Series Description

Physical Description: 57 file folders

Bill Files are arranged chronologically by legislative session, then numerically by bill number.

Most bill files include all or some of the following items: bill analyses, amendments and resolutions, author's statements, press releases, newspaper clippings, and correspondence. Roybal-Allard's legislative interests included women's rights, minorities' rights, immigration, and child safety. Roybal-Allard authored multiple bills related to domestic violence and sexual assault to better protect the rights of women. Notable legislation includes AB2632 (1989-90), which gave a clear definition of domestic violence in order to more strictly enforce the laws; AB321 (1989-90) created a standardized method for nurses and emergency physicians to examine a rape victim; AB2629 and AB2631 (1989-90) both deal with date rape or acquaintance rape including instructions for selecting juries for the trials and the degree of punishment a person can receive for committing date rape. Roybal-Allard was also interested in protecting the rights of immigrants. She authored legislation to block hazardous waste incinerators from being built in predominantly immigrant areas of Los Angeles County (AB3371 and AB3372, 1987-88; AB58 and AB318, 1989-90; AB157 and AB937, 1991-92). The building of hazardous waste incinerators in her district generated fervent constituent correspondence and ultimately the legislation was successful in preventing the incinerator from being built in her district.

1987-1988 (15ff), AB291-AB4665, AJR47-AJR64, AB4X LP406:1-15

1989-1990 (30ff), AB58-AB4162, AJR41-AJR96 LP406:16-46

1991-1992 (10ff), AB57-AB2225, ACR31 LP406:47-57

Physical Description: 126 file folders, 6 videocassettes

Arranged alphabetically by subject heading.

Access to audiovisual material requires the production of use copies.

Subject files are arranged alphabetically by subject heading. Subject files contain information on topics that were relevant to the legislation Roybal-Allard authored or to the committees on which she was a member. Included are internal memoranda from Roybal-Allard's office, newspaper articles, and reports. Roybal-Allard served as the chair of the Assembly Select Committee on Assistance to Victims of Sexual Assault as well as the chair of the Subcommittee on Immigration in the Workplace so the majority of her subject files pertain to various aspects of sexual assault or immigration.

The subject file series also contains six videocassettes pertaining to Assemblywoman Roybal-Allard's time in office. The tapes are all news broadcasts related to bills authored by Roybal-Allard. Most notable among the tapes are two titled "The Contemporary Latina" and the tape concerning her bill on attorney misconduct. Roybal-Allard was featured with a short interview in each of these segments. The tapes have all been given their own identification number and separation sheets have been filed to alert researchers to their presence.

See Appendix A in Master Finding Aid on the California State Archives website for a complete listing of subject headings

Physical Description: 4 file folders

Arranged alphabetically by title of speech.

Speeches are arranged alphabetically by the title of the speech. Speech files contain the speeches given by Lucille Roybal-Allard on certain topics on the specified date. Most of the speech topics relate to her legislative interests. Many of her speeches were given to constituents, with a vast majority of the speeches filed given to various Latina groups. The speeches were generally delivered to groups who asked Assemblywoman Roybal-Allard to speak at one of their functions. Notable speeches include "Women in Politics", given to the Mexican-American Democratic Club; "National Hispanic Women's Conference", given to the Mexican-American Opportunity Foundation; and the speech given to the California Hispanic Commission on "Drug Prevention". Many of the speeches have been translated into Spanish.

Physical Description: 2 file folders, 6 audiocassettes, and 1 videocassette

Arranged chronologically by hearing date.

Access to audiovisual material requires the production of use copies.

The records contained in the hearing files series include six audiotapes and one videocassette. On October 28, 1987, Assemblywoman Roybal-Allard held a hearing on immigrant workers in Los Angeles. The hearing examined specifically the experiences of immigrant workers in the garment industry. The hearing was part of her committee work on the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee for which she chaired the subcommittee on Immigration in the Workplace. The hearing ends with a promise to investigate the situation further. Also included in the hearing files is a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee for Assemblywoman Royal-Allard's bill AB2220 (1991-1992). The bill was authored in order to include spousal rape in the broader definition of rape so that it would be considered a crime.