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Legislative News – 11-09-2021

K Buenavista — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 20:43:16 +0000

For the first time in the state’s history, California State Assemblymember Evan Low is the first to pass a bill that requires retail stores to “maintain a gender-neutral section or area”
Assembly Bill 1084 applies to retail stores with more than 500 employees and will fine them $250 for the first offense and $500 for additional offenses
The bill will go into effect in 2024 and will not mandate the manufacturers or vendors stop selling gendered children’s products

In an effort to turn financial support for full-day kindergarten into a permanent obligation, Kentucky picked up momentum on November 8, when a state school task force endorsed the proposal
This task force also urged state lawmakers to make plans for full state funding of school district’s transportation costs to fully fund a school safety measure that came into effect in 2019

Through a celebrity-infused campaign, large cannabis businesses are trying to get marijuana users to pressure Congress to legalize pot across the nation
The “Cannabis in Common” initiative launched on November 9 to change further the federal legalization of cannabis that struggled with opposition from Capitol Hill

Automakers now have a new requirement by Congress that requires them to find a way to keep drunken people from driving cars
This mandate is a part of the new $1 trillion infrastructure package and is aimed to improve auto safety
In this new legislation, monitoring systems must be included to stop drunk drivers and will come in all new vehicles as soon as 2026, if the Transportation Department this able to come up with the necessary technology

Governor J.B. Pritzker on November 8 signed a change into law regarding the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act that would give punishments to those who refuse the COVID-19 vaccine
Before this amendment, employees filed lawsuits claiming that they cannot be punished for refusing the vaccine because the law provides a conscience-based exemption

K Buenavista — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:47:34 +0000

Over the night of September 9, a wave of thunderstorms moved access California and ignited more wildfires
According to a tweet from the National Weather Service in San Fransisco, they estimate that around 1100 cloud to ground strikes have occurred since the night of September 9

On Thursday, September 9, the California state Senate unanimously passed a bill that would allow Los Angeles County to return beachfront land to the descendants of its rightful owners
The land originally belonged to two black owners named Willa and Charles Bruce from 1912 to the early 1920s and they ran a resort that catered to black people
In 1924, the property was seized by the city of Manhattan Beach as they condemned black-owned lots

K Buenavista — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 20:41:46 +0000

Lawmakers in California have passed new legislation that would give Amazon and warehouse workers the ability to combat speed quotas
Critics have said that speed quotas have forced workers to skip skirt safety measures and bathroom breaks
California’s Assembly Bill 701 asserts that productivity demands cannot come at the expense of health and safety

K Buenavista — Thu, 09 Sep 2021 20:08:40 +0000

A 40-year-old California man named Matthew Taylor Coleman has been charged with two counts of foreign first-degree murder of United States nationals
Early in August, Matthew had taken his 10-month-old daughter and 2-year-old son to Mexico where it is alleged that he killed them with a spearfishing gun
Matthew told investigators that “he believed his children were going to grow into monsters so he had to kill them.”

Republican challenger, Larry Elder to Governor Gavin Newsom in the 2021 recall election was attacked by a woman wearing a gorilla mask who threw an egg at him in Venice Beach
After the attack, Governor Gavin Newsom was asked if he condemned the attack and he did not respond

Lawmakers in California have passed new legislation that would give Amazon and other warehouse workers the ability to combat speed quotas
Critics have said that speed quotas have forced workers to skip or skirt safety measures and bathroom breaks
California’s Assembly Bill 701 asserts that productivity demands cannot come at the expense of health and safety

A professor for the University of California school system is suing the Board of Regents and the president and argues that the Covid-19 vaccine mandate is not needed because he has natural immunity
There is existing Data shows that those who have contracted COVID-19 may have worse adverse effects from the vaccine than those who have never contracted the virus