Assembly weighs mandating vaccines after statehouse COVID outbreak
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Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood (Los Angeles County), seen here in 2020, is considering requiring members and employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.Rich Pedroncelli/AP
SACRAMENTO The California Assembly is exploring whether to require its members and employees to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, following a small outbreak of COVID-19 cases in the state Capitol last week.
“It’s something that’s under consideration,” Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said in an interview Thursday. “There’s a couple of different models that other entities have adopted. We have to talk it over, not only with our public health folks, but also with our employment attorneys as well.”
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Democratic lawmakers vote to speed up Newsom recall election
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference at Universal Studios. Lawmakers are poised to approve a $5.2 billion rent relief program to avert mass evictions by extending the state’s eviction moratorium through September.Ringo H.W. Chiu/Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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An unidentified immigrant woman who fled El Salvador and asked for asylum in the U.S., looks out the window at her apartment in Los Angeles last year. As part of the new state budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders unveiled Friday, California will soon pay the health care bills for low-income people age 50 and older who are living in the country illegally.Damian Dovarganes/Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
California would need to hire up to 15,000 transitional kindergarten teachers for the universal program Newsom proposed, according to the Department of Finance.