Hello friends!
We love sending you news, stories, and whatnots and we wanted a new way to connect with the PIDAF fam so we started a Substack! With this format we’ll be able to get comments and questions from you more quickly, you can see past posts without searching through your email, and we can even send videos, start chats, and so much more. It’s a new world! And today is the perfect day for that, because we have two HUGE new bills to announce!
If you’ve been following us for a while, you know that in 2022 we endorsed Pilar Schiavo for the California State Assembly and Carolyn Menjivar for California State Senate. Thrillingly, they both won! Even more thrillingly, they both decided to make ID bills part of the very first legislation they introduced to the state legislature!
We were so excited to work with these two incredible women on two bills:
In the Assembly, AB464, which will make IDs and vital documents free for low-income Californians.
In the Senate, SB289 will make IDs free for all California veterans.
This. Is. Huge. This is our strategy working. This is real life impact for millions of Americans.
Over the next few weeks we’ll send resources and information about how you can help us get these bills passed. For now, please send Asm Schiavo and Sen Menjivar some love! Tell them THANK YOU for sticking to their word and being the legislators they said they would be. Elections matter, and this is what happens when we win.
Let’s keep going,
Kat
CEO, Project ID Action Fund