Sacramento – Today the Assembly Committee on Revenue & Taxation passed AB 1249, Assemblyman James Gallagher’s (R-Yuba City) legislation that would provide financial relief to wildfire victims by exempting them from paying state taxes on settlement payments made out of PG&E’s “Fire Victims Trust”.   Gallagher said, “AB 1249 is a…

SACRAMENTO– Assemblyman James Gallagher (R-Yuba City) today issued the following statement in response to the release of Governor Gavin Newsom’s 2022-2023 state budget: “Governor Newsom’s budget, in typical fashion, throws more taxpayer money at issues without substantive reforms or appropriate oversight. A prime example of this is his $255 million…

SACRAMENTO – Today, Assemblyman Gallagher along with Senate and Assembly Republicans called on Governor Newsom to convene an Extraordinary Special Session of the Legislature to immediately address homelessness, rather than waiting for action through the traditional Legislative calendar for 2022.  “California has been throwing money at this problem for decades…

SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman James Gallagher (R-Yuba City) has teamed up Kevin Kiley (R-Rocklin) and a dozen other legislators to introduce legislation that will repeal Proposition 47, the ballot initiative that reclassified a number of felony theft offenses as misdemeanors. Gallagher said that the bill, Assembly Bill 1599, is aimed at…

SACRAMENTO – Today, Assemblyman Gallagher (R-Yuba City), along with his Assembly Republican colleagues, called for an independent analysis of the cost and potential impacts of Democrats’ proposed takeover of California’s health care system. In a letter to Assembly Rules Committee Chair Ken Cooley (D-Rancho Cordova), Gallagher and others called for…