Asm. Miguel Santiago

Co-sponsor SB 843

Passed · California Senate · Co-sponsor

Taxation: renters' credit.

The Personal Income Tax Law authorizes various credits against the taxes imposed by that law, including a credit for qualified renters in the amount of $120 for spouses filing joint returns, heads of household, and surviving spouses if adjusted gross income is $50,000, as adjusted, or less, and in the amount of $60 for other individuals if adjusted gross income is $25,000, as adjusted, or less. This bill would require the Franchise Tax Board to prepare a written report by April 1, 2023, on the number of taxpayers claiming the credit, and the average credit amount on returns claiming the credit.

Passed Aug 30, 2022 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor AJR 29

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Ports: congestion relief.

This measure would commend the Congress of the United States for enacting legislation that will alleviate and remedy the congestion of California's ports. The measure also would urge the Congress of the United States to enact further legislation to ensure that the state's importing and exporting capabilities are returned to prepandemic levels.

Signed into law Aug 30, 2022 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SCR 114

Signed into law · California Senate · Co-sponsor

Relative to Latina Equal Pay Day.

This measure would proclaim December 8, 2022, as Latina Equal Pay Day in California, in recognition of the need to eliminate the gender gap in earnings by women and to promote policies to ensure equal pay for all.

Signed into law Aug 30, 2022 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SJR 8

Signed into law · California Senate · Co-sponsor

Social Security Disability Insurance: disabled adult child benefit.

This measure would urge the President and the Congress of the United States to amend specified provisions of the federal Social Security Act to allow recipients of disabled adult child benefits under the act to continue to receive those benefits upon marriage.

Signed into law Aug 30, 2022 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SCR 119

Signed into law · California Senate · Co-sponsor

Relative to Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Week.

This measure, among other things, would declare the last week of September 2022, and each year thereafter, as Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Week, with the purpose of expanding the acknowledgment of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region's contributions to a higher quality of life for all Californians.

Signed into law Aug 30, 2022 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor ACR 148

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to the Long Beach International Gateway Bridge.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Route 710 in the City of Long Beach as the Long Beach International Gateway Bridge. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost for appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

Signed into law Aug 30, 2022 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SJR 9

Signed into law · California Senate · Co-sponsor

20th anniversary of the nonresident tuition exemption: American Families Plan: immigration reform.

This measure would recognize October 12, 2021, as the 20th anniversary of the enactment of the exemption from nonresident tuition for qualified students during the 2001–02 Regular Session. The measure would also call on the United States Congress to pass the American Families Plan and provide financial resources for undocumented students through the budget reconciliation process, and to adopt comprehensive immigration reform.

Signed into law Aug 30, 2022 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor SJR 11

Signed into law · California Senate · Co-sponsor

Relative to the Social Security 2100 Act: A Sacred Trust.

This measure would affirm the Legislature's support for expanding Social Security and requests California Representatives in Congress to support expanding Social Security by voting in favor of the Social Security 2100 Act: A Sacred Trust.

Signed into law Aug 30, 2022 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor HR 125

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to communications.

Passed Aug 30, 2022 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor SCR 115

Signed into law · California Senate · Co-sponsor

Relative to drug abuse.

This measure would designate the month of September 2022 as Opioid, Heroin, Fentanyl, and Prescription Drug Abuse Awareness Month, as specified.

Signed into law Aug 30, 2022 1 co-sponsor