LATEST NEWS

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

(Sacramento) - Assemblymember Phil Ting, Chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, has unveiled the State Assembly’s plan for the 2017/18 California budget. The result of 77 public hearings since January, the Assembly’s plan is called the “Protect and Persist Budget.”  It protects the progress of recent budgets that restored vital investments lost during the Great Recession while strengthening the state’s ability to withstand future economic downturns or adverse federal actions.  Also, it persists onward with more responsible investments in Californians.

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Assemblymember Phil Ting, Chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, unveiled the State Assembly’s plan for the California budget leading up to Thursday’s vote in the Assembly Budget Committee. 

Monday, May 22, 2017

SACRAMENTO, CA – The California State Assembly passed a resolution recognizing the 135th Anniversary of the signing of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and to call on President Donald Trump to revoke his anti-immigrant executive orders.

Authored by Assemblymembers Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) and David Chiu (D-San Francisco), Assembly Joint Resolution (AJR) 14 passed with a 52-0 vote.   The measure now heads to the State Senate for review. 

Monday, May 22, 2017

Assemblymember Ting makes remarks at the 13th annual Afterschool and Summer Challenge.

Thursday, May 11, 2017

(SACRAMENTO, CA) – Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), Chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, released the following statement about the May Revision of Governor Jerry Brown’s state budget proposal for the 2017-2018 fiscal year, which starts on July 1. The Assembly Budget Committee released a preliminary analysis of the proposal. Ting’s statement follows.

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Assemblymember Phil Ting and other members of the Assembly planted 35 trees to establish the "True Beginnings Community Orchard" in Del Paso Heights in Sacramento for the 2017 Legislative Community Service Day.

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

(SACRAMENTO, CA) – Assemblymembers Phil Ting (D-San Francisco), Chair of the Assembly Budget Committee, and Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento), Chair of the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance, held a media availability to discuss the critical findings of an independent state audit released today about the budgeting practices and operations of University of California’s Office of the President.  The two requested the audit last year.  Audio of their media availability is available

Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA) – Flanked by supporters at a hotel converted to shelter the homeless, Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) announced a bill to give San Francisco flexibility to build homeless shelters and transitional housing for unsheltered homeless residents.  The bill faces its first hearing in the State Legislature next week.

Thursday, April 6, 2017

(SACRAMENTO, CA) – Assemblymember Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) announced legislation creating 25 new neighborhood-restricted liquor licenses for San Francisco restaurants along underdeveloped commercial corridors.