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"Children Learning, Parents Earning, Communities Growing"
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Issue #40 October 7, 2019
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CAPPA's monthly "Featured Agency" segment will highlight amazing work being done by Alternative Payment Programs (APPs) child development contractors throughout the state of California. From border-to-border, APPs support working families and children with services to support self-sufficiency, stability of children in child care, and a host of services coordinated to help break the cycle of poverty. Many APPs also have been called on to serve as a community life-support of information and resources during natural disasters. We are pleased to continue this tradition and bring focus to the untapped potential that is the 40 plus year APP community-based system.
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October 2019 Featured Agency of the Month
Supportive Services, Inc.
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 Supportive Services, Inc. was the first "parental choice" Alternative Payment Program established in Fresno, California on November 5, 1976. The agency is contracted with the California Department of Education to provide subsidized child care to over 4,000 children whose parents reside in Fresno County. In addition, the agency has administered various child development contracts over the course of 43 years. Presently, we administer CAPP, C2AP, and C3AP contracts.
The agency provides assistance on a non-discriminatory basis extending equal treatment and access to services for children, parents and providers. The agency's ability to offer a maximum level of support is due to the longevity of our exceptional staff. Many employees have been with the agency a minimum of ten years; supporting the mission of CDE to offer 'continuity in services.' Our parents love to see familiar faces!
Supportive Services, Inc. has also had the pleasure of serving as the lead agency for the Fresno Area Child Development Consortium for 29 years. The agency offers a venue to collaborate with various community-based organizations including school districts, subsidized/non-subsidized providers, community colleges, universities, social service agencies and businesses to establish partnerships in meeting the diverse needs of the families of Fresno County.
Recently, Supportive Services, Inc. had the opportunity to host the end of the year luncheon for the Fresno Area Child Development Consortium in which Dr. Joseph Martinez was honored for his invaluable years of service to the Central Valley prior to his retirement in July 2019. It is hard to image that 43 years ago we began as a three-person operation with a goal to uplift the 80 children enrolled on our program; to now 30 staff and growing, and thousands of children in Fresno County thriving due to the funding and support of the CDE's APP programs.
**Thank you to LaVera Smith,
Human Resources Specialist, for the submission!**
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4th Annual Champions for Children Luncheon
CocoKids celebrated 43 years of service to children and families across Contra Costa County at the 4th Annual Champions for Children Luncheon last September 19th.
With close to a hundred and fifty guests, CocoKids celebrated their work benefiting children and their families over the past year and thanked their many supporters and partners for their continued support of their mission which is to champion and advance quality childcare and early education. The luncheon featured keynote speaker Vicki Hoefle, who spoke about raising fearless, resilient, independent, and self-sufficient happy human beings. Other speakers included childcare provider Khulood Jamil, who shared her story on how CocoKids helped her navigate the challenging but very fulfilling field of child care over the past 20 years, and Superintendent of Public Instruction, Delaine Eastin, honorary chair of the event who highlighted the importance and impact of quality early childhood education on the East Bay community.
Pictured: Keynote Speaker Vicki Hoefle
Pictured: John Jones (Executive Director of CocoKids), Vicki Hoefle (Keynote Speaker), & Khulood Jamil (Provider/Speaker)
Pictured: Candy Duperroir (Resource & Referral Manager), Letty Quizon (Director of Development & Communications), Delaine Eastin (Honorary Event Chair)
Pictured: John Muir Health (Platinum Event Sponsor)
Pictured: John Muir Health (Platinum Event Sponsor)
Pictured: Nicolas Gutierrez (Board Member), Letty Quizon (Director of Development & Communications), & Barbara Moreland (Board Member)
Pictured: CocoKids Event Staff
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CAPPA Member Only Benefits
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CAPPA Member Benefits now available on the Members Only website:
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Just added to the Member's only website are two AP 101 webinars on Enrollment;
Enrolling Clients into the CalWORKs Program and
Enrollment Overview:
Welcome to the Alternative Payment Program
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CAPPA's
2018-19 Board of Directors
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Rick Richardson
Child Development Associates
Karen Marlatt
Valley Oak Children's Services
Beth Chiaro
Child Care Resource Center
LaVera Smith
Supportive Services Fresno
Martin Castro
Mexican American Opportunity Foundation
Jeffrey Moreira
Crystal Stairs, Inc.
Public Policy Co-Chair
Phillip Warner
Children's Council San Francisco
Tina Barna
Choices for Children
Abby Shull
YMCA Childcare Resource Service
Leslie Reece
Family Resource & Referral of San Joaquin County
Jeanne Fridolfs
Napa County Office of Education
Mike Michelon
Siskiyou Child Care Council
Marco Jimenez
Central Valley Children's Services Network
San Mateo 4Cs
Michelle Graham
Children's Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara County
Joie Owen
Glenn County Office of Education
Denyne Micheletti Colburn
CAPPA CEO
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ELCD/CDE, DSS & CCLD Updates
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September 17, 2019
September 9, 2019
Fiscal Year 2019-20 Two-Day Fiscal Training for Center-Based Contractors.
Additional information regarding location details and how to sign up for these trainings will be forthcoming
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Our Monday Morning Update supports our Early Learning & Child Care field with timely information about what is going on in California and nationally; as well as dates to be aware and upcoming events.
Our weekly (50 times per year) Monday morning distribution is to more than 4,000 federal and state local agencies, resource and referrals, contractors, legislators and their staffs', centers, parents, providers, state departments and advocates.
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2019 Joint R&R Network and CAPPA Conference
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On behalf of the Network and CAPPA, we want to thank you for attending the 7th Annual Joint Conference on October 2-4, 2019 at the DoubleTree Hotel Sacramento!
We hope that you found the conference informative and worthwhile. Your presence helped to make this event a great success and your enthusiasm and positive spirit helped make our time together both productive and fun.
The R&R Network and CAPPA would also like to say a BIG thank all of our 2019 Conference Partners!
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September 13th was the last day for any bill to pass through the Legislature this year. The members will now be on interim recess until Monday January 6, 2020. The Governor has until October 13th to sign or veto bills.
For all, while legislators are back in their districts, please make it a priority to educate them about your programs, families and children served, ideas for better delivery of services, etc.
While on recess, informational hearings may be scheduled throughout the state that may be of interest.
Monday, October 7, 2019
- SEN Select Committee on Student Success (Glazer, Chair) 1:00pm - CSU Dominguez Hills
- Basic Needs: Student Food, Health, Housing and Success
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
- SEN Select Committee on Student Success (Glazer, Chair) 10:00am - Cal Poly Pomona
- Basic Needs: Student Food, Health, Housing and Success
Monday, October 21, 2019
- ASM Higher Education Oversight Hearing (Medina, Chair) 1:30pm - State Capitol Rm 437
- CSU Quantitive Reasoning Admission Proposal
Wednesday, October 23, 2019:
- ASM Governmental Organization and Select Committee on the Nonprofit Sector Joint Hearing (Gray, Limon, Chairs) 10:00am - 12:00pm - Chapala Event Center
- The Role of Nonprofits in Emergency Preparedness
Click here to see all of the legislation identified of interest to our field.
High profile bilsl CHAPTERED last week:
Other bills
CHAPTERED last week:
Below are a couple high profile bills pending action by Governor Newsom:
As legislation is signed, we will report it out to you as part of our Monday Morning Update. If you would like to track the bills that Governor Newsom has taken action, updates can be found by
clicking here.
Click here to see calendar of field events/interests and legislative hearings and deadlines. If you would like something added to the field calendar,
click here and submit details.
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 Profiled Bill
of the Week!
AB 378 - Assemblymember Monique Limį½¹n
Building A Better Early Care and Education Act
Office of the Governor - "Governor Newsom Signs Legislation Allowing Child Care Providers the Right to Unionize"
Governor Gavin Newsom today signed AB 378 by Assemblymember Monique Limį½¹n (D-Santa Barbara) giving child care workers the right to join a union and collectively bargain with the state. This legislation will allow an estimated 40,000 child care workers who provide care in home settings to join care providers in 11 other states who are able to negotiate with the state for improvements to the early childhood education system.
"Child care providers help our economy by allowing working families and parents to report to work," said Governor Newsom. "Creating quality jobs for the child care workforce makes economic and common sense. These workers care for our kids - we need to take care of them."
Governor Newsom signs child care worker legislation.
Family child care is the early care and education setting of choice for many families. The flexibility offered by many family child care providers is particularly vital to low-wage workers who are subject to highly unpredictable work schedules, and to the many California workers who work nontraditional hours and need child care during evenings, overnights, and weekends.
AB 378 covers licensed family child care and license-exempt providers who are caring for a child receiving a child care subsidy. Efforts to allow child care workers to unionize in California began in 2004. With this legislation, the state is stepping in, allowing workers who are currently exempt from the National Labor Relations Act to bargain on key issues with the state, including reimbursement rates and payment procedures.
"AB 378 will create stability in California's early care and education workforce," said Assemblymember Limį½¹n. "California runs a 24-hour-a-day workforce, but our child care options for working families do not meet that need, nor support those who provide child care. This bill will change that."
Family child care providers currently lack a method to collectively engage in matters that affect the manner in which they carry out their profession. Creating a framework for family child care providers to collectively engage with these issues can help improve the environment in which they work and the benefits and funding they receive. These improvements will in turn benefit the children under their care.
The 2019-2020 state budget includes support for the early learning workforce to get additional education, training and professional development, expand their child care facilities, and begin data collection for the unionization process. In addition, this year's budget makes historic investments that support young children and their families.
The 2019-2020 state budget includes a $2.3 billion increase for early childhood programs and supports, including:
- $195 million for education/training grants and other supports for the early learning and care workforce
- $263 million for early learning and care facilities (includes centers and family child care homes)
- $143.3 million to increase access to subsidized child care for approximately 12,400 income eligible children ages 0-12,
- $31.4 million ($124.9 million ongoing) to increase access to State Preschool for 10,000 income-eligible children in community-based organizations, and expand eligibility to all families in school attendance areas where at least 80 percent of students qualify for free or reduced price meals.
- $5 million to develop a Master Plan for Early Learning and Care
- $2.2 million to improve child care quality
- Two weeks of additional Paid Family Leave (PFL) and taskforce to consider options to achieve six months of paid parental leave to increase ability of parents to support early health and development and to decrease the need for reliance on expensive infant child care
- $53.9 million for developmental screenings of infants and toddlers at 9, 18, and 30 months
- $40.8 million for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) screenings of young children and adults receiving Medi-Cal
- $135.5 for voluntary CalWORKs and other Home Visiting Programs
- $19.4 million for Black Infant Health to improve African-American maternal and infant health
The Governor also signed the following early childhood bills into law:
- AB 1004 (McCarty) - Requires improved data collection by the Department of Health Care Services and Medi-Cal Managed Health Care plans to help ensure that children are receiving developmental screenings in the first three years of life.
- AB 406 (Limon) - Requires by January 1, 2025 the translation of the paid family leave benefits application into languages spoken by a substantial number of applicants.
- AB 220 (Bonta) - Permits candidates to use campaign funds for child care expenses incurred while the candidate is engaging in campaign activities, which can encourage more parents to run for office.
- SB 234 (Skinner) - Signed by the Governor earlier this month, prohibits local governments from requiring large family child care homes to have a business license or from charging related taxes or permit fees.
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 2019-20 State Budget Information
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 Paid Child Care for Working Mothers? All It Took Was a World War
We had universal child care once, the line goes - why not again? I think of the office where I once worked, the mad dash to get to the day care in time to pick up my firstborn: What if I had gone to work knowing she was next door, that she was socializing, that she was fed, that she was surrounded by festive painted walls? And crucially, that I could afford it.
As with any moment in United States history, a closer look reveals a more complex reality. We did not have "universal child care": we had a gesture toward it - one that benefited a select group of people, and was bitterly contested along the way. But for the families that it helped, it was an incredible, once-in-a-century boon.
The Federal Government got into the child care game before World War II. During the Depression, the Works Progress Administration ran a collaborative federal and state program of nursery schools, aimed at creating jobs. When America entered World War II several years later, the employment situation reversed: With the country approaching "full employment," every industry scrambled for workers.
Link to full article.
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Regional Technical Assistance Trainings-Fall 2019
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October 29, 2019- Weed (Siskiyou County)
Siskiyou Child Care Council
170 Boles Street
Weed, CA 96094
Hosted by Siskiyou Child Care Council
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November 4, 2019- Los Angeles
Crystal Stairs
5110 W. Goldleaf Circle, Suite 150
Los Angeles, CA 90056
Hosted by Crystal Stairs, Inc.
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November 13, 2019- Concord (Contra Costa County)
CocoKids
1035 Detroit Avenue, Suite 200
Concord, CA 94518
Hosted by CocoKids
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November 18, 2019- Fresno
Central Valley Children's Services Network (CVCSN)
1911 N. Helm Ave
Fresno, CA 93727
Hosted by Central Valley Children's Services Network (CVCSN)
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CAPPA member agencies, with the support of CAPPA & Children's Foundation, have put together a series of Informational and Networking Sessions that will be coming to a region near you!
This series will offer a variety of Hot topics for the field and ALL staff are encouraged to attend.
If you would like to add any topics to the agenda, please let us know!
Agenda:
Best Practices Session (10:00am-11:45am):
- Discussion on Unpredictable and Intermittent Income
- Review of Variable Work Schedules
- Review of Broadly Consistent
- Clarifications on Continuity of Care
- Conversation on 12-Month Regulations:
The 12-Month Eligibility Regulations are nearing the end of the comment period. The next draft of the regulations are anticipated to be out by these TAs.
Lunch (11:45am-12:15pm)
CAPPA Legislative Update (12:15pm-1:00pm)
During this portion of the agenda, we will discuss CAPPA's Legislative Proposals for 2020.
Peer-to-Peer Networking Session
(1:00pm-2:00pm):
This portion of the agenda will allow attendees to share their successful strategies, tools and ideas.
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Click here to add your logo to the growing list above.
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Closing the Opportunity Gap: How Positive Outlier Districts in California Are Pursuing Equitable Access to Deeper Learning
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Child care providers in California learn how to help children who have experienced trauma
It only takes one healthy relationship with a caring adult to help a child heal from trauma.
That's one of the main messages in a series of classes given to child care providers across California that help them work with children who have experienced abuse, violence, family separation or other trauma.
The classes are part of a state program called the
Emergency Child Care Bridge Program for Foster Children, which California began in 2018 to help children in foster care enroll in child care programs. In addition to teaching caregivers, the program provides foster families with vouchers for six months of child care and helps them find long-term solutions.
Almost half of the children entering the foster care system in California between July 2018 and June 2019 were under 6 years old, according to the UC Berkeley
California Child Welfare Indicators Project. Before the Emergency Child Care Bridge Program began, advocates say many foster families weren't accepting small children, especially infants and toddlers under 2, because they could not find subsidized child care and could not afford to pay for private services. In addition, even when families found child care, the providers were not always equipped to help children who have experienced abuse or been separated from their parents.
"Not only were foster parents finding that their children weren't getting placed into child care fast enough, they were also finding that these children were getting kicked out of facilities because these children need so much one-on-one," said Jessica Kieffer, director of Leaps and Bounds Preschool and Infant Center in Palmdale, north of Los Angeles.
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A Guide to Understanding Poverty Measures Used to Assess Economic Well-Being in California
This
Guide to Understanding Poverty Measures Used to Assess Economic Well-Being in California is designed to help policy stakeholders understand the details of and differences between the three major measures of poverty available for California - the official poverty measure, the Supplemental Poverty Measure, and the California Poverty Measure - and provides guidance on when each measure is most appropriate to use to understand the poverty Californians experience.
The first section of the guide provides a brief history of the three poverty measures and describes how each one determines a family's or individual's poverty status. The second section explains which data sources the measures are based on and discusses how to find and use the data for each one. The final section of this guide outlines the major advantages and limitations of each measure and provides guidance on when to use one measure over another. Tables, figures, and additional downloadable resources (listed below) provide supplementary information.
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For more than a decade, economists, lawmakers, and others have heralded the nation's economy. Often citing how unemployment has declined as new jobs have been created, or Wall Street trading and major bank profits rising, some might be led to believe that all is well in America.
But as Sportin' Life in the folk opera Porgy and Bess sang, "It ain't necessarily so."
On September 16, California Governor Gavin Newsom joined by state officials representing cities and counties wrote a letter that urged President Donald Trump to recognize homelessness as a "national crisis decades in the making that demands action at every level of government".
"Mr. President - shelter solves sleep," wrote the California officials, "but only housing solves homelessness."
Governor Newsom and company were absolutely correct. State and local officials across the country also reckon with limited resources to house the nation's half million homeless and its accompanying persistent poverty. Whether eastward from Washington, DC to Baltimore, New York, and Boston, or westward from Los Angeles, to San Francisco, and Seattle, or even other locales - America's homeless are a visible presence that not everyone has been a part of an economic recovery.
In 2018, 67 percent of America's homeless people were individuals. The remaining 33 percent were families with dependent children, according to a report by the National Alliance to End Homelessness.
Further, according to a new 2019 report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, "Our nation is currently in the midst of a long period of economic expansion. Yet stagnant wages, rising housing costs and inaccessible job opportunities keep many children and families trapped in impoverished communities. And despite economic growth, we have not seen significant reduction in poverty."
Link to
survey.
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Paid Child Care for Working Mothers? All It Took Was a World War
We had universal child care once, the line goes - why not again? I think of the office where I once worked, the mad dash to get to the day care in time to pick up my firstborn: What if I had gone to work knowing she was next door, that she was socializing, that she was fed, that she was surrounded by festive painted walls? And crucially, that I could afford it.
As with any moment in United States history, a closer look reveals a more complex reality. We did not have "universal child care": we had a gesture toward it - one that benefited a select group of people, and was bitterly contested along the way. But for the families that it helped, it was an incredible, once-in-a-century boon.
The Federal Government got into the child care game before World War II. During the Depression, the Works Progress Administration ran a collaborative federal and state program of nursery schools, aimed at creating jobs. When America entered World War II several years later, the employment situation reversed: With the country approaching "full employment," every industry scrambled for workers.
Link to full article.
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Even critics who think that poverty results from a defective character concede that poor children, all 13m of them in America today, are not to blame for their plight. But as soon as they reach the age of 18, many of those children will become poor adults who will then be unceremoniously deemed culpable for their predicament. By the official statistics, nearly one in six American children is poor. By the spm, which takes benefits and cost of living into account, things look only a bit better: just over one in six is poor. They are concentrated in clusters across every state in America. They are found in depressed areas like Cleveland, where half of children live below the federal poverty line, rural South Dakota and central Appalachia. They are also found among immense prosperity-the children living in the Bronx or of the service workers who drive three hours each way to do menial jobs in San Francisco.
This American tragedy is an ignored one. Poor children neither vote nor hire lobbyists. It is also morally senseless, punishing children for the sins or misfortunes of their parents. It is economically pointless, too. Poor children who grow up to be poor adults have not just reduced incomes, but shorter lives and a higher risk of criminality. The safety net, although important, does less to blunt poverty in children than in adults.
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Nanny shares are a solution to the child care dilemma. Here's how they work
Child care is getting
more expensive and harder to find for many families.
The monthly cost of infant day care in the United States ranges from $453 in Mississippi to $2,020 in Washington DC, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Hiring a
nanny is a lot more convenient, but usually a lot more expensive.
That's one reason why many parents are looking to team up and split the cost. Nanny shares offer quality care at a manageable price. But by coming together, parents also take on more responsibility and additional costs as partners and co-employers.
Still, the arrangement is an attractive compromise for a lot of families, says Tom Breedlove, senior director of HomePay a payroll business for household employees. "You get the quality and flexibility of a private nanny and the cost is closer to that of a day care."
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In Stockton, Early Clues Emerge About Impact of Guaranteed Income
A totaled car. A mother with cancer. Two kids at home, with field trips and QuinceaƱera outfits and football gear to pay for. Rent bills of $1,250 due each month. Two jobs-one part-time-both paying around $15 an hour, supplemented by unpredictable child support payments. Lorrine Paradela used to lie awake at night, thinking through all her expenses and income streams, struggling to breathe from the stress of it all.
Now, Paradela says, she's started sleeping again. She's one of 125 Stockton, California, residents who have been receiving an unconditional $500-a-month payment since February, as part of the first mayor-led guaranteed income initiative piloted in the United States. Called Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED), it's the passion project of Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs, and funded by the Economic Security Project, a nonprofit that sponsors other guaranteed income experiments. Eight months into the 18-month project, researchers have released preliminary data about who's participating, what they're spending the money on, and how raising the income floor can change the entire structure of a life.
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CALmatters Commentary: Unions win big, to what avail?
California's labor unions scored big wins in the just-concluded legislative session - to the surprise of precisely no one.
Democrats' huge gains in last year's legislative elections, coupled with the election of Gavin Newsom, who had strong union support, as governor, foretold what would happen.
The biggest of union victories, Assembly Bill 5, was also arguably the highest-profile bill of the session. It codifies the state Supreme Court's Dynamex decision, defining which private economy workers must be placed on payrolls and which can remain independent contractors.
The author of the bill, Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, a San Diego Democrat and a former union official, granted a few exemptions, but shunned most of the requests submitted to sponsoring unions by specific employer groups.
Hundreds of thousands of independent contractors would be potentially affected, but Newsom's signature on the bill is clearly not the last word on the issue.
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