Last week, Assemblymember Monique Limón put out a call to her constituents asking for ideas about future legislation. “If you have ever thought to yourself, ‘There oughta be a law,’ or even, ‘That should not be a law’ this contest is for you,” Limón wrote in an email blast.
The idea emerged after several constituents came to Limón with problems she might not have known anything about, her office said. One was from UCSB students who said hunger was a surprisingly big problem on campus. Limón authored legislation to grant $7.5 million in state funds to be divvied up between the University of California, Cal State, and California Community Colleges for food pantries and other forms of aid.
In her first year, Limón authored 26 bills. Of those, 13 were signed by Governor Jerry Brown.