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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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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...
read moreGovernor 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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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...
read moreGovernor 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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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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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...
read moreGovernor 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. •...
read moreGovernor 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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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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