"California sent a clear message today: The days of bait-and-switch pricing practices are over," said Sen. Skinner in a statement. "With Gov. Newsom's signing of SB 478, Californians will know up front how much they're being asked to pay, and no longer be surprised by hidden junk fees when buying a concert or sports ticket or booking hotel rooms for their family vacation."
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This Special Episode of the Capitol Weekly Podcast was recorded live at Capitol Weekly’s Conference on Women’s Health which was held on Thursday, September 28, 2023. Panelists: Sen. Nancy Skinner; Liz Lawler, California Republican Party delegate; Amy Moy, Essential Access; Julia Spiegel, Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary, Governor’s Office.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a new law that protects healthcare practitioners located in California who provide telehealth services and dispense medication for abortion, contraception and gender-affirming care to out-of-state patients. California joins five other states with similar telehealth provider shield laws.
“Dianne Feinstein was a true trailblazer for women in California and U.S. politics. Her remarkable breakthroughs included being elected California’s first woman U.S. Senator, San Francisco’s first female mayor, the first female major-party candidate for California governor, and last year, the longest-tenured woman senator in U.S. history.” — Nancy Skinner and Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, state legislators on behalf of the California Legislative Women’s Caucus
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a raft of bills into law Wednesday aimed at further cementing abortion protections in the state. Newsom said in a statement that abortion is enshrined in the California Constitution, and that the state will continue to protect both seekers of reproductive health care and providers of the same, as “radical politicians continue their all out assault on women’s health care with dangerous and deadly consequences.”
California would become the first state to require venture capital firms to disclose the race and gender of the founders of the companies they fund, under a bill currently awaiting Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature.
Born and raised in an exceptionally close family in sunny San Diego, Kapri Walker was initially hesitant to take the leap and begin building career roots in Sacramento. But she couldn’t pass up the opportunity to return after her Capitol Fellowship position ended and she was offered a job as a legislative aide in Sen. Nancy Skinner’s office (D-Oakland).
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law on Wednesday that aims to stop other states from prosecuting doctors and pharmacists who mail abortion pills to patients in places where the procedure is banned.