Legislative and Budget Priorities

Policy: AB 3127 (McKinnor): Centering Survivor Safety and Health

Summary: Would ensure access to healthcare services for survivors by creating a survivor-centered, trauma-informed approach and limit mandated reports to law enforcement to only firearm and life-threatening injuries. In addition, if a health provider knows or suspects a patient is experiencing any kind of domestic and sexual violence, not just physical, they would be required to offer a referral to a local domestic violence and sexual violence advocacy program or the National Domestic Violence hotline.

Co-Sponsors: Alliance for Boys and Men of Color, California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking, Culturally Responsive Domestic Violence Network, Futures Without Violence, Los Angeles LGBT Center, UCI Domestic Violence Law Clinic

Policy: AB 2064 (Jones-Sawyer): Community Violence Interdiction Grant Program

Summary: Would create the Community Violence Interdiction Grant Program to provide funding to local community programs for community-driven solutions to decrease violence in neighborhoods and schools. This bill is a part of the CA Reparations Policy Package created by the CA Legislative Black Caucus.

Supporting Organizations: Black Equity Collective, California Black Power Network, Catalyst California, Initiate Justice, LiveFree California, and more.

Policy: AB 518 (Wicks): Paid Family Leave for Chosen Family

Summary: Would expand eligibility for benefits under the paid family leave program to include individuals who take time off work to care for a seriously ill designated person. It defines “designated person” to mean any individual related by blood or whose association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship.

Co-Sponsors: Equal Rights Advocates, California Employment Lawyers Association, California Work and Family Coalition, Legal Aid at Work, Consumer Attorneys of California

Policy: ACA 16 (Bryan): A Healthy Environment is a Human Right

Summary: Declares clean air, water, and a healthy environment as a human right.

Co-Sponsors: Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, Community Water Center, Human Impact Partners, Green Amendments for the Generations, Climate Equity Policy Center, Sunrise Movement LA

Policy: The Campaign for a Safe and Healthy CA

Summary: Ensures that no Californians endure health hazards from living just steps from dangerous oil wells, PI is a part of a coalition comprised of health professionals, environmental justice groups, community and faith leaders, and youth have joined together to stand up to Big Oil and keep the law, SB 1137.

Supporting organizations: Full list using this link.

Policy: AB 1878 (Garcia): Tribal Housing Barriers

Summary: Would establish changes to existing tribal housing policies in California by removing the Department of Housing and Community Development's authority to act on behalf of tribal housing authorities and have them provide comprehensive technical assistance to tribes and tribal housing entities. It would also create the Tribal Housing Advisory Committee in the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency.

Co-Sponsors: Pala Band of Mission Indians

Policy: SB 1050 (Bradford): Reparations for Racially Motivated Eminent Domain

Summary: Establishes a process for the State of California to review and investigate public complaints from individuals who claim their property was taken without just compensation as a result of racially motivated eminent domain and establish a process for providing compensation to the rightful owner. This bill is a recommendation from the CA Reparations Task Force’s Final Report.

Co-Sponsors: Sponsored by Bradford, supported by the 20+ linked orgs.

Implementation Priority: Racial Equity Commission

Summary: PI, as a member of the California Racial Equity Coalition, is engaging with coalition partners, Commissioners, and government staff to offer recommendations and best practices as the Racial Equity Commission (REC) holds public hearings throughout the state to develop a Racial Equity Framework. In September 2022, Governor Newsom issues Executive Order N-16-22 which established the Racial Equity Commission (REC), the REC is developing a framework to guide departments, agencies, and offices in operationalizing equity in government practices.

Supporting Organizations: NextGen Policy, Greenlining Institute, Catalyst California, and the California Racial Equity Coalition

Implementation Priority: The California Reparations Report Policy Recommendation Implementation

Summary: PI is actively working in partnership with racial justice and health organizations to enact the policy recommendations of The California Reparations Report. In July 2023, the California Task Force to Study Reparations or Descendants of African Slaves released the report, which included over 100 policy recommendations to facilitate reparations for descendants of chattel slavery and Black communities.

Policy: SB 1331 (Bradford): California Reparations and Reparative Justice Fund

Summary: Would establish the Fund for Reparations and Reparative Justice to fund policies that indemnify African American descendants of chattel enslaved persons or descendants of a free Black person living in the U.S. prior to the end of the 19^th century.

Supporting Organizations: ACLU California Action, Alameda County Mental Health, Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative, California Black Health Network, Catalyst California, Coalition for a Just and Equitable California, Rising Communities, The Greenlining Institute, Western Center on Law and Poverty, and more.

Policy: SB 1403 (Bradford): California Freedmen Affairs Agency

Summary: Would establish the California American Freedman Affairs Agency for the purpose of implementation, oversight, and monitoring of the policies and laws enacted relating to reparations. The bill would require the agency to implement any recommendations of the California Reparations Task Force or other proposals, as approved by the Legislature and the Governor.

Supporting Organizations: ACLU California Action, Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative, Coalition for A Just and Equitable California, Western Center on Law and Poverty, and more.