IRVINE, CA — Today, Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine) penned a letter to the Orange City Council urging it to reverse course on its previous decision to terminate the lease of Mary’s Kitchen, a longstanding community institution that has become a key provider of services to the unhoused population in the area.
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SACRAMENTO, CA — Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine) announced his Senate Bill (SB) 264, which would end gun shows at the Orange County Fairgrounds, passed out of the California Legislature today, and will head to the Governor’s desk for his signature. SB 264 was originally written to prohibit the sale of firearms, ammunition, and ghost guns on all state-owned property, but after advancing out of the State Senate, the Assembly Appropriations Committee narrowed the scope of the bill to the 32nd District Agricultural Association (otherwise known as the OC Fair and Event Center). The amended bill advanced from the Senate Floor this morning on a 28-8 vote.
SACRAMENTO, CA — Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine) announced today his bill to create and extend protections for children in family court advanced from the State Legislature and will head to Governor Newsom’s desk for his signature. SB 654 passed the Senate Floor with unanimous support.
SACRAMENTO, CA — Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine) announced his Senate Bill (SB) 264, which would end the sale of ammunition, guns and ghost guns on state-owned property, passed out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee last Thursday. However, the bill was narrowed in committee to cover only one fairground site, the Orange County Fair and Event Center.
SACRAMENTO, CA — Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine) today announced that his child safety bill, SB 654, advanced from the Assembly Appropriations Committee, leaving it on the cusp of being signed into law by the Governor. SB 654 would require judges to consider a parent’s history of violence and substance abuse when considering unsupervised visits with their child or children, and would also provide children with greater protections against testifying against their parents in custody proceedings.
IRVINE, CA — Earlier today, Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine) presented a $15 million check on behalf of the State of California to ALERTWildfire program representatives and their partners. ALERTWildfire is a consortium of three universities-- the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the University of Nevada, Reno, and the University of Oregon-- working closely with partners across the region, including the Orange County Fire Authority and Southern California Edison here in Orange County, to develop better solutions for early wildfire detection and prevention.
SACRAMENTO, CA — Ahead of its hearing in the California Assembly’s Appropriations Committee, Senate Bill (SB) 654, authored by Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine), received a key endorsement from actress Angelina Jolie, who is internationally recognized for her advocacy for the rights of women and children around the world, and who has previously called for the needs, health, and safety of children to be centered in child custody and child protection reforms, including in California. SB 654 would require courts to consider a parent’s history of violence and substance abuse before allowing that parent to have unsupervised visits with his or her children, and to make written findings before placing children into these situations. In a letter to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, Jolie explained that SB 654 is a bill that “provides critically important protections for children’s physical safety, trauma recovery, and psychological wellbeing and that encourages parents to receive needed treatment.”
IRVINE, CA — Senator Dave Min (D-Irvine) will present a $15 million check to fire officials, SoCal Edison representatives and Dr. Neal Driscoll of University of California, San Diego and Scripps College on Aug. 27. The funds support the Phase 2 expansion of the ALERTWildfire program, which deployed 700 remote cameras to provide early detection for wildfires and has been seen as greatly successful in preventing wildfires. Phase 2 of this program will create an infrared map of fuel concentrations in fire-prone areas, informing fuel reduction efforts and also helping to effectively deploy first responders during wildfires.