Press Releases
Governor Brown Announces Appointments
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Jay Virbel, 50, of Sacramento, has been appointed director of the Division of Rehabilitative Programs at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, where he has...
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Governor Brown Announces Appointments
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Mark W. Owens, 56, of Carmichael, has been appointed chief counsel in the Office of Systems Integration at the California Health and Human Services Agency, where he has been senior...
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Governor Brown Signs Legislation
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed the following bills: • SB 95 by the Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review - State employees: memorandum of understanding. • SB 269 by Senator Richard D. Roth (D-Riverside) - Disability...
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Governor Brown Announces Appointments
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Patrick Barrett, 57, of Carmichael, has been appointed deputy director of legislation at the California Department of Motor Vehicles, where he has been acting deputy director of...
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Governor Brown Signs Compact with the Pala Band of Mission Indians
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed a tribal-state gaming compact between the State of California and the Pala Band of Mission Indians. The terms of the new compact are consistent with provisions of more recent compacts related...
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Governor Brown Announces Appointments
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Zolaikha Taghvaei Bayar, 59, of Davis, has been appointed assistant deputy director of the Site Mitigation and Brownfields Reuse Program at the California Department of Toxic...
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Governor Brown Announces Appointments
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments: Kristen Kane, 32, of Sacramento, has been appointed deputy director of the California Competes Tax Credit Program at the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development...
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Governor Brown Issues Legislative Update
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed the following bills: • ABX2-7 by Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Scotts Valley) - Smoking in the workplace. • ABX2-9 by Assemblymember Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond) - Tobacco use programs. •...
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Governor Brown to Governor Scott: “Time to Stop the Silly Political Stunts and Start Doing Something About Climate Change”
SACRAMENTO - As Florida Governor Rick Scott visits the Golden State again this week, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today sent him a report on the economic impacts of sea levels and temperatures rising in the Sunshine State and called on him to “stop the silly political...
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Governor Brown Signs Legislation
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced that he has signed the following bill: - AB 120 by the Committee on Budget - Budget Act of 2015. For full text of the bill, visit:...
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