Good afternoon and welcome to the Alpha County Board of Supervisors, personnel administration and legislation committee meeting for Monday, July the 6th, 2026.

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Supervisor Fortunatabas.

Supervisor Cam.

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We will start with our federal legislative update.

Good afternoon.

You've got Emily Baket DeSilva here.

And then Curtis Erdman is also here.

There's Curtis.

And he actually worked with Alameda County from about 2019 to 2022 through the heart of COVID.

And we'll be assisting and back in moving forward.

So I just wanted to make a quick introduction for Curtis.

Thanks, Emily.

Excited to be back working with the Alameda County team.

I'll go ahead and I know it's been a couple weeks since we've talked.

It is quiet right now because both the House and Senate are in recess this week.

And the Senate was in recess all of last week.

So we'll give an update of kind of where things stand.

As I mentioned earlier, the House did recess earlier, did recess earlier than anticipated last week.

They were supposed to be in session through cert through Thursday.

And the speaker sent everyone home on Tuesday night because there were a few conservative members who were blocking the chamber from opening the floor to legislative business for the second week in a row.

And this was all because of the Save America Act, which I know we've talked about previously.

And of course, the Senate does not have the votes for passage of the SAVE Act.

You know, that's the one that would require documentary proof of U.S.

citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.

And President Trump, you know, keeps saying he's not going to uh sign legislation until this is passed.

Um, but again, because of the filibuster, there just aren't the votes in the Senate.

The House did uh vote to approve the bill back in February.

Um, and that's the third year in a row that the House has passed similar legislation, but of course, as I mentioned, it's stalled in the Senate.

Um, so now the speaker, his new plan is to fold the Save America Act into a third budget reconciliation package alongside um $67 billion for the Pentagon and other supplemental spending priorities.

Um this is not a slam dunk by any stretch.

Uh leadership intends to include a four billion pool of incentives for states that adopt voter identification and citizenship verification requirements, um, a provision that may not survive review by the Senate parliamentarian.

Um, President Trump has also said he does not want a watered-down version of SAVE, which is how this could view or how he could view the pilot program incentive structure.

Um there's a lot to kind of get through.

We're not certain um that a third reconciliation package is even viable.

Um, last time we talked, the uh white house had not sent up uh a formal request for supplemental appropriations for the Department of War.

Uh that did happen on June 24th.

And so um the speaker is talking about coupling uh save in this kind of uh with this funding package in a third reconciliation bill.

One of the issues is that the House and Senate have only 24 legislative days when both chambers are in session before election day.

Um, and additionally, I know we've reported on this, but Senate Majority Leader John Thune has expressed little interest in a reconciliation bill, both publicly um and in private conversation.

So it remains to be seen how this unfolds.

As far as housing legislation, again, I know we've talked about the bipartisan housing bill, the 21st Century Road to Housing Act.