SACRAMENTO–Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) has introduced AB 1714, legislation that will define and regulate broadband service providers as a public utility.
SACRAMENTO–Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) has introduced AB 1272, legislation that will direct the State Water Resources Control Board and California Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop principles and guidelines that can improve climate resiliency and drought preparedness which will benefit the water supplies for both people and fish in coastal Northern and Centr
SACRAMENTO–Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) has introduced AB 242, which would permanently allow critical access hospitals (CAHs) to employ physicians.
In a press release by Senate Majority Leader Mike McGuire: Senator Mike McGuire, Assemblymember Jim Wood, the State Office of Emergency Services and the California Department of Housing & Community Development announced $3 million in available funding to aid residents impacted by the December 20 and January 1 earthquakes.
SACRAMENTO–Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg), along with other local, state and federal elected officials have been meeting with Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) to get answers about transmission capacity issues in southern Humboldt County and on November 1, PG&E made a presentation to the Humboldt Board of Supervisors to respond to that issue.
SACRAMENTO—On October 13, Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) joined members of Governor Newsom’s administration, legislators, local community representatives and advocates to push the “on” switch to the first leg of an open-access middle-mile network that will allow service providers to provide internet connections to unserved or underserved Californians.
SACRAMENTO–Last Friday was the last day for Governor Gavin Newsom to sign or veto legislation considered during the 2022 legislative session.
Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) is pleased to announce that a majority of the bills he authored this year will become law.
SACRAMENTO–Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 2752, legislation authored by Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Healdsburg) that would require the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to map local level data regarding broadband access, including addresses.
SACRAMENTO–Yesterday, Governor Newsom signed legislation that creates the Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA), Assemblymember Jim Wood’s (D-Healdsburg) top priority health care legislation.
The budget bill, AB 184, contains language creating OHCA. A previous budget bill provided the funding needed for implementation.
“Today is a very dark day in America,” said Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa). “A day when we should be celebrating our constitutional protections of privacy and a woman’s right to choose is clouded by a Supreme Court decision that eviscerates that federal protection and tragically opens up the possibility that other rights will be challenged in the future.
