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New Bill Targets Permit Gridlock Crushing Local Restaurants

Assemblymember Matt Haney introduces The Restaurant Recovery Act (AB 1470) to modernize outdated food permitting laws and help small restaurants stay open.

SACRAMENTO, CA — Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) has introduced new legislation to help California restaurants cut through costly red tape and avoid closure due to outdated permitting rules.

Assemblymember Haney and California Arts Community Restore Critical Arts Funding in Final Budget

Final State Budget retains $11.5 million for Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, will keep doors open for theaters, dance companies, arts nonprofits statewide.

SACRAMENTO, CA — Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco), Chair of the Downtown Recovery Committee, joined California artists, small theaters and venues, and arts nonprofits in celebrating the inclusion of $11.5 million in funding for the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund in California’s final state budget, reversing a proposed cut in Governor Gavin Newsom’s May Revisi

Assemblymember Haney Secures Major Housing Wins in Final Budget

Key funding for affordable housing production and homeless prevention included in final Budget, championed by Assemblymember Haney, will spur new housing and keep people housed.

Assemblymember Matt Haney, Chair of the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee, today celebrated the inclusion of key housing and homelessness prevention initiatives in California’s final state budget, marking a significant step forward in addressing the state’s housing crisis.

New Bill Targets Speeding in Highway Work Zones to Prevent Road Worker and Driver Deaths

Assemblymember Haney’s AB 289 will stop road worker deaths by using automated speed enforcement cameras (ASE) in active construction zones.

SACRAMENTO, CA — Highway workers build and maintain the roads we all depend on -- but they put their lives at risk to do it. Assemblymember Matt Haney (D-San Francisco) says California must act now to stop the needless deaths of road workers.

Landmark California Bill to Turn Empty Office Towers Into Housing Clears Assembly With Bipartisan Backing

Haney’s AB 507 clears the way for more conversions of historic office buildings into mixed-use housing in California’s struggling downtowns.

SACRAMENTO, CA – A major push to breathe new life into California’s hollowed-out downtowns took a big step forward today. Assemblymember Matt Haney’s (D-San Francisco) bill to speed up office-to-housing conversions passed the Assembly with strong bipartisan support and now heads to the Senate.