Lobby Day 2015On April 13th, 2015, CaHPSA at UCSD members joined other health equity supporters in the AllCare Alliance and Health4All Coalition in Sacramento to lobby California legislatures to support Senator Ricardo Lara's SB-4 Bill, a bill which would expand medical to the remaining uninsured and undocumented in California. Further throughout the year, CaHPSA members continued to join with members from the Health4All Coalition to speak with Southern California Legislatures including Assembly Member Rocky Chavez and Assembly Member Shirley Weber to push for SB-4. As a result of the efforts AllCareAlliance and Health4All Coalition with the help of CaHPSA members in Lobby Day 2015 and throughout the year, state legislatures signed a modified form of the bill to allow all income eligible kids, regardless of immigration status, to health care coverage starting May of 2016 1.
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