Press Releases

(SACRAMENTO, CA) – Another piece of legislation from Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) was signed by Governor Brown today. The Coachella Valley Mountain Conservancy Bill (AB 1089) will expand the Coachella Valley Mountain Conservancy governing board and territory to include the Cities of Indio and Coachella.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) –- Four more bills from Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) were voted out of the State Assembly today and will now head to the Governor’s desk for approval. Topping Assemblyman Garcia’s bill list are two local environmental measures.

(SACRAMENTO, CA.) – Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) voted today in support of the California Fair Pay Act (SB 358), which was authored by Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara).

(SACRAMENTO, CA) – Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia’s (D-Coachella) Coachella Valley Mountain Conservancy Bill (AB 1089) was approved by the California State Senate today by a vote tally of 38-0 and now heads to the Governor’s desk for approval.

(EL CENTRO, CA.) – Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia was in El Centro on Tuesday, July 28, 2015 and presented an Emergency Solutions Grant from the California Department of Housing & Community Development to Womanhaven for rapid re-housing, homelessness prevention and emergency shelter efforts in the area. 

(COACHELLA, CA)- Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) released the following statement regarding Acting Governor Newsom’s State of Emergency declaration after this weekend’s storm which wore out the Tex-Wash bridge on the Interstate 10 highway corridor:

(RIVERSIDE, CA) -– The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is alerting motorists that Interstate 10 (I-10) is closed between Route 86 and the Arizona State Line July 19 after a severe storm caused a section of the interstate to collapse. I-10 eastbound collapsed and the westbound direction was severely undermined at Tex Wash (Adair Overcrossing), about 44 miles east of Route 86 (Coachella) and 42 miles west of the Arizona State Line.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) ––The Senate Education Committee passed AB 1091 authored by Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) today on a 9-0 vote. The bill will streamline California's financial aid process and increase Cal Grant and FAFSA application completion rates in California.

(SACRAMENTO, CA.) – Governor Brown signed key workforce training legislation today, which was authored by local Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella). AB 1270 (Garcia and Hernández), makes the first round of changes to conform California workforce training laws with the new Federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.

(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.