Immigrants living in California without full legal status could serve in some appointed offices under a bill the state Senate sent Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday. The measure, passed by the Senate 26-11, would let people over 18 who lack authorization to live in the country be appointed to boards and commissions. The bill, SB174, however, does not allow people who lack work authorization to hold paid appointments. Some immigrants living in California have work authorization but not legal status under the federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA), which gives people living in the United States illegally who were brought to the country as childrena | protection from deportation. In March, the state Senate Rules Committee appointed a woman living in California without authorization to a state advisory board. In 2016, Brown appointed someone in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to the California State University Board of Trustees.
