SACRAMENTO— Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) and Assembly Budget Chair Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino) issued the following statements in response to Governor Gavin Newsom’s May Revise budget proposal for the 2025-26 fiscal year:
Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas Says
SACRAMENTO,CA—Today, Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) introduced a resolution to proclaim May 9 to 15 as the 2025 National Stuttering Acceptance Awareness Week.
Stuttering is a form of speech diversity and should be recognized as simply a different way of speaking for the estimated 3 million Americans who stutter.
SACRAMENTO— Today, Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) issued the following statement on new California State Assembly actions to punish child predators and strengthen protections for survivors:
SACRAMENTO, CA—Today, Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas), Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance), and Assemblymember Blanca Rubio (D-Baldwin Park) announced new action to strengthen early childhood literacy efforts in California by equipping educators and school leaders with the training, materials and support needed to help every student succeed.
SALINAS— Speaker Robert Rivas hosted a community discussion on immigration last Friday at the UFW headquarters in Salinas, bringing together nonprofits, groups and leaders to listen and learn how best to protect California’s immigrant communities and their contributions to the state economy.
SACRAMENTO—In every corner of California, middle-class families are earning what should be a solid, stable income— but they are barely hanging on.
SACRAMENTO— California State Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas hosted a delegation of Mayors, Councilmembers, and County Supervisors from Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Benito, and Santa Clara Counties for a full day of state legislative activities in Sacramento.
Sacramento — On Tuesday, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and a bipartisan majority of California Assembly members voted to pass nine bills that will speed-up housing construction and support Southern Californians after this year’s devastating firestorms.
