Sen. Susan Eggman

This measure would memorialize the President and Congress of the United States to support immigration reform efforts that do not hurt families by eliminating or negatively impacting the F3 and F4 visa categories, or that end the discrimination against same-sex couples. The measure would memorialize the President and Congress to take a comprehensive, bipartisan, and well-reasoned approach to immigration issues that maintains the fair and appropriate priority for family reunification, including same-sex partners.

This measure would urge the Congress of the United States to reauthorize the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and to include specified policies and strategies in support of the act.

This measure would urge the United States Congress and the President to establish new entrepreneur and science, technology, engineering, or mathematics-related visa categories for legal immigrants as part of comprehensive federal immigration reform, that would, among other things, create an Entrepreneur's Visa for legal immigrants, provide authorization to adjust the status of not more than 50,000 aliens who have earned a master's degree or a doctorate degree, as specified, to that of aliens conditionally admitted for permanent residence, and eliminate per-country caps for employment-based immigrant visas.

This measure would proclaim the week of August 11 through August 17, 2013, as National Health Center Week.

This measure would declare that the Legislature recognizes the importance of engaging with young people to influence decisions that affect their quality of life and well-being, and that the Student and Youth Bill of Rights serves as a framework to guide and inform the youth of the state in organizing and advocating policy issues on their own behalf.

This measure would recognize the 25th anniversary of Little Saigon.

The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make public records available for inspection, subject to certain exceptions. The act specifically requires state and local law enforcement agencies to disclose certain information regarding an incident to a victim, or the victim's authorized representative, unless certain conditions exist. This bill would prohibit a state or local law enforcement agency from requiring a victim of an incident, or the victim's authorized representative, to show proof of the victim's legal presence in this country to obtain the information required to be disclosed by that law enforcement agency, as specified. For identification purposes, the bill would require a state or local law enforcement agency, if it requires identification, to accept certain forms of identification for a victim of an incident, or the victim's authorized representative, to obtain that information.

This measure would acknowledge that the State of California made a grievous mistake that injured loyal employees who were dedicated to serving the people of California when it dismissed over 300 Americans of Japanese ancestry as a result of Senate Concurrent Resolution 15 (SCR 15) of 1942 by Senator John Swan. This measure would resolve to issue a public apology to the state civil service employees who were dismissed.

This bill would recognize June 25, 2013, and every June 25th thereafter as United States Korean War Veterans Day.