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Speaker Robert Rivas Highlights New Budget Leadership Team, Updates Assembly’s Accountability and Oversight Subcommittee, and Establishes New Human Services Subcommittee

Actions Reflect Speaker’s Focus on Results-Driven Governance and Improving Public Services in His First Legislative Year

SACRAMENTO, CA— Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) today highlighted his appointments to the California State Assembly’s budget leadership team, the renewed Subcommittee on Budget Accountability and Oversight, and an overdue separation of Public Health and Human Services budget su

Speaker Rivas Congratulates Assemblymember Jim Wood

SACRAMENTO, CA— Speaker of the Assembly Robert Rivas (D-Salinas) commends and expresses his gratitude to Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg), who on Friday announced plans to not seek re-election after the 2024 legislative year.

Housing Hero Awards

On Wednesday, October 18, 2023, Housing Action Coalition awarded Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas with their annual Housing Hero Award. At the ceremony, Speaker Rivas expressed his gratitude for the recognition and for Housing Action Coalition’s collaboration in passing and implementing policies to tackle housing costs and underproduction. Having grown up in farmworker housing, the Speaker spoke of the positive impact housing security had on his own upward mobility and conveyed his appreciation for his legislative colleagues’ work to address housing access and affordability.

“As Speaker, my eye is on the future,” Rivas said. “We need to do even more, from creating greater certainty in the post-entitlement permit process to removing barriers to building affordable homes."

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