Olsen’s veterans state park access bill heads to Governor

SACRAMENTO –– Today, Assemblymember Kristin Olsen’s (R-Riverbank) AB 150 passed off the Assembly floor and is now headed to Governor Jerry Brown.

AB 150 will honor veterans and current active duty military members by authorizing the Department of Parks and Recreation to provide them with free admission to California’s state parks on Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day.

Legislators work to establish “3 Day in Print” rule for state legislation

New bipartisan effort would increase legislative accountability, public access to legislation

SACRAMENTO—Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) and Assembly Member Kristin Olsen (R-Modesto) today introduced identical legislation in the Senate and Assembly aiming to increase legislative accountability and public access to legislation. The bills would put a measure before voters that, if approved, would require all legislation to be in print and online for 72 hours before final passage by the Senate or Assembly.

“In the last two-year session of the State Legislature, the Senate and Assembly considered nearly 5,000 legislative proposals. Hundreds of those became new laws, from the obscure to the significant.  While most of those proposals were publically shared and well-vetted, some were not,” said Wolk, author of Senate Constitutional Amendment 10. “Last-minute changes to bills can leave legislators unsure of what they are voting on, and prevent the public from weighing in on proposals. If approved by voters, this constitutional amendment would ensure public access to laws before they are passed from the Legislature while maintaining sufficient flexibility for the Legislature to do its work.”

Assembly Democrats and Republicans Come Together in Effort to Save State Parks

Common-sense Measure Provides Needed Funding Strategies to Prevent Closures

SACRAMENTO - In a strong showing of bipartisan strength, today members of the State Assembly from both sides of the aisle stood together in support of major legislation jointly authored by Democrats and Republicans that would help rescue California state parks from financial paralysis and prevent park closures.