Sen. Sabrina Cervantes

This measure would designate the interchange at State Route 65 (post mile R0.000) and State Route 99 (post mile R29.878) in the County of Kern as the Kern County Sheriff's Office Deputy Phillip Campas Memorial Interchange. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would designate a portion of southbound State Route 101, from the Temple St. ramp to the Broadway St. ramp, adjacent to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, as the Los Angeles Firefighter Kelly Wong Memorial Highway. This measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would designate the portion of State Route 91, from the Pioneer Boulevard undercrossing to the Carmenita Road overcrossing, as the First Lady Pat Nixon Memorial Highway. This measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from non-state sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would proclaim September 20, 2022, as Latino Veterans Day.

This measure would declare the month of April as Arab American Heritage Month.

This measure would dedicate the month of May 2022 as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Month.

This measure would recognize and pay tribute to the dedication and professionalism of the state scientists who work on behalf of all the residents of California.

Existing law, the California Pollution Control Financing Authority Act, establishes the California Pollution Control Financing Authority (authority) , with specified powers and duties, and authorizes the authority to approve financing for projects or pollution control facilities to prevent or reduce environmental pollution. Existing federal law establishes the Capital Magnet Fund and makes moneys in that fund available to the United States Secretary of the Treasury to carry out a competitive grant program to attract private capital for, and increase investment in, certain affordable housing and economic development projects by providing grants, as provided, to Treasury-certified community development financial institutions or nonprofit organizations that meet specified criteria. Existing federal law, the federal Community Development Financial Institutions Program, provides financial and technical assistance to specified recipients to enhance their ability to provide specified financial products, financial services, and development services to, and in, their target markets in order to promote economic revitalization and community development through investment in, and assistance to, community development financial institutions, as defined and specified. This bill would authorize the authority to establish the California Investment and Innovation Program for the purpose of providing grants to enhance the capacity of specified community development financial institutions to provide technical assistance and capital access to economically disadvantaged communities in the state. The bill would establish the California Investment and Innovation Fund and, upon appropriation and the authority's establishment of the program, require the authority to award grants to eligible applicants, defined as community development financial institutions that meet specified criteria under the program, as provided. The bill would require eligible applicants, prior to receiving any grant funds, to enter into a grant agreement with the authority containing specified requirements. The bill would specify authorized uses of grant funds, including increasing working capital for the purpose of funding services and operations that contribute to the overall community development mission of the eligible applicant. The bill would require the authority to adopt, amend, or repeal guidelines for the operation of the program, as specified. The bill would make the authority's duties under these provisions contingent on the authority establishing the program. The bill would also, beginning on January 1, 2024, change the name of the authority to the California Community Development Financing Authority, as specified.

Existing law requires a person to register as a voter by affidavit of registration, except as otherwise provided. Existing law allows an affidavit of registration to be mailed or delivered to the county elections official or submitted electronically. Existing law requires an elections official, upon receiving a vote by mail ballot, to verify the signature on the identification envelope by comparing it with the signature on specified records within the voter's registration record, including the voter's affidavit of registration. This bill would require that both paper and electronic affidavits of registration inform affiants that the signature appearing on the affidavit of registration may be compared with the signature appearing on an identification envelope for the return of a vote by mail ballot.