(All the following xxxxxx and more can be found at www.avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org/sb-276.  Please share.)

What a Roller Coaster ride.  SB276 was not eligible to come up for a vote on the Assembly floor until tomorrow.  However, the Speaker waived the rules and it was brought up today. (When it is published you can see the hearing here (at the end) http://www.calchannel.com/video-on-demand/) It was voted on and passed the Assembly with 47 Ayes, 17 Noes and 15 abstentions.  Senator Pan needed 41 votes, so we had a huge impact that he only got the vote by 6 votes.

However, no amendments were taken…While reeling from the shock of SB276 being voted on today, the Governor tweeted the following:

This is HUGE and means that the current bill does NOT have the Governors support.

Please tweet a reply to the Governor with a Thank you to this tweet:

https://twitter.com/CAgovernor/status/1169027421930184705

What does this mean?

There are three options:

·       Senator Pan sticks with his arrogance and sends the vote to the Senate and if they pass it, it goes to the Governor’s desk and gets vetoed.

·       The Speaker of the house requests for the vote from today to be expunged from the record and Senator Pan takes amendments, which are published by Friday and it gets voted on again but the Assembly next week, before going to the Senate for a vote of concurrence and then to the Governor’s office.

·       SB276 continues to the Senate and Senator Pan takes another bill that is in the Assembly and guts and amends it with the Governor’s requested language to act as a trailer bill, which then is voted on by the Assembly, Senate and goes to the Governor.

What can you do?  See the email from earlier today – all of those still apply…

·       Visit Your Assembly member’s district office – even if you already have many times

·       Tweet to Assembly members and Governor Newsom multiple times a day.  Respond to tweets and retweet

·       Donate to A Voice for Choice Advocacy (http://avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org/donate/)

WE ARE STRONG AND WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE BUT WE HAVE TO KEEP FIGHTING FOR OUR MEDICAL RIGHTS!

THANK YOU!!

C

Christina Hildebrand

President/Founder

A Voice for Choice Advocacy, Inc.

www.avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org

408 835 9353

Giving issues a voice, A Voice for Choice Advocacy advocates for people’s rights to be fully xxxxxxrmed about the composition, quality, and short- and long-term health effects of all products that go into people’s bodies, such as food, water, air, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.

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