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"When I see them on the street, I'm not their assigned primary care provider, and I can't order basic things for them," Feldman said. "Only the person who they're not seeing can order those things."

Assembly Bill 543, which Feldman helped craft with the bill's author Assemblymember Mark González, would change that. Co-authors include Assemblymembers Sade Elhawary, John Harabedian, Celeste Rodriguez, Pilar Schiavo and Matt Haney.

AB 543 (Assemblymember Mark Gonzalez) would prohibit care delays based on managed care network assignments and provide patients four to six weeks of care while their Medi-Cal eligibility is verified. Feldman said this change would allow doctors to make an immediate and large impact on patient health. The bill also seeks to create a patient identification and data-sharing network so street medicine teams can more quickly identify patients most in need of care.

"It's so hard because you just don't know what's going to happen next," said state Assemblymember Mark González, a Democrat who represents Boyle Heights and other Latino communities downtown. "It's like a game of Whac-A-Mole."

Just as the city has been perceptibly changed by Trump's migrant clampdown, so has its mayor. Bass, who's long operated as an understated consensus-builder, has assumed the role of combatant for her embattled hometown.

"When the Trump administration threatened and then went through with their threat to cut the program completely, that told us that we had to step up to the plate," said Democratic Assemblymember Mark González of Los Angeles, who said he introduced the legislation to ensure that queer youth receive support from counselors who can relate to their life experiences. "Our goal here is to be the safety net — especially for those individuals who are not in Los Angeles but in other parts of the state who need this hotline to survive."