Assembly Rules has confirmed that they are expecting to find an interpreter for
tomorrow and are waiting for confirmation from the interpreting agency.
Rene Bayardo (aide to Mendoza) states that 2072 will probably be voted on tomorrow
morning, with a high degree of probability, if the interpreter is confirmed.
The audiologists assoc's lobby is probably attempting to sway members to vote no.
Got numerous email msgs regarding the latest news within the status of AB 2072 bill
as the entire Deaf America is watching the California Senate right now. Edited some info
like the email addresses and personal data to protect the confidentiality and privacy of
Blackberry users -
Here is the current standing of the vote re AB2072 (File item #283):
Members of the public may continue to call senators' offices to convince them to change an aye vote to a no vote, or to vote no if they are presently abstaining. Some no votes might change to ayes before the day is done.
IN FAVOR:
(forthcoming: includes Alquist, Cedillo and Romero)
OPPOSED:
Ashburn, Ray
Corbett, Ellen
Correa, Lou
Denham, Jeff
Dutton, Bob
Hollingsworth, Dennis
Walters, Mimi
Wolk, Lois
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:29:33
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Subject: Note#15 LIVE VIDEO ALERT--AB 2072 vote in the California senate
Here is the current standing of the vote re AB2072 (File item #283):
Members of the public may contibue to call senators' offices to convince them to change an aye vote to a no vote, or to vote no if they are presently abstaining. Some no votes might change to ayes before the day is done.
IN FAVOR:
(forthcoming)
OPPOSED:
Ashburn, Ray
Corbett, Ellen
Correa, Lou
Denham, Jeff
Dutton, Bob
Hollingsworth, Dennis
Walters, Mimi
Wolk, Lois
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:13:51
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Subject: FLASH: Note#14 LIVE VIDEO ALERT--AB 2072 vote in the California senate
Staffers in the Senate Rules Committee have verified that a majority of 21 (twenty-one) votes are requires to pass AB 2072. There will be a continuation of the vote later today at the time of adjournment. It is unknown at the present time whether there are 5 additional senators in the building who will add aye votes to obtain passage.
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:02:31
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Subject: Note#13 LIVE VIDEO ALERT--AB 2072 vote in the California senate
The current vote on AB 2072 is 16 in favor and 8 opposed. The vote is being put on hold to be finalized later. Please stand by for verification.
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:55:20
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Subject: Note#11 LIVE VIDEO ALERT--AB 2072 vote in the California senate
Both Romero and Cedillo are supporting AB2072, yet are saying complimentary things about the Deaf community.
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:52:19
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Sen. Alquist has claimed that Polanco has "removed his opposition" to AB 2072, yet Polanco works for CDNIAS and CDNIAS has not removed its opposition. She probably mispoke.
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:48:26
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Senator Alquist is now speaking about AB2072.
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:43:54
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Subject: Note#8 LIVE VIDEO ALERT--AB 2072 vote in the California senate
Senator Aaenestad agreed with Romero, now Sen. Simitian speaking in support of the bill.
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:38:37
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Sen Wright (sp?) passionately criticized charter schools now Sen Wyland is supporting the bill
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:34:11
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Senator Romero is now speaking, being critical of the way charter schools in California are being mismanaged.
Senator Cedillo has privately called for Sheri Farinha to confer with him in the chamber.
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:29:38
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Subject: Note#4 LIVE VIDEO ALERT--AB 2072 vote in the California senate
Assemblyman Tony Mendoza has been invited to sit on the floor and is present now.
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:28:00
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Senator Flores will preside at the dias.
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:22:23
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Senators are now entering the chamber. (2:22 pm)
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Senate session is late getting started.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
LIVE VIDEO ALERT AB 2072 vote in the California Senate
The Senate of the California State Legislature is now in session and is scheduled to begin voting on AB 2072 shortly. At least two Senators have indicated beforehand that they intend to give speeches on the topic of the bill. The proceedings can be viewed on the website of the California Channel and possibly on cable television for California residents.
LINK: https://www.calchannel.com
(Click on "Senate Floor Session" on the right-hand side of the screen)
(c) (1) The department shall convene an advisory stakeholder panel
to contribute to the development of the informational pamphlet
required pursuant to subdivision (a). The members of the panel shall
receive no compensation for their services, but shall be allowed the
actual necessary traveling expenses incurred in the discharge of
their duties. The panel shall be composed of eleven members, as
follows:
(A) An adult who is deaf or hard of hearing, and who uses
auditory-oral language, appointed by the Governor.
(B) An adult who is deaf or hard of hearing, and who uses visual
language, appointed by the Governor.
(C) An educator of the deaf in an auditory-oral educational
setting, appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules.
(D) An educator of the deaf in a visual language education
setting, appointed by the Senate Committee on Rules.
(E) A parent representative of a child who primarily uses
auditory-oral communication methods, appointed by the Governor.
(F) A parent representative of a child who primarily uses visual
language, appointed by the Governor.
(G) A representative of a nonprofit organization that services
primarily auditory-oral learners, appointed by the Speaker of the
Assembly.
(H) A representative of a nonprofit organization that services
primarily visual language learners, appointed by the Speaker of the
Assembly.
(I) A researcher engaged in the study of auditory-oral
communication for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, appointed
by the Governor.
(J) A researcher engaged in the study of visual language and
communication modalities for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing,
appointed by the Governor.
(K) The Secretary for Education, who shall be an ex officio
member.
(2) (A) All members of the panel shall be appointed no later than
January 1, 2012. An appointee to the panel shall not serve for more
than five years.
(B) No member of the panel may have a financial relationship or a
conflict of interest with any entity that has contributed funding
pursuant to subdivision (f).
(3) Subject to subdivision (f), the panel shall commence
operations on January 1, 2012. The panel shall provide
recommendations to be included in the pamphlet developed pursuant to
subdivision (a) six months after the panel commences operations.
Every two years thereafter, the department shall review the pamphlet
and shall revise the information, if the department determines that
new or revised information is necessary. At the request of the
department, the panel may be asked to reconvene to review updates and
changes to the pamphlet. The panel shall then have three months to
review and provide additional recommendations to the department.
(4) The department and the panel shall consider written input and
information submitted by members of the general public in the
creation of the pamphlet.
(d) The panel shall remain in existence until January 1, 2017.
(e) The pamphlet developed pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be
made available in Cantonese, English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. The
pamphlet developed pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be made
available on the department's Internet Web site and the
Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Board's Internet Web site.
(f) (1) There is hereby created the Language and Communication for
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children Fund in the State Treasury. The
fund shall contain donations that have been collected and deposited
for the purposes of this section, as well as any federal funds made
available for purposes of this section. Notwithstanding Section
16305.7 of the Government Code, the fund shall also contain any
interest and dividends earned on moneys in the fund. No entity may
contribute moneys to this fund that participates in a lobbying
activity or has a financial relationship or any other conflict of
interest, with, any appointed panel members, or that stands to
benefit financially from the outcome of the pamphlet development. No
state funds shall be used to implement this section.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), moneys in the Language and
Communication for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children Fund shall be
available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the
implementation of this section.
(3) No moneys shall be expended from the fund until the Director
of Finance determines that sufficient money is in the fund to
implement this section. If sufficient money is in the fund, the
Director of Finance shall file a written notice thereof with the
Secretary of State. Subdivisions (a) to (e), inclusive, shall not be
implemented until moneys in the fund are appropriated for purposes of
this section.
(g) Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 124116, as used in
this section, "department" means the State Department of Education.
The creation of advisory board is definitely controlled by the hearing people,
no possibility of "average citizen being given such opporunity to serve on the
advisory board. Why the individuals ought to be appointed by the Governor and the
Senate Rules Committee (Tony Mendoza serve on this standing committee. Remmy my latest
blog posting?)
ASlize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
You may have heard reference to someone performing a lobotomy with an ice pick and assumed it was a joke. Unfortunately, it was not. Freeman's technique was to stick an icepick into the brain through the eye socket, then hacking the frontal lobe free by swirling it around in there.
World War II caused a huge surge in psychiatric patients, and the easy fix had never looked better. Additionally, a growing body of psychiatrists believed lobotomy might be an effective way to treat such "psychiatric disorders" as Communism, homosexuality, nymphomania and general godlessness.
In 1949, about 5,000 lobotomies were performed in the U.S. Some estimates place the total number of lobotomies performed in the U.S. from the 1930s through the 1950s as high as 50,000.
During a decade spent in and out of institutions, Farmer was subjected to barbarous treatment, some medical and some simply abusive. Finally, Freeman came calling with his ice pick in hand. (There is some controversy about whether or not Freeman actually used the ice pick on Farmer, but she was definitely one of his patients, and he was a bit of a one-trick pony.) Farmer fared better than Rosemary Kennedy... arguably. She didn't end up a vegetable.
Instead, she had the "good fortune" to remember her torturous asylum ordeals, even as she spent the rest of her short life battling psychiatric traumas far, far worse than the run-of-the-mill neuroses that landed her in the asylum to begin with.
Most U.S. states have today totally banned involuntary lobotomies, but there is no federal statute on the topic, so check your jurisdiction if you want to be certain there isn't an ice pick out there with your name on it.
So the California State Legislature and Arnie should be solidly reminded of what Joseph Kennedy done to actress Gloria Swanson and Rosemary Kennedy with the so-called miracle of human intervention and correction.
PLEASE DRAFT THE REVISED AB 2072 BILL TO MAKE REAL FAIR FOR PARENTS OF DEAF KID/INFANT AND DEAF CHILDREN THEMSELVES. NO TRICKS UP INTO SLEEVES. THANKS.
ASLize yours,
Robert L. Mason (RLM)
RLMDEAF blog
