Speaker Bass and Assemblymember Galgiani Applaud "First Step Funding" for High-Speed Rail

SACRAMENTO - California Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles) and Assemblymember Cathleen Galgiani (D-Livingston) on Thursday thanked President Obama and Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood for their dedication and commitment to high-speed rail by allocating billions of dollars to 31 states, including California, for their projects. Read More...

Governor Signs Galgiani’s AB 957 “The Buyers Choice Act”
Also Known as “The Crab Feed Napkin Bill”

AB 957 will ensure that homebuyers can use local escrow services to provide better service at lesser cost in the purchase of Bank Owned houses.

Sacramento, CA -- Assemblymember Cathleen Galgiani (D - Livingston) announced that Governor Schwarzenegger signed AB 957, “The Buyers Choice Act”, over the weekend.  Galgiani’s bill is an urgency measure which means the law will go into effect immediately after being chaptered by the Secretary of State rather than January of 2010. Read More...

Assemblymember Galgiani Lobbies for Federal Funds for Farms, Water and Rail

(Washington DC) - Assemblymember Cathleen Galgiani (D-Livingston) was part of a bipartisan delegation of 20 Assemblymembers, led by Assembly Speaker Karen Bass (D-Los Angeles), who went to Washington, D.C. to press key federal officials on budgetary and policy issues critical to California. Assemblymember Galgiani says the delegation lobbied hard for federal funds for California's high-speed-rail system and drought relief. She also said the group pushed for more federal support for California's green economy programs and worked to secure $1 billion in increased federal funding for health care related costs. Here's more from Assemblymember Galgiani in this Assembly Access video. (Each legislator paid his or her own expenses on the trip.)

Job-Creation Bill on the Right Track

Galgiani's High-Speed Train Legislation Passes out of the Assembly

Sacramento, CA - Assembly Bill 733 authored by Assemblymember Cathleen Galgiani (D-Livingston) successfully passed off the Assembly Floor yesterday on a unanimous bipartisan vote. AB 733 seeks to maximize the number of California-based jobs that will be created for the construction of the High-Speed Train project as a means to improve and strengthen the California economy and job base.
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Customers must use lenders' title companies at higher cost.

In a way, the real estate market is burning as hot as it was three years ago.
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Galgiani's Bill (AB 957) "The Buyers Choice Act" Passes First Hurdle in Assembly Banking and Finance Committee

AB 957 will ensure that homebuyers can use local escrow services to provide better service at lesser cost in the purchase of Bank Owned houses.

SACRAMENTO – Assemblymember Cathleen Galgiani (D- Livingston) guided “The Buyers Choice Act” through the Assembly Banking and Finance committee on Monday by a near unanimous vote of 8 to 1.  AB 957 would mandate that buyers of bank-owned properties (foreclosed homes) would have the choice of using a local escrow office to handle the transaction. Read More...