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Elaine Kontominas Alquist
2009 Press Releases
◄SENATOR ALQUIST HIGHLIGHTS 2009 LEGISLATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS
SACRAMENTO – Because of this year’s great recession and historic state budget crisis, Senator Elaine Kontominas Alquist (D-San Jose) focused her legislative package on bills that ensure California receives its full share of federal stimulus funding, the state continues to grow jobs, existing government programs are more efficient, and money is put back in the pockets of hardworking Californians.
◄SENATOR ALQUIST HOLDS INFORMATIONAL HEARING ON MEDI-CAL IMPROVEMENTS
SACRAMENTO – In an effort to make the state Medi-Cal program more effective and efficient, Senator Elaine Kontominas Alquist will hold a three-hour Senate Informational Hearing on “Redesigning California’s Medi-Cal Program: Examining the Potential for Cost Savings and Program Improvements.”
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◄SENATORS PADILLA AND ALQUIST TO HOLD HEARING ON LINK BETWEEN SUGAR-SWEETENED BEVERAGES AND OBESITY
LOS ANGELES – Senator Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima) and Senator Elaine Kontominas Alquist (D-San Jose) will hold a joint hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Obesity and Diabetes and the Senate Health Committee to explore the link between sugar-sweetened beverages and obesity. Members of both committees will hear testimony from national experts and researchers, health professionals, marketing experts, community and foundation leaders, beverage industry representatives, and state officials.
◄ALQUIST BILL TO FUND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERS PASSES SENATE FLOOR 38-0
SACRAMENTO – In a victory for the state’s victims of domestic violence, and those who help them, the California State Senate today restored funding for 94 community-based domestic violence shelters throughout the state.
◄ANTI-PSYCHOTIC DRUG BILL BECOMES NATIONAL ISSUE AS TWO MULTI-BILLION COURT CASES ARE SETTLED
SACRAMENTO – An elderly patient safety bill meant to halt the abuse of psychoactive drugs in nursing homes is fighting its way through the California Assembly. And in a related matter, two major pharmaceutical firms are facing two multi-billion court settlements on the illegal marketing and use of anti-psychotic drugs. The anti-psychotic drug bill, SB 303, passed off the Senate floor and is authored by Senator Elaine Kontominas Alquist (D-San Jose).
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In The News
◄State law requires digital college textbooks by 2020
By Jean Cowden Moore Companies that sell textbooks to California universities must offer electronic versions by 2020, under a new state law.
◄Local lawmakers graded
KLIV 1580 - Silicon Valley News
◄Spate of new laws await Californians
By Steven Harmon and Denis C. Theriault SACRAMENTO — Eating honey will have a whole new meaning in the new year. Getting caught watching a dogfight will carry a big ticket price. And birds at airports better start looking for a new home.
◄Opinion: New state plan must support community colleges
By John E. Hendrickson - Special to the Mercury News Santa Clara County residents must send a strong message to a new legislative committee reviewing the educational master plan: the economic rebound of the state and Silicon Valley depends on community colleges.
◄Senate announces appointees to new committee on higher ed
The Senate Rules Committee named seven Democrats and three Republicans yesterday to the new Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Higher Education.
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