{"id":1972650,"date":"2023-07-13T22:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T02:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-advances-child-trafficking-bill-after-newsom-urges-democrats-to-revive-legislation\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T22:46:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T02:46:59","slug":"california-advances-child-trafficking-bill-after-newsom-urges-democrats-to-revive-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-advances-child-trafficking-bill-after-newsom-urges-democrats-to-revive-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"California pushes child trafficking bill forward following Newsom&#8217;s call for Democrats to revive the legislation."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-advances-child-trafficking-bill-after-newsom-urges-democrats-to-revive-legislation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1972650&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>California Democrats Pass Bill to Strengthen Punishments for Child Sex Traffickers<\/h2>\n<p>California Democrats took a significant step on Thursday by passing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-tom-carper-announces-bill-to-give-d-c-statehood\/\" title=\"Sen. Tom Carper announces bill to give D.C. statehood\">bill aimed<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-advances-child-trafficking-bill-after-newsom-urges-democrats-to-revive-legislation\/\" title=\"California pushes child trafficking bill forward following Newsom's call for Democrats to revive the legislation.\">imposing stricter penalties<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-rep-salazar-no-one-asks-latinos-the-brown-community-how-we-feel-about-migrant-influx\/\" title=\"GOP Rep. Salazar: No One Asks Latinos, the Brown Community How We Feel About Migrant Influx\">child sex traffickers<\/a>. This move comes after Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) urged the revival of the legislation following its initial failure.<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly Public Safety Committee faced criticism when all six Democratic members abstained from voting to advance Senate Bill 14 on Tuesday. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-gov-inslee-compares-efforts-to-ban-political-speech-he-doesnt-like-to-ukrainians-fighting-for-their-lives\/\" title=\"Washington Gov. Inslee Compares Efforts to Ban Political Speech He Doesn\u2019t Like to Ukrainians Fighting for Their Lives\">bill sought<\/a> to establish harsher consequences for repeat offenders, rendering them ineligible for early release from prison.<\/p>\n<h3>Emergency Meeting Called After Governor&#8217;s Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>Concerned about the lack of progress on the bill, Governor Newsom called for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-is-not-consistent-with-what-he-promised-us-when-he-was-running-ky-republicans-censure-mitch-mcconnell-after-his-outrageous-attack-on-president-trump\/\" title=\"\u201cThis Is Not Consistent With What He Promised Us When He Was Running\u201d \u2013 KY Republicans Censure Mitch McConnell After His Outrageous Attack on President Trump\">emergency meeting<\/a> on Thursday. He expressed his seriousness about the matter, stating, &#8220;I want to understand exactly what happened yesterday (in the committee). I take it very seriously,&#8221; as reported by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Newsom reached out to Republican state Senator Shannon Grove to discuss the legislation, which had been in development for three years. He emphasized his personal investment in the issue, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s an area I care deeply about. I have since my time as mayor, as a supervisor working with then-District Attorney Kamala Harris. I appreciate Shannon Grove&#8217;s efforts on this and wanted to make sure she knew that today, and we&#8217;ll be following up and will have more to say shortly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Four Democrats and two Republican committee members voted in favor of advancing the bill. It will now proceed to the Assembly Appropriations Committee for further consideration before being presented to the full body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California Democrats passed a bill on Thursday to impose harsher penalties on child sex traffickers. This came after Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s efforts to revive the legislation following its initial failure. The Assembly Public Safety Committee faced criticism when all six Democratic members abstained from voting on Tuesday to advance Senate Bill 14, which aimed to address this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1972651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}