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Confirmed speakers for JPAC’s Advocacy Day in Sacramento next month include: Assembly Speaker John A. Perez Assemblymember Bob Blumenfield Senator Joel Anderson Assemblymember Mike Gatto Assemblymember Mike Feuer Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones. Join us for the most important day for the statewide Jewish community! Click HERE for more information and to register. ATTEND A CAPITOL TRADITION Honorable Marty Block, Bob Blumenfield, Mike Feuer, Bonnie Lowenthal, Jeff Miller, Dr. Linda Halderman, Mark Leno, Alan Lowenthal, Lois Wolk Invite You to Attend the 46th Annual Senator Herschel Rosenthal
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Albert Einstein Residence Center
RSVP by April 25, 2011. Seating Limited to 128 People. Mail $40.00 check payable to “AERC” to: For Information call Gary Cooper at (916) 442-4344. All members of the Capitol Community are invited to attend. For many years, JPAC members have advocated in Sacramento on behalf of Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) and Multipurpose Senior Services Program (MSSP) - two critically important programs for medically frail, low-income seniors provided by Jewish Family & Children’s Services in the Bay Area and Jewish Family Service in Los Angeles.
Last week, the State Senate and State Assembly Budget Committees voted on the cuts proposed by Governor Brown. The Assembly Budget Committee wisely rejected the proposal to eliminate ADHC and MSSP and instead voted to adopt a number of changes to ADHC that will create $28 million of real budget savings, and, voted to keep MSSP completely funded. Unfortunately, the Senate Budget Committee voted to completely eliminate ADHC and to cut MSSP funding by 25%. These cuts would have a truly tragic impact and would actually cost the state more money than it saves. If this action is not reversed, thousands of medically fragile, poor older adults will be forced to move into nursing homes and/or end up in emergency rooms. Since the votes were different, it now goes the Budget Conference Committee for reconciliation. We expect a vote early THIS week. We need your help to urge Sacramento decision makers to adopt the Assembly’s proposals on ADHC and MSSP. Please call the state senators and assembly members listed below and tell them: “I’m calling to ask the Senator/Assemblymember to protect vulnerable low-income seniors in California. Please accept the Assembly Budget Committee’s proposals on ADHC and MSSP which rely on highly skilled health care professionals to help poor, medically frail seniors to remain safely at home.”
Calls are needed to:
On behalf of the JPAC member providers and the clients they serve, thank you! Hanukkah is here! Candles rekindled … Faith renewed … Tradition preserved. May you find meaning in the season and peace in your heart.
Wishing you every happiness at Hanukkah and a year filled with many blessings,
Your friends at JPAC, the Jewish Public Affairs Committee of California
The Iran Contracting Act of 2010 (AB 1650 - Feuer & Blumenfield) passed the California State Legislature tonight with a unanimous vote of 66-0. It is now on its way to the Governor’s desk. The bill was a major focus of JPAC’s annual Lobby Day in Sacramento this past May when hundred of Jewish leaders from throughout California came together to advocate for issues affecting the Jewish community and all Californians. The bill is integral to efforts to continue to assert financial pressure to stop Iran’s nuclear ambition.
The measure authored jointly by Assembly Members Mike Feuer and Bob Blumenfield was introduced in the California Assembly in January 2010.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES on AB 1650:
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