It's the 8th annual Disability Capitol Action Day, and disability activists are heading to Sacramento to protest proposals for an all-cuts state budget.
Democratic Sens. Ellen Corbett, Mark DeSaulnier, Noreen Evans and Mark Leno will be joining advocates and others on the Capitol's west steps at 11 a.m.
Also expected at that news conference: Democratic Assembly members Jim Beall, Holly Mitchell and Mariko Yamada.
Elsewhere at the Capitol, Democratic Assembly members Nancy Skinner and Charles Calderon and Sen. Loni Hancock tout measures they say will level the playing field for California businesses competing with online retailers such as Amazon.com.
The lawmakers will be joined by Bill Dombrowski, president and CEO of the California Retailers Association; Dean Murakami, president of the Los Rios Community College Federation of Teachers; and others at the news conference, which starts at 11:30 a.m. on the Capitol's south steps. UPDATE: Because of rain, the location has been changed to the Capitol's Room 1190.
Skinner's Assembly Bill 153 and Calderon's Assembly Bill 155 may come up for a vote Thursday in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Hancock's Senate Bill 234 passed the Senate 22-17 on May 5 and is now before the Assembly.
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, meanwhile, is looking ahead ... really far ahead.
The Sacramento Democrat has been toting up contributions to an account he's opened to run for lieutenant governor in 2018 -- which happens to be four years after he'll be termed out of the Legislature.
Steinberg has raised almost $80,000 this year as of late yesterday, and he's got a $200-a-plate luncheon fundraiser today at Sacramento's Citizen Hotel.
The special guest listed on the flier for the event? None other than Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.
LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR: Budget hearings abound in both the Senate and the Assembly. Click here for the Senate schedule, and click here for the Assembly.
APPOINTMENT: The Senate Rules Committee considers Gov. Jerry Brown appointee David G. Maxwell-Jolly, deputy secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency, who is required to appear. That meeting starts at 1:30 p.m. in the Capitol's Room 113.
EDUCATION CUTS: Students from Sacramento City United School District, including Kennedy High School, head to the Capitol from 4:30 to 6 p.m. to protest planned cuts in marching band and other electives and to back Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal for a vote on tax extensions. UPDATE 11:29 a.m.: This protest has been postponed to a later, unspecified date.
CAKE AND CANDLES: Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, D-Sylmar, turns 40 today.
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