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<p>"Californians are facing real pressure from rising costs, from federal attacks on healthcare and schools, from a system that keeps making it harder to get ahead.<strong> I believe California can be the place that proves a new path forward is possible</strong>, one that actually delivers for working families, not just the powerful. That's why I'm fighting in the legislature to stand up to the Trump administration, prioritize the issues that matter to our families, and build a California where we can all afford to thrive."</p>

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<p><strong>Women now make up nearly a third of the California Legislature — an all-time record,</strong> according to an advocacy group that recruits female candidates. The milestone comes with Tuesday’s swearing-in of Assemblywoman Mia Bonta after a special election last week in the San Francisco Bay Area’s 18th Assembly District.</p>

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<h4>Election of Mia Bonta boosts female California lawmakers to all-time high</h4>

<p>Bonta’s father was a socialist, her mother a Democrat, and they met as members of the Young Lords, a Puerto Rican empowerment group Bonta likened to the Black Panthers.</p>
<p><strong>“They wanted to give me a strong name,” Bonta told me, “so I was literally named after a revolutionary.”</strong></p>

<h4>Mia Bonta explains how a name shaped her — and it isn’t Bonta</h4>

<p>Oakland's small businesses are the backbone of our neighborhoods — and they need a state representative who will fight to cut red tape, reduce their tax burden, and help them compete.</p>

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<h2>Economy &amp; Small Business</h2>

<p><strong>California Assemblymember Mia Bonta named Alameda Family Services (AFS) the 2023 California Nonprofit of the Year for her assembly district.</strong> Bonta and her assembly staff congratulated AFS officials and gave them their award at a ceremony in Sacramento on Wednesday, June 7.</p>

<h4>Alameda Family Services Named 2023 Non-Profit of the Year by Assemblymember Mia Bonta</h4>

<p><strong>Now, thanks to a state budget request championed by Assemblymember Mia Bonta</strong>, the state of California is committing $5 million to TRiO to support more than 100 teachers over nine years, who will impact more than 40,000 students.</p>

<h4>$5 Million in State Funding, New Housing Website, Helps Oakland Double Down on Housing Teachers</h4>

<p>As Chair of the Assembly Health Committee, Mia is California's front line against federal attempts to gut Medi-Cal, eliminate healthcare protections, and leave millions without coverage.</p>

<h2>Healthcare: Defending What We've Built</h2>

<p>“I remember opening the fridge and seeing only celery and peanut butter and my mother telling me we were on a ‘special diet’. I did not realize at the time we were food insecure,” <strong>said Assemblymember </strong><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/mia-bonta-1972/"><strong>Mia Bonta</strong></a><strong>, an Oakland Democrat who proposed this bill.</strong> “Too many Californians, particularly Californians of color, are living with largely preventable chronic conditions.”&nbsp;</p>

<h4>In California, a prescription could pay for your fresh fruits and veggies</h4>

<p>The housing crisis is pushing East Bay families out of the communities they built. Mia knows this firsthand — she faced housing insecurity as a child — and she's fighting to make sure families can afford to stay.</p>

<h2>Affordable Housing</h2>

<p>“What is clear to me is that Donald Trump sees himself as a king and that he believes he has free rein to target communities out of spite and politically motivated retaliation.” – <strong>Assemblymember Mia Bonta</strong></p>

<h4>Bay Area Assemblymember Condemns Federal Agent Deployment as Authoritarian Move</h4>

<p>Each of the five Black women serving in the California Legislative Black Caucus talk about the importance of diversity and seeing others who “look like them” in the political space.</p><p><strong>That has added meaning for Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland), featured in the fourth installment of our “A Powerful Sisterhood” series highlighting the contributions of past and present Black women lawmakers in California.</strong></p>

<h4>Leader ‘Identifies’ Opportunities For Collaboration</h4>

<p><strong>She said her primary goals are to uplift collective community challenges and the state’s most vulnerable</strong> through legislation that supports gun violence prevention, digital equity, reproductive rights, criminal justice reform, cradle-to-career approaches to supporting youth, and affordable housing.</p>

<h4>Mia Bonta Announces Ambitious Legislative Agenda</h4>

<p><strong>Attorney General Rob Bonta and Assemblywoman Mia Bonta were in the Bay Area Wednesday to promote a new branch in the state Department of Justice to stop gun violence.</strong> At the press conference, both addressed the issue of crime in Oakland.</p>

<h4>CA leaders say they're ready to help solve Oakland's crime wave</h4>

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<p><strong>The letter urges lawmakers</strong> to restore prior commitments to the Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program (TIRCP) and to extend pandemic relief, such as waiver of financial penalties and flexibility in state funds, through 2025.&nbsp;</p>

<h4>Bay Area Lawmakers Push State To Shore Up Cash-Strapped Transit Agencies</h4>

<p>California's public schools are under attack from Washington — and Mia is fighting back.</p>

<h2>Protecting Our Schools</h2>

<p><strong>State Assemblymember Mia Bonta, the bill’s author, told SFGATE during a phone interview that she felt such measures are necessary given the rising rate of political violence across the United States.</strong> “We’ve somehow exchanged political discourse for political hate, and oftentimes people who are public servants and public figures are at the wrong end of that kind of vitriol,” she said.</p>

<h4>How attack on Pelosi, violent threats to Bay Area lawmakers inspired an unusual bill</h4>

<p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1525"><strong>AB 1525: The Accelerating Communities through Transportation Act</strong></a><strong> intended to do just that. </strong><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://greenlining.org/"><strong>The Greenlining Institute,</strong></a><strong> a racial equity advocacy nonprofit, partnered with Assembly member Mia Bonta on the bill. </strong>This legislation would have required that at least 60 percent of transportation dollars go to projects benefiting disadvantaged populations, in a way that would shift dollars away from harmful highway projects and towards walking, biking, and transit projects that would meet communities’ nee</p>

<h4>From Highways To Healthy Communities, Transforming How California Invests In Transportation</h4>

<p><strong>Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland) on December 6 introduced </strong><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB37"><strong>Assembly Bill 37</strong></a><strong>, which would expand on current law by allowing candidates and elected officials to use campaign funds for the protection of themselves, their families, or their staff,</strong> according to a news release from Bonta's office. "This protection includes security systems and security personnel. AB 37 will mirror what is currently allowed on the federal level."</p>

<h4>LGBTQ Agenda: CA lawmakers introduce bill to help with security issues</h4>

<p>A group of Democratic lawmakers, <strong>led by East Bay Assemblymember Mia Bonta</strong>, is rolling out a bill on Tuesday that they hope will pave the way to ensuring legal representation for every California resident facing deportation.</p>

<h4>New Bill Aims to Ensure Legal Help for Immigrants Facing Deportation</h4>

<p><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB793__;!!Ivohdkk!j8r73d9gTeMt_bc7Fj7DnMlYHCcEHuAkj9yWni-0vMqGzjhBglHl0uAUkfMamlD2ybJIF6Y1Hohi_6Ihstbg%24"><strong>AB793</strong></a><strong> by Assembly Member </strong><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/a18.asmdc.org/__;!!Ivohdkk!j8r73d9gTeMt_bc7Fj7DnMlYHCcEHuAkj9yWni-0vMqGzjhBglHl0uAUkfMamlD2ybJIF6Y1Hohi__pLdQAu%24"><strong>Mia Bonta</strong></a><strong>, D-Oakland, enhances that protection</strong> by making sure so-called “reverse warrants,” “geofence warrants” or “keyword warrants” can’t be used against those legally exercising bodily autonomy under California law.&nbsp;</p>

<h4>How California can protect anyone seeking an abortion or gender-affirming care</h4>

<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Up to two million of the state’s lowest-income people may lose health insurance due to federal changes.</span><span style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"><strong style="color: var(--color-text-accent-primary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-primary);"> Bonta wants to lead the charge to stop that.</strong></span></p>

<h4>Mia Bonta pleads for ‘pandemic-level’ response to Feds’ gutting of Medi-Cal</h4>

<p>The <a href="https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab55">“Freedom to Birth Act”</a> by <strong>Assemblymember Mia Bonta</strong>, a Democrat from Oakland, streamlines burdensome licensure requirements that have prevented birth centers from receiving state approval. Without licensure, birth centers frequently can’t contract with health insurers or <a href="https://calmatters.org/tag/medi-cal/">Medi-Cal</a>. That leaves patients who can’t pay cash unable to use midwives or birth centers.</p>

<h4>CalMatters shined a light on struggling birthing centers. Newsom just signed a law to help them</h4>

<p><strong>Listen: Assemblymember Mia Bonta joins Kim Alexander and Guy Marzorati</strong> to discuss a<strong> </strong>bill that would change some of the language you see on the referendum portion of your 2024 ballot.</p>

<h4>KQED: How Would You Change California’s Referendum Process?</h4>

<p>The <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.diversityinleadership.org/delpi">DELPI Coalition</a>, a wide-ranging network of education organizations, joined Senator Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) and Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland) in Sacramento on May 1 to advocate for the Diverse Education Leaders Pipeline Initiative (DELPI), <strong>a new investment in the credentialing, placement, and retention of 300 diverse and culturally responsive TK-12 school administrators. </strong></p>

<h4>Bradford, Bonta and Education Advocates Champion Funding for Diverse School Leaders</h4>

<p>KTVU Fox 2 San Francisco Reports: <strong>Assemblymember Mia Bonta's recruiting of local student interns — a "great opportunity for college students or recent graduates interested in politics." </strong></p>

<h4>Assemblymember Mia Bonta Seeking Student Interns</h4>

<p><strong>A California assemblymember</strong> sees an opportunity to make the state healthier with a <a href="https://url4027.email.politico.com/ss/c/u001.6g0Zd3AyneOViJYBXgbV65ZWHEH5gWGSDKLrcKzwr3-gb0ely7GC782txsYl2Sr1hJ9ntp51Y4TWBm-vkZgNNHfMbxRGWhrW3Pqwqi3nXCQWBFi2sUhADxwgrRWgpb_lWpUndLGXnVjhe9hJjh5PHrYRy2DMnmdgrluou04n2iD9Rd-V9kWDuZdTAEYw-0CE/4ex/vTVYSU66Qu25VojHdRUU3Q/h4/h001.9RKtTwLvZXl6ZrYS65AT0AZSEWW9Y6RFV8qUnEoM1FY" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><u>new artificial intelligence report</u></a> commissioned by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office.</p>

<h4>Health opportunity in California’s new AI report</h4>

<p><span style="color: var(--color-text); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text);">Oakland is getting safer — and Mia is fighting to keep it that way by investing in what actually works: prevention, healing, and real accountability.</span></p>

<h2>Community Safety &amp; Shared Safety</h2>

<p>Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Oakland) joined workers demanding a better contract as they marched around Kaiser's Oakland Medical Center. Other elected officials, including Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao and Assemblymember Mia Bonta, also showed their support.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>“It’s a very simple equation. In order to have strong patient care, you need to be able to have workers that are able to feel secure in their jobs and to make sure they are receiving a $25 an hour wage, a living wage,” said Bonta.&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></p>

<h4>Thousands of health care workers call on Kaiser to increase wages, staffing</h4>

<p>FOX40 News Reports: <strong>Assemblymember Mia Bonta is "confident her bill will make a difference for survivors of sex trafficking." </strong></p>

<h4>California Democratic lawmaker plans to propose new human trafficking law</h4>

<p>The bipartisan caucus will focus on legislation that <strong>supports children and families</strong> across a spectrum of policy points including childcare access, child welfare, housing security, foster care and more.</p>

<h4>California lawmakers unite to form first Children's Caucus</h4>

<p>Mia believes every person in our community deserves to live without fear — and she's fighting to protect East Bay families from federal overreach and unjust deportation.</p>

<h2>Immigration &amp; Community Protection</h2>

<p>Earlier this month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law <strong>Assembly Bill 1318</strong>, which ensures nonprofits in the Golden State can continue to receive state funding should their federal nonprofit status be revoked due to political targeting.</p>

<h4>New Law Will Protect California Nonprofits Targeted by the Feds</h4>

<p><strong>AB 1186, introduced by Assemblymember Mia Bonta, includes alternatives to youth paying the restitution themselves, such as participating in an educational or employment program. </strong>The average restitution amount, according to Wallace, is about $1,500 but they have worked with youth who’ve owed as low as $400 and as high as $60,000.</p>

<h4>New bill would shift restitution from juveniles to&nbsp;State</h4>

<p>Mia will never stop fighting for every person's right to make their own decisions about their body, their health, and their family.</p>

<h2>Reproductive Justice</h2>

<p><strong>Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, D-Oakland, revealed at a news conference Tuesday that she had an abortion at age 21</strong>, as she was finishing her degree at Yale University and starting her first job.</p>
<p>The Assembly Democratic Caucus held the briefing to highlight how restricting access to abortion disproportionately impacts people of color…</p>

<h4>‘He held my hand.’ Bontas share abortion story, push for California reproductive rights</h4>

<p><strong>I am proud to represent the children, the educators, the parents, the people of Oakland in this moment.</strong> I am here today to stand in solidarity with Oakland’s children, our school district, our Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell, our school board — because right now they need us more than ever.</p>

<h4>OP-ED: Assemblymember Mia Bonta Says No to Closing Schools, No to Cutting School Resources</h4>

<p>“It is unimaginable and unacceptable that years after we legalized cannabis, Californians are still waiting to get their records cleared,” the bill’s author, Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Alameda), said in a statement. <strong>“We have a moral obligation to get this right.”</strong></p>

<h4>After Times investigation, law passed to force California to clear pot convictions faster</h4>

<p>Mia founded the California Legislative Children's Caucus — a bipartisan, bicameral coalition of over 40 lawmakers — to make sure every budget decision and every vote asks: is this good for our kids?</p>

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