Assemblyman Jeff Gorell

Assembly Budget Vice Chairman Jeff Gorell Raises Concerns About Governor's Cuts to Enterprise Zone Job Creation

Tue, 14 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT

SACRAMENTO – Assembly Budget Committee Vice Chairman Jeff Gorell (R-Camarillo) today voiced his concern about Governor Jerry Brown’s plans to eliminate all funding for enterprise zones in the May revision of his 2013-14 state budget plan:

“Governor Brown’s decision to eliminate enterprise zone funding is unwise and unfortunate. We’ve learned from the dissolution of redevelopment agencies that...
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Assemblyman Jeff Gorell Objects to Empty Budget Bills

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:36:41 GMT
Assemblyman Jeff Gorell speaks on the Assembly floor, raising his objection to the legislature's practice of passing empty budget bills as a way of avoiding legitimate discussion and debate.
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Legislation to Bring Manufacturing Jobs to California Passes Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee

Mon, 13 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT

SACRAMENTO – Legislation to encourage manufacturers of unmanned aerial vehicles to invest in California and provide middle-class high tech jobs in the state today passed out of the Assembly Revenue and Taxation committee. Assembly Bill 1326, authored by Assembly Members Jeff Gorell (R-Camarillo) and Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) provides a tax exemption for the purchase of machinery used to manufacture the airframes and avionics of UAVs, as well as construction of new...
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Assemblyman Jeff Gorell speaking on AJR 3

Mon, 6 May 2013 23:50:42 GMT
Assemblyman Jeff Gorell speaking in favor of AJR 3. Jeff Gorell is a co-author of the resolution demanding that the federal government work to adopt immigration reform and a path to citizenship for currently undocumented immigrants.
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Press Conference on SB 209 and AB 1203

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:45:16 GMT
Press conference on Senate Bill 209 and Assembly Bill 1203, designed to stop the retroactive taxes and penalties being levied by the Franchise Tax Board against thousands of California business owners.
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Bill to End State Worker "Moonlighting" by Assemblyman Gorell Passes Legislative Policy Committee with Bi-Partisan Support

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Sacramento, CA – Assemblyman Jeff Gorell (R-Camarillo), Vice-Chairman of the Assembly Budget committee, announced today his bill, Assembly Bill 208, which will prohibit state employees from receiving a full-time state salary while also concurrently accepting hourly employment positions within the same department for the same work, passed Assembly Committee on Public Employees Retirement and Social Security with overwhelming bi-partisan support. This specific practice...
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Assemblymembers Harkey, Wagner, and Bigelow question UC Representative over Tuition Hikes

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:55:23 GMT
Assemblymembers Harkey, Wagner, and Bigelow get a University of California representative to admit that they intend to increase tuitions dramatically even after passing the Prop 30 tax increases.
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U.C. Representative: "We would raise tuitions"

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:54:50 GMT
Assemblyman Don Wagner confronts University of California representative Adrian Diaz over the possibility of additional massive tuition increases, even after passing Proposition 30.
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U.C. Representative: "In future years, the tuition would need to be increased"

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 22:54:05 GMT
Assemblyman Don Wagner confronts University of California representative Adrian Diaz over the possibility of additional massive tuition increases, even after passing Proposition 30.
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Assembly Bill 67 Presented in Higher Education Committee

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 20:16:34 GMT
On April 9th, Assembly Members Jeff Gorell, Kristin Olsen, and Rocky Chavez presented AB 67; legislation designed to freeze the rapidly rising tuition and fees that students pay to attend California's public universities.
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Gorell Legislation to Freeze Public University Tuition Costs Clears Higher Education Committee with Bipartisan Support

Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Sacramento, CA – Legislation to freeze the fees and tuition paid by students in the UC and CSU public universities today passed out of the Assembly’s Higher Education Committee with bipartisan support. Assembly Bill 67, introduced by Assemblymember Jeff Gorell in January, was recently combined with higher education legislation by Assemblymembers Kristin Olsen (R-Modesto), and Rocky Chavez (R-Oceanside).

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Camarillo Health Care District CEO Jane Rozanski Appointed to California Commission on Aging

Mon, 1 Apr 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Camarillo, CA – Assemblymember Jeff Gorell (R-Camarillo) today congratulated Camarillo Health Care District CEO Jane Rozanski for her recent appointment by Governor Jerry Brown to the California Commission on Aging.

“Jane Rozanski is a great choice for the California Commission on Aging,” stated Assemblyman Gorell. “For decades she has dedicated herself to improving health care in the community, experience...
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California Symposium on Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to Begin Tomorrow, March 26th

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Thousand Oaks, CA -- The upcoming 3-day policy symposium on the future civilian applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is scheduled to begin tomorrow, March 26th in Thousand Oaks, CA. The symposium has attracted high-level participation by nationally recognized speakers, co-hosts, industry experts and corporate sponsors.

The UAV symposium is a joint effort by Assemblyman Jeff Gorell (R-Camarillo) and the American Institute...
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Assembly Select Committee on Aerospace to Discuss Jobs, Commerce Potential for a FAA UAV Test Site in California

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Sacramento, CA – Assemblyman Jeff Gorell (R-Camarillo) stated today that he was very bullish on the job and commerce opportunities for Ventura County and California as related to the massive aerospace job growth expected in non-military use of unmanned aerial vehicles. The chairman of the Assembly Select Committee on Aerospace, Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi (D-Los Angeles), called for a public hearing on the matter for Tuesday, March 19th where legislators will hear testimony...
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Bipartisan legislation launched to fix ‘retroactive’ tax

Tue, 5 Mar 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Ending retroactive tax is goal of joint effort backed by BOE chair

Sacramento, CA – In an effort to provide relief to California taxpayers stunned with the imposition of a retroactive tax, Sen. Ted W. Lieu, Asm. Jeff Gorell and Board of Equalization Chair Jerome E. Horton today announced a joint effort to craft a bipartisan, comprehensive solution to the problem created by the recent California Court of Appeal decision in Frank Cutler...
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Bi-Partisan Legislation Introduced on Unmanned Aircraft to Expand California Jobs, Protect Privacy

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Sacramento, CA – California State Assemblyman Jeff Gorell (R-Camarillo) and Assemblyman Steven Bradford (D-Gardena) announced today they have joint-authored two bills on the growing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or “drone” industry. Assembly Bill 1326 will attract manufacturing jobs in this rapidly growing industry to California by providing state tax incentives, while Assembly Bill 1327 intends to protect the privacy rights of...
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California Symposium on Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Attracting Numerous National Speakers, Co-Hosts and Sponsors

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:00:00 GMT

Thousand Oaks, CA -- An upcoming 3-day policy symposium on the future civilian applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has attracted high-level participation by nationally recognized speakers, co-hosts, industry experts and corporate sponsors.

The UAV symposium is a joint effort by Assemblyman Jeff Gorell (R-Camarillo) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Scheduled for March 26-28 at the Westlake...
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Jeff Gorell Comments on Governor's 2013-14 Budget Plan (3 of 3)

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:19:46 GMT
It’s also frankly a good time for us as legislators and Republicans to call upon the Governor to support ACA 4, the ballot initiative negotiated in the 2009 budget to allow voters to decide whether to create a ‘Rainy Day Fund’ which would prevent the kind of fits and starts, or as the Governor said ‘booms and busts’ of California spending and cutting that happened with the ups and downs of the California economy.
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Jeff Gorell Comments on Governor's 2013-14 Budget Plan (2 of 3)

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:19:09 GMT
We also very much appreciate the additional focus on education, the additional revenues going to public education are important. We are very supportive of that. It sounds like he came close today to endorsing our idea of freezing tuition at California colleges and universities.
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Jeff Gorell Comments on Governor's 2013-14 Budget Plan (1 of 3)

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:18:02 GMT
I think the Governor deserves credit for advancing a budget plan that imposes fiscal restraint at a time where we absolutely need to do that. It obviously resists the urge to spend money that we don’t have, and it also hopefully resists the urge to levy additional taxes and fees upon an economy that is still struggling to get out of a recession.
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