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Jun. 10 A California Democrat isn't giving up on a proposal to tax guns and ammunition that appeared to die in the Legislature last week. Assemblyman Marc Levine, D-San Rafael, said he'll revive the effort on Thursday, a week after it failed to gain enough Democratic votes to clear the Assembly. He said he's hoping a logistical change to Assembly Bill 1223 will buy him time to lobby for it. .
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“This bill can save lives that we are losing to suicide and shootings by police,” said Krystal LoPilato, volunteer leader with California Moms Demand Action.
California s 988 bill is the state effort to create 988 hotlines by July 2022 under new new rules from the Federal Communications Commission and Congress. It would be funded through a surcharge on phone lines similar to 911. Counties would separately have to provide the crisis services and mobile crisis teams.
The proposal is named after Miles Hall, a 23-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by Walnut Creek police in 2019, Democratic Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan of Orinda told members of the group and affiliated Students Demand Action during their virtual advocacy day.
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