To counter recent legislation that would step up penalties on petty crimes, a group of progressive state lawmakers on Wednesday offered a rival approach, focusing instead on more services for offenders and survivors of crimes.
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The California state Senate is considering a bill that would protect workers in grocery and pharmacy stores that offer self-checkout.
To counter recent legislation that would step up penalties on petty crimes, a group of progressive state lawmakers this morning offered a rival approach, focusing instead on more services for offenders and survivors of crimes.
A Los Angeles lawmaker wants to curb self-checkout at stores in California.
About the bill: The bill from Democratic state Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas would force grocery and drug stores to limit how many self-checkout stations an employee can monitor and conduct a statewide study of job losses caused by the retail technology.
A bill that would make condoms freely available to California public high school students passed its first legislative hurdle on Wednesday, though it has a long path before potentially reaching the governor’s desk.
On February 14, 2024, California State Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas introduced Senate Bill 1137 (“SB 1137”), a bill that would make California the first state to specifically recognize the concept of “intersectionality.” Smallwood-Cuevas has stated that SB 1137 “makes it clear that discrimination not only happens based on one protected class, such as race, gender or age, but any combination thereof.”
On March 12, the California Legislative Black Caucus (CLBC) and the Legislative Women’s Caucus partnered to host a screening of the documentary “Respect My Crown: The Rise of African American Women in California Politics.”
Meet us at the Elks Tower in Sacramento for POLITICO Live this morning. We’re hosting a health care conversation exploring the challenges of prescription drug affordability with Caitlin Berry, of pharmacy benefit management company Prime Therapeutics; Robin Feldman, UCSF law professor; Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California; and state Sen. Scott Wiener. How might officials find savings in the drug supply chain ecosystem?