SACRAMENTO – Dr. Richard Pan, state senator and Chair of the Senate Select Committee on the 2020 United States Census issued the following statement after the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Trump administration to halt field operations for the 2020 census:

SACRAMENTO, CA – As President Trump asks the Supreme Court to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA), and as it’s more in peril than ever following Trump’s Supreme Court nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Senate Bill 406 by Dr. Richard Pan, which includes putting two Affordable Care Act (ACA) patient protections into state law, was signed by the Governor.

Sacramento, CA – SB 275, a bill authored by Dr. Richard Pan, pediatrician and State Senator representing the Sacramento region and Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino), which would ensure California is ready on day one of a future pandemic or other public health crises with a strong stockpile of personal protective equipment (PPE), was signed by the Governor today.