We’re in the last month of a two-year legislative session. During August, we’ll be voting on approximately 1,200 bills, over 500 in the Assembly and about 700 in the Senate.
These bills include my Assembly Bill 2768, which addresses the critical shortage of psychiatric beds by leading to the development of a real-time, internet-based app providing information on available beds/facilities to serve mentally ill patients in emergency rooms and in ambulance transport. With 31 counties reporting a shortage of behavioral healthcare workers, I joined Sen. Scott Wiener as co-author of Senate Bill 964 to deal with the shortage through increased funding and enhanced University of California degree programs. Other bills I support include Assembly Bill 2617 that encourages more dual enrollment p
