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SACRAMENTO – To ensure that California can fully capitalize from it is UC research pipeline, Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks) introduced AB 2664, a bill to provide an investment of $2 million per year, for three years at each UC campus and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to start or expand business incubators that bring research innovations to market.
Ventura County legislators had this to say about the state's plan to increase the minimum wage starting next year in increments that will bring it to $15 by 2022:
Assemblywoman Jacqui Irwin, D-Thousand Oaks
"Income inequality is a defining issue in California and across our country. California has the highest poverty rate in the United States. Raising the minimum wage will help lift many working families out of poverty and put money back into their local economies.
Legislation to Modernize California’s Military Suicide Law Passes Veterans Affairs Committee Unanimously
Four years have passed since the completion of Oxnard’s Advance Wastewater Purification Facility, and now it’s finally being put to use.
Last year, KPCC recently conducted an in-depth investigation into officer-involved shootings in Los Angeles County.
Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:
Ellen Tauscher, 64, of San Francisco, has been appointed chair of the Governor's Military Council, where she has served as chair since 2013. Tauscher served as undersecretary of state for arms control and international security affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 2009 to 2012 and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 to 2009. This position does not require Senate confirmation and there is no compensation. Tauscher is a Democrat.
(Oxnard, CA) – Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks) hosted a special meeting of the State Assembly’s Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Education Finance at Oxnard College to discuss a new $60-million, one-time incentive grant program, funded by legislation she authored, to improve community college remediation practices. Almost 75% of entering California’s community college students are deemed unprepared for college-level work and in need of basic skills courses. Irwin and students explain the necessity of programs that aim to increase the number of students who complete basic skills, enabling them to pursue a college certificate or degree.
Watch the entire hearing in this Assembly Access Livestream video:
Unique Legislation Focused on the Demand Side of Sex Trafficking Passes through Public Safety Committee
SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, the Assembly’s Banking and Finance Committee passed legislation by Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles) and Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D-Thousand Oaks) to protect children from identity theft, by a 12-0 vote.