Press Releases

Informational Hearing Culminates with Community Financial Fair

SACRAMENTO – Assembly Member Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) chaired the first hearing of the newly created Assembly Select Committee on Financial Empowerment today in the city of Bell Gardens. Financial experts provided community members with a comprehensive overview of barriers and opportunities for asset building and asset preservation.

Improved data collection of the Latino LGBT community needed to reduce health disparities

AB 176 ensures all students are treated equally when seeking admission to post-secondary standardized exams

SACRAMENTO – Today, the Assembly voted to send Governor Jerry Brown Assembly Bill 176 authored by Assembly Member Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) to make higher education more accessible to all Californians.  The Assembly passed AB 176 with a 50-20 vote.

Budget Deficit Gap Closed

Sacramento, Calif. – Today Democrats met the Constitutional deadline to pass a balanced budget. While midyear solutions approved in March included $11 billion dollars in expenditure reductions, this proposal solves the remaining $9.6 billion budget problem, and includes a total reserve of $1 billion. While this budget is not perfect, most elements within it provide a compromise to keep our state moving forward and prevent further negative impacts on working families.