An Inland Empire lawmaker’s bill seeking to restore millions of dollars stripped away from four Riverside County cities under a state budget reorganization cleared its first legislative hurdle this week.
Senate Bill 25, sponsored by Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside, was unanimously approved by the Senate Committee on Governance and Finance on Wednesday and next goes before the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The third attempt to restore millions of dollars to four cities in Riverside County passed a state Senate committee Wednesday, although it’s unclear whether this bill, too, will be vetoed by the governor.
By a bipartisan, unanimous vote, the Committee on Governance and Finance passed the bill sponsored by Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside. The bill would restore vehicle license fee revenue to the Inland area’s four newest cities.
With increased lawsuits or notices of violations for Americans with Disabilities Act violations throughout Riverside, a March 6 seminar has been scheduled to address compliance issues.
Co-sponsored by the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce and State Sen. Richard Roth, the seminar will review the top 10 ADA compliance violations, and how businesses can bring their facilities into compliance.
An Inland Empire lawmaker is backing legislation aimed at making the paper trail of records connected with environmental impact reports easier to find and follow.
Eleven state lawmakers declined 5 percent bump a year ago
By Chris Nichols
SACRAMENTO — It's no longer fashionable to decline a pay raise in the California Legislature.
Just one state lawmaker, Sen. Richard Roth, D-Riverside, had declined the 2 percent salary increase that kicked in for the Legislature's nearly 120 lawmakers this week, as of late Thursday, according to the State Controller's Office.
Assembly passes bill to supply clean water
SB 1130 protects water districts from getting sued while they extend their pipes to about 140 households.
BY MICHAEL J. WILLIAMS / STAFF WRITER
A state bill needed in the quest to supply reliable drinking water to a neighborhood straddling the border of Wildomar and Menifee received unanimous support from the state Assembly on Thursday.
