Press Releases

Legislative Women’s Caucus Leaders Laud Speaker Rivas’s Assembly Committee and Leadership Appointments

Nov 22, 2023

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SACRAMENTO – California Legislative Women’s Caucus Chair Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) and Vice Chair Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters) applaud Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas for his committee and leadership appointments that represent a new record for the number of women serving as Chair of an Assembly Committee.

CA Legislative Women’s Caucus Applauds Selection of Laphonza Butler to be CA’s New U.S. Senator

Oct 02, 2023

SACRAMENTO – California Legislative Women’s Caucus Chair Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) and Vice Chair Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters) today applauded Gov. Gavin Newsom’s selection of Laphonza Butler to be California’s new U.S. senator, replacing the late Dianne Feinstein.

CA Legislative Women’s Caucus Statement on Dianne Feinstein

Sep 29, 2023

SACRAMENTO – California Legislative Women’s Caucus Chair Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) and Vice Chair Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters) released the following statement today, regarding the death of longtime U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein of California.

CA FAB Council and LWC Joint Statement on 2023 Abortion Bill Package Successfully Passing CA State Legislature

Sep 15, 2023

SACRAMENTO — The California Assembly and Senate have passed the 2023 legislative package championed by the California Future of Abortion Council (CA FAB Council) and introduced by the California Legislative Women’s Caucus (LWC). The package strengthens existing measures to defend access to abortion care and contraception in California. The CA FAB Council Steering Committee and the LWC urge Governor Gavin Newsom to sign  the package of bills to advance California’s leadership in prioritizing, protecting, and expanding reproductive freedom and access to essential health services.

CA Legislative Women’s Caucus Calls on Supreme Court to Protect Women and Uphold Gun Violence Prevention Laws

Aug 21, 2023

SACRAMENTO – In a historic move, the California Legislative Women’s Caucus has formally called on the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold civil restraining orders that have proven to be effective in protecting women and reducing gun violence.

CA Legislative Women’s Caucus Leaders Celebrate Budget Victories for Childcare, Women’s Programs

Jul 10, 2023

SACRAMENTO – Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), Chair of the California Legislative Women’s Caucus, and Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), Vice Chair of the LWC, applauded Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing of the 2023-24 State Budget Act, as well as AB 116, the childcare budget trailer bill:

CA Legislative Women’s Caucus Leaders Commend Supreme Court Ruling Maintaining Access to Abortion Medication

Apr 21, 2023

SACRAMENTO – California Legislative Women’s Caucus Chair Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) and Vice Chair Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters) released the following statement today, praising the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to keep the abortion medication mifepristone legal and accessible.

CA Legislative Women’s Caucus Leaders Denounce Texas Judge’s Ruling Suspending Medically Safe Reproductive Treatment

Apr 07, 2023

SACRAMENTO – California Legislative Women’s Caucus Chair Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) and Vice Chair Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters) released the following statement today, denouncing a federal judge’s ruling in Texas that blocks the FDA-approved, medically safe reproductive care medication, mifepristone:

CA Legislative Women’s Caucus Announces 2023 Priority Bill Package

Mar 30, 2023

SACRAMENTO – The California Legislative Women’s Caucus (LWC) today announced its 2023 priority bill package — 12 bills authored by caucus members, along with 17 bills on reproductive justice supported by the partnership between the LWC and California’s Future Abortion of Council (FAB Council).

This year’s bills continue to build on the progress of recent sessions, which advanced new funding and improvements to early care and education for children ages 0-4, addressed the pandemic’s impact on women in the workplace, and strengthened health care and women’s economic security.

CA Legislative Women’s Caucus Celebrates Women’s History Month Honoring CA Women Making Herstory

Mar 20, 2023

SACRAMENTO – The California Legislative Women’s Caucus (LWC) today will acknowledge March as Women’s History Month, and celebrate California women from every legislative district for their “herstory” making actions.