Bonta Introduces AB 886 to Combat Recent Surge in Hate Attacks with Community-based Solutions Including Prevention Steps and Victim Assistance
SACRAMENTO – With the recent unacceptable surge in acts of
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Bonta Introduces Bill to Make Quality and Accessible Child Care Permanent in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties
SACRAMENTO – Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) has introduced AB 1294, to make permanent two child care subsidy pilot projects in Alameda and Santa Clara counties.
Bonta Introduces the Whale Entanglement Prevention Act to Protect Endangered Sea Life
The Whale Entanglement Prevention Act would require ropeless crabbing gear by 2025, ensuring California’s leadership role in whale protection around the world.
SACRAMENTO, February 10, 2021 - While California has long been a leader in wildlife conservation and sustainable fishing operations, our crabbing industry continues to use antiquated trapping gear that needlessly kills or injures endangered whales and sea turtles.
Bonta Introduces Bill to Increase Equitable Access to Transit, Reduce Traffic Congestion, and Combat GHG Emissions on the Bay Bridge Corridor
SACRAMENTO - Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) has introduced AB 455, known as the Bay Bridge Fast Forward Program, to improve traffic movement, reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Bay Area, and create more equitable access and opportunity for bus ridership across the Bay Bridge corridor.
Bonta Introduces Food Prescription Bill to Improve Nutrition Among Vulnerable Populations and Address COVID-19 Racial Health Disparities
SACRAMENTO – Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) has introduced AB 368, an innovative “food prescription” pilot program designed to address COVID-19 racial and ethnic health disparities, combat chronic diseases, and reduce health care costs through improved nutrition.
Bonta and Fellow Lawmakers Introduce Bail Reform Measure
SACRAMENTO – Senate Majority Leader Bob Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys), Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), and Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) introduced joint legislation on Wednesday designed to reform the state’s money bail system, and to address the disproportionate impacts on low-income and low-wealth residents.
Bonta Introduces Bill to Create Greater College Affordability and Equity for Low-Income Students in California
SACRAMENTO - Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) has introduced AB 288 that would increase access to California’s public colleges and universities by preventing schools from reducing financial aid grants if a student is also awarded a private scholarship.
Assemblymember Bonta Introduces The HOLD Act to Empower Health Officials to Protect Californians in For-Profit, Private Detention Facilities
SACRAMENTO – Today, California State Assemblymember Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) introduced AB 263, known as the Health Oversight and Leadership in Detention Act (HOLD Act) that will empower California health officials to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by ensuring health orders are followed inside for-profit, private detention facilities.
Bonta Announces First-in-the-Nation Legislation to Cure Conflict of Interest for Elected Prosecutors Investigating Police Misconduct
#CureTheConflict Legislation Will Require Prosecutors Who Accept Law Enforcement Union Contributions to Recuse Themselves in Investigations and Prosecutions of Law Enforcement
Bonta Leads Effort to Stop Deportation of Kao Ta Saelee
Assemblymember Bonta and Legislative colleagues are fighting to stop the deportation of Kao Ta Saelee, a Californian who bravely served as an inmate firefighter. He served his time, earned his release, but when he was due to be set free, the state voluntarily handed him over to ICE where he now faces deportation to a country he fled as a refugee with his family at the age of 2.