Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) has released the following statement about Governor Newsom’s proposed 2025-26 budget:
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La Senadora Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Ángeles) emitió la siguiente declaración sobre el presupuesto propuesto por el Gobernador Newsom para 2025-26:
Six employment social enterprises located in the 28th Senate District of Los Angeles have been awarded $1.85 million in grant funding from CA RISE (California Regional Initiative for Social Enterprise).
Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) has expressed gratitude to Governor Gavin Newsom for signing her bill SB 1089, landmark legislation that mandates grocery stores and pharmacies to give advance notice to their workers and communities to plan for the potential impact of closures.
Governor Gavin Newsom today signed SB 1340, a critical workplace enforcement bill authored by Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) and a priority bill of the Reparations legislative package.
Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) has released the following statement about the Governor’s signing of her bill SB 1484:
La Senadora Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Ángeles) emitió la siguiente declaración sobre la firma del Gobernador a su proyecto de ley SB 1484:
Today, Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles), Lorena Gonzalez, grocery and retail store workers, criminal justice advocates and researchers held an online press conference on how the proliferation of self-checkout has caused an increase in theft and violence and presented new data on how self-checkout has negative consequences related to staffing levels and customer disrespect and bullying.