Speaker 1: The beginning of July each year marks the point when
Speaker 1: new laws take effect and coming up, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: some of the worst new California laws that are kicking
Speaker 1: in and how they may impact you. Plus there's actually
Speaker 1: one good law taking effect that I voted for. It
Speaker 1: regulates the volume of ads on programs like this coming
Speaker 1: up complete coverage of the new laws taking effect this
Speaker 1: July in California. The good, the bad, and of course
Speaker 1: the ugly. Those are the bad laws. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of bad laws that you know, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: go into detail on, but those are the ones I
Speaker 1: think that might impact you or your children. The most
Speaker 1: one good law that will probably impact all of you,
Speaker 1: particularly if you're watching this on YouTube. I'm Carl Tomio,
Speaker 1: chairman of Reform California and a California state representative, and
Speaker 1: as a representative, I vote no more than any other
Speaker 1: legislator serving in Sacramento. About thirty six percent of the time.
Speaker 1: I'm hitting the no button. And if you read some
Speaker 1: of the laws, you'd understand why they are bat blank crazy,
Speaker 1: complete overreach regulating our lives, adding mandates and costs, completely unnecessary.
Speaker 1: I would love to force the legislature to eliminate five
Speaker 1: laws for every new law they want to try to
Speaker 1: impose on us. That would be actually quite healthy to
Speaker 1: do that for a couple of years. But the laws
Speaker 1: take effect in two periods of the year, the January
Speaker 1: first laws. Most laws take effect January first, but a
Speaker 1: bunch of laws actually take effect July first. So we
Speaker 1: always do a snapshot of the good, the bad, and
Speaker 1: the ugly laws taking effects that you know what you
Speaker 1: have to comply with. And if you don't like all
Speaker 1: these laws, well then I'm going to encourage you not
Speaker 1: just to get your blood pressure up and complain about them,
Speaker 1: get in the fight. Let's restore some sanity in Sacramento.
Speaker 1: A lot of these laws could actually be stopped if
Speaker 1: we broke the Democrats supermajority. We only need seven seats
Speaker 1: in the state legislature to do that. And so before
Speaker 1: I get into the good, the bad, and the ugly
Speaker 1: on the new laws in July, please go to the
Speaker 1: website Reform California dot org. Reform California dot org. That
Speaker 1: is ground zero on our campaign to elect good legislators
Speaker 1: and break the supermajority. Plus, remember we have a bunch
Speaker 1: of statewide ballot measure fights that we're leading on, including
Speaker 1: Yes on Prop thirty nine, the Voter ID initiative, and
Speaker 1: Yes on Prop forty three, the Save Prop thirteen initiative
Speaker 1: to stop tax hikes in California. So go to that
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Speaker 1: from insanity. Like the laws that I'm about to go through.
Speaker 1: So let me start out with the bad laws and
Speaker 1: then I'll get to the one good one. That's right,
Speaker 1: we're looking at a ten to one ratio on bad
Speaker 1: to good, and I'm only picking out the worst of
Speaker 1: the worst laws. The first thing I want to point
Speaker 1: out is your gas tax is going up July first,
Speaker 1: an automatic gas tax increase goes into effect. Sixty three
Speaker 1: point four cents is what you'll be paying for just
Speaker 1: the state excise tax. When you add up all of
Speaker 1: the state mandates and taxes that they add to each
Speaker 1: gallon of gas, you're talking about like a buck sixty
Speaker 1: per gallon a buck sixty. It's insane. And that's why
Speaker 1: we have gas prices nearly two dollars higher than the
Speaker 1: national average out here. All the mandates, all the regulations,
Speaker 1: all the taxes. A buck sixty and sixty three point
Speaker 1: four percent of that or sixty three point four CeNSE
Speaker 1: of that is in the form of a direct excise
Speaker 1: tax applied to every gallon of gas. Democrats refuse to
Speaker 1: give you a relief at the pump, and yet they're
Speaker 1: saying Donald Trump is responsible for all the bad gas prices. Seriously,
Speaker 1: California politicians need to explain why we're paying two dollars
Speaker 1: more per gallon of gas. That's all on them. Next
Speaker 1: thing is the state budget that takes effect July first,
Speaker 1: and it is bad. It's not balanced. It's got twenty
Speaker 1: billion dollars plus in deficit spending. Rating our reserves, kicking
Speaker 1: the can down the road, giving pension spikes and valery
Speaker 1: hikes to state government employees, adding a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: new employees, giving illegal immigrants thirteen billion dollars of free healthcare,
Speaker 1: while cutting subsidies for your mediast of Californians on their
Speaker 1: healthcare coverage on covered California. They're also applying a four
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five dollars per family of four health
Speaker 1: care insurance tax on top of that. So the illegals
Speaker 1: get freebies and the rest of us get cuts and
Speaker 1: services and higher cost of living. Yep, rinse, and repeat.
Speaker 1: That's the Democrat way, serving people who shouldn't be here,
Speaker 1: who broke the law, who want the handouts, and sticking
Speaker 1: it to people who are trying to play by the
Speaker 1: rules and are struggling. Yep. The state budget also applies
Speaker 1: a new software tax, a payroll tax, a variety of
Speaker 1: other tax increases. We're talking billions of dollars in tax increases,
Speaker 1: and yet it's the most revenue we've ever collected, and
Speaker 1: it's the most spending we've ever engaged in. Spending under
Speaker 1: this budget represents a seventy six percent increase since Governor
Speaker 1: Gaven Newsom came into office. Adjusted for inflation, that's a
Speaker 1: forty percent growth in the size of government. That's a
Speaker 1: forty percent net total growth. If you adjust for the
Speaker 1: inflation since twenty eighteen, we're still forty percent bigger as
Speaker 1: a state government. Do you feel forty percent more services
Speaker 1: are coming to you? Of course not. We're actually getting
Speaker 1: less and spending more and paying more. In terms of
Speaker 1: other new laws SB. Seventy nine, this is really bad.
Speaker 1: You want a condo tower next to your home SB.
Speaker 1: Seventy nine and bring one of those. It basically allows
Speaker 1: rich developers who give campaign contributions to these state legislators,
Speaker 1: to buy a single family unit and tear it down,
Speaker 1: tear it down the house, and build a five to
Speaker 1: nine story high affordable housing complex. All they have to
Speaker 1: do is show that it's within a half a mile
Speaker 1: of a transit stop, which is a bus stop, and
Speaker 1: nothing can be done by your local city council or
Speaker 1: accounting board to stop them. They basically override local control
Speaker 1: on all housing, so these condo towers will start going
Speaker 1: up in residential communities for single family homes. This is insane.
Speaker 1: It's a giveaway to the rich developers who backed these politicians.
Speaker 1: It'll destroy the character of many neighborhoods. Another thing that
Speaker 1: happens July. First, government employees boo who who? They have
Speaker 1: to return to office? Oh? I know, it's been what
Speaker 1: six years since the original state order was put into
Speaker 1: effect by Governor Newsom telling state and local government employees
Speaker 1: they didn't have to show up to the city hall
Speaker 1: or to the state government agency. They could work from
Speaker 1: home because we have a contagious disease floating around. That
Speaker 1: was six years ago. And now Newsom finally, because he's
Speaker 1: been shamed with all sorts of bad coverage, finally you
Speaker 1: saying okay, state government workers, you have to come into
Speaker 1: work as of July first. Of course, they're not happy
Speaker 1: about it. They did a protest at the state capitol
Speaker 1: last week. Boohoo who, Well, welcome to the real world,
Speaker 1: show up to work. AB three thirty two nineteen basically
Speaker 1: requires that schools have to limit or ban cell phone
Speaker 1: usage by students, including requiring that all the cell phones
Speaker 1: be locked up. So each school, district and school, even
Speaker 1: charter schools, will have to enact a clear policy with
Speaker 1: the goal of limiting or banning cell phone usage amongst students.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
Speaker 1: Rual bathrooms are now going to be required of every
Speaker 1: school district, in every school, including charter schools, at a
Speaker 1: very high expense. For some of these schools, this is insane,
Speaker 1: all right. Minimum wage up to sixteen dollars and ninety cents. Oh,
Speaker 1: but for many cities it's much higher than that, like
Speaker 1: La San Diego. San Francisco might have much higher local
Speaker 1: minimum wage increases that kick into effect every July first.
Speaker 1: Plus there are industry specific minimum wages that just went up.
Speaker 1: Hospitals twenty five dollars, dialysis clinics twenty five dollars, any
Speaker 1: healthcare that's going to make our healthcare more expensive. The
Speaker 1: plastic bag ban goes into effect at all grocery stores.
Speaker 1: You're not even able to buy one anymore. Sorry, of course,
Speaker 1: don't expect that to help the environment. The last bag
Speaker 1: band did not help the environment, but it did line
Speaker 1: the pockets of grocers in the grocer's union, increasing your
Speaker 1: cost and reducing your commit While you're at that store
Speaker 1: not able to get a plastic bag, you'll notice that
Speaker 1: products will start having different cell by dates. In fact,
Speaker 1: sell by dates are going to be banned in California. Now.
Speaker 1: They have to put in either used by or best
Speaker 1: if used by. Best if used by is if the
Speaker 1: product would taste the best by a certain date, but
Speaker 1: you can still eat it thereafter. It's not dangerous. Used
Speaker 1: by is basically a public health risk. You know, if
Speaker 1: you eat this after the use by date, you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna have a problem. Maybe there is a assault on
Speaker 1: the Second Amendment. ABE eleven twenty seven is a ban
Speaker 1: on all glock guns. This is unconstitutional. Even the Trump
Speaker 1: DOJ has filed a lawsuit along with Second Amendment organizations
Speaker 1: to overturn it. It will get overturned. I guarantee it.
Speaker 1: Those are the bad laws. There's a lot of bad
Speaker 1: laws that you know, I'm not going to go into
Speaker 1: detail on, but those are the ones I think that
Speaker 1: might impact you or your children. The most one good
Speaker 1: law that will probably impact all of you, particularly if
Speaker 1: you're watching this on YouTube. And this is a bill
Speaker 1: I actually voted for. SB five seven six deals with
Speaker 1: a real annoying practice by some of these social media
Speaker 1: companies and streaming services where you're watching a show or
Speaker 1: a video and then there's an ad that pops up,
Speaker 1: but the volume on the AD is substantially higher, So
Speaker 1: then you've got to go fumble and get your remote
Speaker 1: and turn it down. Then after the AD is over,
Speaker 1: you go back to the show and you can't hear it,
Speaker 1: so you get to turn it back up enough. Stop
Speaker 1: pumping up the damn volume on your damn ads. So annoying. Again,
Speaker 1: I am not for government regulation, but when an industry
Speaker 1: treats their consumers poorly, yeah, there are some things that
Speaker 1: I would absolutely and entertain, like a passenger's bill of
Speaker 1: rights for airlines. There needs to be certain decency standards
Speaker 1: if these streaming services and add platforms refuse to treat
Speaker 1: their viewers and their customers properly. So those are all
Speaker 1: the new laws. Again, a lot of these are bad laws.
Speaker 1: There's not a whole lot of good to share with you,
Speaker 1: but you can change that. It all boils down to
Speaker 1: the caliber the type of legislators that we put into office,
Speaker 1: and at Reform California, we're leading the fight to put
Speaker 1: better people in office. So go to the website Reform
Speaker 1: California dot org. Reform California dot org, chip in a contribution,
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Speaker 1: next time, I'm Carl to my own chairman of Reform
Speaker 1: California and at California State Legislator. Thanks for watching and
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