Ramos names new legislative director
SACRAMENTO—Assemblymember James C. Ramos (D-San Bernardino) today announced he has named Jacob Rivera as his new legislative director.
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Governor includes tax exemption in state budget for military retirees and survivor pensions; Ramos working with veterans and administration to secure benefit
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom has included a 2025-26 state budget item proposal to grant uniformed retirees and their survivors a state tax exemption on their military pensions. Assemblymember James C. Ramos (D-San Bernardino) has championed such an exemption in the past and last month introduced AB 53 which would allow military retirees and their survivors to claim the benefit.
Ramos reintroduces two measures
SACRAMENTO –Assemblymember James C. Ramos (D-San Bernardino) reintroduced a public safety bill to grant state peace officer status to tribal law enforcement under a pilot program and a bill to grant a state tax exemption on military pensions.
AB 31 Tribal Peace Officers
Governor signs seven Ramos tribal-related bills on California Native American Day
SACRAMENTO—Today, on California Native American Day, Gov. Newsom signed seven of Assemblymember James C. Ramos’s (D-San Bernardino) tribal bills.
Ramos acknowledges work to be done on Tribal Peace Officer Status Bill
SACRAMENTO –Assemblymember James C. Ramos (D-San Bernardino) announced today AB 2138, a bill creating a three-year pilot program in the state Department of Justice granting three California tribes and their tribal police California peace officer status was vetoed by Governor Newsom. Ramos introduced AB 2138 earlier this year as an additional means to battle the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) crisis in California.
Students seeking help for substance abuse will no longer fear suspensions
SACRAMENTO—California students will no longer be suspended for voluntarily disclosing their use of substances when seeking help after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 2711, a measure authored by Assemblymember James C. Ramos (D-San Bernardino).
Governor signs bill to help track domestic violence cases on California Native American Day
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Parents, courts other appropriate adults to get notification immediately when foster kids missing
SACRAMENTO—Gov. Gavin Newsom today signed a bill requiring county social workers and probation officers to immediately notify appropriate adults when foster children and youth are missing. It was one of seven tribal-related bills approved on California Native American Day.
Changes to notification alert system used to find missing Native Americans signed into law on California Native American Day
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today signed AB 2348, a bill that would revise and strengthen California’s Feather Alert – a notification alert system similar to the AMBER and Silver alerts—by requiring law enforcement agencies to respond within 24 hours of a request, and allowing tribal governments to directly communicate with the California Highway Patrol (CHP). Assemblymember James C.
Ramos measure to streamline alert system used to find missing Indigenous people is signed on California Native American Day
SACRAMENTO – Gov. Gavin Newsom today approved AB 1863, a bill to revise and strengthen California’s Feather Alert, an alert system similar to the AMBER and Silver alerts – used to notify the public when Indigenous people go missing. Assemblymember James C. Ramos (D-San Bernardino) authored the bill and the original Feather Alert measure, AB 1314, approved in 2022.