WILDFIRE SPECIAL SESSION UPDATE: Today I introduced a wildfire legislative package which will cut bureaucratic red tape to help FIREPROOF our state. These are 3 common sense proposals that will protect our communities and the environment from future wildfires 🧵: EXEMPT Wildfire Prevention Projects from CEQA (ABX1-7): It takes months or years to receive CEQA approval for wildfire prevention projects. According to CalFire we have 16 million acres of VERY high risk areas that need immediate brush clearing. tinyurl.com/56jj63ar

For everyone saying this is not a time for blame, this is exactly the moment that the people who have been responsible for the mismanagement of California's fire policies be held accountable.

Our governor has been obsessed with holding a special session to "Trump-proof" CA, when he should be focused on FIRE-PROOFING our communities.

Here are a few hard facts about the democrat-run state's failures to address fire prevention: In the 1950s the average timber harvest in California was around 6.0 billion board feet per year. Today, that number has dropped to ~1.5 billion board feet per year.

California’s forests, which cover a third of the state, are now choked with nearly 163 million dead trees.
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I just introduced a bill #AB1314 which will require schools to notify parents when a student is actively identifying by a different gender. Unfortunately, this bill is necessary because schools are instructing teachers to conceal this information from parents. Children are the domain of their parents, not the government. Schools cannot decide what information should or shouldn’t be shared with parents. Trans minors are higher risk for depression and suicide. More than 50% of trans minors have considered suicide.