By DPM
State Senator Steve Bradford presented his annual report of the 2023 legislation he’s sponsored at the City Council meeting Tuesday.
Many of the bills he presented have been approved and hit home on public safety, college athletics, and minority-owned businesses in the cannabis industry, just to name a few.
For years, people have received the public alarm known as the AMBER Alert to let everyone know a child has been abducted has been abducted or gone missing. But this one is for young Black people ages 12 to 25.
Gov. Gavin Newson recently signed state Senate Bill 673, the Ebony Alert will establish an emergency notification system for missing Black people ages 12 to 25. This addresses the pervasive issue of missing African American women and children by creating and emergency notification for a group who has historically been either misrepresented or forgotten when it comes to bringing them back to safety, said Bradford.
Many college athletes who put their bodies on the line in each game generate revenue for universities Senate Bill 206 also known as “The Fair Pay to Pay Act” was passed about three years ago, allowing collegiate athletes to acquire endorsements and sponsorships while still maintaining athletic eligibility. However, the measure didn’t provide guidance on creating a sense of financial awareness. Bradford’s newly approve Senate Bill 661 would require universities to provide financial literacy training and scholarship protection to all universities in California. Whether you’re a star athlete or just a fan, it’s a good idea to have a solid financial plan in place.
“We’ve seen a huge success of contracts signed by these athletes,” said Bradford. “But what we’ve also seen is just like with professional adults who make millions of dollars during their playing career and end up broke because they had no financial literacy or financial training, we want to make sure that these college athletes have the financial literacy to know how to invest their what they are earning and not buy all of the fancy things like cars and Rolexes and if anything buy property, buy stocks and create wealth,” adding that this would be available at division one and two schools, not three.
Six years after approving Prop 64 passed in 2016 to set up the guidelines to acquire a license for cannabis retailers, 85% of the operators are White males. Bradford’s new Senate Bill 51 extends Cannabis Provisional Licenses. The provisional license program was set up to let businesses begin operating while they make progress toward their full annual license.
“SB 51 would authorize the Department of Cannabis Control to issue a provisional license for a local equity applicant for retailer activities for up to five years while they work to obtain their annual license,” said Bradford.
Social equity applicants include persons who are women, minorities, veterans, and people who were disproportionately impacted by the war on drugs, specifically as it relates to cannabis prohibition.
