Laurie, like so many Californians, wasn’t born here. She visited California multiple times as a child, and it was during those trips she knew she wanted to live here as soon as she could. Laurie was born in Wisconsin, where she and her three brothers and one sister were raised by her parents Richard and Lois Davies. Her parents instilled in her the value of hard work and the importance of family. After graduating high school, she worked for a year, and in 1981 after saving enough money to buy a Cutlass Supreme, she moved west to attend Cal State Long Beach.
AB 1598 – This bill reforms CA “drug paraphernalia” laws and states that any testing equipment meant to detect the presence of Fentanyl is no longer considered paraphernalia. This will allow the general public to then purchase and be in possession of things like test strips or other future technologies as they become available.
AB 1661 - This bill updates CA’s human trafficking warning notice laws to now require barbering + cosmetology businesses to now have warning posters on their premises.
AB 1750 – This bill would require that any probationer or divertee of a crime involving a controlled substance (drug) take an education/counseling course about the dangers of controlled substances as a condition of probation.
AB 2409 – This bill would require a District Attorney’s office to help victims of crimes or their next of kin be given notice about Board of Parole hearings and be given information on how to give the Board questions for the inmate.