The Grapevine: 2/6/2023

Good morning. A state Senate committee considers a bill to slash break time for flight attendants, California schools start stocking naloxone, and Los Angeles runs a budget surplus. Here's what you need to know:

• The California Senate's labor committee will consider a bill that would allow airlines to eliminate rest and meal breaks for many flight attendants, which would effectively undo a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that required those breaks under state labor law. (https://the-grapevine.ghost.io/state-senate-committee-to-consider-bill-cutting-breaks-for-flight-attendants/)
• The Los Angeles Unified School District has started stocking and allowing students to carry the opioid overdose treatment naloxone, as Gov. Gavin Newsom asks the legislature for $3.5 million to do the same statewide. (https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/05/teen-overdose-deaths-california-schools-narcan-00081186)
• Scientists say that Lakes Mead and Powell, the nation's two largest reservoirs and major sources of water for seven Western states, including California, are unlikely to refill in our lifetimes.(https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-05/colorado-river-reservoirs-unlikely-to-refill-experts-say)
• In his inaugural financial report, LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia said the city ran a $3.4 billion surplus during fiscal year 2022, but cautioned that the expiration of almost $2 billion in federal pandemic aid and a softening mortgage market might weaken those gains. (https://controller.lacity.gov/reports/pafr22)
• LA Metro has received a $600 million grant from California's transportation agency toward the construction of a light rail line in the East San Fernando Valley, the area's first rail project in over 20 years. (https://thesource.metro.net/2023/02/01/calsta-awards-metro-600-million-for-east-san-fernando-valley-light-rail-project/)