Sacramento— A critical bill in California’s fight to end the opioid epidemic, by Senator Richard D. Roth (D-Riverside), Senate Bill (SB) 1385, the Substance Abuse Navigators Legislation, co-authored by Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire (D-North Coast), has passed the Senate Health Committee.
Sacramento—A landmark package of bills, titled the 2024 Animal Protection and Gun Violence Prevention Act, authored by Senator Richard D. Roth (D-Riverside), passed the State Senate’s Public Safety Committee on a unanimous, bipartisan vote.
Community college leaders will once again attempt to offer bachelor’s degrees in nursing, renewing a fight with the state’s universities over whether expanding to the two-year sector eases California’s nurses shortage or increases competition.
The oddly twinned massive impacts of the C0VID-19 pandemic and the cost of housing in California sometimes seem to affect literally every facet of living in our home state.
And one of those facets is a shortage of nurses here even as our population skews older and healthcare becomes an even more vital need.
Richard Dale Roth was born November 6, 1950, in Columbus, Ohio and graduated from Ada High School (Ada, Ohio) in 1968, where he played in the band and was elected president of his junior class and the Student Council. He went on to Miami University ...
