Policy Action Alerts
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RAMP Sponsoring Legislation to Improve Respiratory Safety of Air Cleaners in California
RAMP is proud to sponsor SB 1308, The Ozone Safe Air Cleaners Bill, authored by California Senate Majority Leader, Senator Lena Gonzalez. As more Californians use portable air cleaners, sometimes called air purifiers, to reduce their exposure to air pollution including wildfire smoke, we need to ensure that those air cleaners are safe. Unfortunately, not…
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Governor Signs AB 548, RAMP’s Healthy Housing Bill
On October 11, 2023, California Governor Newsom signed AB 548! Sponsored by RAMP and Authored by Tasha Boerner, AB 548 will introduce a proactive element to complaint-based code enforcement. The bill will require code enforcement officers to inspect additional units at a multi-family property if they find severe violations in one unit that they reasonably expect…
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Scaling Up the Distribution of Air Cleaners for Low-Income People with Asthma
California’s wildfire season has been growing in length and severity, regularly exposing millions to harmful particulate matter and hazardous air pollutants. While air cleaners, also known as air purifiers, can help improve indoor air quality during wildfire smoke events, many low-income Californians cannot afford to purchase air cleaners and replacement filters. In the summer of…
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Implementing Medi-Cal Policies in Support of Asthma Home Visiting Services
In 2022, as a result of advocacy led by RAMP and partners, Medi-Cal – California’s Medicaid system – adopted two nationally-leading policies to increase access to asthma home visiting services for low-income Californians with poorly controlled asthma. Now, our attention has shifted to ensure those policies are implemented as effectively as possible. What are the…
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Please Support RAMP’s Healthy Housing Bills!
We recently announced two healthy housing bills RAMP is sponsoring this year. Will you take a moment to show your support for healthy housing? AB 548, authored by Assemblymember Boerner-Horvath, will introduce a proactive element to complaint-based code enforcement. The bill requires code enforcement officers to inspect additional units at a multi-family property if they…
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RAMP’s Housing Legislation Will Improve and Support Local Code Enforcement
Over the past ten years, RAMP and key partners have worked together to advance legislation to fix gaps in the state’s housing code, including closing loopholes related to pest infestations, ensuring tenants are notified when pesticides are used on a property, and adding visible mold as an enforceable substandard housing condition. With many key issues…
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California’s Medicaid Policies Support Asthma Home Visiting Services
Last year, RAMP and our partners made groundbreaking progress changing policies to increase access to asthma home visiting services for Californians with poorly controlled asthma. In 2023, we are excited to see these policies more fully enacted to integrate in-home education, trigger assessment and environmental remediation into the health care system. With these policies in…
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The Struggle Against Systemic Racism
Like so many of you, our hearts are filled with sadness and anger over the outrageous deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and many, many others. As we started to write this post on June 1st, police officers were tear-gassing peaceful protesters in Washington DC. That was just one of many acts of…
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COVID-19 Is Not a Reason to Rollback Air Quality Protections
Industry stakeholders, along with some California legislators, are using the coronavirus pandemic to justify rolling back or delaying much-needed air quality protections. While we’re sympathetic to the global economic impacts of COVID-19, this is precisely the wrong time to stop California’s progress toward clean air, especially in inequitably burdened communities. Why? There is compelling early research showing…
