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2015-2016 Legislative Priorities

Education:

AB 1711 Access to the University of CA: Caps the number of nonresident students at the UC and increase access for California students.

AB 2122 Teacher Shortage: Establishes the California Classified School Employee Teacher Credentialing Program to recruit and train classified public school employees to create a career ladder for them to become teachers.

AB 2353 Culturally Responsive Teacher Instruction: Requires the California Department of Education to create a curriculum for culturally responsive instruction for teachers in order to obtain their teaching credential and/or education requirement.

AB 2489 Restorative Justice: Provides California schools the tools necessary to allow the use of restorative justice practices as an alternative to suspension or arrest.

AB 2660 Preschool: Renews the call to ensure that all low income kids have access to quality pre-kindergarten programs.

AB 2726 Tax Credit for College Savings Accounts: Provides California families with a tax incentive to a Scholarshare account to save for future higher education costs and reduce student debt.

Health and Human Services:

AB 1594 Smoke/Vape Free Campuses: Prohibits tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, at all public post-secondary education campuses.

AB 1661 Sexual Harassment Prevention Training: Closes loophole to require city or county locally elected officials to take sexual harassment prevention training course.

AB 1737 Child Death Review Team: Requires counties to produce an annual child death review report to increase accountability and transparency to improve protection services for children.

AB 1879 Foster Youth: Improving permanency and adoption outcomes to assist children in achieving a permanent family through reunification, adoption, and legal guardianship.

AB 2007 Concussion Management for Youth Sports: Protects youth sports participants from injury by requiring the same protocols to be observed as those in place for high school athletes.

AB 2015 Child Welfare Services: Strengthen oversight over child welfare services at the county level.

AB 2017 Mental Health for Students: Creates a College Mental Health Services Trust to fund competitive grants for mental health services for college students in the public college system.

AB 2285 Foster Youth: Creates career pathway pilot training program for foster youth who are currently enrolled in school in Sacramento County.

Environment:

AB 1716 American River Conservancy: Creates a new state conservancy with the goal of enhancing and protecting the natural habitat and water conveyance of the Lower American River.

AB 1738 Dark Greywater: Creates a new definition of greywater to include recycle water form kitchen sinks and dishwashers to increase in home water recycling.

AB 1886 CEQA streamlining for infill projects: Expands on current streamlining opportunities for environmentally friendly infill projects which are close to public transit and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Public Safety:

AB 156 Ammunition Sales: This bill would create a regulatory framework to ensure that persons prohibited from purchasing firearms are also unable to purchase firearm ammunition. 

AB 2459 Responsible Gun Transactions: Provide transparency for all gun transactions by enacting requirements which are considered best practices by many cities and gun retailers across California.

 

Please feel free to email me your ideas to: Assemblymember.McCarty@Assembly.ca.gov or call the District Office at (916) 324-4676. In addition, you can click the button below to make your voice heard.

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