Press Release

Friday, December 7, 2018

CA Coalition Pushes Cradle to Career Strategy

Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia, Speaker Anthony Rendon at Early Childhood Education Hearing at College of the Desert with special guest Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia's Daughter Ella May Garcia.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) – Newly sworn into his third term of service, Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D – Coachella) is keen to pick up an early childhood education agenda with his colleague Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D – Sacramento).  These two lawmakers head a unified coalition who has introduced a series of three bills that would make high-quality preschool programs universally accessible for California children.

 

Friday, November 30, 2018

California legislators aim to enhance ties with its southern neighbor

Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia and California delegation

(SACRAMENTO, CA) — Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella) leads the California State Assembly delegation of legislators to the inauguration of Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The California State Assembly holds a productive working relationship with its southern neighbor and hopes this trip will enhance these ties and build a successful partnership with the incoming administration which will maintain power for the next six years.

 

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Assemblymember Garcia's 2018 Highlights: Protecting the Salton Sea and Vulnerable Communities

Friday, November 9, 2018

(Cathedral City, CA) – The Coachella Valley is home to Desert Memorial Park, a cemetery that includes the grave site of Frank Sinatra and now, thanks to  Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia (D-Coachella), the first LGBTQ veterans memorial in the nation.

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

AB 2056, resident-driven policy priority, signed into law by Governor Brown.    

Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia pictured with Eastern Coachella Valley stakeholders

(Sacramento – CA) –Governor Brown signs Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia’s (D – Coachella) legislation to equip and empower mobilehome park communities with the means to address infrastructure disparities and vastly improve living conditions.  

Thursday, September 20, 2018

As excerpted from the Imperial Valley Press:

HEBER — A simple act of kindness from Heber Elementary School District crossing guard Adam Conn was recently recognized to an extent he never imagined.

After Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, D-Coachella, heard Conn had been purchasing and distributing ice-cold water bottles to help keep HESD students hydrated during scorching weather, the assemblyman held a recognition ceremony Tuesday at Heber Elementary to present the crossing guard with a California State Assembly certificate of recognition.

“Today is about recognizing Adam and the volunteerism that he puts forward and to show him that his kind gesture of giving back in this particular way now leaves a mark across the state,” Garcia said.

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Thursday, September 20, 2018

As excerpted from The San Francisco Chronicle: 

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law AB626, a groundbreaking new law that allows people to sell directly to the public food they have cooked in their home kitchens.

California Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia, D-Coachella (Riverside County), introduced the bill in 2017. It was held in Assembly appropriations until 2018, when it moved forward again with state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, as co-author. Both the state Assembly and Senate voted unanimously in favor of the bill before it moved to the governor’s desk. Brown signed it on Tuesday, Sept. 18.

AB626 is part of a nationwide effort to pass “cottage food” laws permitting small-scale home-based food enterprises. The California Homemade Food Act, signed into law in 2012, allows home cooks to sell jams, pickles and other foods with low risk of foodborne illness.

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