Sacramento, CA (Apr. 17, 2024) – Access to addiction treatment could significantly improve in California as two bills authored by Dr. Jasmeet Bains (D-Delano) approved by separate Assembly committees Tuesday.
Everyone — from farmers to teachers, legislators to laymen — can agree that the Central Valley needs more doctors.
On Tuesday, the Assembly Higher Education Committee passed the “Grow Our Own” bill, or Assembly Bill 2357, bringing a branch medical school campus of the UC San Francisco School of Medicine in Kern County one brick closer to being built.
(Sacramento, CA) April 10, 2024 - Dr. Jasmeet Bains’ (D-Delano) legislation to bring a University of California medical school campus to Kern County passed out of the Assembly Higher Education committee on Tuesday with bipartisan support.
(Sacramento, CA) April 9, 2024 - Dr. Jasmeet Bains’ (D-Delano) initial effort to address transnational repression with new legislation was approved with unanimous and bipartisan support at the Assembly Public Safety Committee Tuesday.
(Sacramento, CA) April 3, 2024 - Dr. Jasmeet Bains’ (D-Delano) effort to enhance funding for child abuse prevention, childcare safety, and childhood injury prevention passed its first major hurdle Tuesday, advancing out of the Assembly Human Services Committee with bipartisan and unanimous support.
(Sacramento, CA) April 2, 2024 - Dr. Jasmeet Bains' (D-Delano) bill to tackle xylazine, an emerging street additive to fentanyl, passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee today with unanimous and bipartisan support.
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A gift to a Delano church could turn the tide in addressing food insecurity in the area, according to one local assemblymember.
It all started at a food distribution at First Assembly of God Church in Delano that happens regularly, but on Friday, those in need were handed food by a new face — Dr. Jasmeet Bains.