JPAC advocates on behalf of myriad issues of importance to the California Jewish community and all of our state’s most vulnerable citizen.
Our 2012 Advocacy Day legislative priorities:
1. AB 2160 (Blumenfield)
AB 2160 would empower the California Insurance Commissioner to disallow investments in Iran from assets that would otherwise contribute to evaluation of the financial solvency of insurers as a condition for operating in California. This bill would fall into the divestment category.
Bill http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_2151-2200/ab_2160_bill_20120223_introduced.pdf
2. SB 1193 (Steinberg)
This bill would require specific businesses to post a list of resources to assist victims of human trafficking. The bill further requires specified businesses and other establishments to post a notice informing the public and victims of human trafficking of telephone hotlines through which to seek help or report unlawful activity
Bill http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/sen/sb_1151-1200/sb_1193_bill_20120222_introduced.pdf
3. AB 1732 (Campos)
This bill would expand under the definition of bullying the following terms “electronic act” via a post on a social network Internet Web site “burn pages,” “credible impersonations,” and “false profiles.” The author states, “AB 1732 recognizes both the tremendous leap in popularity of social networking sites since the inception of our anti-bullying law, and the potential that the resulting popularity has an increased ability for cyber bullies to spread their messages, through the creation of ‘burn page or an impersonation page. Therefore, these forms of cyber bullying should be addressed and covered under the Education Code anti-bullying provisions.”
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_1701-1750/ab_1732_cfa_20120413_122923_asm_floor.html
4. Budget Items – While this continues to be refined, The JFS Association would like for JPAC to focus on a budget related item related to the Long Term Social Services integration model that is currently being discussed at the State level. We are still in the process of working together to see what that message will look like.
