Press Releases

(Sacramento – CA) Today, Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Paramount) entrusted Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella), Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Water, Parks, and Wildlife to find a sustainable long-term approach to address clean, safe, affordable drinking water to meet the needs of all California.

(Sacramento, CA)— Yesterday, two of Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia’s (D-Coachella) measures that would significantly improve living conditions in the Eastern Coachella Valley passed their final legislative hurdle before making their way to the Governor’s desk. AB 2056 and AB 2060 increase accessibility to mobile home repair and water infrastructure grants.

(SACRAMENTO, CA)— Now entering the final stretch of the 2018 California legislative session, the remainder of Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia’s (D-Coachella) district focused measures prepare to face their final hurdles towards becoming law.

(SACRAMENTO, CA)— Yesterday, Governor Brown put pen to paper, signing into law AB 2439, Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia’s legislation designating Desert Memorial Parks’ LGBTQ Veterans Memorial located in Cathedral City as the state’s official LGBTQ Veteran Memorial.

(SACRAMENTO, CA)— Today, in the midst of fevered policy discussions surrounding the fate of California’s clean energy future, Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia successfully advanced AB 893, his proposal supporting geothermal, out of the Senate Committee on Appropriations.

(Sacramento – CA) - Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella), Chairman of the Joint Committee on Climate Change Policies brought together both the Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications and the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy for a collaborative hearing on efforts to decarbonize the electric grid.

(SACRAMENTO, CA)— To help alleviate physician shortages in his district, Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D- Coachella) requested $40 million to expand the UC graduate medical education program. This request was successfully approved by the Legislature yesterday and incorporated into the 2018-2019 Budget.

(SACRAMENTO, CA)— Today the California State Legislature voted to approve the 2018-2019 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) Expenditure Plan. Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) is pleased to report the successful inclusion of his local priorities into the plan.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) — This week, Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D- Coachella) successfully advanced over two dozen bills and resolutions including two measures that would offer significant means of economic empowerment for immigrant communities.

(Sacramento – CA) Immigration unrest has unearthed more than a humanitarian crisis; it has also wreaked havoc with our economic stability and our nation’s fundamental ideals based upon respect of the family unit and the right to life, liberty and, the pursuit of happiness. Today, yet again Washington’s Congressional leadership postponed a vote on their immigration proposal.