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TO: California Treatment Advocacy Coalition
FROM: Carla Jacobs & Randall Hagar
DATE: May 24, 2000
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HALF A WIN
THE GOOD NEWS-today AB1800 unanimously passed the Appropriations Committee.
THE BAD NEWS-the bill’s appropriations were "struck pending budget deliberations."
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CRUNCH TIME
Our bill to reform LPS now moves to the Assembly Floor for a full debate and vote by the entire Assembly. If AB1800 is passed, it is on to the Senate. The debate has to be sometime before next Friday, June 2 (the deadline for all bills to pass out of the Assembly).
On the Assembly Floor or in the bargaining between the Governor, Senate, and Assembly over the budget--funding for services associated with AB1800 can still be allocated to the bill. But even if it is not, remember that AB1800 will still dramatically improve California’s laws for the treatment of those most in need of help, even without specific funding.
We don’t have much time-at most 8 days to win over the entire Assembly.
Please write your Assemblymember. See if you can arrange a visit. He or she should be in town on Friday. Make your representative understand that we cannot leave thousands trapped by mental illness when it is in our power to free them.
Let your Assemblymember know that AB1800 must pass and that it should include funding for those now needlessly suffering.
The most important person in the Assembly is the Speaker and he has not taken a solid position on AB1800. Please "cc" him on your letter to your representative.
Robert M. Hertzberg
Speaker of the Assembly
State Capitol Building, Room 219
Sacramento, CA 95814
Fax: (916) 319-2140
If you do not know who your Assemblymember is, go to the Assembly website at
http://www.assembly.ca.gov/acs/acsframeset9text.htm
We have worked so hard to get this close.
We promise that if we reach the Senate, things will slow down--at least for a while.
So many will be counting on us in the next few days.
We can’t let up now.
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