Sacramento, CA – Last week, Assemblymember Chris Holden’s bill, Assembly Bill 1826, Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act of 2024, which would make comprehensive changes to state law pertaining to cable operators and state video franchising, heads to the Governor’s Desk. The changes imposed by this bill would include extending the application timeline, revising the renewal and application process and increases the limit on penalties for customer service violations.

Sacramento, CA – Last week, Assemblymember Chris Holden’s bill, AB 2330, which would allow local agencies to submit a wildfire preparedness plan to the Department of Fish and Wildlife for an initial review, heads to the Governor’s desk. This bill will help local agencies have greater certainty in a timely manner to move wildfire preparedness projects, while avoiding, minimizing, and mitigating the take of endangered, threatened, and candidate species incidental to activities conducted by local agencies on lands that are within fire hazard severity zones adjacent to urban areas.

Pasadena, CA—Assemblymember Chris Holden is seeking nominations for his annual 41^st Assembly District’s Woman of the Year and Women of Distinction celebration.

Sacramento, CA – This month, Assemblymember Chris Holden’s legislation, Assembly Bill 289, Youth Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), which will include youth or youth mental health organizations in the list of stakeholder counties must confer with when developing their three year expenditure plans under the Mental Health Services Act, was signed into law by Governor Newsom.