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Flush with a projected \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11874125/californias-historic-budget-surplus-is-it-76-billion-or-38-billion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">budget surplus of $75.7 billion\u003c/a>, state politicians have come up with myriad legislative and budget proposals to make poorer families healthier and wealthier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens)\"]‘We don’t need to balance the budget on half of the population that has a uterus.’[/pullquote]They include ending sales taxes on \u003ca href=\"https://esd.dof.ca.gov/dofpublic/public/trailerBill/pdf/414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">menstrual products and diapers\u003c/a>; adding benefits such as doulas and early childhood trauma screenings to Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program; allowing pregnant women to retain Medi-Cal coverage for a year after giving birth; and a pilot program to provide a universal basic income to low-income new parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“COVID-19 laid inequity bare for all to see,” Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo (D-Los Angeles) said in a written statement. She is the co-author of Senate Bill 65, led by Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), which would pour hundreds of millions of dollars into family and health care programs annually, focusing on minority groups that Carrillo said were “pushed out of the social safety net by the prior White House.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and the Democratic-controlled legislature are unified on major health care and social safety-net expansions, which would direct billions in health benefits and cash assistance to the state’s most vulnerable residents and low-income parents. Legislative Democrats for years have pushed a progressive agenda to help struggling parents and families, featuring proposals like those to permanently end taxes on menstrual products and diapers — \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expected to cost the state millions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t need to balance the budget on half of the population that has a uterus,” said Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens), who has \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2019/05/07/newsom-to-unveil-may-budget-thursday-with-focus-on-low-income-families-1009021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for years sought an end\u003c/a> to the “pink tax” on diapers and menstrual products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Skinner, chair of the Senate budget committee, is among the powerful lawmakers who’ve put forward legislation to make childbirth safer and parenthood more affordable. Her bill, which cleared the Senate and was up for consideration this week in the state Assembly, has several features that would dramatically expand maternal health care (transgender men also get pregnant and give birth).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='childbirth' label='Maternity in California']Before the pandemic, Medi-Cal covered mothers only up to 60 days after their pregnancies ended unless their income fell below a certain line or they had a mental health diagnosis. Skinner’s bill, part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/issue-brief/expanding-postpartum-medicaid-coverage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broader national push\u003c/a> to improve birth outcomes, would expand full Medi-Cal coverage to 12 months after the end of a pregnancy. Other \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB65\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">parts of the bill\u003c/a> would intensify state reporting and reviews of fetal and pregnancy-related deaths and severe maternal morbidity, expand housing benefits for families that have a pregnant member, and increase training programs for midwives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s $268 billion budget blueprint includes about $200 million a year to fully implement the expansion of Medi-Cal coverage for new mothers, with matching dollars from the federal government until those funds expire in 2027. If the expansion were not renewed, the state would revert to previous Medi-Cal qualifications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/2019-edition-maternity-care-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Medi-Cal covered 45% of all births\u003c/a> in California in 2017, the last year for which data could be found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not all postpartum issues end at 60 days, and when patients lose insurance, we can’t address them in the usual way,” said Dr. Yen Truong, an OB-GYN who works with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists on legislative issues in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of pregnancy-related deaths occur during the pregnancy or on the day of delivery, but about 12% take place \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6818e1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">between seven weeks and a year\u003c/a> after giving birth, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. had 17.4 early maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2018, according to the most recent CDC data with state figures. California’s rate, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/maternal-mortality/MMR-2018-State-Data-508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11.7 per 100,000\u003c/a>, was among the lowest in the nation, but the state collects data on maternal deaths in a way that could result in underestimates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s overall numbers also obscure stark racial disparities. Statewide, Black infants averaged \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHSI/CDPH%20Document%20Library/CHSP_2021_ADA_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7.8 deaths per 1,000 live births\u003c/a>, compared with an average of three deaths among white babies. Data from 2013 from \u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/owh/docs/DataReport/2017-HealthIndicatorsforWomeninLACounty.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Los Angeles County\u003c/a> showed Black women had pregnancy-related deaths at rates more than four times as high as the overall rate in the state’s largest county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given our state’s wealth and medical advancements, this is unacceptable,” Skinner, vice chair of the Legislative Women’s Caucus, said in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats also appear unified on another aspect of Skinner’s bill: a pilot program to test a universal basic income program for struggling families. The bill would give $1,000 a month to low-income expectant and new parents with kids under 2 years old in counties that decide to participate. Newsom has also proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2021-22/pdf/Revised/BudgetSummary/HealthandHumanServices.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$35 million over five years\u003c/a> for pilot programs for universal basic income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rose Kapolczynski, a campaign consultant\"]‘The budget surplus is allowing many things that were called impossible to be possible, and that includes health care bills.’[/pullquote]These issues could play well, especially among women, and improve Newsom’s standing going into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11875264/new-poll-shows-support-idling-for-newsom-recall-effort\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recall election\u003c/a> later this year, said Rose Kapolczynski, a longtime campaign consultant to former U.S. Sen. 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Doulas, trained as emotional and physical supports for women in pregnancy and postpartum, have been linked to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5538578/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lower odds of cesarean births\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1595013/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">greater satisfaction with the birth experience\u003c/a>. If doulas saved Medi-Cal money by reducing cesarean births, that could enable the state to renegotiate payments for labor and delivery, according to \u003ca href=\"http://analyses.chbrp.com/document/view.php?id=1496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an analysis by the independent California Health Benefits Review Program\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cp>The California Senate approved legislation to decriminalize the possession or sharing of psychedelic drugs, Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/20210218-senator-wiener-introduces-legislation-decriminalize-possession-and-personal-use\">Senate Bill 519\u003c/a>, introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, now heads to the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a big step for this legislation and for our movement to end the war on drugs and to take a more health and science-based approach and to move away from criminalization of drugs,” Wiener said in a Twitter video posted on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1399867521612881921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1399867521612881921%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffox40.com%2Fnews%2Flocal-news%2Fcalifornia-senate-passes-bill-to-decriminalize-psychedelic-drugs%2F\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation would allow doctors to prescribe psychedelics for treating mental health disorders such as depression and PTSD. It would also allow psychedelics for personal use, and expunge criminal records for people with prior convictions for possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, the medical journal Nature Medicine published results of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3\">a study using the psychedelic drug MDMA\u003c/a>, also known as ecstasy, to treat post-traumatic stress disorder among research participants who received the drug, along with counseling. Sixty-seven percent felt their condition had improved to the extent that they no longer qualified for a diagnosis of PTSD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This study adds to a small but growing body of scientific literature exploring the use of psychedelics like MDMA, LSD and psilocybin as therapy for a range of mental health conditions, including depression, eating disorders and end-of-life anxiety. The bill now working its way through the state Legislature aims to build on this momentum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many veterans and drug advocacy groups support the bill, opponents say the legislation would lead to an increased rate of psychedelic drugs sold and recreationally used. On May 14, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101883458/ca-could-become-the-latest-state-to-decriminalize-psychedelics\">KQED Forum host April Dembosky\u003c/a> talked to the following people involved in this debate:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Juliana Mercer\u003c/strong>, a Marine Corps veteran who used psychedelic therapy to overcome her trauma from her time serving in Iraq and Afghanistan\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Sen. Scott Wiener\u003c/strong>, represents San Francisco in the state Senate\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman\u003c/strong>, former president of the American Psychiatric Association and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Larry Morse, \u003c/strong>legislative director, California District Attorneys Association\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dr. Robert Grant\u003c/strong>, professor of medicine at UCSF and prominent academic voice around decriminalization and psychedelic therapy\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Veteran’s Personal Experience\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Juliana Mercer graduated military boot camp one week before Sept. 11, 2001, and served in the United States Marines for 16 years. She served two tours of duty, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juliana Mercer:\u003c/strong> Between Iraq and Afghanistan, where I saw the traumas of war in between those two deployments, I spent five years working with our wounded in San Diego at the naval hospital, and I did everything that was non-medical for helping them in a holistic way to get back into their lives with their injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During those five years I saw the direct result of war; not just the physical trauma, but the mental trauma. And I did my job every day and did it happily because I was helping my brothers and sisters. But losing quite a few fellow Marines and other veterans to suicide between two war deployments really took a toll on me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I didn’t realize that they had taken a toll on me because I was doing my job every day. A few years after exiting the service and continuing to work with nonprofits that help veterans, I felt just this loss of purpose. Even though I was doing purposeful work, I had a loss of who my authentic self was. My first interaction with these medicines really opened up the acknowledgment that I had suffered a lot of loss, and there was a lot of grief in there. It started to help me unpack all of the grief that I had, and hadn’t revisited because I was so busy doing my job and taking care of my Marines.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=\"science_1956693\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Mercer eventually connected with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.heroicheartsproject.org/\">Heroic Hearts Project\u003c/a>, which specializes in ayahuasca therapy with military veterans, and traveled to a retreat center in Costa Rica for treatment.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We were there for 10 days and we had four sessions with ayahuasca. And these sessions where you drink the medicine, which is the root that’s found in the Amazon, administered by a shaman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You go into these sessions with intentions of what you want to accomplish and what you want to bring up. I think a session lasts anywhere from six to 12 hours. The ayahuasca and psychedelic medicines really opens you up. They open up your heart and they let you start looking inside of yourself, figuring out what the blockages are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These sessions are [like] 10 years of therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Proposed Legislation Around Psychedelics\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>State Sen. Scott Wiener:\u003c/strong> The legislation is sponsored by [the Heroic Hearts Project], as well as another group of vets that also works with veterans experiencing PTSD, addiction, other mental health challenges, and combat veterans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And right now, these groups are having to send these combat veterans to other countries, to Costa Rica, to Peru, to Mexico to get treatment. We think to ourselves how outrageous it is that these are people who have gone to war for our country, who have sustained terrible injuries — physical and mental — serving our country, and we’re making it illegal for them to get effective treatment in the U.S. and forcing them to travel to another country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I watched what was happening in Oregon and in various cities around the country as part of the movement towards drug decriminalization. The war on drugs has failed. Incarcerating people for using drugs doesn’t work. We need to take a health-based approach. And for psychedelics in particular, the mounting evidence of the health benefits of all of these substances is just extraordinary. People whose lives are being saved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet we have stuck with this terrible criminalization approach and say, no, you can’t have your medicine, it’s illegal. And if you possess your medicine, you might get arrested and go to jail. And so the bill simply decriminalizes the possession of psychedelics. It actually does not authorize doctors to prescribe. That would require a change in federal law so that the doctors wouldn’t lose their prescribing privileges. But that, we hope, will happen at some point. But for now, we want to make sure that California stops arresting and prosecuting people for possessing psychedelics. 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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area air regulators are considering requiring the oil industry to significantly reduce the amount of pollution local refineries spew into the region’s air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board that oversees the Bay Area Air Quality Management District plans to vote Wednesday on a proposal that could force two of California’s largest refineries — Chevron’s Richmond refinery and the PBF Energy refinery in Martinez — to install air pollution devices at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the proposed rule change, including environmentalists and health and air quality experts, say the change is needed to protect the health of residents who live near the refineries, many of whom are low-income people of color in areas with higher rates of respiratory disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Teresa Muñoz, obstetrician-gynecologist in Richmond\"]‘I am asking the air district to stand with me for our mothers and our babies and to remain true to their mission.’[/pullquote]Advocates argue the board should approve the change, if for no other reason than to honor the agency’s own \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-the-air-district/mission-statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated mission\u003c/a> of protecting and improving public health and air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am asking the air district to stand with me for our mothers and our babies and to remain true to their mission,” said Dr. Teresa Muñoz, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Richmond, at a press conference last Wednesday held a few blocks from the Chevron refinery. “Please keep your word.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil industry representatives, led by Chevron and PBF Energy, are urging the agency to reject the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBF says if the proposal is approved, it will be forced to shut down its Martinez plant, which it purchased from Shell early last year. Attorneys for Chevron say the data the air district staff used in creating the potential change is flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In short, this rulemaking has been procedurally defective, technically inaccurate, and the potential benefits of the proposed amendments are overstated,” Michael Carroll, a partner at Latham & Watkins, wrote on behalf of Chevron in an April 30 \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/dotgov/files/rules/reg-6-rule-5-particulate-emissions-from-refinery-fluidized-catalytic-cracking-units/2020-amendment/comments/20210430_chevron_0605-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> to the air district.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cracking Units\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At issue are key refinery components called fluidized catalytic cracking units. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cracking units use a chemical catalyst to help break down heavy crude oil into lighter components for products like gasoline. During the cracking process, the catalyst is coated with a carbon material called coke, which is then burned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district says that procedure, part of normal daily operations at many large refineries, emits more \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/pm-pollution/particulate-matter-pm-basics#PM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">particulate matter\u003c/a> than any other part of the refining process and makes up a significant portion of each plant’s total emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Proposal: Bring on the Scrubbers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The proposal before the 24-member air district board would amend \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/rules-and-compliance/rules/reg-6-rule-5-particulate-emissions-from-refinery-fluidized-catalytic-cracking-units?rule_version=2020%20Amendment#:~:text=Description%3A,precursors%20of%20secondary%20particulate%20matter.,\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regulation 6 Rule 5\u003c/a>, limiting the amount of particulate matter, ammonia and sulfur dioxide the cracking units emit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district says the change could cut annual Chevron and PBF emissions of PM10 particulates by an estimated 400 tons — or 72% — from the recently reported level of 554 tons a year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal is not expected to affect Phillips 66 in Rodeo, which does not have a fluid catalytic cracking unit, or Marathon in Martinez, which is currently idled. Both refineries are being converted to produce renewable diesel fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the rule would go into effect in five years, requiring Chevron and PBF to buy and install a system called a wet gas scrubber, a unit that Valero’s Benicia refinery already has. The scrubbers capture and remove pollutants by sending exhaust gas through sprays of scrubbing liquid. The district says the scrubbers can significantly reduce the particulate matter released into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Dirty Air\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Particulate matter is essentially what some experts call “dirty air,” which contains things like soot, dust and dirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Bay Area residents have become more familiar with the air quality concerns associated with particulate matter as a result of massive wildfires in recent years that have fouled the region’s air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Compelling evidence also indicates that fine particulate matter is the most significant air pollution health hazard in the Bay Area,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/dotgov/files/rules/reg-6-rule-5-particulate-emissions-from-refinery-fluidized-catalytic-cracking-units/2020-amendment/documents/20210330_sr_0605-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">air district staff wrote\u003c/a> in the agency’s report on the proposal. “Reducing particulate matter emissions can reduce mortality and increase average life span.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"oil-refineries\"]Fine inhalable particulate matter with diameters that are generally 2.5 micrometers or smaller — known as PM2.5 — can exacerbate conditions for people who have preexisting heart and lung conditions, including children with asthma. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research has linked exposure to particulate matter to cardiovascular disease, changes in cognitive function, low birth weight and preterm births, among other health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who gets the heaviest exposures to PM2.5? Low-income communities of color,” said John Balmes, a professor of medicine at UCSF, who sits on the California Air Resources Board. “Where do they put refineries? Usually adjacent to low-income communities of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rule change before the board also includes a limit on the total amount of PM10 an oil refinery releases, although most of those emissions are understood to be within the PM2.5 size range, an air district representative said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The refineries that surround us in the Bay Area are the largest source of industrial air pollution [in the region], which is dangerous to health” said Dr. Amanda Millstein, a pediatrician in Richmond and co-founder of Climate Health Now, a group of California health professionals pushing to transition away from fossil fuels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s time to protect health over the financial interests of the fossil fuel industry,” she said. “The air district board needs to fulfill its mission to provide a healthy breathing environment to every Bay Area resident and require the best available retrofit technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Industry Opposition\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>PBF says a wet gas scrubber would cost too much and that its Martinez refinery doesn’t have enough space for such a unit. The New Jersey-based company says the scrubber would require considerable amounts of fresh water, electricity and natural gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, according to air district staff, refineries that use wet gas scrubbers use between 120,000 and 430,000 gallons of water a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal “will force us to shut down the Martinez refinery,” Paul Davis, PBF’s western region president, wrote in an April 29 letter to the district. He added that the refinery can work to reduce its particulate matter releases but not by as much as air district staff are recommending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"John Balmes, UCSF professor of medicine and California Air Resources Board member\"]‘Who gets the heaviest exposures to PM2.5? Low-income communities of color. Where do they put refineries? Usually adjacent to low-income communities of color.’[/pullquote]Chevron says it has been steadily reducing its emissions. The San Ramon-based oil giant says its Richmond modernization project, which involved bringing in a new hydrogen plant along with other developments, has brought about a larger reduction in particulate emissions than the district’s proposed change would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron said in a series of letters to the the agency that the district’s research on the proposal was riddled with errors and had not taken into account recent refinery improvements. It also said the district had underestimated the cost of installing and operating a wet gas scrubber and overestimated the projected emissions reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the capital costs will indeed be exorbitant, the public health benefits will be negligible,” Carroll, of Latham & Watkins, \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/dotgov/files/rules/reg-6-rule-5-particulate-emissions-from-refinery-fluidized-catalytic-cracking-units/2020-amendment/comments/20210430_chevron_0605-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote\u003c/a> on behalf of Chevron.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Refinery industry executives and some labor leaders say the rule change could also reduce high-quality blue-collar jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But local environmentalists argue the opposite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s good for public health and good for the economy,” said Dan Sakaguchi, a researcher for Communities for a Better Environment, a Richmond-based group that has long called for stronger refinery regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This policy would result in significant economic benefits, including creating thousands of community-supporting jobs, through the installation of new technology to reduce pollution,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/board-of-directors/2021/bod_agenda_060221_rv-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">meeting\u003c/a> will be held on Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. The public can read the agency’s presentation \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/board-of-directors/2021/bod_presentations_060221_op-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a> and watch the hearing live \u003ca href=\"https://bayareametro.zoom.us/j/82294699509#success\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Advocates argue the board should approve the change, if for no other reason than to honor the agency’s own \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-the-air-district/mission-statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated mission\u003c/a> of protecting and improving public health and air quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am asking the air district to stand with me for our mothers and our babies and to remain true to their mission,” said Dr. Teresa Muñoz, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Richmond, at a press conference last Wednesday held a few blocks from the Chevron refinery. “Please keep your word.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oil industry representatives, led by Chevron and PBF Energy, are urging the agency to reject the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PBF says if the proposal is approved, it will be forced to shut down its Martinez plant, which it purchased from Shell early last year. Attorneys for Chevron say the data the air district staff used in creating the potential change is flawed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In short, this rulemaking has been procedurally defective, technically inaccurate, and the potential benefits of the proposed amendments are overstated,” Michael Carroll, a partner at Latham & Watkins, wrote on behalf of Chevron in an April 30 \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/dotgov/files/rules/reg-6-rule-5-particulate-emissions-from-refinery-fluidized-catalytic-cracking-units/2020-amendment/comments/20210430_chevron_0605-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter\u003c/a> to the air district.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cracking Units\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At issue are key refinery components called fluidized catalytic cracking units. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cracking units use a chemical catalyst to help break down heavy crude oil into lighter components for products like gasoline. During the cracking process, the catalyst is coated with a carbon material called coke, which is then burned off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district says that procedure, part of normal daily operations at many large refineries, emits more \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/pm-pollution/particulate-matter-pm-basics#PM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">particulate matter\u003c/a> than any other part of the refining process and makes up a significant portion of each plant’s total emissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Proposal: Bring on the Scrubbers\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The proposal before the 24-member air district board would amend \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/rules-and-compliance/rules/reg-6-rule-5-particulate-emissions-from-refinery-fluidized-catalytic-cracking-units?rule_version=2020%20Amendment#:~:text=Description%3A,precursors%20of%20secondary%20particulate%20matter.,\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Regulation 6 Rule 5\u003c/a>, limiting the amount of particulate matter, ammonia and sulfur dioxide the cracking units emit. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district says the change could cut annual Chevron and PBF emissions of PM10 particulates by an estimated 400 tons — or 72% — from the recently reported level of 554 tons a year. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal is not expected to affect Phillips 66 in Rodeo, which does not have a fluid catalytic cracking unit, or Marathon in Martinez, which is currently idled. Both refineries are being converted to produce renewable diesel fuel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If approved, the rule would go into effect in five years, requiring Chevron and PBF to buy and install a system called a wet gas scrubber, a unit that Valero’s Benicia refinery already has. The scrubbers capture and remove pollutants by sending exhaust gas through sprays of scrubbing liquid. The district says the scrubbers can significantly reduce the particulate matter released into the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Dirty Air\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Particulate matter is essentially what some experts call “dirty air,” which contains things like soot, dust and dirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Bay Area residents have become more familiar with the air quality concerns associated with particulate matter as a result of massive wildfires in recent years that have fouled the region’s air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Compelling evidence also indicates that fine particulate matter is the most significant air pollution health hazard in the Bay Area,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/dotgov/files/rules/reg-6-rule-5-particulate-emissions-from-refinery-fluidized-catalytic-cracking-units/2020-amendment/documents/20210330_sr_0605-pdf.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">air district staff wrote\u003c/a> in the agency’s report on the proposal. “Reducing particulate matter emissions can reduce mortality and increase average life span.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the parking lot of a small supermarket in South Hayward, a handful of volunteers with the Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center asked shoppers in Spanish if they had received the COVID-19 vaccine, and if not, encouraged them to book an appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the community health workers — known among Latino immigrants as \u003cem>promotoras\u003c/em> — struck up a conversation with a woman who got out of a pickup truck holding a baby and a toddler dressed in pajamas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Guadalupe Perez, Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center promotora\"]‘Some people say, ‘No, I don’t want to go in, especially because I heard somebody got sick. So I don’t want to get sick and miss work.’’[/pullquote]The woman, Mayra Contreras, said she was still deciding whether to get the shot, and needed more information. But she said her hands are full working as a babysitter and helping her own children keep up with virtual school at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to think about it,” said Contreras, 36, after accepting a bilingual flyer dispelling \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/facts.html\">common myths\u003c/a> about the vaccine and explaining how to sign up. “It’s also because of time. Life is just stressful with kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contreras is one of tens of thousands of residents in ZIP Code 94544 who don’t yet have the shot against the deadly disease. South Hayward, as well as East Oakland and other working-class neighborhoods along the I-880 highway, are lagging behind the rest of Alameda County in \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/data.page\">vaccination rates\u003c/a> even though they are the very places where people have suffered the highest rates of illness and death from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As demand for doses dwindled at mega vaccination sites such as at the Oakland Coliseum, which is \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/covid19-assets/docs/press/press-release-2021.05.05.pdf\">set to close\u003c/a> on Sunday, Bay Area public health officials are shifting strategies to target communities where a greater proportion of eligible people remain unvaccinated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In South Hayward, health workers say, some adults are holding out because of unreliable information they got from friends or social media. But others are busy with two jobs, trying to make up income they lost earlier in the pandemic, and find it challenging to take time off to get the shot and recover from possible \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/expect/after.html\">side effects\u003c/a>, said Guadalupe Perez, a long-time \u003cem>promotora\u003c/em> with the Tiburcio Vasquez clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people say, ‘No, I don’t want to go in, especially because I heard somebody got sick. So I don’t want to get sick and miss work,’ ” said Perez. She recommends they weigh the risks of getting seriously ill from the coronavirus versus the short-term tiredness and chills they might feel from the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874708\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11874708\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48958_012_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48958_012_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48958_012_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48958_012_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48958_012_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48958_012_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health outreach worker Guadalupe Perez speaks with a customer at Yeyo’s Meat Market about the COVID-19 vaccine in South Hayward on May 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In California, all employees who work for more than 30 days in a year for the same employer are entitled to up to 24 hours of \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/covid/paid-sick-leave.html\">paid sick leave\u003c/a> they can use to get vaccinated and recover, regardless of their immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has mandated COVID-19-related sick leave of \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/COVID19Resources/FAQ-for-SPSL-2021.html\">up to 80 hours\u003c/a> for larger employers through September. But many low-wage and front-line workers don’t know they have that right, or they fear retaliation if they assert it, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11870797/low-wage-workers-lack-covid-protections-fear-retaliation-california-survey-shows\">survey\u003c/a> of hundreds of workers in the restaurant, home health care, janitorial and additional industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others who are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine have delayed it because of lingering medical questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Norma Bernabe, a tortilla factory worker, said she and her family want to get vaccinated, but they are unsure of when to do it safely. She was very ill with the coronavirus in March, she said, and her husband and 13-year-old son were also sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11866749 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/LatinoCovidDeaths-1020x689.jpg']“My husband heard we had to wait 90 days, but I don’t know,” said Bernabe, who also lives in South Hayward, before entering Yeyo’s Meat Market on Gading Road. “That’s why we haven’t made an appointment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention \u003ca href=\"https://covid-19.acgov.org/vaccines-faq#medical\">recommends\u003c/a> most infected people get vaccinated as soon as they finish their isolation period and COVID-19 symptoms disappear, but those who were treated with monoclonal antibodies or convalescent plasma should wait 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez, the \u003cem>promotora\u003c/em>, suggested Bernabe check with her doctor first, and then sign up for the shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of late last month, 121 people residing in ZIP code 94544 had died due to the virus, more than in any other ZIP code in the county, according to the Alameda County Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next ZIP code over, 94541, which includes the Cherryland neighborhood, registered the second highest number of COVID-19 fatalities in the county: 107. Both of the populous ZIP codes — where more than 40% of residents identify as Latino and more than a third are immigrants — also had the county’s highest rates of coronavirus deaths per capita.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those who died were elderly, including residents at more than a dozen long-term care facilities in those ZIP codes. But many of the younger victims were front-line workers — including an airline mechanic, a butcher, a cook, a dishwasher, a registered nurse and a street sweeper, according to county death records obtained by KQED and the \u003ca href=\"https://documentingcovid19.io/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Documenting COVID-19\u003c/a> project at Columbia University’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"latinos\" label=\"More Latino coverage\"]Despite the death toll in 94544 and 94541, barely half of the residents 16 and older there are fully vaccinated as of this week, compared to nearly 60% for the entire county, and closer to 80% in wealthier ZIP codes in the Berkeley and Oakland hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a ways to go,” said Dr. Nicholas Moss, Alameda County health officer. “And it’s compounded by the fact that these are often communities that, because of COVID restrictions and the economic impacts, were in a very difficult spot going into the vaccination campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos in the county got a later start getting vaccinated, he said, because they tend to be younger and fewer of them work in health care jobs, so they didn’t qualify for the early tiers of eligibility. In addition, residents who are not fluent in English or face technology barriers, had a harder time signing up for appointments when vaccine supply was limited, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a confusing process,” said Moss. “The information has been confusing about when you’re eligible and how to sign up and where we go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that there are enough doses and everyone age 12 and older is eligible, county health officials are focusing on building up the vaccination efforts of community clinics, private health care providers and pharmacies in areas officials consider high priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874784\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community health workers, or promotoras, explain how to sign up for the COVID-19 vaccine and dispel common myths at Yeyo’s Meat Market in South Hayward on May 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To protect more people living in 94544, the county plans to launch a new vaccination site there that will stay open after hours and on Sundays, said Kimi Watkins-Tartt, who directs the Alameda County Public Health Department. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Despite the death toll in 94544 and 94541, barely half of the residents 16 and older there are fully vaccinated as of this week, compared to nearly 60% for the entire county, and closer to 80% in wealthier ZIP codes in the Berkeley and Oakland hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a ways to go,” said Dr. Nicholas Moss, Alameda County health officer. “And it’s compounded by the fact that these are often communities that, because of COVID restrictions and the economic impacts, were in a very difficult spot going into the vaccination campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos in the county got a later start getting vaccinated, he said, because they tend to be younger and fewer of them work in health care jobs, so they didn’t qualify for the early tiers of eligibility. In addition, residents who are not fluent in English or face technology barriers, had a harder time signing up for appointments when vaccine supply was limited, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a confusing process,” said Moss. “The information has been confusing about when you’re eligible and how to sign up and where we go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now that there are enough doses and everyone age 12 and older is eligible, county health officials are focusing on building up the vaccination efforts of community clinics, private health care providers and pharmacies in areas officials consider high priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11874784\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11874784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48963_017_Hayward_Promotoras_05102021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community health workers, or promotoras, explain how to sign up for the COVID-19 vaccine and dispel common myths at Yeyo’s Meat Market in South Hayward on May 10, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To protect more people living in 94544, the county plans to launch a new vaccination site there that will stay open after hours and on Sundays, said Kimi Watkins-Tartt, who directs the Alameda County Public Health Department. That will supplement vaccine clinics at local health centers, like Tiburcio Vasquez, where shots are offered mostly during the work day and on Saturdays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Forget about new protections for California kids cruising the internet. There will be no new requirements for crime labs to process old rape kits, or for background checks to explore if law enforcement officers have been affiliated with hate groups. And some households behind on their water bills won’t get more time to pay them back before their pipes get shut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those were some of the more than 200 bills California lawmakers killed Thursday in the rapid-fire and often \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2017/09/capitol-suspense-california-bills-vanish-almost-without-trace/\">mysterious procedure known as the suspense file\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#culling\">Skip to: details on the key proposals lawmakers killed this week\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially, the procedure promotes fiscal responsibility, allowing lawmakers to consider costly bills together and weigh their priorities. But it’s well known at the state Capitol that the suspense file is also a political tool that allows the most powerful legislators to keep controversial bills from reaching the Assembly or Senate floor — typically with no explanation, and sometimes without a public vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s driven by a hundred different factors, some of which we can never explain and maybe the transparency is weak on,” said Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, the San Diego Democrat who chairs the appropriations committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I’ve never once had the speaker come to me and say, ‘This isn’t politically feasible,’ ” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 350 bills on the Senate’s suspense file and more than 500 on the Assembly’s, the lobbying leading up to Thursday was intense: “Everybody but God himself has contacted me on a bill,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she downplayed the role of politics, one of her predecessors said the job is like being the “speaker’s henchman.” They can use the suspense file to prevent an idea they don’t like from becoming law, exact revenge on a fellow lawmaker or shield their colleagues from having to take a position on a controversial proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to be prepared to take really tough decisions for the caucus,” former Assemblymember Mike Gatto said on a \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interview-with-former-assemblyman-mike-gatto/id1282148486?i=1000520630981\">recent podcast\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Politics' tag='politics']Governors also try to bottle some things up in the suspense file, Gatto said, adding that when he left office in 2016, then-Gov. Jerry Brown thanked him for keeping legislation from reaching his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspense file, of course, is not the only tool for slaying bills. Lawmakers can also kill them simply by doing nothing. For the last two years, the Assembly has allowed policy committee chairpersons to decide whether to give bills a hearing. That means they can \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/04/california-legislators-killing-bills-committee-democrats/\">silently snuff them just by not taking them up for a vote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how Democrats, who control the Legislature, have killed some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/04/alex-lee-progressive-california/\">most progressive bills introduced this year\u003c/a>, including proposals to develop a single-payer health care system, ban fracking and levy a wealth tax. It’s also what doomed an attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/California-soda-tax-bill-dies-in-another-win-for-16113143.php\">repeal a ban on local soda taxes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he will not sign tax increases this year, with the state awash in COVID-19 relief money from the federal government and taxes paid by wealthier residents benefiting from a booming stock market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re enjoying a $76-plus billion — and growing — operating surplus, I don’t think it’s the time to do tax increases,” Newsom said last week as he \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-spending-spree-california-budget/\">presented his updated budget\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, one major tax increase survived the suspense file Thursday — a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB71\">increase taxes on international corporations to fund homeless services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Key Proposals That Stalled This Week\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1418px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1418\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1418w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1418px) 100vw, 1418px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators stop at a police barricade outside of the Oakland Police Department on Broadway in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Criminal Justice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after protests across the country over police accountability and racism, lobbying by law enforcement groups effectively watered down or stopped a handful of bills aimed at policing the police:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A proposed requirement that background checks explore if law enforcement officers have been affiliated with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB655\">hate groups in the past\u003c/a> stalled amid opposition from the California Correctional Peace Officers Association\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A bill requiring police departments to pull in different agencies to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB594\">investigate police shootings of armed people\u003c/a> is on hold until next year\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The biggest police reform bill of the year — which would allow the state to kick bad cops out of the profession for certain types of misconduct and make it easier for people to sue officers and departments for civil rights violations — survived the suspense file, but only after it was watered down. The version that’s moving ahead is more limited in when a person can sue the police — a change the bill’s author, state Sen. Steve Bradford, said was “difficult to accept.” But the Gardena Democrat said in a statement: “Compromise requires us to work together to find common ground.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For the second year in a row, the appropriations committee killed a bill requiring law enforcement agencies to process their backlogged rape kits. The California Public Defenders Association argued the bill would take away resources to test other types of evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Byrhonda Lyons and Robert Lewis\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11829079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An effort to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1135\">streamline affordable housing funding\u003c/a> by creating one place for developers to apply for tax credits, bonds and subsidies is on hold until next year. \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\">UC Berkeley’s Terner Center\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2020-108.pdf\">state auditor\u003c/a> argued this approach would cut the cost and time it takes to build affordable housing, but state Treasurer Fiona Ma, whose office would have given up some power, called the overhaul “risky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Buffy Wicks’ \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1188\">third attempt to create a registry\u003c/a> making it easier to determine who owns rental housing died amid opposition from the California Association of Realtors, which argued the registry would burden property owners. The California Association of Realtors — a political powerhouse in Sacramento — spent \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2579564&amendid=0\">nearly $350,000 on lobbying\u003c/a> between January and March and also opposed a measure to curb evictions and another to help first-time homebuyers by ending a mortgage interest deduction on second homes, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/05/california-homeownership-black/\">died before they even got to the Assembly appropriations committee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Manuela Tobias\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11874743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2309\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594.jpg 2309w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2309px) 100vw, 2309px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Poverty and Inequality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB223\">proposal\u003c/a> to shield more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/water-debt-california-households-face-water-shutoffs/\">Californians who are late on water bills\u003c/a> from having their water shut off stalled in the face of opposition from municipal water agencies. But hope is not lost for those late on water bills. Newsom wants to spend $1 billion to bail out consumers and providers crushed by water debt. And \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB222\">another bill\u003c/a> to create a water assistance program survived Thursday’s bloodbath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of proposals aimed at using the tax system to help low-income consumers also died, including a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB691\">bill\u003c/a> to make parents without income eligible for California’s tax credit for young children of as much as $1,000, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB276\">proposal\u003c/a> to help low-income workers maximize their tax refund by choosing from the last three years of income and a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB553\">plan\u003c/a> to create a state tax credit for employers who hire people who are disabled veterans, on public assistance or formerly incarcerated. For each, legislative analysts questioned whether the benefits outweigh the cost to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Jackie Botts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11806716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"Even among nursing homes crowned with the maximum government rating of five stars for overall quality, nearly half have been cited for an infection-control lapse.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1314\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-1020x698.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies prevailed in killing a bill that would have allowed the state to require health plans to issue “emergency payments” to struggling health providers in public health crises. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB454\">The legislation\u003c/a> was backed by doctors and dentists who said the pandemic left many medical and dental practices \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/04/coronavirus-private-practice-doctors/\">cash-strapped \u003c/a>because of fewer patient visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB285\"> bill\u003c/a> to hire a chief school nurse at the state level also failed, even though — as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/10/california-without-school-nurse-pandemic/\">CalMatters reported\u003c/a> last year — California is one of only 10 states without someone in that position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Ana B. Ibarra and Barbara Feder Ostrov\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10485439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10485439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SolarPanel-e1428694379439.jpg\" alt=\"Residential solar panel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A residential solar panel. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Environment \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attempt to streamline permitting for residential solar systems died amid opposition from unions representing electrical workers. Environmental groups supported the\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB617\"> bill\u003c/a> that would have required cities and counties to establish online permitting and automated approvals for residential solar systems — a response to the often sluggish permitting process and the associated costs that has caused consumers to cool toward adopting solar systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists also lost out with the stalling of a bill to require companies doing business in California with more than $1 billion in annual revenues to publicly \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB260\">report their greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a> from both direct sources, such as manufacturing, and indirect, such as from their supply chain. The bill’s delay until next year “shows just how much control corporate polluters still have in California,” the head of the California League of Conservation Voters said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Julie Cart\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11796288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley.jpg\" alt=\"Students walk near Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk near Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Higher Education\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB288\">Legislation aimed at preventing\u003c/a> universities from reducing students’ financial aid when they receive private scholarships is on hold until at least next year. A bill that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB940\">would have dedicated $20 million\u003c/a> to expand mental health services to students attending the state’s public colleges and universities also stalled, but Assemblymember Kevin McCarty said he’ll try to fund it through the state budget. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB566\">Legislation\u003c/a> to ensure support staff at California State University campuses get 5% merit raises failed amid opposition from university leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another measure that stalled \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB379\">would have barred\u003c/a> the University of California from entering into contracts with health providers that forbid UC medical staff from providing reproductive health care and gender-affirming care for transgender patients. It was pulled to give the UC until next year to establish its own policies, said a spokesperson for the bill’s author, state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco. The proposal was also \u003ca href=\"https://thealliance.net/sites/default/files/sb_379_oppose_senhealth_041421.pdf\">opposed\u003c/a> by Catholic hospitals, which have partnerships with UC hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left to live another day is arguably the most consequential higher education bill — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/04/cal-grant-expansion-older-students/\">a massive expansion of state financial aid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Felicia Mello and Mikhail Zinshteyn\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10897055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS11152_131990247-e1477087351446.jpg\" alt=\"Democratic lawmakers in California are moving to stop a private equity firm from buying the internet registry for .org domain names, which are commonly used by non-profits and advocacy groups.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Broadband Access and Internet Safety\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic-induced shift to remote work and distance learning prompted a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-digital-divide-broadband/\">slate of proposals aimed at closing the digital divide\u003c/a>. Two of them died Thursday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>One proposed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1176\">a statewide broadband subsidy\u003c/a> for low-income people. While it aimed to improve \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-broadband-student-access/\">broadband affordability — a barrier to access that has been laid bare by the pandemic\u003c/a> — anti-poverty groups and advocates for lower taxes on businesses opposed its plan to charge telecom companies 23 cents per month per user. Plus, the federal government just created its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandbenefit\">$50 per month pandemic broadband benefit\u003c/a> for low-income consumers, though it’s temporary\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB34\">bill\u003c/a> to put a $10 billion bond on the 2022 ballot to fund a public-sector-run broadband network was scrapped after the governor \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-broadband-expansion/\">earmarked $7 billion\u003c/a> for internet deployment in his budget proposal\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Concern that kids can too easily drift into violent or inappropriate content online prompted \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1545\">a bill\u003c/a> that would have prohibited features such as auto-play videos and in-app purchases, unless parents opt-in for their children. But it died for a second year in a row, even after being narrowed to address the tech industry’s opposition to an earlier version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Jackie Botts, Ben Christopher and Zayna Syed\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporters Rachel Becker, Nigel Duara and Jocelyn Wiener contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that bills to increase transparency and accountability on nursing home ownership and to shorten the waiting period for end-of-life decisions had been killed. Also, the story has been changed to say that a bill to require reporting of greenhouse gas emissions has been delayed a year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/california-bills-legislators-kill/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.network/2021/05/20/suspense-file-day-which-controversial-bills-did-california-legislators-kill/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article\u003c/a> first appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters Network\u003c/a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em; margin-left: 10px;\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-cropped-calmatters-favicon-32x32-1.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" id=\"republication-tracker-tool-source\" style=\"width: 1px; height: 1px;\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/?republication-pixel=true&post=64435&ga=UA-59722930-8\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Forget about new protections for California kids cruising the internet. There will be no new requirements for crime labs to process old rape kits, or for background checks to explore if law enforcement officers have been affiliated with hate groups. And some households behind on their water bills won’t get more time to pay them back before their pipes get shut off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those were some of the more than 200 bills California lawmakers killed Thursday in the rapid-fire and often \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2017/09/capitol-suspense-california-bills-vanish-almost-without-trace/\">mysterious procedure known as the suspense file\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#culling\">Skip to: details on the key proposals lawmakers killed this week\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officially, the procedure promotes fiscal responsibility, allowing lawmakers to consider costly bills together and weigh their priorities. But it’s well known at the state Capitol that the suspense file is also a political tool that allows the most powerful legislators to keep controversial bills from reaching the Assembly or Senate floor — typically with no explanation, and sometimes without a public vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s driven by a hundred different factors, some of which we can never explain and maybe the transparency is weak on,” said Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez, the San Diego Democrat who chairs the appropriations committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I’ve never once had the speaker come to me and say, ‘This isn’t politically feasible,’ ” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 350 bills on the Senate’s suspense file and more than 500 on the Assembly’s, the lobbying leading up to Thursday was intense: “Everybody but God himself has contacted me on a bill,” Gonzalez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Governors also try to bottle some things up in the suspense file, Gatto said, adding that when he left office in 2016, then-Gov. Jerry Brown thanked him for keeping legislation from reaching his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suspense file, of course, is not the only tool for slaying bills. Lawmakers can also kill them simply by doing nothing. For the last two years, the Assembly has allowed policy committee chairpersons to decide whether to give bills a hearing. That means they can \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/04/california-legislators-killing-bills-committee-democrats/\">silently snuff them just by not taking them up for a vote\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how Democrats, who control the Legislature, have killed some of the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2021/04/alex-lee-progressive-california/\">most progressive bills introduced this year\u003c/a>, including proposals to develop a single-payer health care system, ban fracking and levy a wealth tax. It’s also what doomed an attempt to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/California-soda-tax-bill-dies-in-another-win-for-16113143.php\">repeal a ban on local soda taxes\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has said he will not sign tax increases this year, with the state awash in COVID-19 relief money from the federal government and taxes paid by wealthier residents benefiting from a booming stock market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re enjoying a $76-plus billion — and growing — operating surplus, I don’t think it’s the time to do tax increases,” Newsom said last week as he \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/gavin-newsom-spending-spree-california-budget/\">presented his updated budget\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, one major tax increase survived the suspense file Thursday — a proposal to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB71\">increase taxes on international corporations to fund homeless services\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Key Proposals That Stalled This Week\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1418px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835456\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1418\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7.jpg 1418w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/Image-from-iOS-7-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1418px) 100vw, 1418px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators stop at a police barricade outside of the Oakland Police Department on Broadway in Oakland on Aug. 26, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Criminal Justice\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after protests across the country over police accountability and racism, lobbying by law enforcement groups effectively watered down or stopped a handful of bills aimed at policing the police:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A proposed requirement that background checks explore if law enforcement officers have been affiliated with \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB655\">hate groups in the past\u003c/a> stalled amid opposition from the California Correctional Peace Officers Association\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>A bill requiring police departments to pull in different agencies to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB594\">investigate police shootings of armed people\u003c/a> is on hold until next year\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The biggest police reform bill of the year — which would allow the state to kick bad cops out of the profession for certain types of misconduct and make it easier for people to sue officers and departments for civil rights violations — survived the suspense file, but only after it was watered down. The version that’s moving ahead is more limited in when a person can sue the police — a change the bill’s author, state Sen. Steve Bradford, said was “difficult to accept.” But the Gardena Democrat said in a statement: “Compromise requires us to work together to find common ground.”\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>For the second year in a row, the appropriations committee killed a bill requiring law enforcement agencies to process their backlogged rape kits. The California Public Defenders Association argued the bill would take away resources to test other types of evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Byrhonda Lyons and Robert Lewis\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11829079\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS41773_007_KQED_HousingSanFrancisco_02102020_2898-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco on Feb. 10, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An effort to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1135\">streamline affordable housing funding\u003c/a> by creating one place for developers to apply for tax credits, bonds and subsidies is on hold until next year. \u003ca href=\"https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/LIHTC_Construction_Costs_March_2020.pdf\">UC Berkeley’s Terner Center\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2020-108.pdf\">state auditor\u003c/a> argued this approach would cut the cost and time it takes to build affordable housing, but state Treasurer Fiona Ma, whose office would have given up some power, called the overhaul “risky.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Buffy Wicks’ \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1188\">third attempt to create a registry\u003c/a> making it easier to determine who owns rental housing died amid opposition from the California Association of Realtors, which argued the registry would burden property owners. The California Association of Realtors — a political powerhouse in Sacramento — spent \u003ca href=\"https://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=2579564&amendid=0\">nearly $350,000 on lobbying\u003c/a> between January and March and also opposed a measure to curb evictions and another to help first-time homebuyers by ending a mortgage interest deduction on second homes, which \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2021/05/california-homeownership-black/\">died before they even got to the Assembly appropriations committee\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Manuela Tobias\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11874743\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2309\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594.jpg 2309w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/iStock-1198252594-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2309px) 100vw, 2309px\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Poverty and Inequality\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB223\">proposal\u003c/a> to shield more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/water-debt-california-households-face-water-shutoffs/\">Californians who are late on water bills\u003c/a> from having their water shut off stalled in the face of opposition from municipal water agencies. But hope is not lost for those late on water bills. Newsom wants to spend $1 billion to bail out consumers and providers crushed by water debt. And \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB222\">another bill\u003c/a> to create a water assistance program survived Thursday’s bloodbath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of proposals aimed at using the tax system to help low-income consumers also died, including a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB691\">bill\u003c/a> to make parents without income eligible for California’s tax credit for young children of as much as $1,000, a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB276\">proposal\u003c/a> to help low-income workers maximize their tax refund by choosing from the last three years of income and a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB553\">plan\u003c/a> to create a state tax credit for employers who hire people who are disabled veterans, on public assistance or formerly incarcerated. For each, legislative analysts questioned whether the benefits outweigh the cost to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Jackie Botts\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11806716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall.jpg\" alt=\"Even among nursing homes crowned with the maximum government rating of five stars for overall quality, nearly half have been cited for an infection-control lapse.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1314\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/Nursing-Home-Hall-1020x698.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Health Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies prevailed in killing a bill that would have allowed the state to require health plans to issue “emergency payments” to struggling health providers in public health crises. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB454\">The legislation\u003c/a> was backed by doctors and dentists who said the pandemic left many medical and dental practices \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/04/coronavirus-private-practice-doctors/\">cash-strapped \u003c/a>because of fewer patient visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB285\"> bill\u003c/a> to hire a chief school nurse at the state level also failed, even though — as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2020/10/california-without-school-nurse-pandemic/\">CalMatters reported\u003c/a> last year — California is one of only 10 states without someone in that position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Ana B. Ibarra and Barbara Feder Ostrov\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10485439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10485439\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/SolarPanel-e1428694379439.jpg\" alt=\"Residential solar panel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A residential solar panel. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Environment \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An attempt to streamline permitting for residential solar systems died amid opposition from unions representing electrical workers. Environmental groups supported the\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB617\"> bill\u003c/a> that would have required cities and counties to establish online permitting and automated approvals for residential solar systems — a response to the often sluggish permitting process and the associated costs that has caused consumers to cool toward adopting solar systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmentalists also lost out with the stalling of a bill to require companies doing business in California with more than $1 billion in annual revenues to publicly \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB260\">report their greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a> from both direct sources, such as manufacturing, and indirect, such as from their supply chain. The bill’s delay until next year “shows just how much control corporate polluters still have in California,” the head of the California League of Conservation Voters said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Julie Cart\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11796288\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11796288\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley.jpg\" alt=\"Students walk near Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/Sather-Tower-UCBerkeley-1200x801.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students walk near Sather Tower on the UC Berkeley campus. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Higher Education\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB288\">Legislation aimed at preventing\u003c/a> universities from reducing students’ financial aid when they receive private scholarships is on hold until at least next year. A bill that \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB940\">would have dedicated $20 million\u003c/a> to expand mental health services to students attending the state’s public colleges and universities also stalled, but Assemblymember Kevin McCarty said he’ll try to fund it through the state budget. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB566\">Legislation\u003c/a> to ensure support staff at California State University campuses get 5% merit raises failed amid opposition from university leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another measure that stalled \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB379\">would have barred\u003c/a> the University of California from entering into contracts with health providers that forbid UC medical staff from providing reproductive health care and gender-affirming care for transgender patients. It was pulled to give the UC until next year to establish its own policies, said a spokesperson for the bill’s author, state Sen. Scott Wiener of San Francisco. The proposal was also \u003ca href=\"https://thealliance.net/sites/default/files/sb_379_oppose_senhealth_041421.pdf\">opposed\u003c/a> by Catholic hospitals, which have partnerships with UC hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left to live another day is arguably the most consequential higher education bill — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2021/04/cal-grant-expansion-older-students/\">a massive expansion of state financial aid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Felicia Mello and Mikhail Zinshteyn\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10897055\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/RS11152_131990247-e1477087351446.jpg\" alt=\"Democratic lawmakers in California are moving to stop a private equity firm from buying the internet registry for .org domain names, which are commonly used by non-profits and advocacy groups.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Broadband Access and Internet Safety\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pandemic-induced shift to remote work and distance learning prompted a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-digital-divide-broadband/\">slate of proposals aimed at closing the digital divide\u003c/a>. Two of them died Thursday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>One proposed \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1176\">a statewide broadband subsidy\u003c/a> for low-income people. While it aimed to improve \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-broadband-student-access/\">broadband affordability — a barrier to access that has been laid bare by the pandemic\u003c/a> — anti-poverty groups and advocates for lower taxes on businesses opposed its plan to charge telecom companies 23 cents per month per user. Plus, the federal government just created its own \u003ca href=\"https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandbenefit\">$50 per month pandemic broadband benefit\u003c/a> for low-income consumers, though it’s temporary\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB34\">bill\u003c/a> to put a $10 billion bond on the 2022 ballot to fund a public-sector-run broadband network was scrapped after the governor \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/newsom-broadband-expansion/\">earmarked $7 billion\u003c/a> for internet deployment in his budget proposal\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Concern that kids can too easily drift into violent or inappropriate content online prompted \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1545\">a bill\u003c/a> that would have prohibited features such as auto-play videos and in-app purchases, unless parents opt-in for their children. But it died for a second year in a row, even after being narrowed to address the tech industry’s opposition to an earlier version.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>—Jackie Botts, Ben Christopher and Zayna Syed\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>CalMatters reporters Rachel Becker, Nigel Duara and Jocelyn Wiener contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that bills to increase transparency and accountability on nursing home ownership and to shorten the waiting period for end-of-life decisions had been killed. Also, the story has been changed to say that a bill to require reporting of greenhouse gas emissions has been delayed a year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2021/05/california-bills-legislators-kill/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.network/2021/05/20/suspense-file-day-which-controversial-bills-did-california-legislators-kill/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article\u003c/a> first appeared on \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CalMatters Network\u003c/a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 1em; height: 1em; margin-left: 10px;\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-cropped-calmatters-favicon-32x32-1.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" id=\"republication-tracker-tool-source\" style=\"width: 1px; height: 1px;\" src=\"https://calmatters.network/?republication-pixel=true&post=64435&ga=UA-59722930-8\">\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Don't scrap those masks just yet. California health officials on Monday said the state will wait until its planned reopening date of June 15 to let fully vaccinated Californians take their masks off in most indoor settings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This four-week period will give Californians time to prepare for this change while we continue the relentless focus on delivering vaccines, particularly to underserved communities and those that were hard hit throughout this pandemic,” said Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of California's Health and Human Services Agency, touting the \"amazing progress\" the state has made in its fight against COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of California's Health and Human Services Agency\"]'This four-week period will give Californians time to prepare for this change while we continue the relentless focus on delivering vaccines, particularly to underserved communities and those that were hard hit throughout this pandemic.'[/pullquote]The announcement comes as more than a dozen other states have already begun lifting their mask mandates after getting the green light from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/14/996879305/confused-by-cdcs-latest-mask-guidance-heres-what-weve-learned\">issued new guidance\u003c/a> on Thursday that says it is safe for fully vaccinated people to forgo face coverings and social distancing in most indoor settings, including stores and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's in no way saying that the science or the direction by the CDC is wrong or there's a challenge to it,\" Ghaly said. \"It's really just giving ourselves some additional time to have it implemented with a high degree of integrity, with the continued focus on protecting the public health in mind.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid plummeting COVID-19 infections in California and rising inoculation rates, Gov. Gavin Newsom — who is facing a recall election — has been under pressure to ease mask restrictions, and just last week offered conflicting previews on when the state might lift them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Until June 15, when California plans to fully reopen our economy, California will keep our existing guidance around masks in place,\" Ghaly said. \"In indoor settings, when you're outside of one's home, including on transportation and in our schools, face coverings continue to be required, regardless of vaccination status.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only at that point, he said, when the state plans to drop most of its current pandemic-related restrictions, will it implement the CDC’s new masking guidelines that \"allow fully vaccinated Californians to go without a mask in most indoor settings.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after June 15, California will continue to require mask-wearing in all public schools, in line with CDC guidelines. Masks will also still be required in some public spaces, including hospitals, public transit and congregate housing facilities like nursing homes, homeless shelters and prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghaly said all businesses in California are expected to adhere to the guidelines, including national chains like Starbucks, Walmart and Trader Joe's, which have already announced they will no longer require customers to don masks in regions where the new CDC guidelines have been adopted. 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"content": "\u003cp>Hospital care at home is nothing new for patients with low-level health needs. But since the pandemic began, a growing number of health care providers – including Adventist Health, the Mayo Clinic and California health care giant Kaiser Permanente – are offering people with more serious health conditions hospital-level treatment in the comfort of their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s something Janet Yetenekian, who lives in Glendale with her family, experienced this year after she came down with a severe case of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in December, with pandemic isolation finally getting to Yetenekian, her husband and two teenage kids, the family accepted an invitation to join an afternoon barbecue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just go, ‘OK, we’ve been home all this time,’ you know, ‘Let’s just go a few hours and come back,’ ” Yetenekian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the day after the gathering, the host came down with fever. A test confirmed it was COVID-19. Within two weeks, Yetenekian’s husband and kids got mild cases of the disease while her blood oxygen plummeted to dangerously low levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And a few days later, I had to go to the hospital,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Treatment included an IV drip of the antiviral drug Remdesivir and constant monitoring — things normally done in a hospital. So it surprised Yetenekian when her doctor at Adventist Health offered to move all her care home to be monitored virtually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was even better than the hospital,” she said. “They were constantly reaching out, ‘It’s time for you to do your vitals,’ or ‘It’s time for you to take your medications.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors and nurses at a command center nearly 200 miles away managed Yetenekian’s care as part of \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/hh9CC5yWjXSMyAoBty71EA?domain=geekdoctor.blogspot.com\">a new federal effort aimed at freeing up hospital beds\u003c/a> during public health emergencies. Under the model, about 60 illnesses, including COVID-19, qualify for home treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Heart failure, pneumonia, skin infections — those are all patient populations we can safely care for in the home,” said Dr. Margaret Paulson, who leads the Mayo Clinic’s new home-based care program in rural Wisconsin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11873625\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Dr.-Maniaci-and-Dr-Paulson-at-the-Command-Center-in-Jacksonville3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Dr.-Maniaci-and-Dr-Paulson-at-the-Command-Center-in-Jacksonville3-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Dr.-Maniaci-and-Dr-Paulson-at-the-Command-Center-in-Jacksonville3-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Dr.-Maniaci-and-Dr-Paulson-at-the-Command-Center-in-Jacksonville3-1-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Dr.-Maniaci-and-Dr-Paulson-at-the-Command-Center-in-Jacksonville3-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Dr.-Maniaci-and-Dr-Paulson-at-the-Command-Center-in-Jacksonville3-1-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Margaret Paulson at a a health care command center in Jacksonville, Wisconsin. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy the Mayo Clinic)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Paulson said once her patients understand that home care does not mean less care, they eagerly embrace it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Especially for patients who have been in the hospital a lot, to know that they can actually go home and sleep in their own bed and be with their family and have their pets by their side, it’s just really reassuring,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And \u003ca href=\"https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/1/e043285\">studies suggest\u003c/a> at-home care provides better outcomes for patients and costs less to provide than traditional inpatient care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is actually a higher level of touch from physicians and advanced practitioners,” said Dr. Kavita Patel, a physician and health policy fellow at the Brookings Institution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regularly scheduled video conferencing and 24/7 monitoring is augmented by twice-daily, in-person visits by nurses and other health workers who provide basic care like antibiotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t just sending mom or dad to the bedroom,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Coronavirus Coverage' tag='coronavirus']Patel said it’s the technology infrastructure that’s key: Wi-Fi phones that ring directly into a hospital’s command center, iPads that allow video conferencing with health professionals and wearable devices with emergency call buttons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raphael Rakowski is co-founder of Medically Home, the tech company that supports at-home programs for Adventist Health, Mayo Clinic and Kaiser Permanente. On Thursday, those latter two health care entities announced a combined $100 million investment in Medically Home to help expand the service to other health systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rakowski said there’s another selling point of the at-home care model — patients don’t have to transfer to a different facility while they heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stay with the patient until they’re fully recovered and that averages anywhere from 20 to 30 days, sometimes longer,” Rakowski said. “So we substitute not just for the hospital, but for all the care that follows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, not every patient is a fit. To be eligible for care at home, they must live within 30 minutes of emergency care. They also need high-speed internet and, said Patel, they can’t be too sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This can’t be something where it’s so complicated that you are monitoring a patient, worried that they could crash and need to be in the ICU within minutes,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for moderate COVID-19 and dozens of other conditions, at-home hospital care programs now offered in 30 states are likely to become a more common option as more health systems adopt the program and even more diseases are added to those now eligible for at-home care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>International Boulevard in East Oakland lives up to its name. In particular, the stretch between 42nd and 83rd avenues is home to hundreds of Mexican panaderias, Vietnamese nail salons, Black barber shops and other minority-owned businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before COVID-19 hit, this busy thoroughfare was bustling with foot traffic. But more than a year into the pandemic, almost every other shop is boarded up or closed with metal gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the United States, as the pandemic ravaged local economies, scores of small-business owners applied for forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loans, a federal initiative that injected some $700 billion into businesses as much of the economy shut down. Many often waited months to receive support as they struggled to stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"paycheck-protection-program\"]Yet, \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">a Reveal analysis\u003c/a> of more than 5 million PPP loans issued during the first two rounds of funding from April through August found sweeping racial disparities in how that money was distributed, with businesses in largely white neighborhoods receiving loans at a far greater rate than those in neighborhoods with significant minority populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such was the case in this stretch of East Oakland along International Boulevard, where just about 5% of businesses received PPP loans during that period, the analysis found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare that to the 49% of businesses who received PPP loans in Montclair, a predominantly white neighborhood in the nearby Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loan data, which Reveal obtained after successfully suing the U.S. Small Business Administration, provides the number of loans issued per location, but does not include the number of applicants, which means the approval/denial rate in each area is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Read more about the methodology of Reveal’s analysis \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">here\u003c/a>.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Therefore, the low loan rates in many communities of color may have resulted from a large percentage of businesses not applying — as opposed to having had their applications rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the results are nonetheless disturbing to equitable lending advocates, who note that under federal law, banks must meet the credit needs of the communities they operate in, income notwithstanding. And regardless of whether businesses in many Black and brown communities simply didn’t apply for PPP loans or were rejected, the gaping disparities in reception rates suggest the program failed to effectively serve all communities equally, those advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many small-business owners, particularly non-English speakers, say they\u003ca href=\"https://smallbusinessmajority.org/press-release/ppp-application-deadline-expires-small-business-majority-releases-stories-struggling-small-business-owners\"> struggled to navigate the complicated PPP application process\u003c/a> or find the resources needed to help them apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%\" align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://mgreen.carto.com/builder/c0d6b729-9e21-460a-a814-fce1a83e060e/embed\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch2>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>Questionable Distribution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Farid Ahmed Bakhtary owns Yummy Grill, an Afghan kebab shop nestled between a strip mall and King Street on International Boulevard. He applied for a PPP loan through Chase Bank three different times, and was declined each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve gone through all this struggle and hardship,” Bakhtary said. “Hopefully, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He eventually applied through \u003ca href=\"https://www.lendio.com/\">Lendio\u003c/a>, a Utah-based small-business specialist, to get his loan approved. “Some of these big banks, I think it’s not helping the small businesses,” Bakhtary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iba Reller, a spokeswoman for Chase Bank, wouldn’t speak specifically about East Oakland or Yummy Grill, but said that nationally more than 32% of her bank’s PPP loans in 2020 were to small businesses in communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11872235 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Similar to other once busy thoroughfares around the Bay, International Boulevard has suffered during the pandemic. After receiving little to no support from the federal government or banks, some businesses have been forced to close. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Similar to other once-busy thoroughfares in cities around the Bay Area, International Boulevard in East Oakland has suffered during the pandemic. After receiving little to no support from the federal government or banks, some businesses have been forced to close. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our goal has always been to help as many customers — and their employees — as possible,” Reller said in an email. “We proactively marketed the program specifically to minority-owned businesses, in English and in Spanish, to ensure awareness and how to apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Reveal’s analysis found that Chase Bank, one of the biggest PPP lenders, approved about 6,600 PPP loans during the first two rounds of the program in the \u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/31000US41860-san-francisco-oakland-berkeley-ca-metro-area/\">San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metropolitan region\u003c/a> (which includes San Francisco, much of the East Bay and some cities in the South Bay and North Bay). But just over 250 of those went to businesses in predominantly Latinx commercial neighborhoods and a meager 14 to those in predominantly Black neighborhoods, while almost 3,000 went to businesses in white neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We Knew There Was Going to Be a Problem’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Paulina Gonzalez-Brito, executive director of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://calreinvest.org/\">California Reinvestment Coalition\u003c/a>, says she was not surprised to find communities of color struggling to land support from the federal government’s PPP loan program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as we saw the government was going to run the PPP program through the banks, we knew that there was going to be a problem for these small-business owners,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11873194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-1020x605.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-1020x605.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-800x474.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-160x95.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mixed neighborhoods refer to U.S. Census tracts with no racial majority. \u003cbr>Data provided by \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">Reveal\u003c/a> based on figures from the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the U.S. Census, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Postal Service. \u003ccite>(Chart by Adhiti Bandlamudi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chase Bank isn’t the only bank that made a disproportionate share of its PPP loan to businesses in predominantly white neighborhoods. On the whole, Latinx and Black neighborhoods in the Bay Area received the lowest percentage of PPP loans from all major banks and credit unions, further increasing the wealth gap already widened during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales-Brito is also concerned with how much big banks profited during the pandemic from individual retail customers. In the last three months of 2020, 12 of America’s 15 largest banks, including Chase Bank, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, each \u003ca href=\"https://prospect.org/economy/big-banks-charged-billions-in-overdraft-fees-during-pandemic/\">made more than $1 billion\u003c/a> in overdraft fees. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Yet, \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">a Reveal analysis\u003c/a> of more than 5 million PPP loans issued during the first two rounds of funding from April through August found sweeping racial disparities in how that money was distributed, with businesses in largely white neighborhoods receiving loans at a far greater rate than those in neighborhoods with significant minority populations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such was the case in this stretch of East Oakland along International Boulevard, where just about 5% of businesses received PPP loans during that period, the analysis found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Compare that to the 49% of businesses who received PPP loans in Montclair, a predominantly white neighborhood in the nearby Oakland Hills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The loan data, which Reveal obtained after successfully suing the U.S. Small Business Administration, provides the number of loans issued per location, but does not include the number of applicants, which means the approval/denial rate in each area is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[Read more about the methodology of Reveal’s analysis \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">here\u003c/a>.]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Therefore, the low loan rates in many communities of color may have resulted from a large percentage of businesses not applying — as opposed to having had their applications rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the results are nonetheless disturbing to equitable lending advocates, who note that under federal law, banks must meet the credit needs of the communities they operate in, income notwithstanding. And regardless of whether businesses in many Black and brown communities simply didn’t apply for PPP loans or were rejected, the gaping disparities in reception rates suggest the program failed to effectively serve all communities equally, those advocates say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many small-business owners, particularly non-English speakers, say they\u003ca href=\"https://smallbusinessmajority.org/press-release/ppp-application-deadline-expires-small-business-majority-releases-stories-struggling-small-business-owners\"> struggled to navigate the complicated PPP application process\u003c/a> or find the resources needed to help them apply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"width: 100%\" align=\"center\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"800\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https://mgreen.carto.com/builder/c0d6b729-9e21-460a-a814-fce1a83e060e/embed\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003ch2>\u003c/h2>\n\u003ch2>Questionable Distribution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Farid Ahmed Bakhtary owns Yummy Grill, an Afghan kebab shop nestled between a strip mall and King Street on International Boulevard. He applied for a PPP loan through Chase Bank three different times, and was declined each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve gone through all this struggle and hardship,” Bakhtary said. “Hopefully, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He eventually applied through \u003ca href=\"https://www.lendio.com/\">Lendio\u003c/a>, a Utah-based small-business specialist, to get his loan approved. “Some of these big banks, I think it’s not helping the small businesses,” Bakhtary said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Iba Reller, a spokeswoman for Chase Bank, wouldn’t speak specifically about East Oakland or Yummy Grill, but said that nationally more than 32% of her bank’s PPP loans in 2020 were to small businesses in communities of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11872235 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Similar to other once busy thoroughfares around the Bay, International Boulevard has suffered during the pandemic. After receiving little to no support from the federal government or banks, some businesses have been forced to close. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/Image-from-iOS-1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Similar to other once-busy thoroughfares in cities around the Bay Area, International Boulevard in East Oakland has suffered during the pandemic. After receiving little to no support from the federal government or banks, some businesses have been forced to close. \u003ccite>(Adhiti Bandlamudi/KQED News)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Our goal has always been to help as many customers — and their employees — as possible,” Reller said in an email. “We proactively marketed the program specifically to minority-owned businesses, in English and in Spanish, to ensure awareness and how to apply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Reveal’s analysis found that Chase Bank, one of the biggest PPP lenders, approved about 6,600 PPP loans during the first two rounds of the program in the \u003ca href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/31000US41860-san-francisco-oakland-berkeley-ca-metro-area/\">San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley metropolitan region\u003c/a> (which includes San Francisco, much of the East Bay and some cities in the South Bay and North Bay). But just over 250 of those went to businesses in predominantly Latinx commercial neighborhoods and a meager 14 to those in predominantly Black neighborhoods, while almost 3,000 went to businesses in white neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘We Knew There Was Going to Be a Problem’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Paulina Gonzalez-Brito, executive director of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://calreinvest.org/\">California Reinvestment Coalition\u003c/a>, says she was not surprised to find communities of color struggling to land support from the federal government’s PPP loan program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As soon as we saw the government was going to run the PPP program through the banks, we knew that there was going to be a problem for these small-business owners,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11873194\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11873194\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-1020x605.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-1020x605.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-800x474.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1-160x95.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/mcGAM-how-big-banks-distributed-ppp-loans-4-1.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mixed neighborhoods refer to U.S. Census tracts with no racial majority. \u003cbr>Data provided by \u003ca href=\"https://revealnews.org/article/which-neighborhoods-were-neglected-by-the-paycheck-protection-program/\">Reveal\u003c/a> based on figures from the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the U.S. Census, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Postal Service. \u003ccite>(Chart by Adhiti Bandlamudi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Chase Bank isn’t the only bank that made a disproportionate share of its PPP loan to businesses in predominantly white neighborhoods. On the whole, Latinx and Black neighborhoods in the Bay Area received the lowest percentage of PPP loans from all major banks and credit unions, further increasing the wealth gap already widened during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales-Brito is also concerned with how much big banks profited during the pandemic from individual retail customers. In the last three months of 2020, 12 of America’s 15 largest banks, including Chase Bank, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, each \u003ca href=\"https://prospect.org/economy/big-banks-charged-billions-in-overdraft-fees-during-pandemic/\">made more than $1 billion\u003c/a> in overdraft fees. 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