Press Releases

SACRAMENTO – In a major victory for consumers and the environment, Governor Gavin Newsom signed the nation’s first mandatory food date labeling reform bill. Assembly Bill 660 standardizes confusing date labels that result in unnecessary food waste across the state.

SACRAMENTO – Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin’s consumer protection legislation which addresses the increasingly-common instance of consumers losing access to their digital media purchases through no fault of their own was signed into law today by Governor Gavin Newsom.

AB 2697 ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING LEGISLATION WITH NATIONAL IMPLICATIONS ON GOVERNOR’S DESK

Confusing Food Date Labels Are (Almost) a Thing of the Past

New bill standardizing food date labeling, reducing consumer confusion and the environmental and socio-economic impacts of food waste awaits Governor Newsom’s signature.

SACRAMENTO: Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin is pleased to announce the Governor’s signing of AB 1779, which restores a lapsed jurisdictional law (Penal Code 786.5) allowing county prosecutors to charge related incidents of Organized Retail Theft (ORT) in a single county superior court.

SACRAMENTO – Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin is pleased to announce passage of her landmark Assembly Bill (AB) 660 with unanimous bipartisan support today in the Senate Agriculture Committee. AB 660 would require packaged food sold in California be labeled with clear and consistent expiration dates.

Californians Together Against Retail Crime

SACRAMENTO - Assemblymember Irwin to propose legislation that will put a halt to the California Public Utilities Commission's proposal to initiate an income graduated fee on ratepayers.

SACRAMENTO – Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin successfully passed legislation this week designed to improve patient care by allowing podiatrists and physicians to be on equal footing in medical practices.