SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria’s Public Safety bill aimed at protecting hospital patients from sexual battery, passed with bipartisan support by the Public Safety Committee. 

SACRAMENTO, CA – Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria’s bill AB 721, which establishes a Huron Hawk Conservancy in a limited region north of the City of Huron, has passed the Natural Resources Committee. 

SACRAMENTO, CA – Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria’s EV School Bus Extension Bill(AB 1111),passed through the Assembly Education Committee today. 

AB 1111 seeks to address challenges that local educational agencies (LEAs) face in adopting zero-emission school buses by the state mandated deadline of 2035. AB 1111 extends the deadline to 2045 for small rural school districts, adds infrastructure challenges and fire risks to the list of existing exemptions, and provides flexibility to an existing school bus scrapping program. 

SACRAMENTO, CA – Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria’s (D-Merced) legislation package on Housing, AB 36 and AB 457, passed the Assembly Housing Committee today unanimously, with bipartisan support. 

SACRAMENTO, CA – Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria (D-Merced) is announcing her bill AB 1111 today, which seeks to address challenges that local educational agencies (LEAs) face in adopting zero-emission school buses by 2035. AB 1111 extends the deadline to 2045, makes changes to existing exemptions to consider infrastructure and fire safety concerns, and provides flexibility to an existing school bus scrapping program to provide buses for challenged districts.