Asm. Evan Low

This measure would urge the Congress and the President of the United States to support the retention of, and investment in, the Amtrak National Network of passenger trains, specifically the California Zephyr, the Coast Starlight, the Southwest Chief, and the Sunset Limited, as vital components of the state's rail program and would also urge Congress to reject President Trump's proposed Fiscal Year 2019 federal budget cuts to Amtrak and restore full funding for the Amtrak National Network through the appropriations process.

This measure would recognize the impact opioid-related deaths have had on California communities and would support groups and organizations working in California to combat the epidemic.

This measure would urge the federal government and the United States Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission to take immediate action to adequately address cross-border pollution in the Tijuana River Valley.

This measure would, among other things, call upon stakeholders in the health professions to foster the well-being of children born with variations of sex characteristics through the enactment of policies and procedures that ensure individualized, multidisciplinary care, as provided.

This measure would urge the Congress and the President of the United States to rename any federal buildings, parks, roadways, highway markers, landmarks, or other federally owned property, such as United States military bases, that bear the names of elected or military leaders of the Confederate States of America and would urge the Congress that statues or busts of elected or military leaders of the Confederate States of America in the United States Capitol be removed and placed in museums where they can be viewed in proper historic context.

This measure would express the support of the Legislature for the 23 Asilomar AI Principles as guiding values for the development of artificial intelligence and of related public policy.

This measure would proclaim the week of September 9, 2018, through September 15, 2018, as Suicide Prevention Week in California.

This measure would recognize the month of October 2018 as Filipino American History Month and the 431st anniversary of the first presence of Filipinos in the continental United States.

This measure would proclaim November 2018 as Epilepsy Awareness Month and call for a recommitment to increasing awareness and understanding of those living with epilepsy.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Act generally prohibits any licensee from giving any premiums, gift, or free goods in connection with the sale or distribution of any alcoholic beverage, except as permitted by rule adopted by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. The act prohibits the department from adopting a rule that permits a licensee to give any premium, gift, or free good of greater than inconsequential value, in connection with the sale or distribution of beer, except as specified. The act provides, with respect to beer, that premiums, gifts, or free goods, including specified advertising specialties, are deemed to have greater than inconsequential value if they cost more than $0.25 per unit, or cost more than $15 in the aggregate for all those items given by a single supplier to a single retail premises per calendar year. This bill would authorize a beer manufacturer, without direct or indirect charge, to give up to five cases of retail advertising glassware to an on-sale retail licensee, per licensed location, each calendar year for use at the licensed location. The bill would permit an on-sale retail licensee to accept, without direct or indirect charge, up to 10 cases of retail advertising glassware, per licensed location, from licensed beer manufacturers each calendar year for use at the licensed location. The bill would prohibit the on-sale retail licensee from selling the glassware, giving it away, or returning it to a manufacturer for cash, credit, or replacement, would prohibit the on-sale retail licensee from conditioning the purchase of a beer manufacturer's product or products on the giving of retail advertising glassware by that beer manufacturer, and would prohibit a beer wholesaler from contributing to specified costs associated with the glassware or serving as the agent of the beer manufacturer to deliver, stock, or store glassware for an on-sale retailer. The bill would prescribe definitions in this regard.