WASHINGTON, April 21, 2025 – The California Assembly Committee on Communications and Conveyance will hear testimony April 30 on a bill that would require internet service providers to offer a low-cost broadband option to qualifying low-income households.
The bill’s author, Assemblymember Tasha Boerner, D-Encinitas, also serves as chair of the committee that will preside over the hearing.
WASHINGTON, March 24, 2025 – Following in New York’s footsteps, a California lawmaker was one step closer to advancing a sweeping legislative mandate to cap monthly internet bills at $15 for qualifying low-income households.
Feb. 27, 2025 – Now that the Supreme Court has once again declined to hear the broadband industry’s challenge to New York’s $15 Internet law, California Assemblymember Tasha Boerner, D-Encinitas, said Wednesday she was ready to move on legislation to establish a similar broadband affordability mandate in California.
The Encinitas Chamber of Commerce held its fifth Rising Star of the Month event for the 2024-25 school year on Feb. 5. The Chamber again partnered with MiraCosta College’s San Elijo campus which hosts and sponsors the monthly breakfasts honoring exceptional seniors from the local high schools in the San Dieguito Union High School District (SDUHSD).
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2025 — With the federal Affordable Connectivity Program winding down, states are exploring new approaches to maintain broadband affordability for low-income households, according to panelists at a Broadband Breakfast Live Online event Wednesday.
With New York’s Affordable Broadband Act (ABA) now in effect, lawmakers in other states are filing similar legislation that requires large Internet Service Providers to offer low-cost plans for financially-strapped households in their respective states.
Assembly member Tasha Boerner (D-Encinitas) introduced a bill that would mandate internet service providers to make affordable plans available to California residents.
The bill, AB 353, is meant to aid the nearly 3 million California households that lost federal support through the Affordable Connectivity Program when the benefit ended last year.
Representing California's 77th District, State Assemblymember Tasha Boerner was inspired to run for office because she wanted to help build a better community for her children. Her favorite part of her job is writing her own bills and helping her constituents work through their problems.
On this episode of Look West, Assemblymember Tasha Boerner Horvath and Carlsbad City Councilmember and 3x Women’s World Longboard Surfing Champion, Cori Schumacher, discuss equal pay for equal play, and why gender pay inequity is still an issue in the world of sports.