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Californians Want Budget to Reflect Their Values from California Assembly Access on Vimeo.

(Sacramento) – Support for a state budget that reflects real California values is growing throughout the state. From Southern California, through the Central Valley and along the California Coast to the San Francisco Bay Area and the rest of Northern California people are calling on state lawmakers to approve a new state spending plan that funds education, health care, transportation and care for the elderly, blind and disabled. In this Assembly Access video real Californians, Assembly Speaker Karen Bass and other top Democratic Assemblymembers make it clear it’s “our values and our future” that must be included in the state budget.

More budget information from the Assembly Democrats can be found here.

(Sacramento) - Biometric technology that's already widely used in consumer products may be the answer to creating a "smart-gun" that could save lives. Assemblymember Mark DeSaulnier (D-Martinez) has written legislation (Assembly Bill 2235) to require all newly manufactured or imported handguns in California to be owner-authorized. Biometric technology, such as fingerprint or grip recognition, may be the best way to create owner-authorized guns since it provides a method for uniquely recognizing a person based upon one or more intrinsic physical traits. As we learn in this Assembly Web Report the new law would go into effect 18 months after the state Attorney General reports owner-authorized guns are available for retail sale.

(Sacramento) - San Francisco Bay Area Assembly Democrats have a package of legislation moving through the capitol designed to reduce the chances of oil spills, improve the response if there is an oil spill and restore the damage to the environment caused by any oil spills.  The package of nine bills also has the support of lawmakers from Southern California coastal areas and inland areas because oil spills are not just a San Francisco Bay Area problem. Here’s more on the Assembly Democrat’s Oil Spill Prevention, Response and Restoration package in this Assembly Web Report.