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Lois Wolk for Assembly 2006
Description
Elected to the California State Assembly in 2002, Assemblywoman Lois Wolk (D-Davis) represents the Eighth Assembly District, which spans Solano and Yolo Counties to include the cities of Benicia, Davis, Dixon, Fairfield, Rio Vista, Suisun City, Vacaville, West Sacramento, Winters, and Woodland.
As a legislator, she has tackled issue areas including transportation, education, health, housing, human services, public safety, environmental protection, and flood protection. She is a founding member of the Bipartisan Group, a group of legislators from both parties working on bipartisan solutions to the state budget and political reform issues.
In her first three years in the Assembly, Wolk was successful in getting numerous bills passed by the legislature and signed into law, including legislation to designate 31 miles of Cache Creek in Yolo and Lake Counties as a State Wild, Scenic and Recreational River; and to establish uniform fines and penalties for failing to report or impeding a mandated report of child and elder abuse. She also authored legislation to mandate bank employees to report elder financial abuse to law enforcement.
