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Press Release

GOVERNOR SIGNS ESCUTIA BILL RESTORING FUNDS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SHELTERS

For Immediate Release
Contact: Claudia Wrazel (916) 445-5957

September 24, 2002

Sacramento, CA – Governor Gray Davis today signed into law SB 1894, authored by Senator Martha Escutia (D - Montebello). The bill would require the Department of Health Services to restore a total of $750,000 to five domestic violence shelters that lost their usual DHS grants through no fault of their own, due to a change in the department’s funding priorities in 2000.