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(SACRAMENTO, CA) –– The State Senate Committee on Finance and Governance passed Assembly Bill 515 relating to a food bank tax credit.  This bill would increase access to healthier foods to food banks and low-income Californians by offering California agricultural producers a 20 percent tax credit for the wholesale value of foods donated to local food banks.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) –Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) got five bills out of the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Business Professions and Economic Development Committee and the Senate Floor today.  Topping his bill list are two priority measures—the first being Assembly Bill 1059 (Cal Enviroscreen 2.0 - Border Environmental Data) which would require the California Office of Environm

(SACRAMENTO, CA.) –State Assembly Speaker Toni G. Atkins appointed Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) to serve on the Special Session Committee on Public Health and Developmental Services today.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) — Amid widespread criticism of large corporations such as Southern California Edison and Disney World’s decision to outsource jobs in California and throughout the country, Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Jobs, Economic Development and the Economy, moved forward with an Assembly Joint Resolution 12 (AJR 12) seeking a federal inves

(MECCA, CA.) – After formally requesting the involvement of the California State Department of Toxic Control, the South Coast Air Quality Management District and the Riverside County Department of Environment Health —the County of Riverside has formally acted upon on Assemblymember Garcia’s request and launched various cleanup efforts in the community of Mecca at the old abandoned grape fields