Asm. Hector De La Torre

Co-sponsor SCR 47

Signed into law · California Senate · Co-sponsor

Education funding: child development centers and preschools.

This measure would state the intent of the Legislature to increase the funding of child development centers and preschools in future years, as resources become available, in order to provide staff with adequate salaries and benefits, provide adequate resources to support program quality for children, and keep programs open to serve parents and children.

Signed into law Aug 11, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 116

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to California Lab Day.

This measure would proclaim May 12, 2010, as California Lab Day.

Signed into law Aug 10, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 162

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Disability History Week.

This measure would designate the 2nd week of October 2010, and annually thereafter, as Disability History Week, and would encourage public and private institutions of higher education, state and local agencies, nonprofit and community-based organizations, and private businesses and corporations to observe Disability History Week by dedicating appropriate classroom instructional time or by coordinating all-inclusive activities to be conducted during that week to afford opportunities for students and the general public to learn more about the disability community and to celebrate and honor its role in contemporary American society.

Signed into law Aug 9, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 166

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Spirit of '45 Day.

This measure would declare the Legislature's support for the observance of "Spirit of '45 Day" on the second Sunday in August to commemorate the anniversary of the end of World War II on August 14, 1945.

Signed into law Aug 9, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 150

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to African American Mental Health Awareness Week.

This measure would recognize each 2nd week of February hereafter as African American Mental Health Awareness Week.

Signed into law Aug 9, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor AJR 32

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to gender discrimination.

This measure would memorialize the United States Senate to ratify, and the President to sign, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and would memorialize the Congress of the United States and the President to enact appropriate legislation that addresses the concerns expressed in this measure.

Signed into law Jul 7, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor AJR 37

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to immigration.

This measure would specify principles for repairing the nation's broken immigration system and would urge Congress and the President of the United States to take a comprehensive and workable approach to improving the nation's immigration system using those principles.

Signed into law Jul 7, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 123

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to the California Memorial Project Remembrance Day.

This measure would proclaim the 3rd Monday of each September as California Memorial Project Remembrance Day in California, to honor and restore dignity to individuals who lived and died in California institutions.

Signed into law Jul 7, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SJR 24

Signed into law · California Senate · Co-sponsor

Proposed federal International Violence Against Women Act.

This measure would urge the United States Congress to pass the International Violence Against Women Act, and establish the offices and policies therein.

Signed into law Jul 6, 2010 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SCR 73

Signed into law · California Senate · Co-sponsor

Relative to the California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness.

This measure would continue the existence and set forth the membership of the California Task Force on Youth and Workplace Wellness, to perform duties to promote fitness and health in schools and workplaces. It would permit the task force to accept private funds and in-kind donations, require the task force to submit a report on its work to the Legislature on or before June 30, 2012, and provide that the task force would cease to exist on July 1, 2014, unless its existence is extended by a later enacted resolution.

Signed into law Jul 6, 2010 1 co-sponsor