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SACRAMENTO – (Sacramento) – Assemblywoman Quirk-Silva (D – Orange County) stood on the Floor of the Assembly to speak on behalf of the California Legislative Latino Caucus on Assembly Concurrent Resolution 37, which proclaims the April 24^th, 2017 as “California Holocaust Memorial Day.”  Legislators, Holocaust survivors, liberators and children of survivors joined with Assemblywoman Quirk-Silva to honor those who suffered through the Holocaust and to remind people of the atrocities committed by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

Sacramento, CA -- Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-Orange County), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Assembly Committee on Jobs, Economy Development, and Economy (JEDE) and Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) and Senator Cathleen Galgiani (D-Stockton) will held a press conference to discuss their legislation to help California attract and retain manufacturing and production jobs.

“In order to keep the California dream alive for working families we need to make sure that they have jobs to go to that move them up into the middle class,” said Assemblywoman Quirk-Silva. “As Chair of the Jobs Committee, I know these tax incentives create advantages for the full spectrum of California businesses – from start-ups to expansions and relocations, to manufacturing and Main Street.”

One of Orange County’s Academic Leaders Passes Away at 81

SACRAMENTO – Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk Silva (D-Orange County) and the California State Legislature adjourned in the memory of Dr. Milton Gordon, Cal State Fullerton's fourth president, who led the University into prominence as one of the nation’s most inclusive senior institutions of higher learning.

“Dr Milton Gordon was a lifelong educator that inspired and educated the minds and hearts of so many,” said Assemblymember Quirk-Silva. “As a lifelong educator myself, I am profoundly inspired by all he accomplished in the name of higher education.”

Sacramento, CA – Assembly Bill (AB) 393 by Assemblywoman Quirk-Silva (D-Orange County) and leaders of the California Faculty Association (CFA) have successfully passed its first hurdle in the state legislature, with a bipartisan vote in the Assembly Committee on Higher Education. The bill will place a moratorium on student tuition and fees at California’s public community colleges and state universities.

Legislation to Reduce Driver’s License Fees for Veterans Passes Transportation Committee

SACRAMENTO – On Tuesday, California State Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva’s (D – Orange County) Assembly Bill (AB) 572, passed out of the Assembly Health Committee. The legislation will give the County of Orange and its cities enforcement resources to monitor sober living facilities.

Assembly Jobs Committee Introduces Bill Package for California Businesses

"The Assembly Jobs Committee is focusing on policies that support upward mobility," said Quirk-Silva.  "From manufacturing to Main Street, and from start-ups to expansions and relocations, this package creates advantages for the full spectrum of California businesses. Entrepreneurship is one of the most effective means for creating wealth and economic security.”

LONG BEACH - The Cal State University (CSU) Board of Trustees narrowly voted today on a proposal to increase tuition at its 23 campuses. The current tuition is $5,472. The hike will increase graduate tuition by hundreds of dollars for the 2017-18 academic year. Students from across the system’s 23 campuses had started gathering at dawn at the meeting in Long Beach to protest a decision that would increase their financial burden. 

SACRAMENTO — Ahead of the upcoming California State University (CSU) Board of Trustee Meeting on Wednesday, March 22, Assemblywoman Quirk-Silva, with bipartisan support of members of the California Legislature, sent a letter to the Board of Trustee members urging them to reconsider increasing tuition for the 2017-2018 Academic Year.