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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."

"Cutting off kids' access to help is indefensible. While the Trump administration walks away from its responsibility, California will continue to expand access to life-saving resources, because the life of every child — straight, gay, trans — is worth fighting for," said Gov. Newsom.

Assembly Bill 727, introduced by Assemblymember Mark González, would aim to facilitate pupil and student safety by requiring schools and institutions to have the telephone number and text line for a specified LGBTQ suicide hotline provided by The Trevor Project, that is available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

"Suicide is the second leading cause of death among LGBTQ youth. Cutting off kids' access to help is indefensible," Newsom said in a statement shared exclusively with POLITICO. "While the Trump administration walks away from its responsibility, California will continue to expand access to life-saving resources, because the life of every child — straight, gay, trans — is worth fighting for."

The California bill, AB 727 from first-term Los Angeles Assemblymember Mark González, would put the number for the Trevor Project — the crisis and suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ+ youth — on student ID

Recognizing the state’s tight finances this budget year, advocates did not push for any major initiatives. But Asians Advancing Justice worked with Assemblymember Mark González, a Los Angeles Democrat, to introduce Assembly Bill 865, which calls for $5 million over the next three years to help schools either purchase or create instructional materials for bilingual programs.

LA한인회가 트럼프 대통령의 이민단속 강화로 인해 두려움을 느끼는 한인들을 돕고자 움직이고 있습니다.

한인회는 국경출입국 강화와 서류미비자 단속 등이 본격화 되면서 한인사회에 불안감을 주고 있다고 전했습니다.

엘에이 한인회와 마크 곤잘레스 가주하원의원실이 공동 주최하는 한인 이민자 권리 보호 워크숍이 오는 27일 개최됩니다.

14일 LA 한인타운에서 열린 기자회견에서 마크 곤잘레스 의원과 한인 커뮤니티 관계자들은 이번 워크숍이 캘리포니아 최초로 한국어로 진행되는 이민자 권리 보호 행사라고 밝혔습니다.

"Millions of spectators will need to use public transit to get to game events and other tourist destinations," Arreguín and Assembly Member Mark González, D-Los Angeles, wrote Wednesday in a letter requesting the $2 billion budget set-aside.

"Completing new rail and bus lines and making first- and last-mile connections are needed to help spectators move safely, reliably, and comfortably," the letter continued, noting that cities sought federal funds to jump-start these projects, but aren't guaranteed that money.

California is likely to adopt additional pro-LGBTQ measures this year. As the B.A.R. reported last week, among this year's LGBTQ legislative package in the Statehouse is Assembly Bill 727 by gay Assemblymember Mark González (D-Los Angeles) that would require schools in the state serving students in grades 7 to 12, as well as colleges and universities, to include on student identification cards the Trevor Project's 24/7 suicide hotline 1-866-488-7386.