Why, and How, to Contact the Assembly Appropriations Committee

We are asking people to contact the Assembly to support AB2200.

This document explains the following:

The Assembly is one half of the California Legislature, the government body that makes the state laws. (The other half is the Senate.)

The state is divided into 80 Assembly Districts (AD).

Each voter lives in a district, and has an Assembly Member who represents them. The membership changes all the time, so this page may be out of date.

The Assembly introduces bills. A bill goes through a legislative process, before being voted upon.

The second step in the process are to have it “go through committees”, where small groups of Assembly Members examine the bill.

We are asking you to help show support for the bill, so it gets through the committees.

If it fails to get through all the committees, the bill fails. They say “it died in committee.”

If it makes it through, the last step is a floor vote is when the entire Assembly votes on a bill.

The Appropriations Committee looks at the bill and how it relates to taxes.

The members of the committee are:

We want you to call ALL the members of the committee!

Here’s a simple script:

Hello, my name is ______ and I want you to SUPPORT AB2200, the healthcare act. I want healthcare for all.

Keep it short and sweet! Be polite and kind.

Every action you take helps push the fight for CalCare, Single Payer healthcare for California, forward.

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