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"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.

(FOX40.COM) — Assemblymember Mark González announced the introduction of legislation that would expand access to dual language immersion programs in California schools.

According to a statement from González’s office, Assembly Bill 865 would appropriate $5,000,000 for instructional materials for dual language immersion programs.

Assembly Bill 380, introduced by Assemblyman Mark González, D-Los Angeles, would require that price gouging protections remain in effect for the full duration of an emergency declaration.