Luz Maria Rivas is an American politician from the state of California. A member of the Democratic Party, she serves in the California State Assembly for California's 39th State Assembly district. Rivas is from Los Angeles.
These secured funds will go towards the state meal reimbursements through the 2022 fiscal year, with an additional $650 million provided in ongoing funding beginning in the 2022-2023 fiscal year. This budget allocation covers the costs of offering breakfast and lunch for all students. California is the first state in the nation to provide universal school meals for its K-12 students.
This bill institutes a comprehensive policy solution to assist local communities struggling to identify and provide services to homeless families with students. AB 27 establishes a standardized process for identifying homeless children across all of our school systems. Additionally, this measure creates three temporary geographically located County Offices of Education to develop regional Technical Assistance Centers. These centers assist schools to implement best practices for identifying and connecting homeless students to services. The bill idea came as a result of roundtable discussions hosted by our office.
AB 326 removes the sunset on the Consumer Participation Program (program) at the DMHC. The program, established in 2003, ensures consumers have a voice by awarding reasonable advocacy and witness fees to any person or organization that represents the interests of consumers. Since the program has proven to be a successful and valuable resource to the DMHC and consumers, AB 326 removes the sunset date that the program has been previously subject to. The program is funded through special fees that health plans are already required to provide
AB 585 sought to coordinate state efforts to help urban and rural communities combat extreme heat. AB 585 would have created the Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program under the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research. This program would have established the guidelines for a competitive grant process that local entities can utilize to implement measures to mitigate extreme heat. Qualifying projects would have included community resilience centers in rural and urban areas, urban forestry, cool roofs and streets, as well as planning, education and communications.
This bill streamlines project delivery by removing the 2/3 vote when LA Metro uses the build-design process. AB 811 helps LA County prepare for the upcoming 2028 Olympic Games, and deliver critical infrastructure projects funded through Measure M.
This bill established a process for California state preschools to identify dual language learners in order to support and strengthen their language development and competencies. This measure helps inform program curriculum, strategies used in educational settings, professional development, and provides other additional support for dual language learners. This bill creates the criteria to define dual language learners, establishes a process to identify children that would benefit from a dual language program at our state preschool programs, and collects relevant aggregated non-identifiable data to develop future curriculum.