Sacramento, CA — Senator Aisha Wahab’s (D-Silicon Valley) Youth Bill of Rights legislation (SB 1353)—which adds the right to receive behavioral health services to the existing types of healthcare that a detained or incarcerated youth has the right to receive—was signed into law.
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Sacramento, CA — Senator Aisha Wahab’s (D-Silicon Valley) Senate Bill 1320 (SB 1320)—ensuring health plans and insurers establish a process to reimburse providers for mental health and substance use disorder treatments that are integrated with primary care—was signed into law.
Sacramento, CA — Senator Aisha Wahab (D-Silicon Valley), Senator Angelique Ashby (D-Sacramento, and Assembly Rick Zbur (D-Hollywood) presented joint legislation—Senate Bill 1381—to place a new initiative on the ballot to modernize Proposition 47 (Prop 47).
SACRAMENTO – Senate Public Safety Chair Aisha Wahab (D-Silicon Valley) and Assembly Public Safety Chair Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) announced today that they have been working this year to propose an additional amendment to SB 1414 to protect victims and punish predators.
Sacramento, CA — Senator Aisha Wahab’s (D-Silicon Valley) Senate Bill 980, The Smile Act, expands dental implant benefits for Medi-Cal recipients and passed the Senate Health Committee. SB 980 is a bipartisan effort with 24 Senators as co-authors.
SACRAMENTO – Today, Senators Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and Aisha Wahab (D-Silicon Valley) announced Senate Bill 1031, The Connect Bay Area Act. SB 1031 authorizes a Bay Area ballot measure to provide transportation funding on the 2026 ballot or later, and require operational reforms and a consolidation assessment beginning next year.
Sacramento, CA — Senator Aisha Wahab’s (D-Silicon Valley) Senate Bill 400 (SB 400), Peace Office Termination Disclosures, has been signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom. The bill allows law enforcement agencies to announce that a peace officer or custodial officer was terminated for cause and have the choice to disclose specifics of the termination to the public. SB 400 received bipartisan support across the legislature and support from law enforcement.
Sacramento, CA — Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire recently announced the appointment of Senator Aisha Wahab (D-Silicon Valley) to Assistant Majority Leader and Chair of Budget Subcommittee 5 on Corrections, Public Safety, Judiciary, Labor, and Transportation; she remains Chair of Public Safety. She will also be a member of Appropriations, Budget, Housing, Judiciary, and Local Government Committees.