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Sacramento – Today, Senator Mike McGuire voted to support the renewal of the Managed Healthcare Organization (MCO) tax – an overhaul of the healthcare plan tax structure that funds Medi-Cal and will bring a much-needed influx of funding to developmental disability services.




Sacramento, CA – Today, Senator Mike McGuire, Chair of the Senate Human Services Committee, continued to put the pressure on the Department of Developmental Services to ensure the Administration's plans for closure of the Sonoma Developmental Center will include agreements for residents regarding resources they need to thrive in the years to come, including housing, specialized medical services and programming.




Sacramento, CA – Senator Mike McGuire, Chair of the Senate Human Services Committee will convene an important hearing next week with Senator Holly Mitchell, Health and Human Services Budget Subcommittee Chairwoman, on the significant budget crisis impacting California’s developmentally disabled community and the impact on residents and families, along with the impending closure of California’s Developmental Centers.




Sacramento, CA – Today, Senator Mike McGuire introduced The Marijuana Value Tax Act, a bill that would place a 15 percent tax at the point of sale on medical marijuana.




Sacramento, CA – North Coast State Senator Mike McGuire, Chair of the Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture, has been focused on the unprecedented delay of the crab season for months.




Sacramento, CA – Senator Mike McGuire, chairman of the Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture, will convene the 43rd annual Fisheries Forum this Thursday, focusing on the need for a crab season disaster declaration and will call on several industry experts and state agency leaders to discuss the short and long term impacts to fishing families, the California coastal economy and the future of fisheries and aquaculture.




Sacramento, CA – One out of every four California kids go to bed hungry each night and, tragically, California has the highest rate of children in poverty in America.




Sacramento, CA – Today, a bi-partisan coalition of state legislators requested that Governor Jerry Brown declare a fishery disaster due to the devastating impacts of the delayed California crab season.