{"id":365236,"date":"2026-06-18T04:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365236\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T04:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:15:24","slug":"for-one-day-california-has-a-latina-acting-governor-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365236\/","title":{"rendered":"For one day, California has a Latina Acting Governor | California"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Acting Governor Monique Lim\u00f3n signing legislation. (Governor’s press office)<\/p>\n

Senate President pro Tempore Monique Lim\u00f3n made history Wednesday by serving as California\u2019s first-ever Latina Acting Governor while Gov. Gavin Newsom is out-of-state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newsom traveled to Chicago on Wednesday to attend the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center and is expected back on Thursday. Usually, Lt. Gov Eleni Kounalakis would serve in Newsom\u2019s stead, but she is also currently out-of-state. As president of the Senate, Lim\u00f3n is the next highest-ranked official in California.<\/p>\n

Even more historic, Lim\u00f3n was the first Latina to sign legislation into state law as Acting Governor, the governor\u2019s press office announced Wednesday. She signed four Senate bills into law, all dealing with local government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese bills help modernize local government operations, reduce administrative burdens and help conserve taxpayer resources,\u201d Lim\u00f3n said in a statement. \u201cI am honored to sign these bills as Acting Governor and I thank the authors for their work on these policies that support the function of local government.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2022, Kounalakis, who is currently running for State Treasurer, became the first woman to sign a bill into law.<\/p>\n

Today, there are a record number of 22 Latinas in the California Legislature. In state legislatures nationwide, Latinas currently hold 221 seats, up from 192 in 2024, according to the\u00a0Center for American Women and Politics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Acting Governor Monique Lim\u00f3n signing legislation. (Governor’s press office) Senate President pro Tempore Monique Lim\u00f3n made history Wednesday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,1843,8,457,148206,139465],"class_list":["post-365236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-legislature","tag-california-news","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-latinas-in-politics","tag-monique-limn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}