE MAYOR VISION. THE OTHER 02:15:08.433 --> 02:15:09.301 POPULATION, I BELIEVE YOU'RE 02:15:09.367 --> 02:15:11.937 TALKING ABOUT IS THE U. I S OR 02:15:12.003 --> 02:15:13.805 THE UNSATISFACTORY IMMIGRATION 02:15:13.872 --> 02:15:15.707 STATUS, AND THAT. YES. AND THAT 02:15:15.774 --> 02:15:17.476 WAS THE EXPANSION THAT AND 02:15:17.542 --> 02:15:18.577 THESE THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE 02:15:18.643 --> 02:15:19.945 COVERED UNDER THE EXPANSION, AS 02:15:20.011 --> 02:15:21.713 WAS APPROVED BY THIS 02:15:21.780 --> 02:15:23.181 LEGISLATURE AND THE 02:15:23.248 --> 02:15:25.383 ADMINISTRATION. AND THAT 02:15:25.450 --> 02:15:27.886 SOLUTION LAST YEAR WAS TO MOVE 02:15:27.953 --> 02:15:29.287 WELL, WAS TO FREEZE THAT 02:15:29.354 --> 02:15:30.055 ENROLLMENT, BUT THEY WOULD 02:15:30.121 --> 02:15:31.823 STILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR FULL 02:15:31.890 --> 02:15:33.625 SCOPE MEDI-CAL. SO I JUST WANT 02:15:33.692 --> 02:15:34.693 TO THOSE ARE THE TWO 02:15:34.759 --> 02:15:35.794 POPULATIONS. UNDERSTAND YOUR 02:15:35.861 --> 02:15:37.596 QUESTION. I THINK WHAT WE'D SAY 02:15:37.662 --> 02:15:39.731 IS THE QUALIFIED NONCITIZEN 02:15:39.798 --> 02:15:41.199 POPULATION WAS MOVED OFF AS A 02:15:41.266 --> 02:15:42.267 RESULT OF FEDERAL POLICY 02:15:42.334 --> 02:15:44.069 CHANGES. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO 02:15:44.135 --> 02:15:45.103 BACKFILL, UNFORTUNATELY FOR 02:15:45.170 --> 02:15:46.571 THEM. AND THEN THE OTHER 02:15:46.638 --> 02:15:49.774 POPULATION WAS PART OF THE THAT 02:15:49.841 --> 02:15:50.876 EXPANSION POPULATION THAT IS 02:15:50.942 --> 02:15:53.111 NOW FROZEN BUT IS COVERED BASED 02:15:53.178 --> 02:15:54.846 ON LAST YEAR'S DECISION IN THE 02:15:54.913 --> 02:15:57.716 2025 BUDGET ACT, THAT OTHER 02:15:57.782 --> 02:16:00.218 POPULATION, AS YOU DESCRIBE IT, 02:16:00.285 --> 02:16:01.953 ALSO IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR 02:16:02.020 --> 02:16:04.689 FEDERAL FUNDING. CORRECT. THAT 02:16:04.756 --> 02:16:05.957 THEY ARE A STATE ONLY 02:16:06.024 --> 02:16:08.159 POPULATION. SO AT THIS POINT, 02:16:08.226 --> 02:16:11.730 BOTH OF THOSE POPULATIONS ARE 02:16:11.796 --> 02:16:13.298 NOT ELIGIBLE FOR FEDERAL 02:16:13.365 --> 02:16:14.332 FUNDING. IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE 02:16:14.399 --> 02:16:16.635 SAYING? LARGELY THAT IS CORRECT. 02:16:16.701 --> 02:16:17.636 I THINK THERE ARE SOME 02:16:17.702 --> 02:16:18.637 EMERGENCY SERVICES THAT ARE 02:16:18.703 --> 02:16:20.405 AVAILABLE. BUT AGAIN, THIS. BUT 02:16:20.472 --> 02:16:24.142 IN TERMS OF MEDI-CAL. FEDERAL 02:16:24.209 --> 02:16:25.310 GOVERNMENT WON'T PAY FOR EITHER 02:16:25.377 --> 02:16:28.713 OF THOSE. SO WE'RE WE ARE 02:16:28.780 --> 02:16:32.017 PRIORITIZING UNDOCUMENTED 02:16:32.083 --> 02:16:39.524 IMMIGRANTS OVER. LEGAL 02:16:39.591 --> 02:16:41.092 IMMIGRANTS. CORRECT? WELL, AND 02:16:41.159 --> 02:16:42.661 I THINK, AGAIN, GOING BACK TO 02:16:42.727 --> 02:16:43.795 THE DECISION THAT WAS MADE LAST 02:16:43.862 --> 02:16:46.197 YEAR WAS I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT 02:16:46.264 --> 02:16:47.566 CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE. AND SO WE 02:16:47.632 --> 02:16:49.935 MADE A PRIORITY DECISION. I 02:16:50.001 --> 02:16:51.202 THINK WE MADE A DECISION BASED 02:16:51.269 --> 02:16:55.440 ON WHAT WE COULD FISCALLY. WHAT 02:16:55.507 --> 02:16:56.942 WE COULD ACTUALLY AFFORD. YES, 02:16:57.008 --> 02:17:01.079 I UNDERSTAND THAT A BUDGET IS 02:17:01.146 --> 02:17:02.948 REALLY NOTHING MORE THAN A 02:17:03.014 --> 02:17:05.116 STATEMENT OF PRIORITIES. THE 02:17:05.183 --> 02:17:06.985 ENTIRE BUDGET IS A STATEMENT OF 02:17:07.052 --> 02:17:08.386 PRIORITIES. OBVIOUSLY, WE 02:17:08.453 --> 02:17:10.522 DIFFER ACROSS THE AISLE ON SOME 02:17:10.589 --> 02:17:12.657 OF THOSE, BUT THE POINT IS THAT 02:17:12.724 --> 02:17:14.459 CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE. I'M NOT 02:17:14.526 --> 02:17:15.827 SAYING WHETHER IT WAS CORRECT 02:17:15.894 --> 02:17:18.797 OR INCORRECT, BUT CIRCUMSTANCES 02:17:18.863 --> 02:17:22.767 CHANGED AND WE ELIMINATED ONE 02:17:22.834 --> 02:17:25.604 POPULATION, BUT WE MAINTAINED 02:17:25.670 --> 02:17:27.739 THE BENEFITS FOR ANOTHER 02:17:27.806 --> 02:17:29.074 POPULATION. THAT IS A STATEMENT 02:17:29.140 --> 02:17:32.344 OF PRIORITY. I DON'T EXPECT YOU 02:17:32.410 --> 02:17:33.478 TO ANSWER THAT BECAUSE YOU'RE 02:17:33.545 --> 02:17:35.714 NOT THE PRIORITY SETTER, BUT I 02:17:35.780 --> 02:17:37.115 JUST THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO 02:17:37.182 --> 02:17:39.317 NOTE THAT THE OTHER QUESTION 02:17:39.384 --> 02:17:43.922 HAS TO DO WITH HOMELESS FUNDING. 02:17:43.989 --> 02:17:46.891 IF I UNDERSTAND CORRECTLY, THIS 02:17:46.958 --> 02:17:48.994 BUDGET FOR THE FIRST TIME 02:17:49.060 --> 02:17:50.562 REQUIRES A LOCAL MATCH IN ORDER 02:17:50.629 --> 02:17:53.398 TO RECEIVE HOMELESS FUNDING. 02:17:53.465 --> 02:17:54.599 YES, I BELIEVE THAT WAS PART OF 02:17:54.666 --> 02:17:55.700 THE ACCOUNTABILITY 02:17:55.767 --> 02:17:56.635 ACCOUNTABILITY LANGUAGE. THAT'S 02:17:56.701 --> 02:18:01.606 NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. WHY? I 02:18:01.673 --> 02:18:04.142 I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE WHY THE 02:18:04.209 --> 02:18:07.712 LOCALS HAVEN'T, AND I WOULDN'T 02:18:07.779 --> 02:18:09.547 SAY THAT THAT THEY HAVEN'T BEEN 02:18:09.614 --> 02:18:10.715 PROVIDING. I THINK THIS IS TO 02:18:10.782 --> 02:18:12.083 ENSURE THAT THERE IS LOCAL 02:18:12.150 --> 02:18:16.021 MATCH TO STATE DOLLARS. AND THE 02:18:16.087 --> 02:18:16.755 ACCOUNTABILITY LANGUAGE IS 02:18:16.821 --> 02:18:17.656 SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE BEEN 02:18:17.722 --> 02:18:18.923 DISCUSSING WITH LEGISLATURE AND 02:18:18.990 --> 02:18:20.492 WITH LOCALS FOR A COUPLE OF 02:18:20.558 --> 02:18:22.894 YEARS, A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW. 02:18:22.961 --> 02:18:25.363 IT WOULD SEEM TO ME THAT, I 02:18:25.430 --> 02:18:27.165 MEAN, WE ALL HAVE BUDGET 02:18:27.232 --> 02:18:30.001 PRESSURES. LOCALS DO ALSO 02:18:30.068 --> 02:18:33.638 COINCIDENT WITH OURS. AND IF WE 02:18:33.705 --> 02:18:38.309 CAN'T AFFORD AS MUCH AS WE WERE 02:18:38.376 --> 02:18:42.747 ALLOCATING PREVIOUSLY. WELL, 02:18:42.814 --> 02:18:44.149 CERTAINLY A WAY TO SAVE MONEY 02:18:44.215 --> 02:18:45.383 IS TO SAY YOU NEED A LOCAL 02:18:45.450 --> 02:18:47.318 MATCH, AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, 02:18:47.385 --> 02:18:49.120 YOU DON'T GET ANY MONEY. THAT'S 02:18:49.187 --> 02:18:50.388 ONE WAY TO SAVE MONEY. SEEMS 02:18:50.455 --> 02:18:52.123 THAT THAT MAY BE WHAT WE'RE 02:18:52.190 --> 02:18:53.224 SAYING HERE, WHICH DOESN'T MAKE 02:18:53.291 --> 02:18:55.226 SENSE TO ME. IT WOULD MAKE MORE 02:18:55.293 --> 02:18:57.028 SENSE JUST TO ALLOCATE LESS. IT 02:18:57.095 --> 02:18:59.130 IS THE STATE'S RESPONSIBILITY, 02:18:59.197 --> 02:19:00.999 STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S 02:19:01.066 --> 02:19:03.168 RESPONSIBILITY TO FUND THESE 02:19:03.234 --> 02:19:05.303 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 02:19:05.370 --> 02:19:06.671 PROGRAMS, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS 02:19:06.738 --> 02:19:09.974 CARRY THEM OUT. COUNTIES IN 02:19:10.041 --> 02:19:12.944 PARTICULAR. AND SO WE'VE MADE 02:19:13.011 --> 02:19:15.880 THE DECISION THAT BECAUSE OF 02:19:15.947 --> 02:19:17.682 OUR BUDGET PRESSURES, WE'RE 02:19:17.749 --> 02:19:18.983 GOING TO PUSH THOSE BUDGET 02:19:19.050 --> 02:19:20.752 PRESSURES BACK ON THE LOCAL 02:19:20.819 --> 02:19:22.921 GOVERNMENTS REQUIRING A MATCH, 02:19:22.987 --> 02:19:25.090 WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE 02:19:25.156 --> 02:19:26.157 COMPLAINING ABOUT THE FEDERAL 02:19:26.224 --> 02:19:28.026 GOVERNMENT DOING. THAT IS A 02:19:28.093 --> 02:19:30.395 STATEMENT, IF I MAY. I BELIEVE 02:19:30.462 --> 02:19:31.763 THE THE RATIONALE FOR HAVING A 02:19:31.830 --> 02:19:34.299 LOCAL MATCH IS REALLY THAT 02:19:34.365 --> 02:19:35.400 LOCALS HAVE SOME SKIN IN THE 02:19:35.467 --> 02:19:36.901 GAME, AND THAT IT ISN'T JUST 02:19:36.968 --> 02:19:39.370 THE STATE DOLLARS INTO LOCAL 02:19:39.437 --> 02:19:41.272 ENTITIES. I WOULD SAY THAT IS 02:19:41.339 --> 02:19:42.974 THE DRIVING FACTOR, NOT THAT 02:19:43.041 --> 02:19:47.045 THERE IS A. THAT WE WANTED. 02:19:47.112 --> 02:19:48.780 CLEARLY WE ARE IN TIGHT BUDGET 02:19:48.847 --> 02:19:50.849 FRAME, TIGHT, TIGHT BUDGET 02:19:50.915 --> 02:19:53.118 TIMES, BUT WE CONTINUE AS A 02:19:53.184 --> 02:19:55.286 BODY TO ALLOCATE ONE TIME 02:19:55.353 --> 02:19:57.155 FUNDING TO HOUSING AND 02:19:57.222 --> 02:19:59.257 HOMELESSNESS PROGRAMS. IT IS A 02:19:59.324 --> 02:20:00.725 PRIORITY, BUT I THINK IT WAS 02:20:00.792 --> 02:20:02.127 VERY CLEAR. THE GOVERNOR HAS 02:20:02.193 --> 02:20:03.895 SAID THIS A COUPLE OF BUDGET 02:20:03.962 --> 02:20:05.430 CYCLES. NOW THAT HE WANTS TO 02:20:05.497 --> 02:20:06.965 SEE SOME ACCOUNTABILITY AT THE 02:20:07.031 --> 02:20:08.933 LOCAL LEVEL, AND I THINK MANY 02:20:09.000 --> 02:20:10.368 SENATORS ON THE STAND TODAY 02:20:10.435 --> 02:20:11.503 HAVE SAID SIMILARLY THAT WE 02:20:11.569 --> 02:20:12.971 WANT RESULTS. AND SO THIS IS 02:20:13.037 --> 02:20:15.707 ONE WAY THAT WE CAN HELP BETTER 02:20:15.774 --> 02:20:17.208 ENSURE THOSE RESULTS IF LOCALS 02:20:17.275 --> 02:20:19.210 DO HAVE A MATCH. AND SO I WOULD 02:20:19.277 --> 02:20:20.445 SAY THAT IS THE RATIONALE AND 02:20:20.512 --> 02:20:23.014 NOT BECAUSE WE WANT LESS STATE 02:20:23.081 --> 02:20:25.116 MONEY AND MORE LOCAL MONEY. THE 02:20:25.183 --> 02:20:26.584 GOVERNOR HAS INDEED MADE THAT 02:20:26.651 --> 02:20:29.487 VERY CLEAR EVER SINCE THE TOP 02:20:29.554 --> 02:20:31.189 DOWN APPROACH TO HOMELESSNESS 02:20:31.256 --> 02:20:32.991 FUNDING. WHEN WE SPENT $20 02:20:33.057 --> 02:20:34.826 BILLION AND THE NUMBERS WENT UP. 02:20:34.893 --> 02:20:37.395 AND AFTER ALL OF THAT FAILURE 02:20:37.462 --> 02:20:38.763 THEN IT WAS ALL THE FAULT OF 02:20:38.830 --> 02:20:40.231 LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. THAT'S AN 02:20:40.298 --> 02:20:41.699 EDITORIAL COMMENT ON MY PART. 02:20:41.766 --> 02:20:44.569 BUT ALSO IF THE POINT IS THAT 02:20:44.636 --> 02:20:46.371 YOU WANT LOCAL GOVERNMENTS SKIN 02:20:46.437 --> 02:20:49.240 IN THE GAME, MAYBE THAT'S A 02:20:49.307 --> 02:20:50.308 SIMILAR RATIONALE FROM THE 02:20:50.375 --> 02:20:53.778 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT RELATIVE TO WE'RE COMPLAINING 02:20:53.845 --> 02:20:57.048 ABOUT THEIR BUDGET PROCESS ON 02:20:57.115 --> 02:20:59.250 OUR SPENDING. MAYBE THE 02:20:59.317 --> 02:21:00.919 RATIONALE IS, IS THE SAME, AT 02:21:00.985 --> 02:21:02.987 LEAST PARTIALLY SO. THANK YOU 02:21:03.054 --> 02:21:08.526 FOR THAT. JUST BEFORE I GO TO 02:21:08.593 --> 02:21:10.361 PUBLIC COMMENT AND TAKE A 02:21:10.428 --> 02:21:11.696 SURVEY ABOUT WHO WANTS TO 02:21:11.763 --> 02:21:12.831 COMMENT AND IF YOU'RE IN THE 02:21:12.897 --> 02:21:14.599 HALL, NO, I HAVEN'T DONE IT YET. 02:21:14.666 --> 02:21:16.534 BUT CLEARLY YOU'VE BEEN WAITING. 02:21:16.601 --> 02:21:17.569 CLEARLY YOU'VE BEEN WAITING. 02:21:17.635 --> 02:21:18.736 AND FOR THOSE OF YOU IN THE 02:21:18.803 --> 02:21:20.538 HALLWAY THAT THINK YOU'LL SNEAK 02:21:20.605 --> 02:21:21.773 INTO THE END OF THE LINE, YOU 02:21:21.840 --> 02:21:23.675 SHOULD COME IN IN A MOMENT 02:21:23.741 --> 02:21:24.742 BECAUSE I'M GOING TO ASK WHO 02:21:24.809 --> 02:21:26.611 WHO WANTS TO TESTIFY? I WAS 02:21:26.678 --> 02:21:28.346 JUST GOING TO RESPOND TO ONE 02:21:28.413 --> 02:21:30.915 THING. MY COMMENT, AND THAT IS 02:21:30.982 --> 02:21:32.650 THE LEGISLATIVE ANALYST WAS 02:21:32.717 --> 02:21:34.452 ASKED WHY NOBODY LISTENED. AND 02:21:34.519 --> 02:21:36.221 ACTUALLY, THIS BUDGET IS THE 02:21:36.287 --> 02:21:39.524 LISTENING BECAUSE IT WAS DON'T 02:21:39.591 --> 02:21:40.859 SPEND THE EXCESS MONEY THIS 02:21:40.925 --> 02:21:42.360 YEAR. IT'S BEING HELD FOR TWO 02:21:42.427 --> 02:21:44.162 YEARS. CUT THE STRUCTURAL 02:21:44.229 --> 02:21:47.065 DEFICIT. IT'S CUT IN HALF, HAVE 02:21:47.131 --> 02:21:49.300 LARGE RESERVES. THERE'S $35 02:21:49.367 --> 02:21:50.969 BILLION OF RESERVES, BALANCE 02:21:51.035 --> 02:21:52.904 THE BUDGET FOR TWO YEARS. 02:21:52.971 --> 02:21:55.306 THAT'S WHAT WE'VE DONE. SO I 02:21:55.373 --> 02:21:57.141 THINK THAT THE BUDGET WAS 02:21:57.208 --> 02:21:58.610 RESPONSIVE TO THE DIRECTION 02:21:58.676 --> 02:22:00.378 OUTLINED BY THE LEGISLATIVE 02:22:00.445 --> 02:22:02.480 ANALYST. PEOPLE ARE CLEARLY 02:22:02.547 --> 02:22:04.983 VOTING WITH THEIR FEET HERE. 02:22:05.049 --> 02:22:08.586 AND SO LET ME JUST SEE, IS IS 02:22:08.653 --> 02:22:10.088 THERE ANYBODY THAT'S NOT IN 02:22:10.154 --> 02:22:14.158 LINE THAT WANTS TO SPEAK ONE 02:22:14.225 --> 02:22:17.395 PERSON, TWO PEOPLE? OKAY. THEN 02:22:17.462 --> 02:22:19.864 I'M GOING TO ASK THAT YOU NOT 02:22:19.931 --> 02:22:21.633 TAKE MORE THAN A MINUTE. AND IF 02:22:21.699 --> 02:22:24.869 YOU CAN BE MORE SUCCINCT, 02:22:24.936 --> 02:22:26.271 THAT'S GREAT. IF YOU FIND 02:22:26.337 --> 02:22:27.639 SOMEBODY THAT YOU CAN AGREE 02:22:27.705 --> 02:22:29.540 WITH THAT ALREADY SPOKE, THAT'S 02:22:29.607 --> 02:22:33.144 GREAT. AND I WILL HOPE TO BE 02:22:33.211 --> 02:22:35.380 DONE BY 1230 SO THAT WE CAN 02:22:35.446 --> 02:22:37.315 MOVE TO DISCUSSION AND A VOTE. 02:22:37.382 --> 02:22:40.385 SO WITH THAT, FOR SOME REASON, 02:22:40.451 --> 02:22:42.320 MR. MICHELI IS ALWAYS KNOWS HOW 02:22:42.387 --> 02:22:43.655 TO MANIPULATE THE BEGINNING OF 02:22:43.721 --> 02:22:46.557 THE LINE. SO WELCOME TO THE 02:22:46.624 --> 02:22:47.926 COMMITTEE. MORNING, MR. CHAIR. 02:22:47.992 --> 02:22:49.360 CHRIS MICHELI HERE ON BEHALF OF 02:22:49.427 --> 02:22:50.428 THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY 02:22:50.495 --> 02:22:51.429 METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION 02:22:51.496 --> 02:22:53.932 AUTHORITY, HOPEFUL THAT BY THE 02:22:53.998 --> 02:22:56.200 END OF THE SUMMER, WE'LL SEE 02:22:56.267 --> 02:22:58.069 OLYMPICS FUNDING FOR 2028 02:22:58.136 --> 02:22:59.470 PROJECTS. LA METRO ALSO 02:22:59.537 --> 02:23:01.272 SUPPORTS FULLY FUNDING T, I R, 02:23:01.339 --> 02:23:03.741 C, P AND L C TOP AS WELL. THANK 02:23:03.808 --> 02:23:05.576 YOU, MR. CHAIR. THANK YOU VERY 02:23:05.643 --> 02:23:09.113 MUCH. WELCOME. THANK YOU. 02:23:09.180 --> 02:23:10.982 CHRISTINE SMITH, HEALTH ACCESS 02:23:11.049 --> 02:23:11.983 CALIFORNIA. WE APPRECIATE THE 02:23:12.050 --> 02:23:13.084 LEGISLATURE AND THE GOVERNOR 02:23:13.151 --> 02:23:14.252 DELAYING THE WORST OF THE CUTS 02:23:14.319 --> 02:23:16.387 FOR CALIFORNIA'S IMMIGRANTS AND 02:23:16.454 --> 02:23:18.156 FOR ENSURING THAT HUMANITARIAN 02:23:18.222 --> 02:23:19.223 POPULATIONS WILL RECEIVE FULL 02:23:19.290 --> 02:23:20.658 SCOPE MEDI-CAL THROUGH THIS 02:23:20.725 --> 02:23:23.161 BUDGET YEAR. AS ONE OF THE 02:23:23.227 --> 02:23:24.362 LEADERS OF THE FIGHT FOR HEALTH 02:23:24.429 --> 02:23:26.130 COALITION, WE THANK YOU ALL, 02:23:26.197 --> 02:23:27.465 INCLUDING THE GOVERNOR AND THE 02:23:27.532 --> 02:23:29.600 ASSEMBLY, FOR REACHING A FINAL 02:23:29.667 --> 02:23:30.902 BUDGET AGREEMENT THAT ADVANCES 02:23:30.969 --> 02:23:32.203 A FAIR SHARE CONTRIBUTION TO 02:23:32.270 --> 02:23:34.772 HOLD THE LARGEST CORPORATIONS 02:23:34.839 --> 02:23:36.107 RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTRIBUTING TO 02:23:36.174 --> 02:23:37.208 MEDI-CAL WHEN THEY PUSH THEIR 02:23:37.275 --> 02:23:39.043 WORKFORCE ONTO THE SAFETY NET. 02:23:39.110 --> 02:23:40.545 THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD 02:23:40.611 --> 02:23:42.347 WORK. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK 02:23:42.413 --> 02:23:44.882 YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. THANK 02:23:44.949 --> 02:23:46.317 YOU VERY MUCH. VANESSA KAHENA 02:23:46.384 --> 02:23:48.086 WITH KP PUBLIC AFFAIRS. FIRST, 02:23:48.152 --> 02:23:49.087 ON BEHALF OF THE CALIFORNIA 02:23:49.153 --> 02:23:50.922 ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS. 02:23:50.989 --> 02:23:51.956 GREATLY APPRECIATE SENATOR 02:23:52.023 --> 02:23:53.057 DOCTOR WEBBER PEARSON'S 02:23:53.124 --> 02:23:54.158 COMMENTS ON THE MENOPAUSE 02:23:54.225 --> 02:23:55.593 TRAILER BILL LANGUAGE. WE WILL 02:23:55.660 --> 02:23:57.228 CONTINUE TO WORK ON THAT TO 02:23:57.295 --> 02:23:58.496 REFINE IT FOR CLINICAL 02:23:58.563 --> 02:23:59.564 INDICATIONS. THEN, ON BEHALF OF 02:23:59.630 --> 02:24:00.665 CAL PACE, THE STATEWIDE 02:24:00.732 --> 02:24:02.100 ASSOCIATION OF PROGRAMS OF ALL 02:24:02.166 --> 02:24:03.634 INCLUSIVE CARE FOR THE ELDERLY. 02:24:03.701 --> 02:24:05.403 THANK YOU. AND THEN ON BEHALF 02:24:05.470 --> 02:24:07.138 OF THE COMPROMISO, THE 02:24:07.205 --> 02:24:08.906 PROMOTORAS. THANK YOU, THANK 02:24:08.973 --> 02:24:12.176 YOU. WE HAVE REACHED THE SHY 02:24:12.243 --> 02:24:14.345 PART OF OUR TESTIMONY. MR. 02:24:14.412 --> 02:24:16.080 CHAIR, WELCOME TO THE COMMITTEE. 02:24:16.147 --> 02:24:17.281 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR. 02:24:17.348 --> 02:24:18.649 MEMBERS. AMY BROWN, ON BEHALF 02:24:18.716 --> 02:24:20.385 OF THE BIG CITY MAYORS 02:24:20.451 --> 02:24:21.519 COALITION, REALLY WANT TO 02:24:21.586 --> 02:24:23.287 EXTEND OUR APPRECIATION TO THE 02:24:23.354 --> 02:24:24.422 LEGISLATURE AND THE GOVERNOR'S 02:24:24.489 --> 02:24:27.258 OFFICE WITH A B ONE, SEVEN NINE 02:24:27.325 --> 02:24:29.027 AND AND CRAFTING SOME TRAILER 02:24:29.093 --> 02:24:31.596 BILL LANGUAGE THAT ALSO 02:24:31.662 --> 02:24:33.031 ALLOCATE THE 900 MILLION AND 02:24:33.097 --> 02:24:34.766 THE FLEXIBILITY THAT WE HAVE 02:24:34.832 --> 02:24:35.733 FOR IMPLEMENTATION. APPRECIATE 02:24:35.800 --> 02:24:37.702 IT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 02:24:37.769 --> 02:24:39.037 WELCOME. MORNING, MR. CHAIR AND 02:24:39.103 --> 02:24:40.104 MEMBERS, ANDREW SHANE, ON 02:24:40.171 --> 02:24:41.806 BEHALF OF THE COUNTY WELFARE 02:24:41.873 --> 02:24:42.340 DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION, IN 02:24:42.407 --> 02:24:43.841 SINCERE GRATITUDE TO THE ENTIRE 02:24:43.908 --> 02:24:45.309 SENATE, WE ARE JUST YOU HEARD 02:24:45.376 --> 02:24:46.744 FROM COUNTY DIRECTORS, YOU 02:24:46.811 --> 02:24:47.945 HEARD FROM ELIGIBILITY WORKERS. 02:24:48.012 --> 02:24:49.213 AND THIS BUDGET REALLY REFLECTS 02:24:49.280 --> 02:24:50.715 THAT INPUT. IT'S GOING TO SAVE 02:24:50.782 --> 02:24:51.849 LIVES BY MAKING SURE THAT WE 02:24:51.916 --> 02:24:53.684 HAVE THE HUMAN TOUCH NEEDED TO 02:24:53.751 --> 02:24:54.819 HELP PEOPLE FIGHT THROUGH THE 02:24:54.886 --> 02:24:56.621 RED TAPE AND KEEP THEIR HEALTH 02:24:56.687 --> 02:24:57.822 CARE AND THEIR FOOD ASSISTANCE 02:24:57.889 --> 02:24:58.956 AS WELL, FOR REJECTING THE CUTS 02:24:59.023 --> 02:25:01.125 AND COST SHIFTS AND IHSS ÁP S 02:25:01.192 --> 02:25:02.560 THE CRITICAL INVESTMENTS IN 02:25:02.627 --> 02:25:03.995 CHILD WELFARE THAT WERE 02:25:04.062 --> 02:25:05.329 MENTIONED. WE'RE GOING TO NEED 02:25:05.396 --> 02:25:06.397 TO SUSTAIN THESE INVESTMENTS IN 02:25:06.464 --> 02:25:07.598 OUR COUNTY ELIGIBILITY WORKERS, 02:25:07.665 --> 02:25:09.333 BUT WE AGAIN, THANK THE SENATE 02:25:09.400 --> 02:25:10.435 FOR THE ORIGINAL PLAN, WHICH 02:25:10.501 --> 02:25:11.602 DID THAT ALONG WITH A BROADER 02:25:11.669 --> 02:25:13.404 SET OF ACTIONS TO SUPPORT OUR 02:25:13.471 --> 02:25:14.505 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 02:25:14.572 --> 02:25:16.974 PROGRAMS. THANK YOU. GOOD 02:25:17.041 --> 02:25:18.843 MORNING. THANK YOU, CHAIR AND 02:25:18.910 --> 02:25:20.211 MEMBERS. HI, BETH, SEIU 02:25:20.278 --> 02:25:21.446 CALIFORNIA ONE, APPRECIATE YOUR 02:25:21.512 --> 02:25:22.447 TREMENDOUS WORK THAT'S GOTTEN 02:25:22.513 --> 02:25:23.681 US TO THIS POINT, PARTICULARLY 02:25:23.748 --> 02:25:24.482 THE SENATE'S LEADERSHIP ON 02:25:24.549 --> 02:25:26.250 REVENUE, INCLUDING THAT PATHWAY 02:25:26.317 --> 02:25:27.385 FOR ADDRESSING CORPORATE 02:25:27.452 --> 02:25:29.253 REVENUE AND MEDI-CAL. WANT TO 02:25:29.320 --> 02:25:30.855 ALIGN MY COMMENTS WITH THOSE OF 02:25:30.922 --> 02:25:31.856 HEALTH ACCESS AND OUR 02:25:31.923 --> 02:25:33.091 COMMITMENTS TO HEALTH FOR ALL 02:25:33.157 --> 02:25:33.858 POPULATION, OUR IMMIGRANT 02:25:33.925 --> 02:25:34.926 COMMUNITY AND THEIR HEALTH IN 02:25:34.992 --> 02:25:36.094 THIS BUDGET. JUST WANT TO ALIGN 02:25:36.160 --> 02:25:37.195 MY COMMENTS WITH SWDA 02:25:37.261 --> 02:25:38.863 ESPECIALLY RELATES TO COUNTY 02:25:38.930 --> 02:25:41.065 ELIGIBILITY. AND FOR IHSS, I 02:25:41.132 --> 02:25:42.033 WANT TO ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THE 02:25:42.100 --> 02:25:43.568 DEDICATED FUNDING FOR PUBLIC 02:25:43.634 --> 02:25:44.569 HOSPITALS. SO IMPORTANT. THANK 02:25:44.635 --> 02:25:46.504 YOU FOR THAT. ADDITIONALLY, FOR 02:25:46.571 --> 02:25:47.872 EVERYTHING WE GOT RIGHT ON THIS 02:25:47.939 --> 02:25:49.040 BUDGET FOR HEALTH, DO YOU WANT 02:25:49.107 --> 02:25:50.074 TO ACKNOWLEDGE A COUPLE OF 02:25:50.141 --> 02:25:51.275 AREAS, ONE DISAPPOINTMENT, NOT 02:25:51.342 --> 02:25:52.877 SEEING ANY FUNDING FOR URGENT 02:25:52.944 --> 02:25:53.978 CARE OR AN ALTERNATIVE? LOOK 02:25:54.045 --> 02:25:54.946 FORWARD TO CONTINUE THE 02:25:55.012 --> 02:25:55.880 CONVERSATION ON THAT. 02:25:55.947 --> 02:25:56.981 ADDITIONALLY, TO THE LONG TERM 02:25:57.048 --> 02:25:57.949 CARE SPACE, SPECIFICALLY 02:25:58.015 --> 02:25:59.417 SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES, 02:25:59.484 --> 02:26:00.518 LOOKING FOR THAT ONE YEAR 02:26:00.585 --> 02:26:01.953 BRIDGE FOR W CUIB DISAPPOINTED 02:26:02.019 --> 02:26:03.187 NOT TO SEE THAT THEY'RE MOVING 02:26:03.254 --> 02:26:04.522 ON BRIEFLY TO EARLY CHILDHOOD 02:26:04.589 --> 02:26:06.324 AND EDUCATION. JUST WANT TO 02:26:06.390 --> 02:26:07.358 ACKNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATE THE 02:26:07.425 --> 02:26:08.926 200 000 PLUS ADDITIONAL SPOTS 02:26:08.993 --> 02:26:10.528 FOR LOW INCOME FAMILIES. WANT 02:26:10.595 --> 02:26:12.363 TO APPRECIATE THE 2% COLA, THE 02:26:12.430 --> 02:26:13.631 DISASTER CHILD CARE FUNDING, 02:26:13.698 --> 02:26:14.765 AND LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING 02:26:14.832 --> 02:26:15.199 WITH THE DEPARTMENT 02:26:15.266 --> 02:26:16.167 IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT URGENTLY. 02:26:16.234 --> 02:26:18.102 FOR FAMILIES IN LA COUNTY 02:26:18.169 --> 02:26:19.570 IMPACTED BY THE FIRES. WANT TO 02:26:19.637 --> 02:26:20.438 APPRECIATE THE FUTURE. WORK 02:26:20.505 --> 02:26:21.506 WILL KEEP ON DOING TOGETHER 02:26:21.572 --> 02:26:23.141 AROUND IMPLEMENTING ALTERNATIVE 02:26:23.207 --> 02:26:24.242 METHODOLOGY, PROVIDING 02:26:24.308 --> 02:26:25.009 COMPENSATION, KEEPING UP AND 02:26:25.076 --> 02:26:26.644 FOR K THROUGH 12. WANT TO 02:26:26.711 --> 02:26:27.645 ACKNOWLEDGE THE NEED FOR 02:26:27.712 --> 02:26:28.646 ADDITIONAL WORK ON SUMMER 02:26:28.713 --> 02:26:29.747 BRIDGE. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 02:26:29.814 --> 02:26:31.782 YOU PACKED A LOT IN THAT 02:26:31.849 --> 02:26:33.551 WELCOME. GOOD MORNING, CHAIR 02:26:33.618 --> 02:26:35.052 AND MEMBERS GABRIELA CHÁVEZ 02:26:35.119 --> 02:26:37.588 WITH UNITED DOMESTIC WORKERS, 02:26:37.655 --> 02:26:39.824 REPRESENTING 250,000 HOME CARE 02:26:39.891 --> 02:26:41.159 WORKERS. WE WANT TO THANK THE 02:26:41.225 --> 02:26:42.994 SENATE, THE SENATE BUDGET 02:26:43.060 --> 02:26:44.028 LEADERS AND THE ADMINISTRATION 02:26:44.095 --> 02:26:46.330 FOR WORKING TOGETHER TO REJECT 02:26:46.397 --> 02:26:47.965 ALL CUTS TO IHSS, STRENGTHENING 02:26:48.032 --> 02:26:49.800 THE MEDICAL ASSET TESTS, AND WE 02:26:49.867 --> 02:26:51.269 APPRECIATE YOUR COMMITMENT TO 02:26:51.335 --> 02:26:53.037 PROTECT SENIORS AND PEOPLE WITH 02:26:53.104 --> 02:26:54.438 DISABILITIES. WE ALSO 02:26:54.505 --> 02:26:55.640 APPRECIATE THE FUNDING FOR THE 02:26:55.706 --> 02:26:57.341 ADULT LEARNING DEMONSTRATION 02:26:57.408 --> 02:26:58.709 PROJECT, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO 02:26:58.776 --> 02:26:59.944 CONTINUE WORKING WITH YOU ON 02:27:00.011 --> 02:27:01.646 LONG TERM REVENUE SOLUTIONS 02:27:01.712 --> 02:27:03.948 THAT ENSURE CORPORATIONS PAY 02:27:04.015 --> 02:27:05.516 THEIR FAIR SHARE AND PRESERVE 02:27:05.583 --> 02:27:07.084 THE PROGRAMS THAT STRENGTHEN 02:27:07.151 --> 02:27:08.920 CALIFORNIA. WE ALSO ECHO OUR 02:27:08.986 --> 02:27:11.289 COMMENTS WITH CCP YOU REGARDING 02:27:11.355 --> 02:27:12.089 CHILDCARE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU 02:27:12.156 --> 02:27:15.359 VERY MUCH. WELCOME. HI, JUSTIN 02:27:15.426 --> 02:27:16.460 GARRETT, THE CALIFORNIA STATE 02:27:16.527 --> 02:27:17.628 ASSOCIATION OF COUNTIES. I JUST 02:27:17.695 --> 02:27:19.197 REALLY WANT TO EXPRESS OUR 02:27:19.263 --> 02:27:20.298 GRATITUDE FOR A BUDGET THAT 02:27:20.364 --> 02:27:21.299 UNDERSTANDS THE CRITICAL ROLE 02:27:21.365 --> 02:27:22.400 COUNTIES PLAY IN DELIVERING 02:27:22.466 --> 02:27:23.401 SERVICES THAT OUR COMMUNITIES 02:27:23.467 --> 02:27:25.469 RELY ON. IN PARTICULAR, WE ARE 02:27:25.536 --> 02:27:26.537 APPRECIATIVE OF THE INCREASED 02:27:26.604 --> 02:27:28.072 FUNDING FOR HAP, THE $50 02:27:28.139 --> 02:27:30.007 MILLION FOR VOCA, THE ROBUST 02:27:30.074 --> 02:27:31.108 FUNDING FOR COUNTY ELIGIBILITY 02:27:31.175 --> 02:27:32.276 FOR MEDI-CAL AND CALFRESH IN 02:27:32.343 --> 02:27:34.111 RESPONSE TO H.R. ONE, THE 02:27:34.178 --> 02:27:35.313 FUNDING FOR PUBLIC HOSPITALS 02:27:35.379 --> 02:27:36.681 AND RESPONSE TO H.R. ONE 02:27:36.747 --> 02:27:37.682 FUNDING FOR DISTRESSED 02:27:37.748 --> 02:27:39.250 HOSPITALS, REJECTING THE HHS 02:27:39.317 --> 02:27:40.985 COST SHIFT AND THE FUNDING FOR 02:27:41.052 --> 02:27:42.220 COUNTIES TO PUT ON THE ELECTION 02:27:42.286 --> 02:27:44.488 IN NOVEMBER 2026. HOWEVER, WE 02:27:44.555 --> 02:27:45.556 DO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT OUR 02:27:45.623 --> 02:27:46.691 CONCERNS. WITH NO FUNDING FOR 02:27:46.757 --> 02:27:48.025 INDIGENT CARE OR AN ALTERNATIVE 02:27:48.092 --> 02:27:49.460 TO INDIGENT CARE, THERE ARE 02:27:49.527 --> 02:27:50.628 GOING TO BE PEOPLE WHO STILL 02:27:50.695 --> 02:27:52.063 LOSE MEDI-CAL BECAUSE OF H.R. 02:27:52.129 --> 02:27:53.531 ONE, AND COUNTY. INDIGENT CARE 02:27:53.598 --> 02:27:54.632 PROGRAMS ARE UNDERFUNDED, AND 02:27:54.699 --> 02:27:55.700 THERE'S A CRITICAL NEED FOR 02:27:55.766 --> 02:27:57.134 HEALTH CARE FOR THIS COMMUNITY. 02:27:57.201 --> 02:27:59.737 AND THEN FINALLY, ON PROP 36, 02:27:59.804 --> 02:28:00.504 APPRECIATE THE SENATE'S 02:28:00.571 --> 02:28:01.272 LEADERSHIP AND CONTINUE TO 02:28:01.339 --> 02:28:02.573 FIGHT FOR PROP 36 02:28:02.640 --> 02:28:03.975 IMPLEMENTATION FUNDING. 02:28:04.041 --> 02:28:05.243 UNFORTUNATELY, ONE TIME FUNDING 02:28:05.309 --> 02:28:06.510 FOR ONE COUNTY DEPARTMENT FALLS 02:28:06.577 --> 02:28:07.645 SHORT OF WHAT'S NEEDED, AND WE 02:28:07.712 --> 02:28:09.313 LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO 02:28:09.380 --> 02:28:10.514 HIGHLIGHT THAT AS WELL. THANK 02:28:10.581 --> 02:28:13.084 YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 02:28:13.150 --> 02:28:14.118 WELCOME. GOOD MORNING SARAH. 02:28:14.185 --> 02:28:15.052 BATCHES WITH CHILDREN NOW. 02:28:15.119 --> 02:28:16.621 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR 02:28:16.687 --> 02:28:18.489 LEADERSHIP IN TAKING A BOLD AND 02:28:18.556 --> 02:28:20.625 LONG CALLED FOR STEP FORWARD ON 02:28:20.691 --> 02:28:22.193 A MORE EFFECTIVE, ACCOUNTABLE 02:28:22.260 --> 02:28:23.527 AND EQUITABLE EDUCATIONAL 02:28:23.594 --> 02:28:24.629 SYSTEM FOR OUR STUDENTS AND 02:28:24.695 --> 02:28:27.431 THEIR FAMILIES. WE SUPPORT AB 02:28:27.498 --> 02:28:28.899 181 AND THE INVESTMENTS IN 02:28:28.966 --> 02:28:30.935 EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE, THE 02:28:31.002 --> 02:28:33.170 PRESCHOOL SHIFT, PAID PREGNANCY 02:28:33.237 --> 02:28:35.373 LEAVE AND THE CREATION OF CAL 02:28:35.439 --> 02:28:36.741 NASS, AS WELL AS THE 02:28:36.807 --> 02:28:38.509 INVESTMENTS IN EDUCATOR 02:28:38.576 --> 02:28:40.678 WORKFORCE AS WELL AS BILINGUAL 02:28:40.745 --> 02:28:42.079 EDUCATORS. THANK YOU FOR THE 02:28:42.146 --> 02:28:43.614 STRONG INVESTMENTS IN HIGHER 02:28:43.681 --> 02:28:44.782 EDUCATION AS WELL. THANK YOU 02:28:44.849 --> 02:28:48.052 VERY MUCH. WELCOME. GOOD 02:28:48.119 --> 02:28:49.987 AFTERNOON, CHAIR AND MEMBERS. 02:28:50.054 --> 02:28:51.589 MELISSA BARDO. ON BEHALF OF 02:28:51.656 --> 02:28:53.791 WEST, ALIGNING OUR COMMENTS OF 02:28:53.858 --> 02:28:54.825 APPRECIATION AND URGING. AND I 02:28:54.892 --> 02:28:57.328 VOTE ON AB 181 EDUCATION, 02:28:57.395 --> 02:28:59.497 GOVERNANCE, ALSO EXPRESSING 02:28:59.563 --> 02:29:01.532 APPRECIATION. AND I VOTE FOR 02:29:01.599 --> 02:29:02.867 STRONG INVESTMENTS IN SCHOOLS 02:29:02.933 --> 02:29:04.135 AND COMMUNITY COLLEGES, 02:29:04.201 --> 02:29:05.469 INCLUDING COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, 02:29:05.536 --> 02:29:07.004 COLLEGE AND CAREER ACCESS 02:29:07.071 --> 02:29:08.839 PATHWAYS, AND NEW PROPOSED 02:29:08.906 --> 02:29:09.907 INVESTMENTS IN EXPANDING 02:29:09.974 --> 02:29:10.908 PATHWAYS TO THE EDUCATOR 02:29:10.975 --> 02:29:12.143 WORKFORCE. WE URGE AND VOTE. 02:29:12.209 --> 02:29:14.912 THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 02:29:14.979 --> 02:29:16.447 WELCOME. THANK YOU. SARAH 02:29:16.514 --> 02:29:17.448 PETROWSKI, ON BEHALF OF THE 02:29:17.515 --> 02:29:18.182 CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF 02:29:18.249 --> 02:29:19.350 SCHOOL BUSINESS OFFICIALS AND 02:29:19.417 --> 02:29:22.219 ALSO MY COLLEAGUES AT THE 02:29:22.286 --> 02:29:22.853 ASSOCIATION OF CALIFORNIA 02:29:22.920 --> 02:29:23.387 SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS AND 02:29:23.454 --> 02:29:24.722 CALIFORNIA COUNTY 02:29:24.789 --> 02:29:25.556 SUPERINTENDENTS. FIRST, THANK 02:29:25.623 --> 02:29:27.091 YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR WORK ON 02:29:27.158 --> 02:29:28.192 THE BUDGET. SECOND, WE ARE IN 02:29:28.259 --> 02:29:30.027 STRONG SUPPORT. WE ARE IN 02:29:30.094 --> 02:29:31.562 STRONG SUPPORT OF AB 181. WE 02:29:31.629 --> 02:29:33.397 THINK THIS IS A LONG OVERDUE 02:29:33.464 --> 02:29:35.099 SHIFT TO MAKE SURE EDUCATION 02:29:35.166 --> 02:29:36.701 GOVERNANCE SYSTEM IS ALIGNED 02:29:36.767 --> 02:29:38.002 AND CAN MORE EFFECTIVELY 02:29:38.069 --> 02:29:39.804 SUPPORT OUR SCHOOLS, AND 02:29:39.870 --> 02:29:40.871 DELIVERING A HIGH QUALITY 02:29:40.938 --> 02:29:41.939 INSTRUCTION AND SUPPORT TO OUR 02:29:42.006 --> 02:29:43.040 STUDENTS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 02:29:43.107 --> 02:29:45.876 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. 02:29:45.943 --> 02:29:46.844 GOOD MORNING. MICHELLE GIBBONS 02:29:46.911 --> 02:29:47.712 WITH THE COUNTY HEALTH 02:29:47.778 --> 02:29:48.746 EXECUTIVES ASSOCIATION OF 02:29:48.813 --> 02:29:49.914 CALIFORNIA, REPRESENTING LOCAL 02:29:49.980 --> 02:29:50.948 HEALTH DEPARTMENTS. WANT TO 02:29:51.015 --> 02:29:52.049 EXPRESS APPRECIATION FOR THE 02:29:52.116 --> 02:29:53.484 PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATION 02:29:53.551 --> 02:29:54.452 TECHNOLOGY SYSTEM INVESTMENTS 02:29:54.518 --> 02:29:56.320 AND THE D. I S WORKFORCE. 02:29:56.387 --> 02:29:57.555 HOWEVER, I DO WANT TO EXPRESS 02:29:57.621 --> 02:29:58.589 OUR DISAPPOINTMENT WITH THE 02:29:58.656 --> 02:30:00.624 LACK OF FUNDING FOR INDIGENT 02:30:00.691 --> 02:30:02.093 CARE AND OR WHAT WE PUT FORWARD 02:30:02.159 --> 02:30:03.627 AS A MORE COST EFFECTIVE 02:30:03.694 --> 02:30:05.763 SOLUTION ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION. 02:30:05.830 --> 02:30:07.098 AND THIS IS REALLY GOING TO 02:30:07.164 --> 02:30:08.165 LEAVE COUNTIES TO RESPOND TO 02:30:08.232 --> 02:30:09.800 THE RETURNING POPULATION WITH 02:30:09.867 --> 02:30:11.135 LESS RESOURCES THAT WE 02:30:11.202 --> 02:30:12.136 OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE HAD, 02:30:12.203 --> 02:30:14.071 BECAUSE THE STATE REDIRECTS A 02:30:14.138 --> 02:30:15.206 PORTION AND SLOWED THE GROWTH 02:30:15.272 --> 02:30:16.540 FOR OUR 1991 REALIGNMENT 02:30:16.607 --> 02:30:17.575 DOLLARS. SO WE HAVE LESS 02:30:17.641 --> 02:30:19.143 AVAILABLE TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS 02:30:19.210 --> 02:30:21.245 THIS. WE JUST CONTINUE TO 02:30:21.312 --> 02:30:22.947 RESPECTFULLY REQUEST CONTINUED 02:30:23.013 --> 02:30:23.714 DISCUSSIONS WITH THE 02:30:23.781 --> 02:30:24.782 LEGISLATURE AND THE 02:30:24.849 --> 02:30:25.416 ADMINISTRATION AND HOPE THAT WE 02:30:25.483 --> 02:30:27.418 CAN IDENTIFY A VIABLE PATH IN 02:30:27.485 --> 02:30:28.786 THE NEAR FUTURE. THANK YOU. 02:30:28.853 --> 02:30:31.989 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. 02:30:32.056 --> 02:30:33.057 GOOD MORNING, MR. CHAIR AND 02:30:33.124 --> 02:30:34.191 MEMBERS, AND THANK YOU, STAFF, 02:30:34.258 --> 02:30:36.060 FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK ON 02:30:36.127 --> 02:30:37.261 THE BUDGET. I'M DOMINIQUE DANNY 02:30:37.328 --> 02:30:38.996 ON BEHALF OF EDVOICE IN SUPPORT 02:30:39.063 --> 02:30:41.365 OF AB 181. CALIFORNIA'S KIDS 02:30:41.432 --> 02:30:42.733 NEED A STRONG DEPARTMENT OF 02:30:42.800 --> 02:30:44.402 EDUCATION TO THRIVE. WE SUPPORT 02:30:44.468 --> 02:30:46.270 THAT TODAY IS DIVIDED STRUCTURE 02:30:46.337 --> 02:30:47.872 MAKES IT HARDER TO SET 02:30:47.938 --> 02:30:49.640 DIRECTION AND SEE RESULTS. 02:30:49.707 --> 02:30:50.674 CENTRALIZING LEADERSHIP AND 02:30:50.741 --> 02:30:52.143 RESOURCES WILL BETTER SERVE THE 02:30:52.209 --> 02:30:53.978 CHILDREN WHO ARE FURTHEST FROM 02:30:54.044 --> 02:30:55.413 OPPORTUNITY, BECAUSE THAT'S 02:30:55.479 --> 02:30:56.580 EXACTLY WHAT OTHER STATES HAVE 02:30:56.647 --> 02:30:58.382 MADE PROGRESS ARE DOING TO BEST 02:30:58.449 --> 02:31:00.084 SERVE CHILDREN FROM LOW INCOME 02:31:00.151 --> 02:31:01.619 COMMUNITIES. WE RESPECTFULLY 02:31:01.685 --> 02:31:02.853 URGE YOUR VOTE. THANK YOU SO 02:31:02.920 --> 02:31:05.122 MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 02:31:05.189 --> 02:31:07.725 WELCOME. THANK YOU. GOOD 02:31:07.792 --> 02:31:09.160 MORNING. JENNIFER SNYDER, ON 02:31:09.226 --> 02:31:10.194 BEHALF OF THE CALIFORNIA 02:31:10.261 --> 02:31:10.895 ASSOCIATION OF HEALTH 02:31:10.961 --> 02:31:12.196 FACILITIES. WANT TO COMMENT ON 02:31:12.263 --> 02:31:14.698 AB 165, WHICH EXTENDS THE 02:31:14.765 --> 02:31:15.633 CURRENT SKILLED NURSING 02:31:15.699 --> 02:31:16.700 FACILITY MEDI-CAL RATE 02:31:16.767 --> 02:31:17.802 REIMBURSEMENT SYSTEM FOR ONE 02:31:17.868 --> 02:31:19.537 YEAR. WHILE THE ASSOCIATION 02:31:19.603 --> 02:31:20.371 UNDERSTANDS AND SUPPORTS THE 02:31:20.438 --> 02:31:22.907 NEED TO PASS A BILL THIS YEAR 02:31:22.973 --> 02:31:24.542 TO ADDRESS THE SUNSET THAT 02:31:24.608 --> 02:31:25.776 HAPPENS AT THE END OF THE YEAR, 02:31:25.843 --> 02:31:27.845 WE'RE VERY DISAPPOINTED THAT, 02:31:27.912 --> 02:31:28.946 AND ESPECIALLY THE 02:31:29.013 --> 02:31:29.947 ADMINISTRATION, CHOSE NOT TO 02:31:30.014 --> 02:31:31.449 INCLUDE THE RESTORATION OF THE 02:31:31.515 --> 02:31:32.817 WORKFORCE AND QUALITY INCENTIVE 02:31:32.883 --> 02:31:34.618 PROGRAM IN THE BILL. THE W QUIP 02:31:34.685 --> 02:31:35.786 IS AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF 02:31:35.853 --> 02:31:37.188 THE MEDI-CAL RATE FOR SKILLED 02:31:37.254 --> 02:31:39.323 NURSING FACILITY, AND IT HAS A 02:31:39.390 --> 02:31:40.391 SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE 02:31:40.458 --> 02:31:42.159 WORKFORCE STABILITY AND PATIENT 02:31:42.226 --> 02:31:43.727 ACCESS TO QUALITY CARE AND 02:31:43.794 --> 02:31:45.296 SKILLED NURSING. WE APPRECIATE 02:31:45.362 --> 02:31:46.597 THE SUBCOMMITTEE'S EFFORTS TO 02:31:46.664 --> 02:31:47.998 TRY TO BRIDGE A SOLUTION IN THE 02:31:48.065 --> 02:31:49.233 CURRENT BUDGET YEAR, AND WE 02:31:49.300 --> 02:31:50.868 HOPE TO CONTINUE WORKING WITH 02:31:50.935 --> 02:31:51.969 THE LEGISLATURE NEXT YEAR TO TO 02:31:52.036 --> 02:31:53.170 FIND A PERMANENT FUNDING 02:31:53.237 --> 02:31:54.138 SOLUTION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU 02:31:54.205 --> 02:31:57.007 VERY MUCH. WELCOME. THANK YOU, 02:31:57.074 --> 02:31:58.776 MR. CHAIR. MEMBERS, ANDREA BALL 02:31:58.843 --> 02:32:00.277 HERE TODAY ON BEHALF OF ORANGE 02:32:00.344 --> 02:32:01.879 COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, 02:32:01.946 --> 02:32:03.180 I WANT TO EXPRESS APPRECIATION. 02:32:03.247 --> 02:32:04.682 THANK YOU FOR THE PROP 98 02:32:04.748 --> 02:32:06.016 PACKAGE, ESPECIALLY I'M HERE 02:32:06.083 --> 02:32:07.718 TODAY ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA 02:32:07.785 --> 02:32:09.220 MULTI-TIERED SYSTEM OF SUPPORT, 02:32:09.286 --> 02:32:11.055 WHICH IS A STATEWIDE 02:32:11.121 --> 02:32:12.423 INFRASTRUCTURE BUILT OVER TEN 02:32:12.490 --> 02:32:13.891 YEARS THAT ALLOWS THE STATE'S 02:32:13.958 --> 02:32:16.060 OTHER EDUCATION INVESTMENTS, 02:32:16.126 --> 02:32:17.928 INCLUDING AND ESPECIALLY THE $1 02:32:17.995 --> 02:32:19.363 BILLION IN COMMUNITY SCHOOLS, 02:32:19.430 --> 02:32:21.098 TO DELIVER REAL RESULTS FOR 02:32:21.165 --> 02:32:22.366 STUDENTS. IT WAS INCLUDED IN 02:32:22.433 --> 02:32:24.335 THE MAY REVISION APPROVED BY 02:32:24.401 --> 02:32:25.636 BOTH HOUSES, AND FORTUNATELY, 02:32:25.703 --> 02:32:27.204 NO FUNDING WAS PROVIDED IN THE 02:32:27.271 --> 02:32:28.606 FINAL BUDGET. WE WOULD LOOK 02:32:28.672 --> 02:32:30.140 FORWARD TO CONTINUED 02:32:30.207 --> 02:32:31.141 CONVERSATIONS WORKING WITH YOU, 02:32:31.208 --> 02:32:32.343 BECAUSE I THINK THIS IS A 02:32:32.409 --> 02:32:33.844 REALLY INTEGRAL PROGRAM TO MAKE 02:32:33.911 --> 02:32:35.479 SURE OTHER PROGRAMS ARE 02:32:35.546 --> 02:32:36.881 IMPLEMENTED SUCCESSFULLY. THANK 02:32:36.947 --> 02:32:39.416 YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 02:32:39.483 --> 02:32:41.519 WELCOME. KELLY BROOKS, I'M HERE 02:32:41.585 --> 02:32:42.686 ON BEHALF OF SEVERAL CLIENTS. 02:32:42.753 --> 02:32:44.421 FIRST, ON BEHALF OF THE 02:32:44.488 --> 02:32:45.890 CALIFORNIA STATE Ã CALIFORNIA 02:32:45.956 --> 02:32:47.024 ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC HOSPITALS 02:32:47.091 --> 02:32:48.792 AND HEALTH SYSTEMS, THE URBAN 02:32:48.859 --> 02:32:49.860 COUNTIES OF CALIFORNIA, THE 02:32:49.927 --> 02:32:51.295 BOARDS OF SUPERVISORS OF SANTA 02:32:51.362 --> 02:32:53.397 CLARA, RIVERSIDE, VENTURA, LOS 02:32:53.464 --> 02:32:54.899 ANGELES, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF 02:32:54.965 --> 02:32:56.267 CALIFORNIA HEALTH. THANK YOU SO 02:32:56.333 --> 02:32:57.801 MUCH FOR THE FUNDING FOR PUBLIC 02:32:57.868 --> 02:32:59.670 HOSPITALS. THAT $250 MILLION IS 02:32:59.737 --> 02:33:01.205 A DOWN PAYMENT TO HELPING 02:33:01.272 --> 02:33:03.574 MITIGATE THE $3. BILLION IN 02:33:03.641 --> 02:33:05.376 LOSSES STEMMING FROM H.R. ONE 02:33:05.442 --> 02:33:06.810 SECOND. ON BEHALF OF THE URBAN 02:33:06.877 --> 02:33:07.878 COUNTIES OF CALIFORNIA, THE 02:33:07.945 --> 02:33:09.246 RURAL COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES OF 02:33:09.313 --> 02:33:10.381 CALIFORNIA, THE BOARDS OF 02:33:10.447 --> 02:33:11.448 SUPERVISORS OF SANTA CLARA, 02:33:11.515 --> 02:33:12.850 SANTA BARBARA, SANTA CRUZ, 02:33:12.917 --> 02:33:14.351 RIVERSIDE, VENTURA, ALPINE, 02:33:14.418 --> 02:33:16.487 PLUMAS, AND COLUSA. THANK YOU 02:33:16.554 --> 02:33:18.689 FOR ALL YOUR WORK ON H.R. ONE 02:33:18.756 --> 02:33:20.057 MITIGATION ON REJECTING THE 02:33:20.124 --> 02:33:22.593 IHSS APPS AND MOBILE CRISIS 02:33:22.660 --> 02:33:25.563 CUTS, AND WOULD ALSO FLAG THE 02:33:25.629 --> 02:33:26.664 CONCERNS ABOUT INDIGENT CARE 02:33:26.730 --> 02:33:27.898 AND LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING 02:33:27.965 --> 02:33:29.533 WITH YOU ALL OVER THE COMING 02:33:29.600 --> 02:33:32.336 WEEKS ON POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS IN 02:33:32.403 --> 02:33:34.038 THE IN THE NEAR TERM. THANK YOU. 02:33:34.104 --> 02:33:36.040 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. 02:33:36.106 --> 02:33:37.207 THANK YOU, CHAIR AND MEMBERS, 02:33:37.274 --> 02:33:38.175 KATHY MOSSBERG, ON BEHALF OF 02:33:38.242 --> 02:33:40.044 THE LOCAL HEALTH PLANS, THE 17 02:33:40.110 --> 02:33:41.045 NONPROFIT HEALTH PLANS ACROSS 02:33:41.111 --> 02:33:42.079 THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. 02:33:42.146 --> 02:33:43.180 PRESERVING HEALTH CARE IS A 02:33:43.247 --> 02:33:44.615 PRIMARY OBJECTIVE. WE ALL SHARE 02:33:44.682 --> 02:33:46.417 AND APPRECIATE AS MUCH AS YOU 02:33:46.483 --> 02:33:48.352 WERE ABLE TO DO THAT IN THIS 02:33:48.419 --> 02:33:49.486 YEAR'S BUDGET. TO THAT POINT, 02:33:49.553 --> 02:33:50.421 THOUGH, WE STILL ARE 02:33:50.487 --> 02:33:51.555 DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THE MOVE OF 02:33:51.622 --> 02:33:53.357 THE UAE'S POPULATION OUT OF 02:33:53.424 --> 02:33:54.425 MANAGED CARE INTO FEE FOR 02:33:54.491 --> 02:33:56.160 SERVICE. IN THAT LINE, WE DO 02:33:56.226 --> 02:33:56.827 APPRECIATE THE ADDITIONAL 02:33:56.894 --> 02:33:58.362 DOLLARS THAT ARE PUT INTO THIS 02:33:58.429 --> 02:33:59.663 BUDGET. THE 31 MILLION IN 02:33:59.730 --> 02:34:01.599 PARTICULAR THAT WERE NOTED. WE 02:34:01.665 --> 02:34:02.633 URGE YOUR LEADERSHIP IN 02:34:02.700 --> 02:34:03.934 ASSURING THAT THE 31 MILLION, 02:34:04.001 --> 02:34:05.102 THE BUDGET DEDICATED FOR CARE 02:34:05.169 --> 02:34:06.236 COORDINATION ACTIVITIES, BE 02:34:06.303 --> 02:34:07.671 UTILIZED TO PROVIDE THESE 02:34:07.738 --> 02:34:09.406 SERVICES AND SUPPORTS AND USE 02:34:09.473 --> 02:34:10.507 MANAGED CARE SYSTEMS. WE ARE 02:34:10.574 --> 02:34:12.176 SERVING THE POPULATION NOW. WE 02:34:12.242 --> 02:34:14.511 CAN HELP MAKE THIS TRANSITION 02:34:14.578 --> 02:34:15.512 SMOOTHER, AND WE RESPECTFULLY 02:34:15.579 --> 02:34:16.580 ASK FOR THE LEGISLATURE'S HELP 02:34:16.647 --> 02:34:17.881 IN URGING THE DEPARTMENT TO 02:34:17.948 --> 02:34:19.550 WORK CLOSELY WITH OUR PLANS AND 02:34:19.617 --> 02:34:20.918 MEDI-CAL MANAGED CARE PLANS 02:34:20.985 --> 02:34:22.119 HOLISTICALLY. THANK YOU. THANK 02:34:22.186 --> 02:34:24.555 YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. GOOD 02:34:24.622 --> 02:34:25.956 MORNING, RYAN SOUZA. ON BEHALF 02:34:26.023 --> 02:34:27.157 OF THE SAN FRANCISCO AIDS 02:34:27.224 --> 02:34:28.158 FOUNDATION. ÁP LÀ HEALTH AND 02:34:28.225 --> 02:34:29.827 THE IN THE EPIDEMICS COALITION. 02:34:29.893 --> 02:34:31.128 WE JUST WANT TO SAY WE'RE 02:34:31.195 --> 02:34:32.930 DEEPLY GRATEFUL FOR THE LGBTQ 02:34:32.997 --> 02:34:34.698 CAUCUS, THE LEGISLATURE, THE 02:34:34.765 --> 02:34:35.733 ADMINISTRATION, AND THE 02:34:35.799 --> 02:34:36.800 DEDICATED STAFF WHOSE 02:34:36.867 --> 02:34:38.235 LEADERSHIP, VISION AND 02:34:38.302 --> 02:34:39.703 COLLABORATION ALLOWED THE ADAP 02:34:39.770 --> 02:34:41.438 REBATE FUND TO BE USED IN A 02:34:41.505 --> 02:34:42.539 TRULY GENERATIONAL INVESTMENT 02:34:42.606 --> 02:34:43.907 IN THE EFFORT TO END THE 02:34:43.974 --> 02:34:45.542 EPIDEMIC OF HIV. THANK YOU SO 02:34:45.609 --> 02:34:47.611 MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 02:34:47.678 --> 02:34:48.712 WELCOME. GOOD MORNING, LINDA 02:34:48.779 --> 02:34:50.147 WEI WITH WESTERN CENTER ON LAW 02:34:50.214 --> 02:34:51.882 AND POVERTY. WE APPRECIATE THE 02:34:51.949 --> 02:34:53.717 PROGRESSIVE REVENUE SOLUTIONS 02:34:53.784 --> 02:34:55.719 THAT ALLOW FOR DELAYS, AS WELL 02:34:55.786 --> 02:34:57.554 AS MITIGATION OF SOME OF THE 02:34:57.621 --> 02:34:59.056 MOST SEVERE CUTS, INCLUDING 02:34:59.123 --> 02:35:01.025 MEDI-CAL ACID DENTAL BENEFITS, 02:35:01.091 --> 02:35:03.427 AS WELL AS IHSS. WE ALSO LOOK 02:35:03.494 --> 02:35:07.331 FORWARD TO THE FIRST STEPS TO 02:35:07.398 --> 02:35:09.566 ADVANCE THE FAIR SHARE, AS WE 02:35:09.633 --> 02:35:10.934 RECOGNIZE THAT THIS WILL ALLOW 02:35:11.001 --> 02:35:14.571 FOR NOT JUST DELAYS, BUT 02:35:14.638 --> 02:35:17.841 REJECTION OF FUTURE CUTS, 02:35:17.908 --> 02:35:19.677 INCLUDING THOSE TARGETED AT 02:35:19.743 --> 02:35:21.812 IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES. AND 02:35:21.879 --> 02:35:24.348 FINALLY, WHILE WE APPRECIATE 02:35:24.415 --> 02:35:27.184 FUNDING FOR FOOD BANKS, WE ARE 02:35:27.251 --> 02:35:28.452 DISAPPOINTED THAT THE 5 MILLION 02:35:28.519 --> 02:35:30.821 TO SET UP CFAP AND FOOD 02:35:30.888 --> 02:35:31.922 ASSISTANCE WAS NOT INCLUDED IN 02:35:31.989 --> 02:35:34.058 THE FINAL BUDGET. THANK YOU. 02:35:34.124 --> 02:35:36.226 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. 02:35:36.293 --> 02:35:37.294 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR AND 02:35:37.361 --> 02:35:38.328 MEMBERS, KATHY SONDERLING 02:35:38.395 --> 02:35:39.897 MCDONALD. I'M HERE FOR TWO 02:35:39.963 --> 02:35:40.998 CLIENTS. FIRST, ON BEHALF OF 02:35:41.065 --> 02:35:42.332 THE CALIFORNIA PAN ETHNIC 02:35:42.399 --> 02:35:44.568 HEALTH NETWORK, KHN EXPRESSES 02:35:44.635 --> 02:35:46.236 GRATITUDE FOR THE LEGISLATIVE 02:35:46.303 --> 02:35:47.271 CHAMPIONS WHO ARE STANDING BY 02:35:47.337 --> 02:35:48.772 IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES AND 02:35:48.839 --> 02:35:50.774 SPARING THEM FROM LOSING ACCESS 02:35:50.841 --> 02:35:52.743 TO HEALTH COVERAGE. THIS FINAL 02:35:52.810 --> 02:35:54.211 BUDGET BUDGET AGREEMENT 02:35:54.278 --> 02:35:56.680 REFLECTS THE WORK THAT 02:35:56.747 --> 02:35:58.248 COMMUNITIES DID ORGANIZING, 02:35:58.315 --> 02:36:02.853 RALLYING AT Tê AND SORRY, AND 02:36:02.920 --> 02:36:04.321 EXPOSING THE CRUELTY OF CUTTING 02:36:04.388 --> 02:36:06.523 HEALTH CARE TO THESE VULNERABLE 02:36:06.590 --> 02:36:07.891 COMMUNITIES. WE APPRECIATE THE 02:36:07.958 --> 02:36:08.926 LEGISLATURE DELAYING THE MOST 02:36:08.992 --> 02:36:10.461 HARMFUL CUTS, FOR THE MOST PART, 02:36:10.527 --> 02:36:11.762 AND ALSO PROVIDING ADDITIONAL 02:36:11.829 --> 02:36:14.732 SUPPORT FOR NAVIGATION. ON 02:36:14.798 --> 02:36:16.166 BEHALF OF THE CALIFORNIA 02:36:16.233 --> 02:36:17.601 ASSOCIATION FOR ADULT DAY 02:36:17.668 --> 02:36:19.737 SERVICES, WHICH OPERATES THE 02:36:19.803 --> 02:36:21.905 CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY BASED 02:36:21.972 --> 02:36:23.741 ADULT SERVICES, OR SEA BASS 02:36:23.807 --> 02:36:25.509 PROGRAM. WE WERE, OF COURSE, 02:36:25.576 --> 02:36:26.677 DISAPPOINTED NOT TO SEE THE BE 02:36:26.744 --> 02:36:28.846 HOME SOON PACKAGE, WHICH WAS 02:36:28.912 --> 02:36:30.547 INITIATED BY THE SENATE 02:36:30.614 --> 02:36:32.149 INCLUDED IN THE FINAL BUDGET 02:36:32.216 --> 02:36:34.218 AGREEMENT. BUT WE THINK IT DOES 02:36:34.284 --> 02:36:35.619 START A REALLY IMPORTANT AND 02:36:35.686 --> 02:36:37.087 OVERDUE CONVERSATION ON LONG 02:36:37.154 --> 02:36:39.223 TERM SERVICES AND SUPPORTS. WE 02:36:39.289 --> 02:36:41.325 STAND READY TO CONTINUE THOSE 02:36:41.391 --> 02:36:43.193 CONVERSATIONS AND TO REPRESENT 02:36:43.260 --> 02:36:45.696 OUR MEMBERS, BOTH ADULT DAY 02:36:45.763 --> 02:36:47.164 SERVICES AND ADULT DAY HEALTH 02:36:47.231 --> 02:36:48.465 CARE. THINKING ABOUT RATE 02:36:48.532 --> 02:36:49.933 REFORM, COST RELIEF AND OTHER 02:36:50.000 --> 02:36:51.835 IMPORTANT ISSUES. THANK YOU SO 02:36:51.902 --> 02:36:54.772 MUCH. THANK YOU. WELCOME. GOOD 02:36:54.838 --> 02:36:55.906 MORNING, MR. CHAIR, AND MEMBERS 02:36:55.973 --> 02:36:57.674 OF THE COMMITTEE. AND ON BEHALF 02:36:57.741 --> 02:36:58.809 OF THE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARDS 02:36:58.876 --> 02:36:59.843 ASSOCIATION, THERE ARE SEVERAL 02:36:59.910 --> 02:37:00.878 PROPOSALS THAT WERE SUPPORTIVE 02:37:00.944 --> 02:37:02.079 OF IN THE FINAL BUDGET. HOWEVER, 02:37:02.146 --> 02:37:03.147 WE STILL REMAIN DISAPPOINTED 02:37:03.213 --> 02:37:03.981 WITH THE TREATMENT OF 02:37:04.047 --> 02:37:05.816 PROPOSITION 98. OF COURSE, THE 02:37:05.883 --> 02:37:07.885 WITHHOLDING OF $3.9 BILLION, 02:37:07.951 --> 02:37:09.419 BUT ALSO THE CSPP SHIFT, 02:37:09.486 --> 02:37:10.654 BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH THAT COMES 02:37:10.721 --> 02:37:11.989 WITH THE REVENGE, WE ANTICIPATE 02:37:12.055 --> 02:37:13.090 IN THE FUTURE, THE PROGRAM WILL 02:37:13.157 --> 02:37:14.725 GROW EITHER ON THE NATURAL OR 02:37:14.792 --> 02:37:16.193 THROUGH EXPANSIONS IN EXCESS OF 02:37:16.260 --> 02:37:18.162 WHAT THE REVENGE WILL COVER. WE 02:37:18.228 --> 02:37:20.197 ALSO FLAG ON THE PAID PREGNANCY 02:37:20.264 --> 02:37:22.065 LEAVE PROPOSAL. WHILE WE ARE 02:37:22.132 --> 02:37:22.800 SUPPORTIVE OF THE OVERALL 02:37:22.866 --> 02:37:24.701 INTENT OF THE POLICY, IT IS NOT 02:37:24.768 --> 02:37:25.936 PAIRED WITH A ROBUST 02:37:26.003 --> 02:37:26.703 REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISM THAT 02:37:26.770 --> 02:37:27.905 ACCOUNTS FOR EMPLOYEES THAT ARE 02:37:27.971 --> 02:37:29.506 FUNDED BY CATEGORICALS OUTSIDE 02:37:29.573 --> 02:37:31.408 OF LCFF, OR ACCOUNTS FOR SMALL 02:37:31.475 --> 02:37:32.209 DISTRICTS THAT WON'T RECEIVE 02:37:32.276 --> 02:37:33.310 ENOUGH THROUGH THEIR LCFF 02:37:33.377 --> 02:37:34.578 INCREASE TO COVER IT. THANK YOU. 02:37:34.645 --> 02:37:37.848 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. 02:37:37.915 --> 02:37:39.316 MARK MARTIN, REPRESENTING THE 02:37:39.383 --> 02:37:40.818 CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, ON 02:37:40.884 --> 02:37:43.253 BEHALF OF THE 470,000 STUDENTS 02:37:43.320 --> 02:37:45.489 AND 65,000 EMPLOYEES OF THE CSU. 02:37:45.556 --> 02:37:47.257 I WANT TO THANK THE NEWSOM 02:37:47.324 --> 02:37:48.292 ADMINISTRATION AND THE 02:37:48.358 --> 02:37:49.059 LEGISLATURE FOR THE STRONG 02:37:49.126 --> 02:37:51.261 SUPPORT FOR CSU. THIS LEVEL OF 02:37:51.328 --> 02:37:52.663 FUNDING WILL ALLOW CSU TO MEET 02:37:52.729 --> 02:37:54.865 ITS MANDATORY COSTS AND ADDRESS 02:37:54.932 --> 02:37:56.266 PRIORITIES. WE ALL SHARE 02:37:56.333 --> 02:37:57.968 STUDENT ACCESS, STUDENT 02:37:58.035 --> 02:37:59.236 AFFORDABILITY, CONTINUING TO BE 02:37:59.303 --> 02:38:00.604 THE NATIONAL LEADER IN 02:38:00.671 --> 02:38:01.805 IMPROVING THE ECONOMIC MOBILITY 02:38:01.872 --> 02:38:03.740 OF OUR STUDENTS, AND WILL FULLY 02:38:03.807 --> 02:38:04.842 IMPLEMENT THE CSU FORWARD 02:38:04.908 --> 02:38:05.843 STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH WILL 02:38:05.909 --> 02:38:07.778 PROVIDE MORE BACHELOR'S DEGREE 02:38:07.845 --> 02:38:09.246 PROGRAMS TO MORE STUDENTS TO 02:38:09.313 --> 02:38:10.614 MEET STATE WORKFORCE NEEDS IN 02:38:10.681 --> 02:38:12.382 AREAS LIKE NURSING, TEACHING, 02:38:12.449 --> 02:38:13.550 SOCIAL WORK AND ENGINEERING. 02:38:13.617 --> 02:38:16.019 THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 02:38:16.086 --> 02:38:17.888 WELCOME. HI. BRIANNA PITTMAN 02:38:17.955 --> 02:38:18.689 SPENCER WITH THE CALIFORNIA 02:38:18.755 --> 02:38:20.023 DENTAL ASSOCIATION. JUST WANT 02:38:20.090 --> 02:38:21.425 TO SAY THANK YOU TO THIS 02:38:21.491 --> 02:38:22.893 LEGISLATURE IN PARTICULAR FOR 02:38:22.960 --> 02:38:24.328 DELAYING ALL FOR PROTECTING 02:38:24.394 --> 02:38:26.363 MEDICAL, DENTAL, AND DELAYING 02:38:26.430 --> 02:38:28.332 ALL OF THE CUTS, YOU KNOW, 02:38:28.398 --> 02:38:29.433 ROLLING BACK PROVIDER RATES TO 02:38:29.499 --> 02:38:31.535 WHERE THEY WERE IN THE 1990S 02:38:31.602 --> 02:38:32.636 WOULD REALLY JUST HAVE 02:38:32.703 --> 02:38:33.704 DEVASTATED THE PROVIDER NETWORK 02:38:33.770 --> 02:38:35.239 AND ACCESS TO CARE. AND WHAT 02:38:35.305 --> 02:38:36.373 WE'RE SEEING WITH THESE DELAYS 02:38:36.440 --> 02:38:37.474 IS THAT WE'RE ALREADY WE'RE 02:38:37.541 --> 02:38:39.142 ALREADY SEEING A REDUCTION IN 02:38:39.209 --> 02:38:40.878 ACCESS. SO AS WE COME TO THE 02:38:40.944 --> 02:38:42.379 END OF THE ADDITIONAL 12 MONTH 02:38:42.446 --> 02:38:43.413 DELAY, WHICH IS REALLY 02:38:43.480 --> 02:38:45.182 ENCOURAGE LOOKING FOR ONGOING 02:38:45.249 --> 02:38:46.216 STABILITY IN THE PROGRAM. THANK 02:38:46.283 --> 02:38:48.819 YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 02:38:48.886 --> 02:38:50.988 WELCOME. HI, YASMEEN, WITH 02:38:51.054 --> 02:38:52.789 JUSTICE AND AGING, APPRECIATE 02:38:52.856 --> 02:38:54.224 ALL THE WORK THAT THE 02:38:54.291 --> 02:38:55.525 LEGISLATURE AND THE SENATE HAS 02:38:55.592 --> 02:38:57.094 DONE TO GET TO THIS BUDGET 02:38:57.160 --> 02:38:58.161 AGREEMENT, SPECIFICALLY, CALL 02:38:58.228 --> 02:39:00.330 OUT REJECTING THE $2,000 02:39:00.397 --> 02:39:01.498 MEDI-CAL ASSET LIMIT. AND WE 02:39:01.565 --> 02:39:02.799 LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO 02:39:02.866 --> 02:39:03.901 WORK WITH THE LEGISLATURE AND 02:39:03.967 --> 02:39:05.736 THE ADMINISTRATION TO FURTHER 02:39:05.802 --> 02:39:07.871 REFORM THIS INEQUITABLE POLICY. 02:39:07.938 --> 02:39:08.572 WE'RE ALSO PLEASED THAT THE 02:39:08.639 --> 02:39:10.707 FINAL BUDGET REJECTS ALL CUTS 02:39:10.774 --> 02:39:14.344 TO IHSS AND APS, AS WELL AS 02:39:14.411 --> 02:39:15.779 DELAYING THE WORST OF MEDI-CAL 02:39:15.846 --> 02:39:17.614 CUTS FOR CALIFORNIA'S IMMIGRANT 02:39:17.681 --> 02:39:19.049 COMMUNITIES ALSO WANT TO 02:39:19.116 --> 02:39:20.784 SPECIFICALLY BRING APPRECIATION 02:39:20.851 --> 02:39:23.687 TO THE INVESTMENT IN DAP AND 02:39:23.754 --> 02:39:25.455 HOMESAFE WITH REGARDS TO OLDER 02:39:25.522 --> 02:39:28.325 ADULT HOMELESSNESS. AND FINALLY, 02:39:28.392 --> 02:39:30.060 WHILE THE BE HOME SOON PROPOSAL 02:39:30.127 --> 02:39:31.328 WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE FINAL 02:39:31.395 --> 02:39:33.096 AGREEMENT, WANT TO APPRECIATE 02:39:33.163 --> 02:39:34.164 EXPRESS APPRECIATION FOR THE 02:39:34.231 --> 02:39:35.265 SENATE'S LEADERSHIP ON THIS 02:39:35.332 --> 02:39:36.400 ISSUE AND HOPE THAT WE CAN 02:39:36.466 --> 02:39:37.768 CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER TO 02:39:37.834 --> 02:39:39.436 FIND WAYS TO INVEST IN OUR HOME 02:39:39.503 --> 02:39:40.537 AND COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES 02:39:40.604 --> 02:39:41.538 SYSTEM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU 02:39:41.605 --> 02:39:44.007 VERY MUCH. WELCOME. GOOD 02:39:44.074 --> 02:39:45.309 MORNING. MICHELLE WARSHAW. ON 02:39:45.375 --> 02:39:46.176 BEHALF OF THE CALIFORNIA 02:39:46.243 --> 02:39:47.644 TEACHERS ASSOCIATION. WE'RE 02:39:47.711 --> 02:39:49.179 VERY PLEASED TO SEE THINGS IN 02:39:49.246 --> 02:39:50.747 THE EDUCATION BILL, SUCH AS 02:39:50.814 --> 02:39:52.616 FULLY PAID PREGNANCY LEAVE FOR 02:39:52.683 --> 02:39:55.118 EDUCATORS, AS WELL AS THE $2.4 02:39:55.185 --> 02:39:56.486 BILLION IN SPECIAL EDUCATION 02:39:56.553 --> 02:39:57.587 FUNDING. WE ARE STILL VERY 02:39:57.654 --> 02:39:59.389 CONCERNED WITH THE PROP 98 02:39:59.456 --> 02:40:00.557 MANIPULATION, AS WAS WELL PUT 02:40:00.624 --> 02:40:01.925 BY MY COLLEAGUE AT THE 02:40:01.992 --> 02:40:03.060 CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD 02:40:03.126 --> 02:40:04.061 ASSOCIATION, SO I WON'T REPEAT 02:40:04.127 --> 02:40:06.163 HIS COMMENTS. K¾T Ã IS ALSO 02:40:06.229 --> 02:40:08.131 OPPOSED TO AB 181, WHICH STRIPS 02:40:08.198 --> 02:40:09.833 THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE 02:40:09.900 --> 02:40:10.567 SUPERINTENDENT AND MOVES 02:40:10.634 --> 02:40:12.002 OVERSIGHT TO AN APPOINTED 02:40:12.069 --> 02:40:14.104 EDUCATION COMMISSIONER. IT'S 02:40:14.171 --> 02:40:15.105 COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. IT DOES NOT 02:40:15.172 --> 02:40:16.239 IMPROVE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT OR 02:40:16.306 --> 02:40:17.607 STRENGTHEN PUBLIC EDUCATION. IT 02:40:17.674 --> 02:40:19.609 IS ALSO ILL TIMED AND UNFAIR. 02:40:19.676 --> 02:40:20.777 IT SHOULD HAVE GONE THROUGH THE 02:40:20.844 --> 02:40:22.479 FULL POLICY HEARINGS, AS WAS 02:40:22.546 --> 02:40:23.847 THE EXPECTATION, AND THE PUBLIC 02:40:23.914 --> 02:40:25.582 HAS A RIGHT TO WEIGH IN ON THIS 02:40:25.649 --> 02:40:26.683 INCREDIBLY CONSEQUENTIAL BILL. 02:40:26.750 --> 02:40:28.885 WE URGE YOUR NO VOTE ON AB 181. 02:40:28.952 --> 02:40:30.988 THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 02:40:31.054 --> 02:40:32.856 WELCOME. GOOD MORNING, CHAIR 02:40:32.923 --> 02:40:34.257 AND MEMBERS, JESSICA HèA WITH 02:40:34.324 --> 02:40:35.325 AFSCME CALIFORNIA. WE WANT TO 02:40:35.392 --> 02:40:36.460 ECHO THE COMMENTS OF OUR 02:40:36.526 --> 02:40:38.261 COLLEAGUES FROM K¾T Ã ECHO THE 02:40:38.328 --> 02:40:40.030 COMMENTS OF OUR COLLEAGUES FROM 02:40:40.097 --> 02:40:41.765 UW ECHO, THE COMMENTS OF OUR 02:40:41.832 --> 02:40:43.100 COLLEAGUES FROM HEALTH ACCESS 02:40:43.166 --> 02:40:45.102 AND THE HEALTH FOR ALL 02:40:45.168 --> 02:40:47.571 COALITION. WE ALSO APPRECIATE 02:40:47.637 --> 02:40:49.639 THE FUNDING OF THE 80 MILLION 02:40:49.706 --> 02:40:51.174 FOR VÆ, BUT ARE DISAPPOINTED 02:40:51.241 --> 02:40:53.276 THAT THERE'S NO ABILITY TO 02:40:53.343 --> 02:40:54.411 BACKFILL THE TOTAL AMOUNT 02:40:54.478 --> 02:40:55.479 NEEDED FOR THE COUNTIES WHO 02:40:55.545 --> 02:40:57.147 NEED WHO COUNT ON THIS FUNDING. 02:40:57.214 --> 02:40:58.248 WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH 02:40:58.315 --> 02:40:59.983 THE LEGISLATURE ON A SOLUTION 02:41:00.050 --> 02:41:00.984 TO THIS IMPORTANT FUNDING 02:41:01.051 --> 02:41:03.453 SOURCE. REGARDING CDCR, WE NEED 02:41:03.520 --> 02:41:04.654 ASSURANCES FROM THE AGENCY THAT 02:41:04.721 --> 02:41:06.289 IT IS PRIORITIZING HIRING 02:41:06.356 --> 02:41:07.257 VACANT POSITIONS WITH CIVIL 02:41:07.324 --> 02:41:08.291 SERVICE EMPLOYEES AND FINDING 02:41:08.358 --> 02:41:09.693 WAYS TO REDUCE THEIR RELIANCE 02:41:09.760 --> 02:41:11.028 ON OUTSOURCING THIS WORK TO 02:41:11.094 --> 02:41:12.763 EXPENSIVE CONTRACTORS. WE LOOK 02:41:12.829 --> 02:41:13.797 FORWARD TO CONTINUE 02:41:13.864 --> 02:41:14.564 CONVERSATIONS WITH THE 02:41:14.631 --> 02:41:15.665 INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE, 02:41:15.732 --> 02:41:16.600 LEGISLATURE AND GOVERNOR ON 02:41:16.666 --> 02:41:18.602 THIS ISSUE. WE APPRECIATE THE 02:41:18.668 --> 02:41:20.737 SUSPENSION OF PENALTIES FOR NOT 02:41:20.804 --> 02:41:21.304 MAINTAINING THE PRESCRIBED 02:41:21.371 --> 02:41:22.773 RATIO OF FAIR REVENUES FOR 02:41:22.839 --> 02:41:25.175 OPERATING COSTS ON TRANSIT 02:41:25.242 --> 02:41:26.476 OPERATORS. AND LASTLY, WE WANT 02:41:26.543 --> 02:41:27.744 TO EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF 02:41:27.811 --> 02:41:29.546 FINDING LONG TERM REVENUE 02:41:29.613 --> 02:41:30.680 SOLUTIONS THAT ENSURE 02:41:30.747 --> 02:41:31.782 CORPORATIONS PAY THEIR FAIR 02:41:31.848 --> 02:41:33.216 SHARE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU 02:41:33.283 --> 02:41:36.453 VERY MUCH. WELCOME. GOOD 02:41:36.520 --> 02:41:37.354 MORNING, CHAIR AND MEMBERS OF 02:41:37.421 --> 02:41:38.922 THE COMMITTEE. I'M CALVIN YANG, 02:41:38.989 --> 02:41:40.057 CURRENT STUDENT IN THE 02:41:40.123 --> 02:41:41.458 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SYSTEM. 02:41:41.525 --> 02:41:43.627 I RISE TODAY TO EXPRESS MY 02:41:43.693 --> 02:41:45.062 SINCERE APPRECIATION FOR THE 02:41:45.128 --> 02:41:46.963 COMMITTEE'S INCLUSION OF $20 02:41:47.030 --> 02:41:48.065 MILLION FOR BASIC NEEDS AND 02:41:48.131 --> 02:41:49.566 STUDENT DISABILITY SERVICES 02:41:49.633 --> 02:41:52.369 ACROSS THE UC SYSTEM AND AB 111 02:41:52.436 --> 02:41:54.071 AT A TIME WHEN BASIC NEED 02:41:54.137 --> 02:41:55.138 RESOURCES ARE MORE ESSENTIAL 02:41:55.205 --> 02:41:56.606 THAN EVER, AND FUNDING FOR 02:41:56.673 --> 02:41:57.707 DISABILITY SERVICES ACROSS THE 02:41:57.774 --> 02:42:00.243 UC SYSTEM IS RUNNING DRY. THIS 02:42:00.310 --> 02:42:01.078 INVESTMENT WILL HELP ENSURE 02:42:01.144 --> 02:42:02.712 THAT STUDENTS HAVE ACCESS TO 02:42:02.779 --> 02:42:04.181 THE SUPPORT THEY NEED TO 02:42:04.247 --> 02:42:05.215 SUCCEED. THANK YOU TO THE 02:42:05.282 --> 02:42:06.616 LEGISLATURE FOR RECOGNIZING THE 02:42:06.683 --> 02:42:07.918 CRITICAL IMPORTANCE OF THESE 02:42:07.984 --> 02:42:09.219 ISSUES AND INVESTING IN THE 02:42:09.286 --> 02:42:10.787 HEALTH, WELL-BEING AND ACADEMIC 02:42:10.854 --> 02:42:12.389 SUCCESS OF CALIFORNIA STUDENTS. 02:42:12.456 --> 02:42:16.093 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. 02:42:16.159 --> 02:42:17.794 GOOD MORNING. NINA HARWELL WITH 02:42:17.861 --> 02:42:19.563 AARP CALIFORNIA. ONCE AGAIN, I 02:42:19.629 --> 02:42:22.132 WANT TO THANK ALL OF YOU, STAFF 02:42:22.199 --> 02:42:23.800 FOR THE HARD WORK YOU DID ON 02:42:23.867 --> 02:42:25.735 THE BUDGET AND ESPECIALLY 02:42:25.802 --> 02:42:28.271 REJECTING THE INCREASE IN 02:42:28.338 --> 02:42:29.506 ELIGIBILITY, AGE OF ELIGIBILITY 02:42:29.573 --> 02:42:31.875 FOR ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES. 02:42:31.942 --> 02:42:35.112 PROTECTING CAL PACE AND ALSO 02:42:35.178 --> 02:42:36.913 REJECTING THE REDUCTION OF 02:42:36.980 --> 02:42:40.117 MEDI-CAL ASSET LIMIT TO AN 02:42:40.183 --> 02:42:41.885 UNREALISTICALLY LOW LEVEL. I 02:42:41.952 --> 02:42:43.720 ALSO WOULD ALSO LIKE TO 02:42:43.787 --> 02:42:46.156 RECOMMEND. AS WE ARE EXPLORING 02:42:46.223 --> 02:42:47.691 AND WHERE WE HAVE THE FISCAL 02:42:47.757 --> 02:42:49.593 CAPACITY TO DO SO. WHEN WE'RE 02:42:49.659 --> 02:42:51.328 LOOKING AT INCREASING THE ASSET 02:42:51.394 --> 02:42:52.829 LIMIT THAT WE DO TIE THAT TO 02:42:52.896 --> 02:42:55.332 THE RATE OF INFLATION, THAT'S A 02:42:55.398 --> 02:42:57.601 SOLID POLICY ON THAT AND HAPPY 02:42:57.667 --> 02:42:59.636 TO HAVE THOSE DISCUSSIONS WHEN 02:42:59.703 --> 02:43:00.770 WARRANTED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU 02:43:00.837 --> 02:43:04.808 VERY MUCH. WELCOME. JOSH WRIGHT 02:43:04.875 --> 02:43:05.909 WITH THE CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION 02:43:05.976 --> 02:43:08.178 OF FOOD BANKS. WE ARE SO 02:43:08.245 --> 02:43:09.646 GRATEFUL FOR THE VITAL 02:43:09.713 --> 02:43:10.614 INVESTMENTS IN FOOD ASSISTANCE 02:43:10.680 --> 02:43:12.149 IN RESPONSE TO H.R. ONE IN THIS 02:43:12.215 --> 02:43:13.717 BUDGET, INCLUDING THE INCREASED 02:43:13.783 --> 02:43:16.486 INVESTMENT IN CAL FOOD AND LFPA. 02:43:16.553 --> 02:43:17.687 THIS WILL ALLOW OUR FOOD BANKS 02:43:17.754 --> 02:43:19.022 TO MEET THIS MOMENT OF 02:43:19.089 --> 02:43:20.557 INCREASED NEED. AS WE SEE THESE 02:43:20.624 --> 02:43:22.792 CUTS TO FOOD ASSISTANCE AND. WE 02:43:22.859 --> 02:43:23.894 ARE ALSO GRATEFUL FOR THE 02:43:23.960 --> 02:43:24.961 FUNDING FOR THE CAL FRESH 02:43:25.028 --> 02:43:26.763 OUTREACH PROGRAM AND FOR THE 02:43:26.830 --> 02:43:27.797 COUNTY WORKFORCE TO KEEP AS 02:43:27.864 --> 02:43:29.032 MANY PEOPLE ON CALFRESH AS 02:43:29.099 --> 02:43:31.301 POSSIBLE. WE CONTINUE TO BE 02:43:31.368 --> 02:43:32.369 HOPEFUL FOR. TRAILER BILL FOR 02:43:32.435 --> 02:43:33.737 THE AUTOMATION TO EXPAND THE 02:43:33.803 --> 02:43:35.605 CFAP PROGRAM TO INCLUDE ALL 02:43:35.672 --> 02:43:36.606 CALIFORNIANS WHO ARE CUT OFF 02:43:36.673 --> 02:43:37.807 FROM CALFRESH DUE TO H.R. ONE. 02:43:37.874 --> 02:43:39.609 THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU 02:43:39.676 --> 02:43:42.078 VERY MUCH. WELCOME. GOOD 02:43:42.145 --> 02:43:43.513 MORNING, MR. CHAIR. MARK 02:43:43.580 --> 02:43:44.548 FENSTERMAKER HERE FOR TWO 02:43:44.614 --> 02:43:46.016 CLIENTS, TWO ISSUES, BOTH IN 02:43:46.082 --> 02:43:48.218 THE CLEAN TRANSPORTATION 02:43:48.285 --> 02:43:50.053 TRANSITION. FIRST, ON BEHALF OF 02:43:50.120 --> 02:43:51.855 EARTHJUSTICE, WANT TO THANK THE 02:43:51.922 --> 02:43:52.923 SENATE AND THE ADMINISTRATION 02:43:52.989 --> 02:43:56.459 FOR THE $135 MILLION FOR HVP. 02:43:56.526 --> 02:43:57.527 THESE ARE REALLY NEEDED 02:43:57.594 --> 02:43:58.328 INVESTMENTS AND SOME OF OUR 02:43:58.395 --> 02:43:59.829 MOST CRITICAL COMMUNITIES THAT 02:43:59.896 --> 02:44:01.965 NEED RELIEF FROM DEADLY AIR 02:44:02.032 --> 02:44:03.667 POLLUTION COMING FROM THE 02:44:03.733 --> 02:44:07.003 FREIGHT INDUSTRY. AND WE 02:44:07.070 --> 02:44:08.171 APPRECIATE CONTINUED INVESTMENT 02:44:08.238 --> 02:44:09.472 IN THESE SPACES. AND THEN 02:44:09.539 --> 02:44:10.941 SECONDLY, ON BEHALF OF THE BAY 02:44:11.007 --> 02:44:13.376 AREA AIR DISTRICT, REALLY 02:44:13.443 --> 02:44:15.345 SUPPORTIVE OF THE NEARLY $20 02:44:15.412 --> 02:44:16.680 MILLION TO KEEP THE CLEAN CARS 02:44:16.746 --> 02:44:18.582 FOR ALL PROGRAM GOING. THIS IS 02:44:18.648 --> 02:44:20.283 ONE OF BEEN ONE OF OUR MOST 02:44:20.350 --> 02:44:21.685 SUCCESSFUL AND MOST 02:44:21.751 --> 02:44:23.887 OVERSUBSCRIBED PROGRAMS IN BOTH 02:44:23.954 --> 02:44:24.854 CASES. APPRECIATE THAT WE'RE 02:44:24.921 --> 02:44:26.356 FINDING WAYS TO CONTINUE TO 02:44:26.423 --> 02:44:27.791 INVEST IN OUR CLEAN 02:44:27.857 --> 02:44:28.792 TRANSPORTATION. GIVEN SO MANY 02:44:28.858 --> 02:44:29.993 OF THE ACTIONS THAT THE FEDERAL 02:44:30.060 --> 02:44:32.028 LEVEL TO UNDERMINE OUR EFFORTS. 02:44:32.095 --> 02:44:33.263 SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK 02:44:33.330 --> 02:44:36.466 YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME, CHAIR 02:44:36.533 --> 02:44:38.034 MEMBERS. THANK YOU. ON BEHALF 02:44:38.101 --> 02:44:39.669 OF THE CALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE 02:44:39.736 --> 02:44:40.770 ASSOCIATION, I WANT TO THANK 02:44:40.837 --> 02:44:42.239 THE COMMITTEE FOR THEIR 02:44:42.305 --> 02:44:43.607 LEADERSHIP ON FUNDING RPS FOR 02:44:43.673 --> 02:44:46.509 THE U.S. POPULATION, AS WELL AS 02:44:46.576 --> 02:44:47.577 GENDER AFFIRMING CARE AND 02:44:47.644 --> 02:44:49.012 HEALTH NAVIGATORS. THANK YOU. 02:44:49.079 --> 02:44:51.915 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. 02:44:51.982 --> 02:44:53.450 PERFECT TIMING. ALLISON RAIMES, 02:44:53.516 --> 02:44:55.485 ON BEHALF OF ALTAMED HEALTH 02:44:55.552 --> 02:44:57.287 SYSTEMS, ALL ALIGN MY COMMENTS 02:44:57.354 --> 02:44:58.788 WITH THE GENTLEMAN FROM CPC. 02:44:58.855 --> 02:45:00.390 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE 02:45:00.457 --> 02:45:03.460 HARD WORK. THANK YOU. WELCOME. 02:45:03.526 --> 02:45:04.995 THANK YOU, CHAIR MEMBERS WITH 02:45:05.061 --> 02:45:05.996 THE CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF 02:45:06.062 --> 02:45:08.098 LABOR UNIONS. THANK YOU SO MUCH 02:45:08.164 --> 02:45:10.033 FOR YOUR WORK ON THE BUDGET. I 02:45:10.100 --> 02:45:11.268 WANT TO ECHO A LOT OF COMMENTS 02:45:11.334 --> 02:45:13.003 FROM THE INDIVIDUAL UNIONS THAT 02:45:13.069 --> 02:45:14.137 ALREADY SPOKE. FOR THE SAKE OF 02:45:14.204 --> 02:45:16.006 BREVITY, I JUST WANT TO SAY 02:45:16.072 --> 02:45:17.173 THAT WE ARE STANDING WITH OUR 02:45:17.240 --> 02:45:18.241 EDUCATION UNIONS IN OPPOSITION 02:45:18.308 --> 02:45:19.676 TO THE EDUCATION GOVERNANCE 02:45:19.743 --> 02:45:21.144 BUDGET TRAILER BILL LANGUAGE, 02:45:21.211 --> 02:45:22.145 SPECIFICALLY ON STRIPPING 02:45:22.212 --> 02:45:23.613 MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY FROM THE 02:45:23.680 --> 02:45:24.648 DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED STATE 02:45:24.714 --> 02:45:25.815 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC 02:45:25.882 --> 02:45:27.851 INSTRUCTION. WE SEE THIS AS AN 02:45:27.917 --> 02:45:29.052 EROSION OF. IT'S OUR STATE 02:45:29.119 --> 02:45:30.720 SYSTEM OF CHECKS AND BALANCES. 02:45:30.787 --> 02:45:35.158 THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 02:45:35.225 --> 02:45:36.593 GOOD MORNING. RONALD KOEMAN 02:45:36.660 --> 02:45:38.361 HERE ON BEHALF OF CHIRLA, THE 02:45:38.428 --> 02:45:39.429 COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT 02:45:39.496 --> 02:45:40.530 RIGHTS. WE APPRECIATE THE 02:45:40.597 --> 02:45:41.831 LEGISLATURE, THE LEGISLATURE 02:45:41.898 --> 02:45:43.233 AND THE GOVERNOR FOR LEANING 02:45:43.300 --> 02:45:44.534 INTO CALIFORNIA'S LONG STANDING 02:45:44.601 --> 02:45:45.502 VALUES AND MAKING STRONG 02:45:45.568 --> 02:45:46.970 INVESTMENTS FOR IMMIGRANT 02:45:47.037 --> 02:45:48.071 COMMUNITIES. WE THANK YOU FOR 02:45:48.138 --> 02:45:49.039 THE ROBUST INVESTMENTS FOR 02:45:49.105 --> 02:45:50.073 LEGAL SERVICES, PARTICULARLY 02:45:50.140 --> 02:45:51.775 THE ONE CALIFORNIA PROGRAM, AND 02:45:51.841 --> 02:45:53.143 FOR THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND 02:45:53.209 --> 02:45:54.544 RESOURCES SPECIFICALLY TO 02:45:54.611 --> 02:45:56.746 CHIRLA REMOVAL DEFENSE PROGRAM. 02:45:56.813 --> 02:45:57.814 ADDITIONALLY, THANK YOU FOR 02:45:57.881 --> 02:45:58.882 REFUNDING THE ENHANCED SERVICES 02:45:58.948 --> 02:46:00.383 FOR ASYLEES AND VULNERABLE 02:46:00.450 --> 02:46:02.452 NON-CITIZENS PROGRAM. THIS 02:46:02.519 --> 02:46:04.321 PROGRAM WILL SUPPORT MANY OF 02:46:04.387 --> 02:46:05.689 THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN 02:46:05.755 --> 02:46:07.123 GRANTED ASYLUM, EITHER BEEN A 02:46:07.190 --> 02:46:09.025 VICTIM OF CRIME OR HAVE 02:46:09.092 --> 02:46:09.993 EXPERIENCED HUMAN TRAFFICKING, 02:46:10.060 --> 02:46:11.294 AND WILL GO A LONG WAY TO MAKE 02:46:11.361 --> 02:46:13.163 SURE THEY ARE SETTLED AND GET 02:46:13.229 --> 02:46:14.764 THE BASIC SERVICES THEY NEED. 02:46:14.831 --> 02:46:16.433 FINALLY, WE GIVE A SPECIAL 02:46:16.499 --> 02:46:17.500 THANKS TO THE LEGISLATURE FOR 02:46:17.567 --> 02:46:18.668 HOLDING THE LINE FOR ADVANCING 02:46:18.735 --> 02:46:20.904 AB 169 AND MAKING SURE THAT 02:46:20.970 --> 02:46:22.939 THERE WERE KEY GUARDRAILS IN 02:46:23.006 --> 02:46:24.274 PLACE BEFORE SHARING OUR 02:46:24.341 --> 02:46:26.543 DRIVER'S LICENSE DATA WITH 02:46:26.609 --> 02:46:27.644 AAMVA. WHILE WE REMAIN 02:46:27.711 --> 02:46:29.245 CONCERNED ABOUT THE SHARING OF 02:46:29.312 --> 02:46:30.513 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS, SOCIAL 02:46:30.580 --> 02:46:32.782 SECURITY NUMBERS, WE VERY MUCH 02:46:32.849 --> 02:46:34.417 APPRECIATE THAT THERE WILL BE A 02:46:34.484 --> 02:46:35.652 MONITORING PLAN, A STAKEHOLDER 02:46:35.719 --> 02:46:37.387 ADVISORY PROCESS, ENFORCEMENT, 02:46:37.454 --> 02:46:38.688 AND AN AUDIT. WE VERY MUCH 02:46:38.755 --> 02:46:40.190 AGREE WITH SENATOR RICHARDSON'S 02:46:40.256 --> 02:46:41.291 COMMENTS. WE THINK AN AUDIT 02:46:41.358 --> 02:46:43.193 SHOULD PROBABLY HAPPEN EARLIER, 02:46:43.259 --> 02:46:44.894 BUT WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THE 02:46:44.961 --> 02:46:46.629 WORK. THIS IS A GOOD START. 02:46:46.696 --> 02:46:47.731 THERE'S STILL MORE WORK TO DO 02:46:47.797 --> 02:46:49.833 TO SEAL DATA, AND WE CONTINUE 02:46:49.899 --> 02:46:51.468 TO WORK WITH THE LEGISLATURE ON 02:46:51.534 --> 02:46:52.902 THAT ISSUE. THANK YOU. THANK 02:46:52.969 --> 02:46:54.971 YOU VERY MUCH. JUST BEFORE THE 02:46:55.038 --> 02:46:57.607 NEXT PERSON STARTS, LET ME SAY 02:46:57.674 --> 02:46:59.743 TO ALL COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT 02:46:59.809 --> 02:47:01.244 ARE LISTENING OR STAFF MEMBERS 02:47:01.311 --> 02:47:02.612 THAT ARE LISTENING, WE HAVE 02:47:02.679 --> 02:47:05.115 ROUGHLY 15 SPEAKERS LEFT. IT IS 02:47:05.181 --> 02:47:06.916 MY HOPE THAT WE WILL START 02:47:06.983 --> 02:47:09.052 VOTING IN 15 MINUTES. AND SO I 02:47:09.119 --> 02:47:10.787 HOPE THAT MEMBERS OF THE BUDGET 02:47:10.854 --> 02:47:12.255 COMMITTEE START TO MAKE THEIR 02:47:12.322 --> 02:47:14.491 WAY BACK TO THE COMMITTEE ROOM 02:47:14.557 --> 02:47:16.526 SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO PUT 02:47:16.593 --> 02:47:20.430 THIS ON CALL. WELCOME. THANK 02:47:20.497 --> 02:47:23.133 YOU. CHAIR. CALIFORNIANS LIVING 02:47:23.199 --> 02:47:25.301 WITH SICKLE CELL SICKLE CELL 02:47:25.368 --> 02:47:27.070 WARRIORS DESERVE QUALITY CARE 02:47:27.137 --> 02:47:28.638 AND DIGNITY. YET THEIR DISEASE 02:47:28.705 --> 02:47:31.007 AND NEEDS HAVE NEVER BEEN 02:47:31.074 --> 02:47:32.142 EQUITABLY TREATED. THE 02:47:32.208 --> 02:47:33.209 CALIFORNIA BUDGET YOU ALL ARE 02:47:33.276 --> 02:47:34.944 FINALIZING RIGHT NOW SUPPORTS 02:47:35.011 --> 02:47:36.413 MANY GREAT AND NECESSARY 02:47:36.479 --> 02:47:37.981 PROGRAMS. UNFORTUNATELY, THERE 02:47:38.047 --> 02:47:40.016 IS NO FUNDING DEDICATED TO 02:47:40.083 --> 02:47:42.218 SUSTAINING NO COST EMERGENCY 02:47:42.285 --> 02:47:43.253 TRANSPORTATION, MENTAL HEALTH 02:47:43.319 --> 02:47:44.287 PROFESSIONALS, MEDICAL 02:47:44.354 --> 02:47:45.822 EQUIPMENT, SITE OF CARE, 02:47:45.889 --> 02:47:47.657 PATIENT ADVOCACY FOR WARRIORS 02:47:47.724 --> 02:47:49.993 TO SAVE AND AND PROLONG LIVES. 02:47:50.059 --> 02:47:51.895 THESE SURVIVAL SERVICES MUST BE 02:47:51.961 --> 02:47:53.396 AVAILABLE OUTSIDE OF CLINIC 02:47:53.463 --> 02:47:55.165 HOURS AND BEYOND HOSPITAL WALLS. 02:47:55.231 --> 02:47:56.666 THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT JUST 02:47:56.733 --> 02:47:58.001 STOPPED FUNDING A 60 YEAR 02:47:58.067 --> 02:47:59.369 SICKLE CELL PROGRAM, AND HEALTH 02:47:59.436 --> 02:48:01.104 CARE PLANS ARE NOT PAYING FOR 02:48:01.171 --> 02:48:03.106 THESE CRITICAL SUPPORTS. 02:48:03.173 --> 02:48:05.575 CALIFORNIA CAN AND SHOULD 02:48:05.642 --> 02:48:07.377 PREVENT AVOIDABLE PAIN, CRISIS, 02:48:07.444 --> 02:48:08.812 EMERGENCY VISITS AND CARE 02:48:08.878 --> 02:48:10.580 DENIAL. WE'RE ASKING YOU ALL TO 02:48:10.647 --> 02:48:12.015 PLEASE COMMIT TO DISCUSSING, AT 02:48:12.081 --> 02:48:13.917 THE VERY LEAST, INVESTMENT IN 02:48:13.983 --> 02:48:15.585 SURVIVAL SERVICES FOR WARRIORS. 02:48:15.652 --> 02:48:16.753 MY NAME IS CARMEN NICOLE COX. 02:48:16.820 --> 02:48:18.588 MY CLIENT IS CHI AND WELLNESS 02:48:18.655 --> 02:48:20.757 CENTER. IT IS A STATEWIDE 02:48:20.824 --> 02:48:22.926 WARRIOR LED WARRIOR SAVING 02:48:22.992 --> 02:48:23.927 ORGANIZATION. IT'S BEEN AROUND 02:48:23.993 --> 02:48:25.128 FOR 20 YEARS. THANK YOU. THANK 02:48:25.195 --> 02:48:30.099 YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. THANK 02:48:30.166 --> 02:48:31.901 YOU. EDWARD HASBROUCK WITH THE 02:48:31.968 --> 02:48:33.703 IDENTITY PROJECT. IN OPPOSITION 02:48:33.770 --> 02:48:35.805 TO THE FUNDING AND LEGISLATIVE 02:48:35.872 --> 02:48:37.240 CHANGES TO ALLOW THE DMV TO 02:48:37.307 --> 02:48:39.809 UPLOAD INFORMATION ABOUT ALL 02:48:39.876 --> 02:48:41.277 CALIFORNIANS TO MVA'S NATIONAL 02:48:41.344 --> 02:48:43.813 ID DATABASE. ONCE THIS DATA IS 02:48:43.880 --> 02:48:45.615 UPLOADED TO AAMVA, THE 02:48:45.682 --> 02:48:47.450 GUARDRAILS IN THIS BILL WOULD 02:48:47.517 --> 02:48:49.252 DO NOTHING TO PROTECT 02:48:49.319 --> 02:48:50.420 CALIFORNIANS AGAINST THE THREAT 02:48:50.487 --> 02:48:51.955 THAT FEDERAL OR OTHER STATES. 02:48:52.021 --> 02:48:53.957 LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES COULD 02:48:54.023 --> 02:48:55.592 OBTAIN AN ORDER REQUIRING THEM 02:48:55.658 --> 02:48:58.561 TO HAND OVER THIS DATA IN BULK, 02:48:58.628 --> 02:49:00.730 AND PROHIBITING AN VÀ FROM 02:49:00.797 --> 02:49:02.098 DISCLOSING THAT ORDER. 02:49:02.165 --> 02:49:03.600 CALIFORNIA WILL NEITHER KNOW 02:49:03.666 --> 02:49:05.034 THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED NOR BE 02:49:05.101 --> 02:49:06.803 ABLE TO CHALLENGE IT, NOR WILL 02:49:06.870 --> 02:49:09.005 THIS BE VISIBLE TO THE AUDIT 02:49:09.072 --> 02:49:10.039 ALLUDED TO BY SENATOR 02:49:10.106 --> 02:49:12.208 RICHARDSON. THE WAY TO PROTECT 02:49:12.275 --> 02:49:14.077 THE VULNERABLE CALIFORNIANS, 02:49:14.143 --> 02:49:15.378 PARTICULARLY IMMIGRANT AND 02:49:15.445 --> 02:49:16.913 TRANSGENDER CALIFORNIANS, 02:49:16.980 --> 02:49:19.482 AGAINST WHOM THIS DATA WILL BE 02:49:19.549 --> 02:49:20.884 WEAPONIZED, IS TO REMOVE THIS 02:49:20.950 --> 02:49:22.352 FUNDING FROM THE BUDGET AND 02:49:22.418 --> 02:49:23.820 REMOVE THIS LANGUAGE FROM THE 02:49:23.887 --> 02:49:26.222 TRAILER BILL 169. THIS IS A 02:49:26.289 --> 02:49:27.223 POLICY MATTER THAT DOESN'T 02:49:27.290 --> 02:49:28.358 BELONG IN THE BUDGET. THERE'S 02:49:28.424 --> 02:49:30.627 NO URGENCY, NO LEGAL DEADLINE, 02:49:30.693 --> 02:49:33.229 A DATE SET PURELY FOR 02:49:33.296 --> 02:49:34.597 CONVENIENCE. AND THERE'S AN 02:49:34.664 --> 02:49:35.665 ALTERNATIVE TO WORK WITH THE 02:49:35.732 --> 02:49:37.100 ATTORNEY GENERAL TO PREPARE TO 02:49:37.166 --> 02:49:39.669 DEFEND CALIFORNIANS. IF THE DHS 02:49:39.736 --> 02:49:40.570 TRIES TO CARRY OUT THEIR 02:49:40.637 --> 02:49:42.071 LAWLESS THREATS TO INTERFERE 02:49:42.138 --> 02:49:43.439 WITH OUR RIGHT TO TRAVEL. THANK 02:49:43.506 --> 02:49:47.076 YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD 02:49:47.143 --> 02:49:48.177 AFTERNOON, ANDREW MARTINEZ, 02:49:48.244 --> 02:49:48.878 COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEAGUE OF 02:49:48.945 --> 02:49:49.946 CALIFORNIA. WE ARE DEEPLY 02:49:50.013 --> 02:49:50.914 APPRECIATIVE OF THE FINAL 02:49:50.980 --> 02:49:52.315 BUDGET AGREEMENT THAT SUPPORTS 02:49:52.382 --> 02:49:53.483 OUR STUDENTS. SPECIFICALLY, 02:49:53.550 --> 02:49:54.317 WE'RE FOCUSED ON THE 02:49:54.384 --> 02:49:55.418 INVESTMENTS ON ENROLLMENT AND 02:49:55.485 --> 02:49:56.419 THE STUDENT EQUITY AND 02:49:56.486 --> 02:49:57.420 ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM. THANK YOU 02:49:57.487 --> 02:49:58.621 SO MUCH FOR. THANK YOU VERY 02:49:58.688 --> 02:50:04.727 MUCH. HELLO. I'M HERE ON BEHALF 02:50:04.794 --> 02:50:07.063 OF ACLU. CAL ACTION. WANTED TO 02:50:07.130 --> 02:50:09.065 START BY THANKING THE SENATE 02:50:09.132 --> 02:50:10.900 FOR INCLUDING IN CONSIDERING 02:50:10.967 --> 02:50:13.069 THE ADDITIONAL SAFEGUARDS AS IT 02:50:13.136 --> 02:50:14.837 RELATES TO THE IMPLEMENTATION 02:50:14.904 --> 02:50:17.740 OF REAL ID AND VÀ. WE ALSO 02:50:17.807 --> 02:50:19.142 WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THE ONGOING 02:50:19.208 --> 02:50:20.910 CONCERNS THAT OUR ORGANIZATION 02:50:20.977 --> 02:50:23.112 STILL HAS, PARTICULARLY AROUND 02:50:23.179 --> 02:50:25.248 PRIVACY. ULTIMATELY, THE USE OF 02:50:25.315 --> 02:50:27.417 SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS AND ITS 02:50:27.483 --> 02:50:28.518 POTENTIAL IMPACT ON 02:50:28.585 --> 02:50:30.753 UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS REMAINS 02:50:30.820 --> 02:50:32.088 PROBLEMATIC. AND WE HOPE THAT, 02:50:32.155 --> 02:50:33.890 YOU KNOW, IN THE FUTURE, WE CAN 02:50:33.957 --> 02:50:35.725 CONTINUE TO WORK ON POTENTIAL 02:50:35.792 --> 02:50:36.492 LEGISLATION TO ADDRESS SOME OF 02:50:36.559 --> 02:50:38.294 THESE OUTSTANDING ISSUES. THANK 02:50:38.361 --> 02:50:40.830 YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOOD 02:50:40.897 --> 02:50:41.898 MORNING, CAROL GONZALEZ, ON 02:50:41.965 --> 02:50:43.299 BEHALF OF ORGANIZED FOR 02:50:43.366 --> 02:50:44.701 POLITICAL EQUALITY. HOPE, WE 02:50:44.767 --> 02:50:46.035 REALLY JUST WANT TO TAKE A 02:50:46.102 --> 02:50:47.203 MOMENT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR 02:50:47.270 --> 02:50:48.371 YOUR LEADERSHIP, TO BUDGET 02:50:48.438 --> 02:50:50.006 STAFF AND TO THE GOVERNOR'S 02:50:50.073 --> 02:50:51.074 OFFICE FOR THE FUNDING TO 02:50:51.140 --> 02:50:52.642 SUPPORT PROGRAMING FOR HOPE. WE 02:50:52.709 --> 02:50:54.077 ALSO WANT TO EXTEND OUR 02:50:54.143 --> 02:50:55.111 APPRECIATION FOR THE DUAL 02:50:55.178 --> 02:50:56.245 ENROLLMENT TRAILER BILL 02:50:56.312 --> 02:50:57.714 LANGUAGE, WHICH INCLUDES SOME 02:50:57.780 --> 02:50:59.148 POLICIES THAT HOPE HAS BEEN 02:50:59.215 --> 02:50:59.882 ADVOCATING FOR OVER THE PAST 02:50:59.949 --> 02:51:02.785 FEW YEARS. AND WE ALSO WANT TO 02:51:02.852 --> 02:51:04.454 SHARE APPRECIATION FOR THE CAL 02:51:04.520 --> 02:51:06.356 GRANT AGE INCREASE THAT'S IN 02:51:06.422 --> 02:51:08.491 THE EDUCATION TRAILER, FUNDING 02:51:08.558 --> 02:51:10.293 FOR THE BILINGUAL EDUCATORS, 02:51:10.360 --> 02:51:12.428 THE SEED GRANT FUNDING, AND 02:51:12.495 --> 02:51:13.796 ECHOING THE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL 02:51:13.863 --> 02:51:15.398 COMMENTS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU 02:51:15.465 --> 02:51:21.070 VERY MUCH. GOOD MORNING, ANA 02:51:21.137 --> 02:51:22.505 SANTIAGO WITH LATINO ADVOCATES 02:51:22.572 --> 02:51:23.906 ON BEHALF OF THE CAL STATE 02:51:23.973 --> 02:51:25.274 STUDENTS ASSOCIATION, THE 02:51:25.341 --> 02:51:26.876 OFFICIAL VOICE OF THE CSU 02:51:26.943 --> 02:51:28.211 STUDENTS, WE'D LIKE TO SHARE 02:51:28.277 --> 02:51:29.679 OUR APPRECIATION FOR THE FULLY 02:51:29.746 --> 02:51:31.114 FUNDING OF THE COMPACT, 02:51:31.180 --> 02:51:32.949 INCREASING CAL CAL GRANT AGE 02:51:33.016 --> 02:51:34.751 AND MIDDLE CLASS FUNDS, ALSO ON 02:51:34.817 --> 02:51:35.818 BEHALF OF INCLUSIVE ACTION FOR 02:51:35.885 --> 02:51:37.587 THE CITY, ALONG WITH OUR 02:51:37.654 --> 02:51:39.055 ECONOMIC MOBILITY FOR ALL 02:51:39.122 --> 02:51:40.189 COALITION, WE'D LIKE TO SHARE 02:51:40.256 --> 02:51:42.325 OUR APPRECIATION FOR THE SOCIAL 02:51:42.392 --> 02:51:43.726 ENTREPRENEURS FOR ECONOMIC 02:51:43.793 --> 02:51:45.161 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SEED 02:51:45.228 --> 02:51:46.629 FUNDING. WE ALSO WOULD LIKE TO 02:51:46.696 --> 02:51:48.031 THANK OUR CHAMPIONS ASSEMBLY 02:51:48.097 --> 02:51:49.832 MEMBER CARRILLO AND SENATOR 02:51:49.899 --> 02:51:51.434 BECKER, THE BUDGET STAFF AND 02:51:51.501 --> 02:51:53.169 THE LEADERSHIP FOR THIS 02:51:53.236 --> 02:51:55.304 INVESTMENT. THE CONTINUATION OF 02:51:55.371 --> 02:51:56.205 THE GOVERNOR'S INVESTMENT IN 02:51:56.272 --> 02:51:57.306 OUR COMMUNITIES. THANK YOU. 02:51:57.373 --> 02:52:02.178 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. 02:52:02.245 --> 02:52:04.781 GOOD AFTERNOON. A POLICY GROUP 02:52:04.847 --> 02:52:05.882 HERE ON BEHALF OF CENTRAL 02:52:05.948 --> 02:52:07.216 AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER. WE'D 02:52:07.283 --> 02:52:08.184 LIKE TO SHARE OUR GREAT 02:52:08.251 --> 02:52:09.485 APPRECIATION FOR THE INCREASING 02:52:09.552 --> 02:52:10.353 AND FUNDING FOR IMMIGRATION 02:52:10.420 --> 02:52:11.821 LEGAL SERVICES, AND WOULD LIKE 02:52:11.888 --> 02:52:12.989 TO UPLIFT THE HEALTH CARE FOR 02:52:13.056 --> 02:52:14.824 ALL COALITION'S COMMENTS. 02:52:14.891 --> 02:52:15.558 ADDITIONALLY, ON BEHALF OF LONG 02:52:15.625 --> 02:52:17.126 BEACH CITY COLLEGE AND GAVILAN 02:52:17.193 --> 02:52:18.327 COLLEGE, ALIGNING OUR COMMENTS 02:52:18.394 --> 02:52:19.696 WITH ANDY FROM THE LEAGUE AND 02:52:19.762 --> 02:52:20.763 APPRECIATION. THANK YOU. THANK 02:52:20.830 --> 02:52:24.167 YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. THANK 02:52:24.233 --> 02:52:25.601 YOU. HELLO. SAM WILKINSON WITH 02:52:25.668 --> 02:52:27.937 IN CHILD POVERTY IN CALIFORNIA. 02:52:28.004 --> 02:52:29.939 WE'D LIKE TO ALIGN OUR COMMENTS 02:52:30.006 --> 02:52:31.307 WITH HEALTH ACCESS, SEIU AND 02:52:31.374 --> 02:52:32.675 THE WESTERN CENTER ON LAW AND 02:52:32.742 --> 02:52:33.776 POVERTY IN TERMS OF PUBLIC 02:52:33.843 --> 02:52:35.545 HEALTH ISSUES AND REVENUES. WE 02:52:35.611 --> 02:52:37.046 THANK YOU FOR RENAMING TRUMP 02:52:37.113 --> 02:52:39.515 ACCOUNTS TO 530 Ã ACCOUNTS AND 02:52:39.582 --> 02:52:40.983 ENSURING THEIR REAL PROTECTIONS 02:52:41.050 --> 02:52:42.819 ADOPTED FOR LOW INCOME FAMILIES. 02:52:42.885 --> 02:52:44.420 THE NAME OF A PUBLIC PROGRAM IS 02:52:44.487 --> 02:52:45.688 NOT MERELY SYMBOLIC. IT SHAPES 02:52:45.755 --> 02:52:47.090 WHO FEELS WELCOMED, REPRESENTED 02:52:47.156 --> 02:52:48.858 AND WILLING TO PARTICIPATE IN 02:52:48.925 --> 02:52:49.926 TERMS OF FOOD ASSISTANCE. WE'D 02:52:49.992 --> 02:52:51.294 LIKE TO ALIGN OUR COMMENTS WITH 02:52:51.360 --> 02:52:52.395 THE CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF 02:52:52.462 --> 02:52:53.529 FOOD BANKS, BUT WE ARE ALSO 02:52:53.596 --> 02:52:54.664 DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED THAT THIS 02:52:54.731 --> 02:52:56.432 BUDGET FAILS TO INCLUDE A FAT 02:52:56.499 --> 02:52:57.767 PLUS SOLUTION FOR HOUSEHOLDS 02:52:57.834 --> 02:52:58.968 BEING KICKED OFF OF CALFRESH. 02:52:59.035 --> 02:53:00.670 DUE TO H.R. ONE, OUR CHILDREN 02:53:00.737 --> 02:53:01.871 AND FAMILIES WILL GO HUNGRY IF 02:53:01.938 --> 02:53:03.606 THE STATE DOES NOT ACT THIS 02:53:03.673 --> 02:53:05.808 YEAR. AND WILL WE FAIL TO GIVE 02:53:05.875 --> 02:53:07.276 THESE FAMILIES HOPE? WE ARE 02:53:07.343 --> 02:53:08.377 DISAPPOINTED. THIS BUDGET FAILS 02:53:08.444 --> 02:53:09.912 TO INCLUDE A CARE FUND, A 02:53:09.979 --> 02:53:10.446 COMMUNITY DRIVEN SOLUTION 02:53:10.513 --> 02:53:11.681 DEVELOPED DIRECTLY BY THOSE 02:53:11.748 --> 02:53:13.750 MOST IMPACTED BY THE EDEN FIRE. 02:53:13.816 --> 02:53:14.817 ALTADENA RESIDENTS WILL 02:53:14.884 --> 02:53:15.618 CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR GRANTS, 02:53:15.685 --> 02:53:17.320 NOT JUST LOANS, TO ENSURE THAT 02:53:17.386 --> 02:53:18.287 HOMEOWNERS CAN REBUILD THEIR 02:53:18.354 --> 02:53:19.589 HOMES AND RENTERS CAN RETURN TO 02:53:19.655 --> 02:53:22.425 THE COMMUNITY. THANK YOU, THANK 02:53:22.492 --> 02:53:24.127 YOU. AND JUST BEFORE I DO IT, 02:53:24.193 --> 02:53:26.062 LET ME JUST SAY ONCE AGAIN, WE 02:53:26.129 --> 02:53:28.531 HAVE TEN PEOPLE LEFT IN LINE TO 02:53:28.598 --> 02:53:29.899 SPEAK. AND SO WOULD MEMBERS 02:53:29.966 --> 02:53:31.701 PLEASE RETURN TO THE COMMITTEE 02:53:31.768 --> 02:53:33.936 ROOM BECAUSE WE WILL TAKING 02:53:34.003 --> 02:53:35.338 MOTIONS AND VOTING WHEN WE'RE 02:53:35.404 --> 02:53:37.306 DONE WITH THE SPEAKERS. WELCOME 02:53:37.373 --> 02:53:38.641 TO THE COMMITTEE. THANK YOU. 02:53:38.708 --> 02:53:40.009 ADAM DORSEY, CALIFORNIA 02:53:40.076 --> 02:53:41.010 HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION. I JUST 02:53:41.077 --> 02:53:42.145 WANT TO THANK ALL OF THE 02:53:42.211 --> 02:53:43.412 ADMINISTRATION, STAFF AND ALL 02:53:43.479 --> 02:53:45.281 OF THE LEGISLATURE FOR ALL THE 02:53:45.348 --> 02:53:46.449 HARD WORK THAT GOES INTO THESE 02:53:46.516 --> 02:53:48.551 BUDGETS. AND THANK YOU FOR THE 02:53:48.618 --> 02:53:49.685 LIFELINE FOR DISTRESSED AND 02:53:49.752 --> 02:53:50.753 PUBLIC HOSPITALS. THANK YOU. 02:53:50.820 --> 02:53:54.357 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. 02:53:54.423 --> 02:53:56.159 GOOD AFTERNOON, CHLOE, WITH THE 02:53:56.225 --> 02:53:57.326 CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY 02:53:57.393 --> 02:53:58.394 CENTER. WANT TO ALIGN OUR 02:53:58.461 --> 02:53:59.395 COMMENTS WITH OUR PARTNERS AT 02:53:59.462 --> 02:54:00.530 HEALTH ACCESS REGARDING THE 02:54:00.596 --> 02:54:02.331 DELAYS TO MEDI-CAL. THANK YOU 02:54:02.398 --> 02:54:04.000 FOR HOLDING THE LINE FOR OUR 02:54:04.066 --> 02:54:04.467 IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES, 02:54:04.534 --> 02:54:06.636 INCLUDING THE NEARLY 200,000 02:54:06.702 --> 02:54:07.770 CALIFORNIANS WHO ARE NEWLY 02:54:07.837 --> 02:54:08.905 EXCLUDED FROM FULL SCOPE CARE 02:54:08.971 --> 02:54:10.973 AS A RESULT OF H.R. ONE. WE'RE 02:54:11.040 --> 02:54:11.941 LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING 02:54:12.008 --> 02:54:13.442 TOGETHER NEXT YEAR TO MOVE BACK 02:54:13.509 --> 02:54:14.544 TOWARDS A PLACE THAT TRULY 02:54:14.610 --> 02:54:16.412 PROVIDES HEALTH CARE FOR ALL. 02:54:16.479 --> 02:54:17.747 WANT TO ALSO EXPRESS OUR 02:54:17.814 --> 02:54:19.248 APPRECIATION FOR THE RIVAS 02:54:19.315 --> 02:54:20.383 REINVESTMENT IN SEED FUNDING 02:54:20.449 --> 02:54:21.417 THAT WILL BE INVALUABLE FOR 02:54:21.484 --> 02:54:23.186 IMMIGRANT ENTREPRENEURS AMID 02:54:23.252 --> 02:54:25.021 ONGOING ATTACKS TO THEIR ACCESS 02:54:25.087 --> 02:54:27.890 TO CAPITAL. FINALLY, WANT TO 02:54:27.957 --> 02:54:29.158 ACKNOWLEDGE THE QUICK WORK DONE 02:54:29.225 --> 02:54:30.226 TO CREATE GUARDRAILS FOR THE 02:54:30.293 --> 02:54:31.861 STATE TO STATE CONTRACT WITH A 02:54:31.928 --> 02:54:33.696 M VÆ A THAT WE REMAIN CONCERNED 02:54:33.763 --> 02:54:34.797 ABOUT SHARING SENSITIVE 02:54:34.864 --> 02:54:36.499 INFORMATION WITH OUT-OF-STATE 02:54:36.566 --> 02:54:38.701 ENTITIES FOR AB 60 LICENSE 02:54:38.768 --> 02:54:39.702 HOLDERS. WE ARE APPRECIATIVE OF 02:54:39.769 --> 02:54:41.103 THE CONSIDERATIONS ALREADY 02:54:41.170 --> 02:54:42.505 TAKEN TO ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY 02:54:42.572 --> 02:54:44.040 AND OVERSIGHT WITHIN THIS 02:54:44.106 --> 02:54:45.408 CONTRACT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU 02:54:45.474 --> 02:54:50.580 VERY MUCH. WELCOME. GOOD 02:54:50.646 --> 02:54:52.014 AFTERNOON, MR. RAMOS, WITH THE 02:54:52.081 --> 02:54:53.516 CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY 02:54:53.583 --> 02:54:54.884 CENTER. WE'D LIKE TO THANK THE 02:54:54.951 --> 02:54:55.718 LEGISLATURE AND THE GOVERNOR 02:54:55.785 --> 02:54:57.720 FOR THE 100 MILLION ADDITIONAL 02:54:57.787 --> 02:54:58.788 INVESTMENTS FOR IMMIGRATION 02:54:58.855 --> 02:55:00.656 LEGAL SERVICES. THESE FUNDS ARE 02:55:00.723 --> 02:55:01.691 ESSENTIAL IN PROTECTING OUR 02:55:01.757 --> 02:55:03.125 IMMIGRANT FAMILIES AND 02:55:03.192 --> 02:55:04.527 COMMUNITIES. WE ALSO WANT TO 02:55:04.594 --> 02:55:05.595 THANK YOU FOR MAINTAINING THE 02:55:05.661 --> 02:55:07.129 PLANNED AUTOMATION FOR THE C 02:55:07.196 --> 02:55:09.699 FAB EXPANSION FOR 55 PLUS 02:55:09.765 --> 02:55:11.167 INDIVIDUALS, REGARDLESS OF 02:55:11.234 --> 02:55:12.735 IMMIGRATION STATUS. HOWEVER, WE 02:55:12.802 --> 02:55:14.737 ARE DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THE 5 02:55:14.804 --> 02:55:16.472 MILLION FOR THE AUTOMATION OF C 02:55:16.539 --> 02:55:19.008 PLUS C PLUS PROPOSAL WAS NOT 02:55:19.075 --> 02:55:20.109 INCLUDED. WE CANNOT LEAVE OUR 02:55:20.176 --> 02:55:21.510 MOST VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES 02:55:21.577 --> 02:55:22.712 WITHOUT FOOD ACCESS, AND WE 02:55:22.778 --> 02:55:24.247 LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO 02:55:24.313 --> 02:55:25.381 WORK WITH YOU ALL ON THE 02:55:25.448 --> 02:55:26.449 IMPORTANT ISSUE. THANK YOU. 02:55:26.515 --> 02:55:29.819 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. 02:55:29.886 --> 02:55:30.887 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR AND 02:55:30.953 --> 02:55:31.988 MEMBERS, RYAN SPENCER, ON 02:55:32.054 --> 02:55:33.122 BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE 02:55:33.189 --> 02:55:34.924 OF OB GYN'S, DISTRICT NINE AND 02:55:34.991 --> 02:55:36.292 THE CALIFORNIA MEDICAL 02:55:36.359 --> 02:55:37.360 ASSOCIATION, WE'D LIKE TO PUT 02:55:37.426 --> 02:55:38.527 OUR SUPPORT BEHIND THE COMMENTS 02:55:38.594 --> 02:55:40.563 MADE BY DOCTOR AKILAH WEBER 02:55:40.630 --> 02:55:42.064 PEARSON PERTAINING TO THE 02:55:42.131 --> 02:55:43.532 MENOPAUSE PROVISIONS OF THE 02:55:43.599 --> 02:55:45.301 COVERAGE OF MENOPAUSE 02:55:45.368 --> 02:55:47.770 PROVISIONS IN SB 164. WE DO 02:55:47.837 --> 02:55:48.938 HOPE YOU'LL CONSIDER THE 02:55:49.005 --> 02:55:50.306 AMENDMENTS THAT WERE PROPOSED 02:55:50.373 --> 02:55:52.074 BY ACOG IN KI¾M A. IN ANY 02:55:52.141 --> 02:55:53.976 FUTURE LEGISLATION THAT YOU DO 02:55:54.043 --> 02:55:55.711 DO PERTAINING TO THE HEALTH 02:55:55.778 --> 02:55:57.480 CARE BILL, WE DO BELIEVE THEY 02:55:57.546 --> 02:55:58.915 IMPROVE PATIENT CARE AND WILL 02:55:58.981 --> 02:56:01.117 PERCEIVE THE GOALS AND AND 02:56:01.183 --> 02:56:02.919 EMPHASIZE THE GOALS OF THE BILL. 02:56:02.985 --> 02:56:04.086 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU 02:56:04.153 --> 02:56:07.623 VERY MUCH. WELCOME. THANK YOU, 02:56:07.690 --> 02:56:09.025 CHAIR AND MEMBERS, TIFFANY MOCK, 02:56:09.091 --> 02:56:10.793 ON BEHALF OF C OF TÊ, A UNION 02:56:10.860 --> 02:56:12.328 OF EDUCATORS AND CLASSIFIED 02:56:12.395 --> 02:56:13.362 PROFESSIONALS. FIRST, THE THANK 02:56:13.429 --> 02:56:15.164 YOUS. THANK YOU FOR THE PAID 02:56:15.231 --> 02:56:17.300 PREGNANCY LEAVE THE 2.4 BILLION 02:56:17.366 --> 02:56:19.101 FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION. AND 02:56:19.168 --> 02:56:20.503 THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING THE 02:56:20.569 --> 02:56:21.604 FLEXIBILITY FOR COMMUNITY 02:56:21.671 --> 02:56:23.105 COLLEGE PART TIME HEALTH CARE 02:56:23.172 --> 02:56:24.540 FUND TO ALLOW FOR DENTAL AND 02:56:24.607 --> 02:56:26.042 VISION. AS FOR CONCERNS, WE 02:56:26.108 --> 02:56:28.010 HOPE TO FIND A SOLUTION FOR THE 02:56:28.077 --> 02:56:28.978 COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICTS TO 02:56:29.045 --> 02:56:30.346 FUND PART TIME OFFICE HOURS, AS 02:56:30.413 --> 02:56:32.148 THEY FACE A 79% DECREASE IN 02:56:32.214 --> 02:56:33.916 FUNDING THIS FISCAL YEAR. 02:56:33.983 --> 02:56:34.951 ADDITIONALLY, WE REMAIN VERY 02:56:35.017 --> 02:56:37.086 CONCERNED WITH THE $3.9 BILLION 02:56:37.153 --> 02:56:39.322 WITHHOLDING FOR PROP 98, AS 02:56:39.388 --> 02:56:41.524 WELL AS THE FISCAL PRESSURES BY 02:56:41.590 --> 02:56:43.259 ADDING TO THE NON LOCAL 02:56:43.326 --> 02:56:44.393 EDUCATIONAL AGENCY STATE 02:56:44.460 --> 02:56:46.228 PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS. WE ALSO 02:56:46.295 --> 02:56:50.466 OPPOSE AB 188 AS A 181. THE 02:56:50.533 --> 02:56:51.801 PROPOSAL TO STRIP THE AUTHORITY 02:56:51.867 --> 02:56:53.336 OF THE STATE SUPERINTENDENT AND 02:56:53.402 --> 02:56:54.804 INSTEAD MOVE OVERSIGHT TO THE 02:56:54.870 --> 02:56:56.572 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR 02:56:56.639 --> 02:56:57.974 REASONS THAT HAVE BEEN ALREADY 02:56:58.040 --> 02:56:59.442 MENTIONED. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH 02:56:59.508 --> 02:57:02.745 AND HAVE A GREAT DAY. THANK YOU. 02:57:02.812 --> 02:57:06.415 WELCOME. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS 02:57:06.482 --> 02:57:08.117 DAHLIA KING. I'M HERE ON BEHALF 02:57:08.184 --> 02:57:11.320 OF UW ASMI LOCAL 3930. I'M 02:57:11.387 --> 02:57:13.556 SPEAKING MORE DIRECTLY TO OUR 02:57:13.622 --> 02:57:15.992 JOINT PARTNERSHIP WITH CCP. YOU. 02:57:16.058 --> 02:57:17.927 WE APPRECIATE THE ALLOCATION TO 02:57:17.994 --> 02:57:19.261 CHILD CARE PROVIDERS AFFECTED 02:57:19.328 --> 02:57:21.030 BY WILDFIRES AND WORK, AND WILL 02:57:21.097 --> 02:57:22.131 WORK WITH THE DEPARTMENT TO 02:57:22.198 --> 02:57:23.199 ENSURE THOSE FUNDS ARE 02:57:23.265 --> 02:57:24.734 DISBURSED PROMPTLY. THE 02:57:24.800 --> 02:57:27.803 ADDITIONAL CHILD CARE SLOTS ARE 02:57:27.870 --> 02:57:29.105 PROVIDED ARE MEANINGFUL SUPPORT 02:57:29.171 --> 02:57:31.107 TO FAMILIES THAT PROVIDERS 02:57:31.173 --> 02:57:33.109 SERVE TODAY. WE ALSO RECOGNIZE 02:57:33.175 --> 02:57:36.178 THAT THE 2.01% INCREASE FOR 02:57:36.245 --> 02:57:38.280 PROVIDER PAY, BUT FURTHER, 02:57:38.347 --> 02:57:39.415 IMMEDIATE AND LONG TERM 02:57:39.482 --> 02:57:40.816 PROGRESS IS NECESSARY, 02:57:40.883 --> 02:57:41.951 PARTICULARLY WITH NEW. WITH THE 02:57:42.018 --> 02:57:44.420 NEW REQUIREMENTS IN THIS BUDGET, 02:57:44.487 --> 02:57:45.888 WE WILL CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE 02:57:45.955 --> 02:57:47.289 FOR GREATER FINANCIAL SUPPORT, 02:57:47.356 --> 02:57:48.924 AND IT REMAINS ESSENTIAL TO 02:57:48.991 --> 02:57:51.260 ADOPT THE TRUE COST OF CARE. 02:57:51.327 --> 02:57:52.395 CCP WILL FOLLOW UP WITH A 02:57:52.461 --> 02:57:53.929 LETTER DETAILING OUR RESPONSES 02:57:53.996 --> 02:57:54.563 THROUGHOUT THE BUDGET. SO THANK 02:57:54.630 --> 02:57:58.868 YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. GOOD 02:57:58.934 --> 02:58:00.036 AFTERNOON, CHAIR AND MEMBERS. 02:58:00.102 --> 02:58:01.070 MONICA MADRID WITH THE 02:58:01.137 --> 02:58:02.171 COALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT 02:58:02.238 --> 02:58:03.472 RIGHTS. CHIRLA WOULD LIKE TO 02:58:03.539 --> 02:58:05.241 THANK THE LEGISLATURE AND THE 02:58:05.307 --> 02:58:06.275 GOVERNOR FOR THE INVESTMENT IN 02:58:06.342 --> 02:58:07.510 CALIFORNIA'S IMMIGRANT 02:58:07.576 --> 02:58:08.511 COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THIS 02:58:08.577 --> 02:58:10.312 YEAR'S BUDGET, INCLUDING 02:58:10.379 --> 02:58:11.814 FUNDING FOR HIGH SCHOOL DREAM 02:58:11.881 --> 02:58:13.582 RESOURCE CENTERS. THE NEW 02:58:13.649 --> 02:58:17.186 IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER, AND 02:58:17.253 --> 02:58:18.687 WITH DELAYING PROPOSED CUTS 02:58:18.754 --> 02:58:20.456 AFFECTING H.R. ONE POPULATIONS 02:58:20.523 --> 02:58:22.691 AT ACCESS TO MEDI-CAL. WE ALSO 02:58:22.758 --> 02:58:24.360 WANT TO ALIGN OUR COMMENTS WITH 02:58:24.427 --> 02:58:25.561 THE CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY 02:58:25.628 --> 02:58:26.929 CENTER AND HEALTH ACCESS WITH 02:58:26.996 --> 02:58:28.764 THE HEALTH FOR ALL COALITION 02:58:28.831 --> 02:58:30.132 REGARDING MEDI-CAL ACCESS, AND 02:58:30.199 --> 02:58:31.267 THEN ALIGN OUR COMMENTS WITH 02:58:31.333 --> 02:58:33.035 THE CALIFORNIA IMMIGRANT POLICY 02:58:33.102 --> 02:58:34.370 CENTER REGARDING CONTINUED 02:58:34.437 --> 02:58:36.238 ACCESS TO THE CFAP PROGRAM. 02:58:36.305 --> 02:58:39.575 THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 02:58:39.642 --> 02:58:41.377 WELCOME. GOOD AFTERNOON, MR. 02:58:41.444 --> 02:58:42.478 CHAIR, AND MEMBERS, RAYMOND 02:58:42.545 --> 02:58:43.779 CONTRERAS, ON BEHALF OF FULL. 02:58:43.846 --> 02:58:45.214 WELL, I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE 02:58:45.281 --> 02:58:46.515 LEGISLATURE FOR THE FINAL 02:58:46.582 --> 02:58:47.416 AGREEMENT IN THE BUDGET, 02:58:47.483 --> 02:58:49.652 SPECIFICALLY REGARDING FRESH 02:58:49.718 --> 02:58:51.754 FRUIT AND VEGETABLE EBT PROGRAM, 02:58:51.821 --> 02:58:53.622 AND THIS WILL HELP SUPPORT OUR 02:58:53.689 --> 02:58:54.790 MOST VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES 02:58:54.857 --> 02:58:56.358 WHILE ALSO SUPPORTING OUR 02:58:56.425 --> 02:58:57.893 FARMERS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 02:58:57.960 --> 02:59:01.230 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR 02:59:01.297 --> 02:59:03.032 AND MEMBERS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR 02:59:03.099 --> 02:59:04.033 TIME. MY NAME IS KAT BRACHMAN 02:59:04.100 --> 02:59:05.101 WITH THE CALIFORNIA SCHOOL 02:59:05.167 --> 02:59:05.968 EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION. I'D LIKE 02:59:06.035 --> 02:59:10.139 TO ECHO MY COLLEAGUE FROM CFT S 02:59:10.206 --> 02:59:12.641 STATEMENTS ON THE PROP 98 02:59:12.708 --> 02:59:14.376 WITHHOLDING AND THE PAID 02:59:14.443 --> 02:59:15.778 PREGNANCY LEAVE. AND WE ALSO 02:59:15.845 --> 02:59:17.313 STAND IN RESPECTFUL OPPOSITION 02:59:17.379 --> 02:59:19.582 TO SB 181, WHICH SUBVERTS THE 02:59:19.648 --> 02:59:20.916 WILL OF CALIFORNIA VOTERS AND 02:59:20.983 --> 02:59:21.984 REMOVES A VITAL CHECK IN 02:59:22.051 --> 02:59:23.385 STATEWIDE EDUCATION GOVERNANCE. 02:59:23.452 --> 02:59:25.187 ON THREE SEPARATE OCCASIONS, 02:59:25.254 --> 02:59:26.288 CALIFORNIA VOTERS HAVE REJECTED 02:59:26.355 --> 02:59:27.523 PROPOSALS TO REDUCE THE POWER 02:59:27.590 --> 02:59:29.625 OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC 02:59:29.692 --> 02:59:30.826 EDUCATION AND ON TWO OCCASIONS, 02:59:30.893 --> 02:59:33.562 ONE AS RECENTLY AS 2023ACAS TO 02:59:33.629 --> 02:59:35.231 REDUCE THE POWER OF THE SPI 02:59:35.297 --> 02:59:36.365 HAVE FAILED AN INDEPENDENT 02:59:36.432 --> 02:59:37.666 ELECTED S P. I WILL ALWAYS BE 02:59:37.733 --> 02:59:39.468 MORE RESPONSIVE TO THE NEEDS OF 02:59:39.535 --> 02:59:40.569 VOTERS, EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS 02:59:40.636 --> 02:59:42.204 THAN EVEN THE MOST WELL-MEANING 02:59:42.271 --> 02:59:43.806 APPOINTED OFFICIAL. ELIMINATING 02:59:43.873 --> 02:59:45.074 THE CORE DUTIES OF THE SPI 02:59:45.141 --> 02:59:46.008 REMOVES THE ESSENTIAL CHECKS 02:59:46.075 --> 02:59:47.743 AND BALANCES INTENDED TO ENSURE 02:59:47.810 --> 02:59:48.844 THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE GOVERNED 02:59:48.911 --> 02:59:50.613 BY THE PUBLIC'S INTEREST. NOT A 02:59:50.679 --> 02:59:51.213 SINGLE OFFICEHOLDERS POLITICAL 02:59:51.280 --> 02:59:52.648 AGENDA. THANK YOU. THANK YOU 02:59:52.715 --> 02:59:56.185 VERY MUCH. WELCOME. THANK YOU, 02:59:56.252 --> 02:59:57.286 CHAIR MEMBERS. LANCE 02:59:57.353 --> 02:59:58.053 CHRISTIANSEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF 02:59:58.120 --> 02:59:59.255 THE CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER. 02:59:59.321 --> 03:00:00.923 I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF A 03:00:00.990 --> 03:00:02.758 CONSORTIUM, A COALITION OF 03:00:02.825 --> 03:00:04.126 CHARTER SCHOOL LEADERS. AS YOU 03:00:04.193 --> 03:00:05.561 REMEMBER, THE LEGISLATURE LAST 03:00:05.628 --> 03:00:07.396 YEAR CONSIDERED SEVERAL BILLS 03:00:07.463 --> 03:00:09.165 TO ADDRESS CHARTER SCHOOL 03:00:09.231 --> 03:00:10.266 REGULATION, AND MOST OF THOSE 03:00:10.332 --> 03:00:11.734 ISSUES WERE DEALT WITH THROUGH 03:00:11.800 --> 03:00:16.772 EITHER A B 84, SB 41484 STALLED 03:00:16.839 --> 03:00:18.007 BECAUSE YOUR CHAMBER DETERMINED 03:00:18.073 --> 03:00:20.409 IT WASN'T. IT WAS AN OVERREACH, 03:00:20.476 --> 03:00:21.443 BASICALLY, AND THE GOVERNOR 03:00:21.510 --> 03:00:23.979 VETOED SB 414, STATING THAT, 03:00:24.046 --> 03:00:25.080 QUOTE, WHILE THE OVERSIGHT AND 03:00:25.147 --> 03:00:26.415 AUDITING PROVISIONS ARE 03:00:26.482 --> 03:00:27.950 MEANINGFUL, OTHER SECTIONS ARE 03:00:28.017 --> 03:00:29.051 UNWORKABLE, WOULD FACE LEGAL 03:00:29.118 --> 03:00:30.219 CHALLENGES AND REQUIRE HUNDREDS 03:00:30.286 --> 03:00:31.253 OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TO 03:00:31.320 --> 03:00:33.322 IMPLEMENT. WE CONCUR ON THAT 03:00:33.389 --> 03:00:36.525 WITH AB 126, WITH SEVERAL 03:00:36.592 --> 03:00:38.360 PROVISIONS THAT INCLUDE AND 03:00:38.427 --> 03:00:40.563 AFFECT NON-CLASSROOM BASED 03:00:40.629 --> 03:00:42.631 CHARTERS, SPECIFICALLY IN 03:00:42.698 --> 03:00:45.367 SECTION 51827 EDUCATION CODE 03:00:45.434 --> 03:00:49.471 AND A SECOND MATTER AB 181. THE 03:00:49.538 --> 03:00:51.707 SUPERINTENDENT THING. IT'S FUN 03:00:51.774 --> 03:00:53.542 TO BE ON THE SIDE OF THE C, T, 03:00:53.609 --> 03:00:56.045 A, AND C OF T HERE. IT'S 03:00:56.111 --> 03:00:56.845 RIDICULOUS. WE'RE DOING. WE'RE 03:00:56.912 --> 03:00:58.514 JUST WE'RE MOVING CARELESS THAT 03:00:58.581 --> 03:00:59.982 YOU'RE ON THE SAME SIDE. YEAH, 03:01:00.049 --> 03:01:02.952 IT'S CRAZY CRAZY. SO MARK IT 03:01:03.018 --> 03:01:04.753 DOWN. PUTTING YOUR JOURNALS, 03:01:04.820 --> 03:01:06.722 BUT REARRANGING THE DECK CHAIRS 03:01:06.789 --> 03:01:08.190 ON THE TITANIC IS NOT GOING TO 03:01:08.257 --> 03:01:09.258 IMPROVE THE EDUCATION IN 03:01:09.325 --> 03:01:10.726 CALIFORNIA. WE'VE GOT TO GO 03:01:10.793 --> 03:01:12.595 SUPER LOCAL INSTEAD OF 03:01:12.661 --> 03:01:13.329 CENTRALIZING UNDERNEATH THE 03:01:13.395 --> 03:01:14.797 GOVERNOR'S OFFICE. I'VE NOT 03:01:14.863 --> 03:01:16.732 TALKED TO A SINGLE CONSTITUENT 03:01:16.799 --> 03:01:18.267 IN CALIFORNIA THAT'S OUTSIDE OF 03:01:18.334 --> 03:01:20.469 GOVERNMENT THAT CAN NAME ONE 03:01:20.536 --> 03:01:21.704 THING. IF YOU CAN, THE GOVERNOR 03:01:21.770 --> 03:01:24.039 HAS TO WRAP UP. 20S. SO I 03:01:24.106 --> 03:01:25.874 APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU VERY 03:01:25.941 --> 03:01:28.410 MUCH. WELCOME. GOOD MORNING, 03:01:28.477 --> 03:01:31.013 CHAIR AND MEMBERS, AND I'M A 03:01:31.080 --> 03:01:32.615 STUDENT AT UC BERKELEY AND A 03:01:32.681 --> 03:01:34.850 BOARD MEMBER OF THE UC STUDENT 03:01:34.917 --> 03:01:36.352 ASSOCIATION. I WAS THE OUTGOING 03:01:36.418 --> 03:01:37.853 DISABILITY JUSTICE OFFICER. AND 03:01:37.920 --> 03:01:39.488 TODAY, I'D JUST LIKE TO THANK 03:01:39.555 --> 03:01:40.422 THE LEGISLATURE FOR INCLUDING 03:01:40.489 --> 03:01:41.690 OUR REQUEST FOR ONE TIME 03:01:41.757 --> 03:01:44.026 EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION OF $20 03:01:44.093 --> 03:01:45.094 MILLION TO ADDRESS STUDENT 03:01:45.160 --> 03:01:46.395 BASIC NEEDS, HOUSING, CASE 03:01:46.462 --> 03:01:48.631 MANAGEMENT, DISABILITY SERVICES, 03:01:48.697 --> 03:01:50.199 ESPECIALLY AS THE UC $8 MILLION 03:01:50.266 --> 03:01:51.834 IN DISABILITY SERVICES FUNDING 03:01:51.900 --> 03:01:53.302 SUNSETS THIS UPCOMING ACADEMIC 03:01:53.369 --> 03:01:54.503 YEAR. THIS FUNDING IS CRITICAL 03:01:54.570 --> 03:01:56.171 FOR THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS 03:01:56.238 --> 03:01:57.840 ACROSS THE UC SYSTEM WHO. 03:01:57.906 --> 03:01:59.408 WITHOUT ADEQUATE DISABLED 03:01:59.475 --> 03:02:01.277 STUDENT SERVICES, WE WILL FACE 03:02:01.343 --> 03:02:02.544 GREATER BARRIERS TO RECEIVING A 03:02:02.611 --> 03:02:03.979 FAIR EDUCATION AT THESE 03:02:04.046 --> 03:02:05.481 UNIVERSITIES. YOUR SUPPORT 03:02:05.547 --> 03:02:06.548 DIRECTLY CHANGES THE LIVES OF 03:02:06.615 --> 03:02:08.517 STUDENTS LIKE MYSELF TO ENSURE 03:02:08.584 --> 03:02:10.119 THAT WE CAN SUCCEED WHEN OUR 03:02:10.185 --> 03:02:11.120 LEARNING IS ACCOMMODATED. THANK 03:02:11.186 --> 03:02:12.288 YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU VERY 03:02:12.354 --> 03:02:15.491 MUCH. WELCOME. HI, MY NAME IS 03:02:15.557 --> 03:02:18.827 VEDA AND I AM WITH THE UC 03:02:18.894 --> 03:02:20.329 STUDENT ASSOCIATION 03:02:20.396 --> 03:02:23.165 REPRESENTING OVER 237,000 03:02:23.232 --> 03:02:24.133 STUDENTS. AND I AM ALSO THE 03:02:24.199 --> 03:02:25.601 CHAIR OF THE ASSOCIATED 03:02:25.668 --> 03:02:27.469 STUDENTS OF UC DAVIS DISABILITY 03:02:27.536 --> 03:02:28.904 JUSTICE COMMITTEE. I'M GOING TO 03:02:28.971 --> 03:02:31.407 BUILD OFF WHAT NATALIA SAID. 03:02:31.473 --> 03:02:33.042 DISABILITY AND BASIC NEEDS 03:02:33.108 --> 03:02:35.277 SERVICES HAVE FACED SIGNIFICANT 03:02:35.344 --> 03:02:36.412 UNDERFUNDING ACROSS ALL OF THE 03:02:36.478 --> 03:02:38.547 UC CAMPUSES, RESULTING IN 03:02:38.614 --> 03:02:40.416 STUDENTS LIKE ME STRUGGLING TO 03:02:40.482 --> 03:02:42.751 SUCCEED IN EDUCATION BECAUSE OF 03:02:42.818 --> 03:02:44.987 A LACK OF ACCESSIBILITY. I HAVE 03:02:45.054 --> 03:02:46.455 PERSONALLY FACED BARRIERS TO 03:02:46.522 --> 03:02:47.890 RECEIVING AN EDUCATION. AND 03:02:47.956 --> 03:02:50.726 IT'S NOT JUST ME AND UC DAVIS 03:02:50.793 --> 03:02:52.995 ACCOMMODATED EXAM CENTER IN A 03:02:53.062 --> 03:02:55.097 NON MIDTERM WEEK. THEY HAVE 03:02:55.164 --> 03:02:57.666 RECEIVED OVER 500 STUDENTS IN 03:02:57.733 --> 03:03:01.603 ONE DAY, SOMETHING THEY ARE NOT 03:03:01.670 --> 03:03:03.439 MONETARILY EQUIPPED TO HANDLE. 03:03:03.505 --> 03:03:07.009 LONG TERM UC ESSAY IS DEEPLY 03:03:07.076 --> 03:03:08.877 GRATEFUL TO SENATOR CABALDON 03:03:08.944 --> 03:03:11.380 PRO TEM TOÀN LEHMAN AND EVERY 03:03:11.447 --> 03:03:12.348 LEGISLATOR INVOLVED IN THE 03:03:12.414 --> 03:03:13.349 AFFORDABLE HOUSING BOARD, AND 03:03:13.415 --> 03:03:15.617 WE THANK THE BUDGET COMMITTEE 03:03:15.684 --> 03:03:17.419 FOR FULLY FUNDING THE UC 03:03:17.486 --> 03:03:19.488 COMPACT TO PROTECT ALL STUDENTS, 03:03:19.555 --> 03:03:21.023 INCLUDING THOSE WITH 03:03:21.090 --> 03:03:22.791 DISABILITIES. WE URGE THE 03:03:22.858 --> 03:03:24.193 LEGISLATURE TO ENSURE THAT 03:03:24.259 --> 03:03:25.661 FUTURE COMPACT AGREEMENTS HAVE 03:03:25.728 --> 03:03:27.930 STUDENT EQUITY AND ATTAINMENT 03:03:27.996 --> 03:03:29.431 MEASURES FOR ALL UC'S IN ORDER 03:03:29.498 --> 03:03:31.066 TO DEMAND FOR THESE VITAL 03:03:31.133 --> 03:03:32.201 SERVICES GROWS. THANK YOU. 03:03:32.267 --> 03:03:36.805 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. 03:03:36.872 --> 03:03:38.240 THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR MEMBERS. 03:03:38.307 --> 03:03:39.708 BRANDON TUG, ON BEHALF OF THE 03:03:39.775 --> 03:03:40.776 CALIFORNIA AIR POLLUTION 03:03:40.843 --> 03:03:42.578 CONTROL OFFICERS ASSOCIATION, 03:03:42.644 --> 03:03:44.012 JUST WANTED TO EXTEND OUR 03:03:44.079 --> 03:03:45.814 APPRECIATION FOR THE AB 617 03:03:45.881 --> 03:03:47.282 COMMUNITY AIR PROTECTION 03:03:47.349 --> 03:03:48.350 PROGRAM FUNDING. IT'S GOING TO 03:03:48.417 --> 03:03:49.518 MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES 03:03:49.585 --> 03:03:51.286 OF PEOPLE IN COMMUNITIES THAT 03:03:51.353 --> 03:03:53.021 FOR FAR TOO LONG HAVE BEEN 03:03:53.088 --> 03:03:55.824 SUFFERING FROM BAD AIR QUALITY. 03:03:55.891 --> 03:03:57.292 THANK YOU, THANK YOU. YOU WERE 03:03:57.359 --> 03:03:59.161 THE LAST PERSON FOR THE LONGEST 03:03:59.228 --> 03:04:00.929 TIME, BUT SOMEBODY SNEAKED INTO 03:04:00.996 --> 03:04:02.931 LINE. SO YOU WILL REALLY BE THE 03:04:02.998 --> 03:04:05.234 LAST PERSON. WELCOME TO THE END. 03:04:05.300 --> 03:04:06.735 CHILD POVERTY IN CALIFORNIA. 03:04:06.802 --> 03:04:08.871 JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU. ON 03:04:08.937 --> 03:04:10.606 INCLUDING THE CHANGES TO TRUMP 03:04:10.672 --> 03:04:12.975 ACCOUNTS. YOU KNOW, NAMES 03:04:13.041 --> 03:04:14.777 MATTER, ESPECIALLY WHEN A 03:04:14.843 --> 03:04:16.412 SPECIFIC NAME HAS BEEN 03:04:16.478 --> 03:04:17.579 DISTURBING TO OUR COMMUNITY. SO 03:04:17.646 --> 03:04:19.348 REALLY APPRECIATE THAT SUPPORT 03:04:19.415 --> 03:04:21.150 ON CFR PLUS. WE LOOK FORWARD TO 03:04:21.216 --> 03:04:22.217 WORKING WORKING WITH THE 03:04:22.284 --> 03:04:23.685 LEGISLATURE TO GET A FIX IN FOR 03:04:23.752 --> 03:04:25.154 OUR FAMILIES WHO ARE BEING 03:04:25.220 --> 03:04:27.556 HARMED BY HR ONE ON LOSING 03:04:27.623 --> 03:04:28.724 ACCESS TO CALFRESH. AND JUST 03:04:28.791 --> 03:04:30.159 THANK YOU SO MUCH. IT WAS A LOT 03:04:30.225 --> 03:04:32.127 OF WORK THIS THIS PARTICULAR 03:04:32.194 --> 03:04:33.362 BUDGET CYCLE. SO JUST REALLY 03:04:33.429 --> 03:04:34.530 APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT 03:04:34.596 --> 03:04:36.131 AND WORK ON THIS. THANK YOU. 03:04:36.198 --> 03:04:37.332 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE 03:04:37.399 --> 03:04:40.202 YOUR COMMENTS. THAT COMPLETES 03:04:40.269 --> 03:04:41.603 PUBLIC COMMENT. AND SO WE'RE 03:04:41.670 --> 03:04:44.173 GOING TO BRING THE MATTER BACK 03:04:44.239 --> 03:04:46.375 BEFORE THE COMMITTEE. WE HAVE 03:04:46.442 --> 03:04:49.244 11 MEMBERS HERE, AND I DO NOT 03:04:49.311 --> 03:04:50.712 WANT TO PUNISH THOSE THAT WERE 03:04:50.779 --> 03:04:53.415 ON TIME OR CAME. SO I THINK WE 03:04:53.482 --> 03:04:57.252 ARE GOING TO GO THROUGH THE 20 03:04:57.319 --> 03:04:59.221 BILLS AND VOTE AND PUT THEM ON 03:04:59.288 --> 03:05:00.956 CALL, AND HOPE OUR COLLEAGUES 03:05:01.023 --> 03:05:03.158 ARE ON THEIR WAY TO THE 03:05:03.225 --> 03:05:05.060 COMMITTEE ROOM. SO WE WILL 03:05:05.127 --> 03:05:07.629 BEGIN WITH ITEM NUMBER ONE, 03:05:07.696 --> 03:05:11.099 ASSEMBLY BILL 111 BY GABRIEL. 03:05:11.166 --> 03:05:14.136 THE BILL MOTION BY RICHARDSON. 03:05:14.203 --> 03:05:17.039 ANY DISCUSSION, PLEASE CALL THE 03:05:17.105 --> 03:05:19.241 ROLL A B 111. THE MOTION IS DUE 03:05:19.308 --> 03:05:21.877 PASSED. SENATORS LAIRD I, I 03:05:21.944 --> 03:05:24.546 KNOW NIELSEN NØ ARCHULETA. 03:05:24.613 --> 03:05:26.315 ARCHULETA, A SHAKESPEARE. 03:05:26.381 --> 03:05:28.784 SHAKESPEARE I CABALDON CHOI 03:05:28.851 --> 03:05:32.421 CHOI NÓ ALSO ALSO I. GROVE. 03:05:32.488 --> 03:05:36.358 GROVE. NØ. HURTADO. MCNERNEY. 03:05:36.425 --> 03:05:37.493 MCNERNEY. AYE. MENGIBAR. 03:05:37.559 --> 03:05:41.730 MENGIBAR. I. PEREZ. REYES. 03:05:41.797 --> 03:05:44.032 RICHARDSON. RICHARDSON. I 03:05:44.099 --> 03:05:46.034 CIERTO. CIERTO. NÓ. SMALLWOOD. 03:05:46.101 --> 03:05:49.004 CUEVAS. WEBER. PEARSON. WEBER. 03:05:49.071 --> 03:05:51.573 PEARSON. I. THAT BILL HAS EIGHT 03:05:51.640 --> 03:05:53.275 EYES AND FOUR NOSE. WE WILL PUT 03:05:53.342 --> 03:05:55.777 IT ON CALL. WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM 03:05:55.844 --> 03:05:57.980 NUMBER TWO. ASSEMBLY MEMBER. 03:05:58.046 --> 03:05:59.848 ASSEMBLY MEMBER. ASSEMBLY BILL 03:05:59.915 --> 03:06:04.820 112 ÁP ONE. WE DO NEED A MOTION 03:06:04.887 --> 03:06:08.123 MOTION BY ARCHULETA AB 112. THE 03:06:08.190 --> 03:06:09.525 MOTION IS DUE PASSED. SENATORS 03:06:09.591 --> 03:06:13.395 LAIRD I. I KNOW NIELSEN NØ 03:06:13.462 --> 03:06:15.664 ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA I 03:06:15.731 --> 03:06:17.432 SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE. I 03:06:17.499 --> 03:06:19.501 CABALDON. CHOI. CHOI. NÓ. 03:06:19.568 --> 03:06:22.504 DURAZZO. DURAZZO. I. GROVE. 03:06:22.571 --> 03:06:24.940 HURTADO. MCNERNEY. JUST A 03:06:25.007 --> 03:06:26.708 SECOND. WE HAD A VOTE FROM 03:06:26.775 --> 03:06:30.012 GROVE. NO. SENATOR. GROVE. NÓ. 03:06:30.078 --> 03:06:32.881 HURTADO. MCNERNEY. MCNERNEY. 03:06:32.948 --> 03:06:34.650 AYE. MENGIBAR. MENGIBAR. I. 03:06:34.716 --> 03:06:38.353 OCHOA. BOGUE. PEREZ. REYES. 03:06:38.420 --> 03:06:41.523 RICHARDSON. RICHARDSON. ICCR NÓ. 03:06:41.590 --> 03:06:43.525 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. WEBER. 03:06:43.592 --> 03:06:45.227 PEARSON. WEBER. PEARSON. I. 03:06:45.294 --> 03:06:47.696 THAT IS EIGHT EYES FOUR. NOS. 03:06:47.763 --> 03:06:49.565 WILL PUT THE BILL ON CALL. 03:06:49.631 --> 03:06:51.300 WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER THREE 03:06:51.366 --> 03:06:53.702 ASSEMBLY BILL 126. DO I HAVE A 03:06:53.769 --> 03:06:57.039 MOTION. MOVE THE BILL A MOTION 03:06:57.105 --> 03:06:58.874 BY RICHARDSON. PLEASE CALL THE 03:06:58.941 --> 03:07:00.976 ROLL. ÁP 126. A MOTION IS DUE 03:07:01.043 --> 03:07:03.512 PASSED. SENATORS LAIRD I I NILO 03:07:03.579 --> 03:07:06.081 NOT VOTING. NIELSEN NOT VOTING. 03:07:06.148 --> 03:07:08.216 ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA A 03:07:08.283 --> 03:07:09.918 SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE A 03:07:09.985 --> 03:07:13.555 CABALDON. CHOI. CHOI NOT VOTING. 03:07:13.622 --> 03:07:17.826 DURAZZO ALSO A GROVE. GROVE NOT 03:07:17.893 --> 03:07:21.563 VOTING OR. HURTADO. MCNERNEY. 03:07:21.630 --> 03:07:23.632 MCNERNEY. AYE. MENGIBAR A 03:07:23.699 --> 03:07:28.670 MENGIBAR I OR PEREZ. REYES. 03:07:28.737 --> 03:07:30.839 RICHARDSON. RICHARDSON. ICR. 03:07:30.906 --> 03:07:32.908 SERNA. VOTING. SMALLWOOD. 03:07:32.975 --> 03:07:35.544 CUEVAS. WEBER. PEARSON. PEARSON. 03:07:35.611 --> 03:07:39.147 I. I SHOWED SEVEN AYE VOTES AND 03:07:39.214 --> 03:07:41.817 FOR NOT VOTING IS THAT DID WE 03:07:41.883 --> 03:07:44.152 MISS SOMEBODY THERE I GOT EIGHT 03:07:44.219 --> 03:07:45.921 YEAH I HAVE EIGHT. YOU HAVE 03:07:45.988 --> 03:07:48.123 EIGHT. YEAH. PERFECT. AND THEN 03:07:48.190 --> 03:07:51.093 WE HAVE EIGHT AND EIGHT EYES 03:07:51.159 --> 03:07:52.260 FOR NOT VOTING. SO WE'LL PUT 03:07:52.327 --> 03:07:54.229 THAT ON CALL. WE'LL MOVE TO 03:07:54.296 --> 03:07:58.667 ITEM NUMBER FOUR ASSEMBLY BILL 03:07:58.734 --> 03:07:59.735 135AB135. THE MOTION IS DUE 03:07:59.801 --> 03:08:01.069 PASSED. SENATORS LAIRD WELL, 03:08:01.136 --> 03:08:02.270 FIRST I NEED SOMEBODY TO MAKE 03:08:02.337 --> 03:08:03.972 THE MOTION. SENATOR ARCHULETA 03:08:04.039 --> 03:08:05.374 NOW, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. AND 03:08:05.440 --> 03:08:07.275 BELIEVE ME, I APPRECIATE THE 03:08:07.342 --> 03:08:10.412 EFFICIENCY. ÁP 135. THE MOTION 03:08:10.479 --> 03:08:12.280 IS TO PASS, SENATORS LAIRD 03:08:12.347 --> 03:08:15.150 LAIRD, I NEED NO, NO, NO, NO. 03:08:15.217 --> 03:08:16.551 ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA. AYE. 03:08:16.618 --> 03:08:19.121 BLAKE. SPEER. BLAKE. SPEER. AYE. 03:08:19.187 --> 03:08:22.624 CABALDON. CHOI. CHOI. NO. ALSO. 03:08:22.691 --> 03:08:24.793 ALSO. AYE. GROVE. GROVE. NO. 03:08:24.860 --> 03:08:27.796 HURTADO. MCNERNEY. MCNERNEY. 03:08:27.863 --> 03:08:29.264 AYE. MENGIBAR. MENGIBAR. AYE. 03:08:29.331 --> 03:08:33.802 OCHOA. PEREZ. REYES. RICHARDSON. 03:08:33.869 --> 03:08:35.971 RICHARDSON. AYE. SERA. SERA. NO. 03:08:36.038 --> 03:08:38.507 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. WEBER. 03:08:38.573 --> 03:08:41.710 PEARSON. WEBER. PEARSON. I. AND. 03:08:41.777 --> 03:08:43.612 IS THAT. I HAVE FOUR KNOWS. HOW 03:08:43.679 --> 03:08:45.480 MANY YESES ARE THERE. HOW MANY 03:08:45.547 --> 03:08:47.783 HOW MANY. TWO. EIGHT. EIGHT. 03:08:47.849 --> 03:08:49.651 OKAY. GOOD. THEN WE'LL PUT THAT 03:08:49.718 --> 03:08:50.986 ON CALL. WE'LL GO TO ITEM 03:08:51.053 --> 03:08:54.322 NUMBER FIVE, ASSEMBLY BILL 150 03:08:54.389 --> 03:08:56.124 MOTION BY MENGIBAR. PLEASE CALL 03:08:56.191 --> 03:08:58.593 THE ROLL AB 150. THE MOTION IS 03:08:58.660 --> 03:09:00.062 DUE. PASSED SENATORS LAIRD I 03:09:00.128 --> 03:09:03.265 LAIRD I NILO NOT VOTING. 03:09:03.331 --> 03:09:05.133 ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA I BLAKE. 03:09:05.200 --> 03:09:09.504 SPEAR. I CABALDON CHOI I CHOI. 03:09:09.571 --> 03:09:14.543 I ALSO TRUSSELL. I GROVE. 03:09:14.609 --> 03:09:17.813 HURTADO. MCNERNEY. MCNERNEY. I 03:09:17.879 --> 03:09:22.384 MENGIBAR MENGIBAR I PEREZ. 03:09:22.451 --> 03:09:25.287 REYES. RICHARDSON. RICHARDSON. 03:09:25.353 --> 03:09:29.624 I. SATO. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. 03:09:29.691 --> 03:09:30.992 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. I. WEBER. 03:09:31.059 --> 03:09:33.995 PEARSON. WEBER. PEARSON. I. WE 03:09:34.062 --> 03:09:36.064 HAVE TEN EYES THREE NOT VOTING. 03:09:36.131 --> 03:09:38.600 WE'LL PUT THAT BILL ON CALL. 03:09:38.667 --> 03:09:40.402 WE'LL GO TO ITEM NUMBER SIX 03:09:40.469 --> 03:09:44.706 ASSEMBLY BILL 152 MOTION BY 03:09:44.773 --> 03:09:46.174 MENGIBAR. PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. 03:09:46.241 --> 03:09:48.276 ÁP 152. THE MOTION IS DUE. PASS. 03:09:48.343 --> 03:09:51.246 SENATORS LAIRD I I NÓ NIELSEN 03:09:51.313 --> 03:09:53.749 NÓ ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA. I 03:09:53.815 --> 03:09:56.184 SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE. I 03:09:56.251 --> 03:09:58.186 CABALDON. CHOI. CHOI. NÓ. 03:09:58.253 --> 03:10:01.623 DURAZZO. DURAZZO. I GROVE. 03:10:01.690 --> 03:10:04.826 GROVE. NÓ. HURTADO. MCNERNEY. 03:10:04.893 --> 03:10:06.828 MCNERNEY. I MENGIBAR. MENGIBAR. 03:10:06.895 --> 03:10:10.732 I. OCHOA. BOGUE. PEREZ. REYES. 03:10:10.799 --> 03:10:12.367 RICHARDSON. RICHARDSON. I 03:10:12.434 --> 03:10:14.603 CIERTO. CIERTO. NØ. SMALLWOOD. 03:10:14.669 --> 03:10:15.971 CUEVAS. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. I. 03:10:16.037 --> 03:10:18.140 WEBER. PEARSON. WEBER. PEARSON. 03:10:18.206 --> 03:10:22.477 I. I HAVE NINE EYES AND FOUR 03:10:22.544 --> 03:10:24.312 NOS WILL PUT THAT BILL ON CALL. 03:10:24.379 --> 03:10:26.114 WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER SEVEN 03:10:26.181 --> 03:10:29.117 ASSEMBLY BILL 163. MOTION BY 03:10:29.184 --> 03:10:30.452 MENGIBAR. PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. 03:10:30.519 --> 03:10:33.522 ÁP 163. THE MOTION IS TO PASS. 03:10:33.588 --> 03:10:35.323 SENATORS LAIRD LAIRD I NIELSEN 03:10:35.390 --> 03:10:37.592 NOT VOTING. ARCHULETA. 03:10:37.659 --> 03:10:39.361 ARCHULETA. I BLAKE. SPEAR. 03:10:39.427 --> 03:10:42.697 BLAKE. SPEAR. I CABALDON. CHOI. 03:10:42.764 --> 03:10:46.935 CHOI. I DURAZO DE ROSA. I GROVE. 03:10:47.002 --> 03:10:49.938 GROVE. I. HURTADO. MCNERNEY. 03:10:50.005 --> 03:10:52.340 MCNERNEY. I MENGIBAR I MENGIBAR. 03:10:52.407 --> 03:10:56.411 I. OCHOA. BOGUE. PEREZ. REYES. 03:10:56.478 --> 03:10:57.813 RICHARDSON. RICHARDSON. I 03:10:57.879 --> 03:11:01.416 CIERTO. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. 03:11:01.483 --> 03:11:02.884 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. I. WEBER. 03:11:02.951 --> 03:11:05.153 PEARSON. WEBER. PEARSON. I. 03:11:05.220 --> 03:11:08.056 THAT'S EYES 112 NON VOTING. 03:11:08.123 --> 03:11:09.858 WE'LL PUT IT ON CALL. WE'LL 03:11:09.925 --> 03:11:13.261 MOVE TO ASSEMBLY BILL 164. ITEM 03:11:13.328 --> 03:11:15.797 NUMBER EIGHT MOTION BY MENGIBAR. 03:11:15.864 --> 03:11:17.766 PLEASE CALL THE ROLL AB 164. 03:11:17.833 --> 03:11:18.967 THE MOTION IS DUE PASSED 03:11:19.034 --> 03:11:21.203 SENATORS LAIRD I LAIRD I NEILL 03:11:21.269 --> 03:11:24.039 NO, NO NO. ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA. 03:11:24.105 --> 03:11:25.507 I. BLAKE. SPEAR. BLAKE. SPEAR. 03:11:25.574 --> 03:11:29.177 I CABALDON. CHOI. NO. CHOI. NO. 03:11:29.244 --> 03:11:32.013 DURAZZO. DURAZZO. I. GROVE. 03:11:32.080 --> 03:11:34.449 GROVE. NO. HURTADO. MCNERNEY. 03:11:34.516 --> 03:11:36.785 MCNERNEY. I MENGIBAR. MENGIBAR. 03:11:36.852 --> 03:11:40.288 I. OCHOA. PEREZ. REYES. 03:11:40.355 --> 03:11:42.090 RICHARDSON. RICHARDSON. I COR 03:11:42.157 --> 03:11:46.061 TO SATO. NO. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. 03:11:46.127 --> 03:11:47.495 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. I. WEBER. 03:11:47.562 --> 03:11:49.364 PEARSON. WEBER. PEARSON. I. 03:11:49.431 --> 03:11:52.300 THAT IS. NINE EYES. FOUR NOS. 03:11:52.367 --> 03:11:54.436 WE'LL PUT THAT BILL ON CALL. WE 03:11:54.502 --> 03:11:56.538 WILL MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER NINE. 03:11:56.605 --> 03:11:59.140 ASSEMBLY BILL 165. PLEASE CALL 03:11:59.207 --> 03:12:01.576 THE ROLL. OH I'M SORRY. I NEED 03:12:01.643 --> 03:12:04.779 TO GET A MOTION. MOTION BY 03:12:04.846 --> 03:12:06.248 MCNERNEY. PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. 03:12:06.314 --> 03:12:08.516 ÁP 165. THE MOTION IS DUE. 03:12:08.583 --> 03:12:10.385 PASSED. SENATORS LAIRD I LAIRD 03:12:10.452 --> 03:12:13.822 I NEAL NOT VOTING. ARCHULETA. 03:12:13.889 --> 03:12:15.190 ARCHULETA. I. BLAKE. SPEER. 03:12:15.257 --> 03:12:19.527 BLAKE. SPEER. I CABALDON. CHOI. 03:12:19.594 --> 03:12:23.231 DURAZZO. DURAZZO. I. GROVE. 03:12:23.298 --> 03:12:26.401 HURTADO. MCNERNEY. MCNERNEY. I 03:12:26.468 --> 03:12:28.503 MENGIBAR. I MENGIBAR. I. OCHOA. 03:12:28.570 --> 03:12:32.474 BOGH. PEREZ. REYES. RICHARDSON. 03:12:32.540 --> 03:12:35.410 RICHARDSON. I. SATO. SMALLWOOD. 03:12:35.477 --> 03:12:36.878 CUEVAS. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. I. 03:12:36.945 --> 03:12:38.980 WEBER. PEARSON. WEBER. PEARSON. 03:12:39.047 --> 03:12:41.082 I. THAT IS. NINE EYES FOUR 03:12:41.149 --> 03:12:42.584 NONVOTING WILL PUT THAT BILL ON 03:12:42.651 --> 03:12:44.252 CALL. WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER 03:12:44.319 --> 03:12:48.323 TEN ASSEMBLY BILL 166. I'M 03:12:48.390 --> 03:12:50.125 LOOKING FOR A MOTION. MOVE THE 03:12:50.191 --> 03:12:51.826 BILL MOTION BY RICHARDSON 03:12:51.893 --> 03:12:54.095 PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. ÁP 166. 03:12:54.162 --> 03:12:55.597 MOTION IS TO PASS. SENATORS 03:12:55.664 --> 03:12:59.267 LAIRD I, I KNOW NEAL NÓ 03:12:59.334 --> 03:13:01.202 ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA, I BLAKE 03:13:01.269 --> 03:13:03.805 SPEER, BLAKE SPEER, I CABALDON. 03:13:03.872 --> 03:13:07.042 CHOI. CHOI. NÓ. DURAZZO. 03:13:07.108 --> 03:13:10.245 DURAZZO. I. GROVE. GROVE. NØ. 03:13:10.312 --> 03:13:12.948 HURTADO. MCNERNEY. MCNERNEY. I 03:13:13.014 --> 03:13:16.051 MENGIBAR. I MENGIBAR. I. OCHOA. 03:13:16.117 --> 03:13:20.088 BOGH. PEREZ. REYES. RICHARDSON. 03:13:20.155 --> 03:13:22.357 RICHARDSON. I CIERTO. CIERTO. 03:13:22.424 --> 03:13:23.658 NØ. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. 03:13:23.725 --> 03:13:25.427 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. I. WEBER. 03:13:25.493 --> 03:13:27.295 PEARSON. WEBER. PEARSON. I. 03:13:27.362 --> 03:13:30.131 THAT IS. NINE EYES. FOUR. NOS. 03:13:30.198 --> 03:13:32.300 WILL PUT THAT BILL ON CALL. WE 03:13:32.367 --> 03:13:35.870 WILL MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER 03:13:35.937 --> 03:13:38.039 11AB168. DO I HAVE A MOTION BY 03:13:38.106 --> 03:13:39.808 ARCHULETA. PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. 03:13:39.874 --> 03:13:42.143 ÁP 168. THE MOTION IS TO PASS. 03:13:42.210 --> 03:13:44.946 SENATORS LAIRD I LAIRD I KNOW 03:13:45.013 --> 03:13:47.816 NEAL NO. ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA A 03:13:47.882 --> 03:13:49.517 SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE. I 03:13:49.584 --> 03:13:52.520 CABALDON. CHOI. CHOI. NO. 03:13:52.587 --> 03:13:54.923 DURAZZO. DURAZZO. AYE. GROVE. 03:13:54.990 --> 03:13:57.826 GROVE. NO. HURTADO. MCNERNEY. 03:13:57.892 --> 03:14:00.028 MCNERNEY. AYE. MENGIBAR. 03:14:00.095 --> 03:14:03.531 MENGIBAR. I. OCHOA. PEREZ. 03:14:03.598 --> 03:14:06.468 REYES. REYES I. RICHARDSON. 03:14:06.534 --> 03:14:09.037 RICHARDSON. I CIERTO CIERTO. NO. 03:14:09.104 --> 03:14:12.607 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. WEBER. 03:14:12.674 --> 03:14:14.476 PEARSON. WEBER. PEARSON. I. 03:14:14.542 --> 03:14:17.312 JUST ONE THING. SENATOR. 03:14:17.379 --> 03:14:18.246 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. DID YOU 03:14:18.313 --> 03:14:21.282 INTEND TO NOT VOTE ON THAT? 03:14:21.349 --> 03:14:24.119 THAT IS ITEM 11 PUBLIC 03:14:24.185 --> 03:14:26.988 RESOURCES. THAT'S AN EYE FOR 03:14:27.055 --> 03:14:28.456 SMALLWOOD. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS I 03:14:28.523 --> 03:14:31.693 THAT WILL BE TEN EYES FOUR NOS 03:14:31.760 --> 03:14:33.528 WILL PUT THAT BILL ON CALL. 03:14:33.595 --> 03:14:35.263 WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER 12. 03:14:35.330 --> 03:14:38.066 THE BILL BY RICHARDSON ASSEMBLY 03:14:38.133 --> 03:14:40.769 BILL 169. PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. 03:14:40.835 --> 03:14:42.904 ÁP 169. THE MOTION IS TO PASS, 03:14:42.971 --> 03:14:45.774 SENATOR LAIRD. LAIRD, I KNOW 03:14:45.840 --> 03:14:47.976 NEAL. NO. ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA. 03:14:48.043 --> 03:14:49.677 AYE. BLAKE. SPEAR. BLAKE. SPEAR. 03:14:49.744 --> 03:14:52.881 AYE. CABALDON. CHOI. CHOI. NO. 03:14:52.947 --> 03:14:56.184 ALSO. AYE. GROVE. GROVE. NO. 03:14:56.251 --> 03:14:59.087 HURTADO. MCNERNEY. MCNERNEY. 03:14:59.154 --> 03:15:02.323 AYE. MENGIBAR. MENGIBAR. AYE. 03:15:02.390 --> 03:15:05.193 PEREZ. REYES. REYES. AYE. 03:15:05.260 --> 03:15:06.761 RICHARDSON. RICHARDSON. AYE. CR 03:15:06.828 --> 03:15:08.663 TO CR TWO. NO. SMALLWOOD. 03:15:08.730 --> 03:15:10.632 CUEVAS. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. AYE. 03:15:10.698 --> 03:15:12.000 WEBBER. PEARSON. WEBBER. 03:15:12.067 --> 03:15:13.835 PEARSON. I ON THAT BILL. IT'S 03:15:13.902 --> 03:15:15.970 TEN EYES FOUR NOS WILL PUT IT 03:15:16.037 --> 03:15:18.139 ON CALL. WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM 13. 03:15:18.206 --> 03:15:21.309 ASSEMBLY BILL 170 LOOKING FOR A 03:15:21.376 --> 03:15:24.312 MOTION. ARCHULETA MOVES. PLEASE 03:15:24.379 --> 03:15:26.581 CALL THE ROLL. ÁP ONE, 1770. 03:15:26.648 --> 03:15:28.349 THE MOTION IS TO PASS. SENATORS 03:15:28.416 --> 03:15:31.586 LAIRD I. I KNOW NIELSEN NØ. 03:15:31.653 --> 03:15:32.787 ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA. AYE. 03:15:32.854 --> 03:15:35.090 BLAKE. SPEAR. BLAKE. SPEAR. AYE. 03:15:35.156 --> 03:15:37.492 CABALDON. CHOI. CHOI. NÓ. 03:15:37.559 --> 03:15:42.263 DURAZO. DEROSA. AYE. GROVE. 03:15:42.330 --> 03:15:45.867 HURTADO. MCNERNEY. MCNERNEY. 03:15:45.934 --> 03:15:47.669 AYE. MENGIBAR. I MENGIBAR. AYE. 03:15:47.735 --> 03:15:52.273 OCHOA. PEREZ. REYES. REYES. AYE. 03:15:52.340 --> 03:15:54.109 RICHARDSON. RICHARDSON. AYE. 03:15:54.175 --> 03:15:56.678 CIERTO. CIERTO. NÓ. SMALLWOOD. 03:15:56.744 --> 03:15:58.446 CUEVAS. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. AYE. 03:15:58.513 --> 03:16:00.248 WEBBER. PEARSON. AYE. WEBER. 03:16:00.315 --> 03:16:05.286 PEARSON. AYE. GROVE. NO. WHITE. 03:16:05.353 --> 03:16:09.290 THAT IS. THAT WAS ITEM 13. 03:16:09.357 --> 03:16:12.494 ASSEMBLY. BILL 170. EDUCATION. 03:16:12.560 --> 03:16:16.097 THAT'S NOT THE THAT'S NOT OKAY 03:16:16.164 --> 03:16:20.902 THEN THEN IT'S I SHOW NINE EYES 03:16:20.969 --> 03:16:23.037 AND FOUR NOES. DID I GET THAT 03:16:23.104 --> 03:16:26.508 RIGHT? I GOT 1010 TO 4. PARDON. 03:16:26.574 --> 03:16:28.309 OKAY THEN WE HAVE TEN EYES, 03:16:28.376 --> 03:16:29.777 FOUR NOS. WE'LL PUT THAT ON 03:16:29.844 --> 03:16:31.946 CALL. WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM 14. 03:16:32.013 --> 03:16:36.618 ASSEMBLY BILL 171 A MOTION BY 03:16:36.684 --> 03:16:38.520 REYES GÓMEZ REYES. PLEASE CALL 03:16:38.586 --> 03:16:40.922 THE ROLL. IT'D BE 171. THE 03:16:40.989 --> 03:16:41.689 MOTION IS TO PASS. SENATOR 03:16:41.756 --> 03:16:45.293 LAIRD. I, I NIILO NÓ NIELSEN NØ 03:16:45.360 --> 03:16:47.061 ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA. AYE 03:16:47.128 --> 03:16:49.430 BLAKESPEAR. AYE BLAKESPEAR. AYE. 03:16:49.497 --> 03:16:52.934 CABALDON CHOI. NÓ CHOI. NÓ. 03:16:53.001 --> 03:16:56.371 DURAZZO. DURAZZO. AYE. GROVE. 03:16:56.437 --> 03:16:59.641 HURTADO. HURTADO. I'M SORRY, I 03:16:59.707 --> 03:17:01.743 THANK YOU. HURTADO. AYE. 03:17:01.809 --> 03:17:03.611 MCNERNEY. MCNERNEY. AYE. 03:17:03.678 --> 03:17:07.549 MENGIBAR. AYE. MENGIBAR. AYE. 03:17:07.615 --> 03:17:10.451 PEREZ. REYES. REYES. AYE. 03:17:10.518 --> 03:17:12.420 RICHARDSON. RICHARDSON. AYE. CR 03:17:12.487 --> 03:17:14.789 TO CR. Tê. NO. SMALLWOOD. 03:17:14.856 --> 03:17:16.491 CUEVAS. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. AYE. 03:17:16.558 --> 03:17:18.426 WEBBER. PEARSON. WEBBER. 03:17:18.493 --> 03:17:20.995 PEARSON. AYE. SENATOR GROVE, 03:17:21.062 --> 03:17:22.363 BEFORE I CLOSE THE ROLE, DID 03:17:22.430 --> 03:17:24.499 YOU ARE YOU NOT VOTING ON THAT 03:17:24.566 --> 03:17:28.403 ONE ON 171 ON 171. ITEM 14. YOU 03:17:28.469 --> 03:17:30.672 WEREN'T RECORDED. I'M 03:17:30.738 --> 03:17:32.407 ABSTAINING. OKAY, PERFECT. 03:17:32.473 --> 03:17:34.742 THANK YOU. THEN ON THAT BILL, 03:17:34.809 --> 03:17:37.445 WE HAVE 11 EYES, THREE NOS. ONE 03:17:37.512 --> 03:17:38.513 NON-VOTING. WE'LL PUT IT ON 03:17:38.580 --> 03:17:40.715 CALL. WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM 15, 03:17:40.782 --> 03:17:45.653 ASSEMBLY BILL 172. MOTION BY 03:17:45.720 --> 03:17:47.922 REYES. PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. ÁP 03:17:47.989 --> 03:17:49.090 172. THE MOTION IS TO PASS, 03:17:49.157 --> 03:17:51.492 SENATOR LAIRD. AYE. LAIRD. AYE. 03:17:51.559 --> 03:17:54.028 MILO. MILO. NOT VOTING. 03:17:54.095 --> 03:17:56.164 ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA. AYE. 03:17:56.231 --> 03:17:57.932 BLAKESPEAR. BLAKESPEAR. AYE. 03:17:57.999 --> 03:18:01.736 CABALDON. CHOI. BARRASSO. ALSO. 03:18:01.803 --> 03:18:06.407 AYE. GROVE. HURTADO. HURTADO. 03:18:06.474 --> 03:18:08.810 AYE. MCNERNEY. MCNERNEY. AYE. 03:18:08.876 --> 03:18:11.646 MENGIBAR. MENGIBAR. AYE. OCHOA. 03:18:11.713 --> 03:18:14.482 PEREZ. REYES. REYES. AYE. 03:18:14.549 --> 03:18:16.284 RICHARDSON. RICHARDSON. AYE. 03:18:16.351 --> 03:18:20.588 CIERTO. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. 03:18:20.655 --> 03:18:22.056 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. AYE. WEBBER. 03:18:22.123 --> 03:18:23.858 PEARSON. WEBBER. PEARSON. AYE. 03:18:23.925 --> 03:18:26.494 AYE. SHOW 11. EYES FOR NOT 03:18:26.561 --> 03:18:28.196 VOTING. WILL. PUT THAT BILL ON 03:18:28.263 --> 03:18:30.498 CALL. WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM 16. 03:18:30.565 --> 03:18:33.534 ASSEMBLY MOTION BY RICHARDSON. 03:18:33.601 --> 03:18:35.703 ASSEMBLY BILL 174. PLEASE CALL 03:18:35.770 --> 03:18:37.839 THE ROLL. ÁP 174. THE MOTION IS 03:18:37.905 --> 03:18:39.140 DUE. PASSED. SENATORS LAIRD. HI 03:18:39.207 --> 03:18:42.176 THERE. HI, NEED, I NEED I 03:18:42.243 --> 03:18:44.012 ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA. AYE. 03:18:44.078 --> 03:18:45.813 SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE. AYE. 03:18:45.880 --> 03:18:49.417 CABALDON. TROY. TROY. AYE. ALSO. 03:18:49.484 --> 03:18:53.755 RUSSELL. AYE. GROVE 174. AYE. 03:18:53.821 --> 03:18:56.157 GROVE. AYE. HURTADO. HURTADO. 03:18:56.224 --> 03:18:58.493 AYE. MCNERNEY. MCNERNEY. AYE. 03:18:58.559 --> 03:19:00.528 MENGIBAR. MENGIBAR. AYE. OCHOA. 03:19:00.595 --> 03:19:04.599 BOGH. PEREZ. REYES. REYES. AYE. 03:19:04.666 --> 03:19:05.933 RICHARDSON. RICHARDSON. AYE. 03:19:06.000 --> 03:19:08.870 COR. TO SAY I. SMALLWOOD. 03:19:08.936 --> 03:19:10.738 CUEVAS. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. AYE. 03:19:10.805 --> 03:19:12.473 WEBER. PEARSON. WEBER. PEARSON. 03:19:12.540 --> 03:19:16.411 AYE. THAT'S 15 EYES. WE WILL 03:19:16.477 --> 03:19:19.647 PUT THAT BILL ON CALL ITEM 17. 03:19:19.714 --> 03:19:23.318 ASSEMBLY BILL 179. DO I HAVE A 03:19:23.384 --> 03:19:26.854 MOTION. I'M SORRY. MOTION BY 03:19:26.921 --> 03:19:28.623 REYES. PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. 03:19:28.690 --> 03:19:32.694 ITEM 17 ASSEMBLY BILL 179. 03:19:32.760 --> 03:19:36.898 WHICH BILL? NUMBER. ITEM 17. 03:19:36.964 --> 03:19:39.133 ASSEMBLY BILL 179. PLEASE CALL 03:19:39.200 --> 03:19:44.639 THE ROLL. 179. ITEM 17. WE HAVE 03:19:44.706 --> 03:19:46.674 A MOTION. PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. 03:19:46.741 --> 03:19:48.743 ÁP 179. THE MOTION IS TO PASS. 03:19:48.810 --> 03:19:50.678 SENATORS LAIRD. HI THERE. HI, 03:19:50.745 --> 03:19:52.914 NEAL. NÓ. NIELSEN. NÓ. 03:19:52.980 --> 03:19:54.282 ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA. AYE. 03:19:54.349 --> 03:19:56.417 BLAKE. SPEAR. BLAKE. SPEAR. AYE. 03:19:56.484 --> 03:19:59.354 CABALDON. CHOI. CHOI. NÓ. 03:19:59.420 --> 03:20:02.223 DURAZZO. DURAZZO. AYE. GROVE. 03:20:02.290 --> 03:20:04.158 GROVE. NØ. HURTADO. HURTADO. 03:20:04.225 --> 03:20:06.828 AYE. MCNERNEY. MCNERNEY. AYE. 03:20:06.894 --> 03:20:08.596 MENGIBAR. HI. MENGIBAR. AYE. 03:20:08.663 --> 03:20:11.866 OCHOA. BOGH. PEREZ. REYES. 03:20:11.933 --> 03:20:13.935 REYES. AYE. RICHARDSON. 03:20:14.001 --> 03:20:16.170 RICHARDSON. AYE. CIERTO. CIERTO. 03:20:16.237 --> 03:20:18.840 NÓ. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. 03:20:18.906 --> 03:20:20.141 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. AYE. WEBER. 03:20:20.208 --> 03:20:22.009 PEARSON. WEBER. PEARSON. AYE. 03:20:22.076 --> 03:20:24.812 WE HAVE 11 EYES. FOUR NOS. WILL 03:20:24.879 --> 03:20:26.614 PUT THAT BILL ON CALL. WE'LL 03:20:26.681 --> 03:20:30.184 MOVE TO ITEM 18. ASSEMBLY BILL 03:20:30.251 --> 03:20:32.320 180. MOTION BY ARCHULETA. 03:20:32.387 --> 03:20:34.489 PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ÁP 180. 03:20:34.555 --> 03:20:37.091 MOTION IS TO PASS. SENATORS. 03:20:37.158 --> 03:20:39.560 LAIRD. LAIRD. HI, NEAL. HI, 03:20:39.627 --> 03:20:41.963 NEAL. AYE. ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA. 03:20:42.029 --> 03:20:43.865 AYE. BLAKESPEAR. BLAKESPEAR. 03:20:43.931 --> 03:20:47.535 AYE. CABALDON. CHOI. CHOI. I 03:20:47.602 --> 03:20:51.873 ALSO. AYE. GROVE. GROVE. AYE. 03:20:51.939 --> 03:20:54.709 HURTADO. HURTADO. AYE. MCNERNEY. 03:20:54.776 --> 03:20:56.978 MCNERNEY. AYE. MENGIBAR. 03:20:57.044 --> 03:20:59.380 MENGIBAR. AYE. OCHOA. BOGH. 03:20:59.447 --> 03:21:02.350 PEREZ. REYES. REYES. AYE. 03:21:02.417 --> 03:21:03.985 RICHARDSON. RICHARDSON. AYE. CR 03:21:04.051 --> 03:21:06.421 TO CR TWO. AYE. SMALLWOOD. 03:21:06.487 --> 03:21:07.622 CUEVAS. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. AYE. 03:21:07.688 --> 03:21:09.490 WEBBER. PEARSON. WEBER. PEARSON. 03:21:09.557 --> 03:21:13.494 AYE. AYE. 15. WILL PUT THAT 03:21:13.561 --> 03:21:16.330 BILL ON CALL. WE WILL MOVE TO 03:21:16.397 --> 03:21:20.268 ITEM 19. ASSEMBLY BILL 181 03:21:20.334 --> 03:21:21.736 MOTION BY ARCHULETA. PLEASE 03:21:21.803 --> 03:21:23.871 CALL THE ROLL. ÁP 181. THE 03:21:23.938 --> 03:21:25.440 MOTION IS TO PASS. SENATORS. 03:21:25.506 --> 03:21:28.876 LAIRD. LAIRD. AYE. NOT VOTING. 03:21:28.943 --> 03:21:31.045 ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA. AYE. 03:21:31.112 --> 03:21:32.847 SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE. AYE. 03:21:32.914 --> 03:21:36.751 CABALDON. CHOI. CHOI. NÓ. ALSO. 03:21:36.818 --> 03:21:40.755 DEROSA. AYE. GROVE. HURTADO. 03:21:40.822 --> 03:21:42.623 HURTADO. AYE. MCNERNEY. 03:21:42.690 --> 03:21:44.425 MCNERNEY. AYE. MENGIBAR. 03:21:44.492 --> 03:21:49.864 MENGIBAR. NO. PEREZ. REYES. 03:21:49.931 --> 03:21:51.933 REYES. AYE. RICHARDSON. 03:21:51.999 --> 03:21:55.203 RICHARDSON. AYE. CIERTO. 03:21:55.269 --> 03:21:57.038 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. NO. 03:21:57.104 --> 03:21:59.073 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. NO. WEBER. 03:21:59.140 --> 03:22:01.976 PEARSON. WEBER. PEARSON. AYE. 03:22:02.043 --> 03:22:04.545 NINE EYES. THREE NOES THREE. 03:22:04.612 --> 03:22:06.347 NOT VOTING. WILL. PUT THAT BILL 03:22:06.414 --> 03:22:08.416 ON CALL. AND THEN WE'LL MOVE TO 03:22:08.483 --> 03:22:13.154 ITEM 20. ASSEMBLY BILL 182 03:22:13.221 --> 03:22:14.689 MOTION BY ARCHULETA. PLEASE 03:22:14.755 --> 03:22:16.757 CALL THE ROLL. ÁP 182. THE 03:22:16.824 --> 03:22:18.259 MOTION IS TO PASS. SENATORS. 03:22:18.326 --> 03:22:21.095 LAIRD. LAIRD, I NEED NO, NO NO. 03:22:21.162 --> 03:22:23.598 NO. ARCHULETA. ARCHULETA A 03:22:23.664 --> 03:22:25.433 SHAKESPEARE. SHAKESPEARE. AYE. 03:22:25.500 --> 03:22:29.303 CABALDON. CHOI. CHOI. NÓ. ALSO. 03:22:29.370 --> 03:22:32.373 DURAZZO. AYE. GROVE. GROVE. NØ. 03:22:32.440 --> 03:22:34.842 HURTADO. HURTADO. AYE. MCNERNEY. 03:22:34.909 --> 03:22:36.511 MCNERNEY. AYE. MENGIBAR. 03:22:36.577 --> 03:22:40.114 MENGIBAR. AYE. OR BORG. PEREZ. 03:22:40.181 --> 03:22:42.984 REYES. REYES. AYE. RICHARDSON. 03:22:43.050 --> 03:22:44.819 RICHARDSON. AYE. CIERTO. CIERTO. 03:22:44.886 --> 03:22:47.388 NÓ. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. 03:22:47.455 --> 03:22:49.123 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. AYE. WEBER. 03:22:49.190 --> 03:22:51.659 PEARSON. WEBER. PEARSON. AYE. 03:22:51.726 --> 03:22:54.228 THAT IS 11 EYES. FOUR NOS WILL 03:22:54.295 --> 03:22:56.664 PUT THAT BILL ON CALL. THAT 03:22:56.731 --> 03:22:59.300 COMPLETES THE ROLL. AND I THINK 03:22:59.367 --> 03:23:00.735 THERE WERE TWO MEMBERS THAT 03:23:00.801 --> 03:23:02.036 CAME IN WHEN WE WERE PARTIALLY 03:23:02.103 --> 03:23:03.871 THROUGH THE ROLL. I THINK IT 03:23:03.938 --> 03:23:07.275 WAS WERE YOU DID YOU MISS ONE? 03:23:07.341 --> 03:23:10.378 I MISSED THE FIRST PART. OKAY 03:23:10.444 --> 03:23:15.449 THEN. Â WIENER. WE LIFT THE 03:23:15.516 --> 03:23:16.918 CALL UNTIL WE GET TO THE POINT 03:23:16.984 --> 03:23:18.052 THAT ALL THREE OF THEM WERE 03:23:18.119 --> 03:23:22.290 HERE AND VOTED. SO LET'S GO TO 03:23:22.356 --> 03:23:24.892 LIFTING THE CALL ON ITEM NUMBER 03:23:24.959 --> 03:23:29.931 ONE, ASSEMBLY BILL 1118111. 03:23:29.997 --> 03:23:33.034 CABALDON. HURTADO. HURTADO. AYE. 03:23:33.100 --> 03:23:37.004 OCHOA. PEREZ. REYES. REYES. AYE. 03:23:37.071 --> 03:23:38.873 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. SMALLWOOD. 03:23:38.940 --> 03:23:42.877 CUEVAS. AYE. THAT WILL BE 11 03:23:42.944 --> 03:23:44.579 EYES FOUR NOS. WILL PUT THE 03:23:44.645 --> 03:23:46.047 BILL BACK ON CALL. WE WILL GO 03:23:46.113 --> 03:23:48.182 TO ITEM NUMBER TWO. ASSEMBLY 03:23:48.249 --> 03:23:51.519 MEMBER ASSEMBLY BILL 112. 03:23:51.586 --> 03:23:53.321 PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT MEMBERS. 03:23:53.387 --> 03:23:56.190 ÁP 112 CABALDON. HURTADO. 03:23:56.257 --> 03:23:59.460 HURTADO. AYE. OCHOA. PEREZ. 03:23:59.527 --> 03:24:02.363 REYES. REYES. AYE. SMALLWOOD. 03:24:02.430 --> 03:24:04.599 CUEVAS. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. AYE. 03:24:04.665 --> 03:24:07.668 OKAY. THAT'S Â 11. AYE. FOUR 03:24:07.735 --> 03:24:09.403 NOTES WITH THE BILL BACK ON 03:24:09.470 --> 03:24:10.805 CALL. AND THEN WE'LL MOVE TO 03:24:10.871 --> 03:24:15.409 ITEM NUMBER THREE. ÁP 126. 03:24:15.476 --> 03:24:18.145 CABALDON. HURTADO. HURTADO. AYE. 03:24:18.212 --> 03:24:22.483 OCHOA. PEREZ. REYES. REYES. AYE. 03:24:22.550 --> 03:24:24.318 SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. SMALLWOOD. 03:24:24.385 --> 03:24:27.154 CUEVAS. AYE. THAT IS 11 EYES 03:24:27.221 --> 03:24:28.656 FOR NOT VOTING. WILL PUT THE 03:24:28.723 --> 03:24:30.725 BILL BACK ON CALL. WE'LL GO TO 03:24:30.791 --> 03:24:33.561 ITEM NUMBER FOUR. ASSEMBLY BILL 03:24:33.628 --> 03:24:37.098 135 ÁP 135. CABALDON. HURTADO. 03:24:37.164 --> 03:24:40.001 HURTADO. AYE. OCHOA. PEREZ. 03:24:40.067 --> 03:24:43.004 REYES. REYES. AYE. SMALLWOOD. 03:24:43.070 --> 03:24:45.840 CUEVAS. SMALLWOOD. CUEVAS. AYE. 03:24:45.906 --> 03:24:49.543 THAT IS 11. EYES FOR KNOWS WHAT 03:24:49.610 --> 03:24:51.312 THE BILL. BACK ON CALL. WE WILL 03:24:51.379 --> 03:24:53.414 GO TO ITEM NUMBER FIVE ASSEMBLY 03:24:53.481 --> 03:24:55.916 BILL 150. PLEASE CALL THE 03:24:55.983 --> 03:24:58.886 ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 150. 03:24:58.953 --> 03:25:00.554 CABALDON. HURTADO. HURTADO. AYE. 03:25:00.621 --> 03:25:04.091 OCHOA. BOGH. PEREZ. REYES. 03:25:04.158 --> 03:25:09.096 REYES. AYE. THEN THAT'S A 12. 03:25:09.163 --> 03:25:13.334 AYE. THREE. NO. AND WE'LL PUT 03:25:13.401 --> 03:25:14.969 THE BILL BACK ON CALL. WE'LL GO 03:25:15.036 --> 03:25:17.038 TO ITEM NUMBER SIX. PLEASE CALL 03:25:17.104 --> 03:25:20.274 THE ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 152 03:25:20.341 --> 03:25:22.410 CABALDON HURTADO. AYE. HURTADO. 03:25:22.476 --> 03:25:27.415 AYE. PEREZ. REYES. REYES. AYE. 03:25:27.481 --> 03:25:31.118 OKAY. THAT IS 11 EYES, FOUR NOS. 03:25:31.185 --> 03:25:32.787 WITH THE BILL BACK ON CALL, 03:25:32.853 --> 03:25:34.989 WE'LL GO TO ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, 03:25:35.056 --> 03:25:36.924 ASSEMBLY BILL 163. PLEASE CALL 03:25:36.991 --> 03:25:40.461 THE ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 163. 03:25:40.528 --> 03:25:42.563 CABALDON. HURTADO. HURTADO. AYE. 03:25:42.630 --> 03:25:45.466 OCHOA. BOGH. PEREZ. REYES. 03:25:45.533 --> 03:25:49.036 REYES. AYE. THAT IS 13 EYES. 03:25:49.103 --> 03:25:51.372 TWO NOES WILL PUT THE BILL BACK 03:25:51.439 --> 03:25:54.141 ON CALL. PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT 03:25:54.208 --> 03:25:56.343 MEMBERS ON ITEM NUMBER EIGHT. 03:25:56.410 --> 03:25:59.547 ÁP 164. CABALDON. HURTADO. 03:25:59.613 --> 03:26:02.717 HURTADO. AYE. PEREZ. REYES. 03:26:02.783 --> 03:26:05.286 REYES. AYE. ALL RIGHT. THAT'S 03:26:05.352 --> 03:26:07.421 11 EYES. FOUR NOS. WILL PUT THE 03:26:07.488 --> 03:26:09.657 BILL BACK ON CALL. WE WILL THEN 03:26:09.724 --> 03:26:12.460 GO TO ITEM NUMBER NINE, 03:26:12.526 --> 03:26:14.595 ASSEMBLY BILL 165. PLEASE CALL 03:26:14.662 --> 03:26:17.231 THE ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 165. 03:26:17.298 --> 03:26:19.667 CABALDON. HURTADO. HURTADO. AYE. 03:26:19.734 --> 03:26:23.204 OCHOA. PEREZ. REYES. REYES. AYE. 03:26:23.270 --> 03:26:25.139 THAT'S 11 EYES FOR NOT VOTING. 03:26:25.206 --> 03:26:27.942 WILL PUT THE BILL BACK ON CALL. 03:26:28.008 --> 03:26:29.810 PLEASE GO TO ITEM NUMBER TEN 03:26:29.877 --> 03:26:32.646 AND CALL THE ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 03:26:32.713 --> 03:26:35.149 166 CABALDON. HURTADO. HURTADO. 03:26:35.216 --> 03:26:39.220 AYE. OCHOA. PEREZ. REYES. REYES. 03:26:39.286 --> 03:26:41.655 AYE. THAT'S 11 AYES FOR NOS. 03:26:41.722 --> 03:26:43.557 WILL PUT THE BILL BACK ON CALL. 03:26:43.624 --> 03:26:45.726 PLEASE GO TO ITEM NUMBER 11 AND 03:26:45.793 --> 03:26:50.331 CALL THE ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 168 03:26:50.397 --> 03:26:51.332 CABALDON. HURTADO. HURTADO. AYE. 03:26:51.398 --> 03:26:54.869 OCHOA. PEREZ. GREAT. AND THAT'S 03:26:54.935 --> 03:26:56.637 11 EYES. FOUR NOS. WILL PUT THE 03:26:56.704 --> 03:26:59.206 BILL BACK ON CALL. LET'S GO TO 03:26:59.273 --> 03:27:03.577 ITEM NUMBER 12AB169. PLEASE 03:27:03.644 --> 03:27:06.380 CALL THE ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 169 03:27:06.447 --> 03:27:09.316 CABALDON HURTADO. HURTADO. AYE. 03:27:09.383 --> 03:27:14.021 OCHOA. PEREZ. OKAY. THAT'S EYES 03:27:14.088 --> 03:27:16.157 11 NOS. FOR THE BILL BACK ON 03:27:16.223 --> 03:27:20.161 CALL, PLEASE GO TO ITEM 13AB170. 03:27:20.227 --> 03:27:21.762 PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT MEMBERS. 03:27:21.829 --> 03:27:24.965 ÁP 170 CABALDON HURTADO. 03:27:25.032 --> 03:27:29.170 HURTADO. AYE. PEREZ. THEN WE 03:27:29.236 --> 03:27:32.072 HAVE EYES. 11 NOS. FOR. WE'LL 03:27:32.139 --> 03:27:33.941 PUT THE BILL BACK ON CALL. 03:27:34.008 --> 03:27:37.478 LET'S GO TO ITEM 14AB171. 03:27:37.545 --> 03:27:41.015 PLEASE CALL THE THAT. SO NOW 03:27:41.081 --> 03:27:43.851 WE'VE CAUGHT UP. OKAY. THEN 03:27:43.918 --> 03:27:49.290 WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST IS WE'RE 03:27:49.356 --> 03:27:53.227 MISSING SENATOR CABALDON, 03:27:53.294 --> 03:27:56.130 SENATOR OCHOA AND SENATOR PEREZ. 03:27:56.197 --> 03:27:58.666 WE HAVE EVERYBODY ELSE RECORDED 03:27:58.732 --> 03:28:02.636 ON EVERY BILL. SO. OKAY. THANK 03:28:02.703 --> 03:28:06.240 YOU. SO I AM GOING TO 03:28:06.307 --> 03:28:07.975 TEMPORARILY RECESS THE 03:28:08.042 --> 03:28:09.543 COMMITTEE, BUT WE WILL GO BACK 03:28:09.610 --> 03:28:11.579 INTO SESSION. THE MINUTE 03:28:11.645 --> 03:28:13.347 MEMBERS COME FOR US TO LIFT THE 03:28:13.414 --> 03:28:15.749 CALLS. SO WE WILL TEMPORARILY 03:28:15.816 --> 03:28:19.286 AND HOPEFULLY VERY SHORT TERM 03:28:19.353 --> 03:28:38.572 RECESS. 03:28:38.639 --> 03:28:43.210 LIFT THE CALLS ON. OH, 03:28:43.277 --> 03:28:44.478 I THOUGHT THERE WAS SOMEBODY 03:28:44.545 --> 03:28:47.514 COMING IN TO HELP FILL. I WILL 03:28:47.581 --> 03:28:50.351 LIFT THE CALLS AND LET'S GO 03:28:50.417 --> 03:28:51.819 THROUGH ALL 20. LET'S START 03:28:51.886 --> 03:28:55.122 WITH ITEM 1AB111. PLEASE CALL 03:28:55.189 --> 03:28:57.491 THE ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 111 03:28:57.558 --> 03:29:02.963 CABALDON CABALDON I PERES I 03:29:03.030 --> 03:29:06.567 PRESS I. THAT'S ISE 134 NOS 03:29:06.634 --> 03:29:08.636 WILL PUT THE BILL BACK ON CALL 03:29:08.702 --> 03:29:11.538 ITEM NUMBER TWO ASSEMBLY BILL 03:29:11.605 --> 03:29:13.707 112. PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT 03:29:13.774 --> 03:29:16.277 MEMBERS. B 112 CABALDON 03:29:16.343 --> 03:29:20.180 CABALDON I OR PEREZ. PEREZ I 03:29:20.247 --> 03:29:22.316 THAT SIZE 13 NOS FOUR WILL PUT 03:29:22.383 --> 03:29:24.451 THE BILL BACK ON CALL. WE'LL 03:29:24.518 --> 03:29:26.320 MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER THREE. 03:29:26.387 --> 03:29:29.556 ASSEMBLY BILL 126. PLEASE CALL 03:29:29.623 --> 03:29:32.026 THE ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 126 03:29:32.092 --> 03:29:36.063 CABALDON CABALDON I PEREZ. 03:29:36.130 --> 03:29:38.565 PEREZ. AYES 13 FOR NOT VOTING. 03:29:38.632 --> 03:29:40.000 WILL PUT THE BILL BACK ON CALL. 03:29:40.067 --> 03:29:41.669 WE'LL GO TO ITEM NUMBER FOUR, 03:29:41.735 --> 03:29:44.638 ASSEMBLY BILL 135 HIGHER 03:29:44.705 --> 03:29:45.673 EDUCATION POLICE. CALL THE 03:29:45.739 --> 03:29:47.875 ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 135. 03:29:47.942 --> 03:29:51.145 CABALDON. CABALDON I OR PEREZ I 03:29:51.211 --> 03:29:53.948 PEREZ I SIZE 13 FOR SNOW WILL 03:29:54.014 --> 03:29:55.182 PUT THE BILL BACK ON CALL. 03:29:55.249 --> 03:29:56.917 WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER FIVE. 03:29:56.984 --> 03:29:58.752 ASSEMBLY BILL 150. PLEASE CALL 03:29:58.819 --> 03:30:00.788 THE ABSENT MEMBERS. 150. 03:30:00.854 --> 03:30:03.324 CABALDON CABALDON I. OCHOA. 03:30:03.390 --> 03:30:06.927 PEREZ. PEREZ I THAT'S ISE. 14 03:30:06.994 --> 03:30:08.095 NOES THREE. WE'LL PUT THE BILL 03:30:08.162 --> 03:30:10.898 BACK ON CALL ITEM NUMBER SIX 03:30:10.965 --> 03:30:14.134 ASSEMBLY BILL 152. PLEASE CALL 03:30:14.201 --> 03:30:16.603 THE ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 152. 03:30:16.670 --> 03:30:19.907 CABALDON. CABALDON. AYE. PEREZ. 03:30:19.974 --> 03:30:22.476 PEREZ. AYE. THAT'S EYES 13 NO'S 03:30:22.543 --> 03:30:24.545 FOR. PUT THE BILL BACK ON CALL. 03:30:24.611 --> 03:30:26.380 MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER SEVEN. 03:30:26.447 --> 03:30:28.582 ASSEMBLY BILL 163. PLEASE CALL 03:30:28.649 --> 03:30:31.452 THE ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 163 03:30:31.518 --> 03:30:33.554 CABALDON CABALDON. AYE. OCHOA. 03:30:33.620 --> 03:30:36.423 PEREZ. PEREZ. AYE. THAT SIZE 03:30:36.490 --> 03:30:38.292 152 NONVOTING WILL PUT THE BILL 03:30:38.359 --> 03:30:40.194 BACK ON CALL. LET'S GO TO ITEM 03:30:40.260 --> 03:30:42.229 NUMBER EIGHT. ASSEMBLY BILL 164. 03:30:42.296 --> 03:30:45.299 PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT MEMBERS. 03:30:45.366 --> 03:30:46.233 164 CABALDON CABALDON. AYE. 03:30:46.300 --> 03:30:49.003 OCHOA. PEREZ. PEREZ. AYE. 03:30:49.069 --> 03:30:50.938 THAT'S 813. THOSE FOUR WILL PUT 03:30:51.005 --> 03:30:53.841 THE BILL BACK ON CALL. WE'LL 03:30:53.907 --> 03:30:55.876 MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER NINE, 03:30:55.943 --> 03:30:58.512 ASSEMBLY BILL 165. PLEASE CALL 03:30:58.579 --> 03:31:01.015 THE ABSENT MEMBERS. 165 03:31:01.081 --> 03:31:03.417 CABALDON. CABALDON. AYE. OCHOA. 03:31:03.484 --> 03:31:06.020 PEREZ. PEREZ. AYE. THAT'S EYES 03:31:06.086 --> 03:31:08.856 13 FOR NOT VOTING. WILL PUT THE 03:31:08.922 --> 03:31:10.457 BILL BACK ON CALL. WE'LL MOVE 03:31:10.524 --> 03:31:11.892 TO ITEM NUMBER TEN. ASSEMBLY 03:31:11.959 --> 03:31:14.294 BILL 166. PLEASE CALL THE 03:31:14.361 --> 03:31:16.797 ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 166. 03:31:16.864 --> 03:31:20.000 CABALDON CABALDON. AYE. PEREZ. 03:31:20.067 --> 03:31:21.802 PEREZ. AYE. THAT'S EYES 13. 03:31:21.869 --> 03:31:23.237 THOSE FOUR WILL PUT THE BILL 03:31:23.303 --> 03:31:25.139 BACK ON. CALL WILL GO TO ITEM 03:31:25.205 --> 03:31:28.742 NUMBER 11. ASSEMBLY BILL 168 ÁP 03:31:28.809 --> 03:31:30.778 168. CABALDON. CABALDON. AYE. 03:31:30.844 --> 03:31:33.313 OCHOA. PEREZ. PEREZ. AYE. 03:31:33.380 --> 03:31:35.182 THAT'S EYES 13. THOSE FOUR PUT 03:31:35.249 --> 03:31:37.384 THE BILL BACK ON CALL ITEM 03:31:37.451 --> 03:31:40.521 NUMBER 12 ASSEMBLY BILL 169. 03:31:40.587 --> 03:31:42.356 PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT MEMBERS. 03:31:42.423 --> 03:31:45.192 ÁP 169 CABALDON. CABALDON. AYE. 03:31:45.259 --> 03:31:48.095 OCHOA. PEREZ. PEREZ. AYE. 03:31:48.162 --> 03:31:50.964 THAT'S EYES 13 NOES FOR. WE'LL 03:31:51.031 --> 03:31:52.366 PUT THE BILL BACK ON CALL. 03:31:52.433 --> 03:31:54.935 WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER 13, 03:31:55.002 --> 03:31:57.438 ASSEMBLY BILL 170. PLEASE CALL 03:31:57.504 --> 03:31:59.573 THE ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 170. 03:31:59.640 --> 03:32:02.509 CABALDON. CABALDON. AYE. OCHOA. 03:32:02.576 --> 03:32:05.045 PEREZ. PEREZ. AYE. THAT'S. AYES 03:32:05.112 --> 03:32:07.881 13. NOS FOUR. PUT THE MATTER 03:32:07.948 --> 03:32:09.616 BACK ON CALL. MOVE TO ITEM 03:32:09.683 --> 03:32:13.287 NUMBER 14. ASSEMBLY BILL 171. 03:32:13.353 --> 03:32:14.888 PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT MEMBERS. 03:32:14.955 --> 03:32:17.324 ÁP 171. CABALDON CABALDON. AYE. 03:32:17.391 --> 03:32:20.494 OR PEREZ. PEREZ. AYE. THAT'S 03:32:20.561 --> 03:32:23.163 EYES 133 NOES ONE NOT VOTING. 03:32:23.230 --> 03:32:25.165 WE'LL PUT THE BILL BACK ON CALL 03:32:25.232 --> 03:32:27.334 ITEM NUMBER 15. PLEASE CALL THE 03:32:27.401 --> 03:32:30.537 ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 172 CABALDON 03:32:30.604 --> 03:32:33.474 CABALDON. AYE. OTOBOKE. PEREZ. 03:32:33.540 --> 03:32:36.310 PEREZ. AYE. THAT'S EYES 13 NOES 03:32:36.376 --> 03:32:38.479 FOUR. PUT THE BILL BACK ON CALL. 03:32:38.545 --> 03:32:40.647 WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER 16. 03:32:40.714 --> 03:32:43.617 ASSEMBLY BILL 174 ÁP ONE. CALL 03:32:43.684 --> 03:32:46.386 THE ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 174 03:32:46.453 --> 03:32:48.922 CABALDON CABALDON AYE. OTOBOKE 03:32:48.989 --> 03:32:51.792 PEREZ. PEREZ. AYE. THAT'S AYE. 03:32:51.859 --> 03:32:54.294 17 WILL PUT THE BILL BACK ON 03:32:54.361 --> 03:32:58.232 CALL NUMBER 17. ASSEMBLY BILL 03:32:58.298 --> 03:33:00.134 179. PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT 03:33:00.200 --> 03:33:02.269 MEMBERS. ÁP 179 CABALDON 03:33:02.336 --> 03:33:04.404 CABALDON AYE. OTOBOKE PEREZ. 03:33:04.471 --> 03:33:06.940 PEREZ. AYE THAT SIZE 13 NOES 03:33:07.007 --> 03:33:09.143 FOR. WE'LL PUT THAT BILL BACK 03:33:09.209 --> 03:33:10.878 ON CALL. WE'LL GO TO ITEM 03:33:10.944 --> 03:33:13.413 NUMBER 18, ASSEMBLY BILL 180. 03:33:13.480 --> 03:33:15.549 PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT MEMBERS. 03:33:15.616 --> 03:33:17.751 180 CABALDON CABALDON. AYE. 03:33:17.818 --> 03:33:21.321 OCHOA. BOGH. PEREZ. PEREZ. AYE. 03:33:21.388 --> 03:33:23.390 THAT'S AYE. 17 WILL PUT THAT 03:33:23.457 --> 03:33:25.292 BILL BACK ON CALL. WE'LL MOVE 03:33:25.359 --> 03:33:27.794 TO ITEM NUMBER 19. ASSEMBLY 03:33:27.861 --> 03:33:30.364 BILL 181. PLEASE CALL THE 03:33:30.430 --> 03:33:35.702 ABSENT MEMBERS. ÁP 181 CABALDON. 03:33:35.769 --> 03:33:41.508 PEREZ. THAT'S EYES NINE NOS. 03:33:41.575 --> 03:33:43.277 THREE NOT VOTING THREE WILL PUT 03:33:43.343 --> 03:33:46.880 THAT BILL BACK ON CALL. AND 03:33:46.947 --> 03:33:49.416 ITEM NUMBER 20 ASSEMBLY BILL 03:33:49.483 --> 03:33:51.218 182. PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT 03:33:51.285 --> 03:33:55.155 MEMBERS. 8182 CABALDON CABALDON 03:33:55.222 --> 03:33:59.927 AYE OR PEREZ. PEREZ. AYE. THAT 03:33:59.993 --> 03:34:01.995 IS EYES. 13. THOSE FOUR WILL 03:34:02.062 --> 03:34:03.430 PUT THE BILL BACK ON CALL. 03:34:03.497 --> 03:34:05.232 WE'RE NOT GOING TO QUITE RECESS 03:34:05.299 --> 03:34:22.282 YET, SO HANG WITH US. 03:34:23.617 --> 03:34:23.951 THEN WE 03:34:24.017 --> 03:34:25.786 ARE GOING TO LIFT THE CALL ON 03:34:25.852 --> 03:34:29.356 ITEM NUMBER 19. ASSEMBLY BILL 03:34:29.423 --> 03:34:31.225 181. PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT 03:34:31.291 --> 03:34:33.860 MEMBERS. 8181 CABALDON CABALDON 03:34:33.927 --> 03:34:39.399 AYE. OCHOA. BOGH PEREZ WILL 03:34:39.466 --> 03:34:41.969 THAT SIZE TEN NOES THREE NOT 03:34:42.035 --> 03:34:48.475 VOTING THREE NOW VOTE TO THAT. 03:34:48.542 --> 03:34:50.244 OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO PUT THAT 03:34:50.310 --> 03:34:53.447 BACK ON CALL. AND AS SOON AS 03:34:53.513 --> 03:34:55.983 SENATOR OCHOA BOGH GETS HERE, 03:34:56.049 --> 03:34:58.318 WE WILL LIFT THE CALLS AGAIN. 03:34:58.385 --> 03:34:59.953 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE'LL GO 03:35:00.020 --> 03:35:23.744 INTO A TEMPORARY RECESS. 03:35:23.810 --> 03:35:26.747 WE'RE GOING 03:35:26.813 --> 03:35:30.284 TO GO THROUGH ALL 20 BILLS AND 03:35:30.350 --> 03:35:32.386 AND CALL THE ROLL. SO LET'S 03:35:32.452 --> 03:35:34.955 START WITH ITEM NUMBER ONE, 03:35:35.022 --> 03:35:38.191 ASSEMBLY BILL 111. PLEASE CALL 03:35:38.258 --> 03:35:41.795 THE ABSENT MEMBERS. NO, NO, 03:35:41.862 --> 03:35:45.766 THAT IS EYES 13 NOES FIVE. THAT 03:35:45.832 --> 03:35:47.567 BILL IS OUT. LET'S GO TO ITEM 03:35:47.634 --> 03:35:51.305 NUMBER TWO. ASSEMBLY BILL 112. 03:35:51.371 --> 03:35:54.007 PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT VOTERS. 03:35:54.074 --> 03:35:57.978 NO, NO. THAT IS AYES 13 NOES 03:35:58.045 --> 03:36:01.181 FIVE. THAT BILL IS OUT. ITEM 03:36:01.248 --> 03:36:03.750 NUMBER THREE, ASSEMBLY BILL 03:36:03.817 --> 03:36:08.088 1260 TREBLE NOT VOTING. THAT IS 03:36:08.155 --> 03:36:10.657 AYES 135 NOT VOTING. THAT BILL 03:36:10.724 --> 03:36:13.794 IS OUT. PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT 03:36:13.860 --> 03:36:15.228 MEMBERS AND ITEM NUMBER FOUR 03:36:15.295 --> 03:36:19.266 ASSEMBLY BILL 135 WHICH ABOVE 03:36:19.333 --> 03:36:21.401 THAT NUMBER FOUR. NUMBER FOUR, 03:36:21.468 --> 03:36:24.204 ASSEMBLY BILL 135. TROUBLE. NO, 03:36:24.271 --> 03:36:26.773 THAT'S AYS 13 NOES FIVE. THAT 03:36:26.840 --> 03:36:29.676 BILL IS OUT. ITEM NUMBER FIVE, 03:36:29.743 --> 03:36:31.445 ASSEMBLY BILL 150. PLEASE CALL% 03:36:31.511 --> 03:36:35.449 THE ABSENT MEMBERS. NOT VOTING. 03:36:35.515 --> 03:36:39.753 THAT IS AYS 14. NOT VOTING FOR 03:36:39.820 --> 03:36:41.722 THAT BILL IS OUT. LET'S CALL 03:36:41.788 --> 03:36:43.357 THE ABSENT MEMBERS ON ITEM 03:36:43.423 --> 03:36:47.794 NUMBER SIX. ASSEMBLY BILL 152, 03:36:47.861 --> 03:36:52.332 WHICH I JUST LOST. OKAY. ITEM 03:36:52.399 --> 03:37:03.477 NUMBER SIX. NUMBER SIX. NO, NO, 03:37:03.543 --> 03:37:06.046 THAT IS AYS 13. NOES FIVE. THAT 03:37:06.113 --> 03:37:08.181 BILL IS OUT. PLEASE CALL THE 03:37:08.248 --> 03:37:09.950 ABSENT MEMBERS ON ITEM SEVEN. 03:37:10.016 --> 03:37:14.287 ASSEMBLY BILL 163 NOT VOTING. 03:37:14.354 --> 03:37:17.924 THAT'S AYS 15 NOT VOTING THREE. 03:37:17.991 --> 03:37:21.128 THAT BILL IS OUT. PLEASE LIFT 03:37:21.194 --> 03:37:22.896 THE CALL ON ITEM NUMBER EIGHT 03:37:22.963 --> 03:37:27.667 ASSEMBLY BILL 164. NO, NO, 03:37:27.734 --> 03:37:30.604 THAT'S AYS 13 NOES FIVE. THAT 03:37:30.670 --> 03:37:33.073 BILL IS OUT. LET'S GO TO ITEM 03:37:33.140 --> 03:37:36.643 NUMBER NINE. ASSEMBLY BILL 165. 03:37:36.710 --> 03:37:39.880 PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT MEMBERS. 03:37:39.946 --> 03:37:42.482 THAT IS AYES 13 NOT VOTING FIVE. 03:37:42.549 --> 03:37:44.684 THAT BILL IS OUT. PLEASE CALL 03:37:44.751 --> 03:37:46.386 THE ABSENT MEMBERS ON ITEM 03:37:46.453 --> 03:37:51.391 NUMBER TEN ÁP 166 OCHOA. NO, 03:37:51.458 --> 03:37:53.894 THAT'S AYES 13 NOES FIVE. THAT 03:37:53.960 --> 03:37:55.695 BILL IS OUT. LET'S CALL THE 03:37:55.762 --> 03:37:57.164 ABSENT MEMBERS ON ITEM NUMBER 03:37:57.230 --> 03:38:01.134 11, ASSEMBLY BILL 168. NO, 03:38:01.201 --> 03:38:03.970 ABODE. NO. THAT'S AYES 13 NOES 03:38:04.037 --> 03:38:06.273 FIVE. THAT BILL IS OUT. PLEASE 03:38:06.339 --> 03:38:09.009 CALL THE ABSENT MEMBER ON ITEM 03:38:09.075 --> 03:38:14.047 NUMBER 12, ASSEMBLY BILL 169. 03:38:14.114 --> 03:38:16.316 NO. THAT SIZE 13 NO'S FIVE. 03:38:16.383 --> 03:38:18.018 THAT BILL IS OUT. PLEASE CALL 03:38:18.084 --> 03:38:19.486 THE ABSENT MEMBERS ON ITEM 03:38:19.553 --> 03:38:24.157 NUMBER 13. ASSEMBLY BILL 170. 03:38:24.224 --> 03:38:26.660 NO, THAT'S EYES 13 NOES FIVE. 03:38:26.726 --> 03:38:28.428 THAT BILL IS OUT. PLEASE CALL 03:38:28.495 --> 03:38:33.133 THE ABSENT MEMBERS ON ITEM 14. 03:38:33.200 --> 03:38:37.103 ASSEMBLY BILL 171 BILL NOT 03:38:37.170 --> 03:38:41.041 VOTING. THAT'S AYS 13 NOES 03:38:41.107 --> 03:38:42.943 THREE TWO NON-VOTING. THAT BILL 03:38:43.009 --> 03:38:45.745 IS OUT. PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT 03:38:45.812 --> 03:38:48.348 MEMBER ON ITEM NUMBER 15 03:38:48.415 --> 03:38:52.619 ASSEMBLY BILL 172. NOT VOTING. 03:38:52.686 --> 03:38:55.188 THAT'S AYS 13 NOT VOTING FIVE. 03:38:55.255 --> 03:38:57.224 THAT BILL IS OUT. PLEASE MOVE 03:38:57.290 --> 03:38:59.459 TO ITEM NUMBER 16. ASSEMBLY 03:38:59.526 --> 03:39:01.595 BILL 174. PLEASE CALL THE 03:39:01.661 --> 03:39:04.097 ABSENT MEMBER A TROUBLED, A 03:39:04.164 --> 03:39:08.768 TROUBLED, A THAT'S AYS 18. THAT 03:39:08.835 --> 03:39:10.937 BILL IS OUT. PLEASE CALL THE 03:39:11.004 --> 03:39:13.907 ABSENT MEMBER ON ITEM 17 03:39:13.974 --> 03:39:18.879 ASSEMBLY BILL 179, WHICH. NOT 03:39:18.945 --> 03:39:26.019 VOTING. OKAY. PARDON. SORRY. 03:39:26.086 --> 03:39:30.056 THAT'S ITEM 17. ASSEMBLY BILL 03:39:30.123 --> 03:39:46.172 179. 03:39:50.544 --> 03:39:52.379 OKAY. IT'S NOT THERE. SO 03:39:52.445 --> 03:39:53.813 WE'RE JUST ROLLING ON THIS ONE. 03:39:53.880 --> 03:39:59.553 SO OKAY, SO NO, NO THAT'S AYES 03:39:59.619 --> 03:40:02.389 13 NOES FIVE. THAT BILL IS OUT. 03:40:02.455 --> 03:40:06.059 ITEM EIGHT TÍNH ASSEMBLY BILL 03:40:06.126 --> 03:40:07.193 180. PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT 03:40:07.260 --> 03:40:13.633 MEMBER. I A TROUBLED I THAT'S I 03:40:13.700 --> 03:40:16.169 18 THAT BILL IS OUT. PLEASE 03:40:16.236 --> 03:40:20.106 CALL THE ABSENT MEMBERS ON ITEM 03:40:20.173 --> 03:40:24.010 19 ASSEMBLY BILL 18181. RIGHT. 03:40:24.077 --> 03:40:30.951 YES. NOT VOTING. VOTING. WE 03:40:31.017 --> 03:40:34.487 HAVE ANOTHER ABSENT MEMBER ON. 03:40:34.554 --> 03:40:36.690 OKAY, THEN I'LL PUT THAT BACK 03:40:36.756 --> 03:40:38.558 ON CALL AND THEN WE'LL GO TO 03:40:38.625 --> 03:40:42.028 ITEM NUMBER 20, ASSEMBLY BILL 03:40:42.095 --> 03:40:45.131 182. PLEASE CALL THE ABSENT 03:40:45.198 --> 03:40:49.936 MEMBER. NÓ THAT SIZE 13 NOES 03:40:50.003 --> 03:40:51.805 FIVE. THAT BILL IS OUT. I'M 03:40:51.871 --> 03:40:55.108 GONNA GO BACK JUST A SECOND. 03:40:55.175 --> 03:40:57.544 WE'RE GOING TO PAUSE FOR A 03:40:57.611 --> 03:41:17.330 SECOND HERE. TWO, THREE. JUST 03:41:17.397 --> 03:41:19.833 BEFORE WE CALL THE ABSENT 03:41:19.899 --> 03:41:21.267 MEMBERS ON THE ONE REMAINING 03:41:21.334 --> 03:41:24.104 BILL. SENATOR PEREZ WAS UNABLE 03:41:24.170 --> 03:41:25.572 TO BE HERE FOR THE DISCUSSION 03:41:25.639 --> 03:41:27.407 AND THE DEBATE AND ALLOW HER 03:41:27.474 --> 03:41:29.576 THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A BRIEF 03:41:29.643 --> 03:41:36.383 COMMENT. I. JUST WANT TO 03:41:36.449 --> 03:41:39.152 COMMENT ON ÁP 181. ALVAREZ. YOU 03:41:39.219 --> 03:41:41.421 KNOW, I RECOGNIZE THAT BASED 03:41:41.488 --> 03:41:42.856 OFF OF THE VOTES THAT HAVE BEEN 03:41:42.922 --> 03:41:45.425 TAKEN TODAY, YOU KNOW, BY 03:41:45.492 --> 03:41:46.860 MEMBERS OF THE SENATE IN THIS 03:41:46.926 --> 03:41:47.861 COMMITTEE THAT, YOU KNOW, 03:41:47.927 --> 03:41:48.995 WITHOUT MY VOTE, THAT THIS IS 03:41:49.062 --> 03:41:50.897 NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO MOVE 03:41:50.964 --> 03:41:52.766 FORWARD. SO I'M WILLING TO GIVE 03:41:52.832 --> 03:41:54.067 THIS A COURTESY VOTE. YOU KNOW, 03:41:54.134 --> 03:41:55.735 OBVIOUSLY, I KNOW WE'VE HAD A 03:41:55.802 --> 03:41:56.870 LOT OF DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THIS 03:41:56.936 --> 03:42:00.473 POLICY IN MY COMMITTEE AND HAVE 03:42:00.540 --> 03:42:04.077 HAD ROBUST CONVERSATION, BUT 03:42:04.144 --> 03:42:05.111 OBVIOUSLY HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT 03:42:05.178 --> 03:42:07.013 THE PROCESS THAT'S TAKING PLACE 03:42:07.080 --> 03:42:08.782 HERE. SO IN ORDER FOR THIS TO 03:42:08.848 --> 03:42:11.718 MOVE FORWARD AND TO HAVE THIS 03:42:11.785 --> 03:42:14.187 MOVE ON TO THE FLOOR, I WILL BE 03:42:14.254 --> 03:42:15.622 GIVING THIS A COURTESY VOTE SO 03:42:15.689 --> 03:42:17.791 THAT THE PROPOSAL CAN CONTINUE. 03:42:17.857 --> 03:42:20.326 IT'S IT'S MOVE FORWARD. I 03:42:20.393 --> 03:42:22.462 APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENT. I WILL 03:42:22.529 --> 03:42:24.230 LIFT THE CALL. PLEASE CALL THE 03:42:24.297 --> 03:42:28.568 ABSENT MEMBER ON ITEM NUMBER 19, 03:42:28.635 --> 03:42:32.906 ASSEMBLY BILL 181. PEREZ I 03:42:32.972 --> 03:42:41.181 PEREZ I. LET'S SEE HERE. MY 03:42:41.247 --> 03:42:42.682 TOTAL ADDS TO ONE MORE THAN 03:42:42.749 --> 03:42:45.051 THERE IS. MAYBE IT'S. I HAD YOU 03:42:45.118 --> 03:42:48.354 AS NOT VOTING BEFORE, SO I SHOW 03:42:48.421 --> 03:42:52.459 EYES 11 NO THREE THREE NOT 03:42:52.525 --> 03:42:53.626 VOTING. OKAY THEN THAT BILL IS 03:42:53.693 --> 03:42:57.363 DOWN. THAT COMPLETES OUR 03:42:57.430 --> 03:42:59.265 BUSINESS. AND IF IT WEREN'T FOR 03:42:59.332 --> 03:43:00.500 THE FACT THAT THERE WERE ONLY 03:43:00.567 --> 03:43:02.402 ABOUT FIVE PEOPLE LEFT, I WOULD 03:43:02.469 --> 03:43:03.870 THANK EVERYBODY THAT HAD WORKED 03:43:03.937 --> 03:43:05.305 ON THE BUDGET, AND HOPEFULLY 03:43:05.371 --> 03:43:06.773 I'LL GET A CHANCE TO DO THAT ON 03:43:06.840 --> 03:43:08.575 THE FLOOR. BUT THE STAFF 03:43:08.641 --> 03:43:11.077 WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK AND ME 03:43:11.144 --> 03:43:12.645 HAVING PHONE CALLS AND TEXTS 03:43:12.712 --> 03:43:14.447 AND THINGS AT 11:00 AT NIGHT, 03:43:14.514 --> 03:43:16.382 AND I, I THINK, GOT TO GO TO 03:43:16.449 --> 03:43:17.917 SLEEP. I'M NOT SURE THEY DID. 03:43:17.984 --> 03:43:20.820 SO THIS HAS BEEN AN AMAZING 03:43:20.887 --> 03:43:21.855 EFFORT AND I KNOW WE'RE NOT 03:43:21.921 --> 03:43:23.690 DONE UNTIL WE DO IT ON THE 03:43:23.757 --> 03:43:25.492 FLOOR AND IT IS SIGNED. BUT I 03:43:25.558 --> 03:43:26.893 JUST WANTED TO PERSONALLY THANK 03:43:26.960 --> 03:43:28.328 EVERYBODY FOR GETTING US TO 03:43:28.394 --> 03:43:31.965 THIS POINT. WITH THAT, THE 03:43:32.031 --> 03:43:34.434 SENATE BUDGET AND FISCAL REVIEW 03:43:34.501 --> 03:43:52.852 COMMITTEE STANDS ADJOURNED.