加州首府萨克拉门托通讯：八项由加州参议员余胤良（D区）提出的法案日前已经被州议会通过，并将于明年一月一日起生效。这些法律涉及的问题，从政府重新开门、选民登记、选举、移民改革、项目承包采购登记制度、青少年寄养，社会家庭服务、征税报税，以及绿色革命等方面。
“这些议案通过并被签署成为法律，将会使我们的政府工作更加透明，更好地服务于青少年和幼儿培养的需要，改善我们的环境，并增强获得选举过程。 ”余参议员认为。
会议还通过了一系列决议，要求国会迅速行动，包括敦促参议员芭芭拉提出的LINE法实现选民投票站的系统现代化，提高选民访问被选举的地方政府。 SJR-13要求的F-3和F-4签证类别在联邦移民改革法案的恢复，从而加快允许家庭团聚。SJR-14要求的投票权法案的恢复，防止在选举中的歧视。SR-8呼吁国会重新批准了对妇女的暴力行为的法律制裁条例。
此外，SCR-66宣布9月19日为在加利福尼亚州的网上选民登记日。
自2003年被选举进入立法机关迄今，余参议员已经成功上交181件议案，其中有133件法律生效。
加州首府萨克拉门托通讯全文：
For Immediate Release
December 19, 2013
Contact: Dan Lieberman,
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New Laws to Take Effect January 1 – Eight Yee bills to take effect in the New Year
SACRAMENTO – The first of January 2014 marks the implementation of eight laws authored by Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/San Mateo). These laws cover issues ranging from open government to green technologies to access to our elections.
“The bills that were signed into law this year will make our government more transparent, better serve the needs of foster children, improve our environment, and increase access to the electoral process,” said Yee.
SB 44 will require all state websites to add a link to the Secretary of State’s voter registration page, allowing even more people to easily take part in the political process. In 2012, Yee’s SB 397 allowed online voter registration throughout California, and over 900,000 Californians have used it to register to vote or update their registration.
SB 286 extends the Green Sticker program an additional three years, which will allow plug-in hybrid cars to access HOV lanes until 2019. This will incentivize Californians to utilize new technologies, benefiting our economy while cleaning our air and further reducing our carbon footprint.
SB 335 will move data regarding state contracts from the State Contracting and Procurement and Registration System to FI$CAL. This will make it easier to search for and compare these contracts online.
SB 342 strengthens the standards for social workers to ensure that more visits foster youth take place in the home, so as to assure the child is living in an adequate home environment. Under this law, the majority of visits for each child must occur in the home.
SB 528 directs the Department of Social Services to collect data on parenting and pregnant youth, so we can better understand the challenges these youth face and provide services accordingly. It also authorizes social workers to provide them with age appropriate reproductive health education, and promotes the use of parenting conferences designed to teach parenting skills. These conferences are aimed to help connect foster youth with programs and services related to their parenting situation.
SB 553 requires fee elections, such as storm drain or levy assessments, to implement the same standards for oversight as other elections already have, requiring ballots are kept for public inspection to prevent against potential fraud. Prior to this law, these ballots could be destroyed, denying the public the opportunity to confirm the results of the election.
SB 751 extends the Brown Act to cover all meetings by large intergovernmental agencies This brings an end to the practice of members of these bodies, often times elected officials, voting anonymously.
Yee also passed numerous resolutions calling for Congressional action in 2013. SJR 6 urged passage of Senator Barbara Boxer’s LINE Act, which requires local governments beset by excessive lines at polling places to modernize their systems so as to increase access to our elections. SJR 13 called for the restoration of the F-3 and F-4 Visa categories in the Federal Immigration Reform Bill so as to allow families to be reunited. SJR 14 demanded the restoration of the Voting Rights Act to prevent discrimination in elections. SR 8 called upon Congress to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act.
In addition, SCR 66 declared September 19th to be Online Voter Registration Day in the State of California. SCR 20 designates October 20 as Leyte Landing Commemoration Day to recognize the landing of the United States military on the Philippine island of Leyte on October 20, 1944.
Since entering the legislature in 2003, Yee has now successfully passed 181 pieces of legislation, with 133 of them chaptered into law.