Mike Eng - California Representative

Assemblyman Mike Eng represents the 49th Assembly District, which is located within eastern Los Angeles County and includes the cities of Alhambra, El Monte, Monterey Park, Rosemead, San Gabriel, San Marino, and South El Monte. Assemblymember Eng chairs the State Assembly Business and Professions Committee, which oversees a broad range of important legislation in the areas of consumer protection, the creation and elimination of regulatory agencies, scope of practice, licensing and enforcement of issues for all boards and bureaus at the Department of Consumer Affairs, and governmental efficiency and cost control. He chairs the Select Committee on Hate Crimes and is a member of the California Asian and Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus. He is also a member of the Assembly Education, Environmental

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Assemblyman Mike Eng represents the 49th Assembly District, which is located within eastern Los Angeles County and includes the cities of Alhambra, El Monte, Monterey Park, Rosemead, San Gabriel, San Marino, and South El Monte. Assemblymember Eng chairs the State Assembly Business and Professions Committee, which oversees a broad range of important legislation in the areas of consumer protection, the creation and elimination of regulatory agencies, scope of practice, licensing and enforcement of issues for all boards and bureaus at the Department of Consumer Affairs, and governmental efficiency and cost control. He chairs the Select Committee on Hate Crimes and is a member of the California Asian and Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus. He is also a member of the Assembly Education, Environmental Substance and Toxic Materials, and Revenue and Taxation committees. Recently, Assemblymember Eng was appointed to the Assembly Committee on Water for the Extraordinary Session, which is charged with exploring possible legislation to address water storage and clean-up problems in the state of California. In addition, he was selected to be part of the Select Committee on Biotechnology and Select Committee on the Census. Prior to the State Assembly, Assemblymember Eng was appointed to the California Department of Consumer Affairs Acupuncture Board for two terms where he served as Board Vice Chair and Chair of the Enforcement Committee. He also served as Mayor and City Councilmember of Monterey Park, where he helped start the region’s first city Environmental Commission to deal with quality of life issues, initiated a summer science program for low-income students, enhanced after school programs, organized the city’s Clean Up the City Day, facilitated the city’s first workshop for home care workers and founded numerous scholarship opportunities for high school students. Assemblyman Eng served three terms as a Monterey Park Library Board Trustee and chaired the successful library building campaign that raised local matching funds and qualified for state funding for an $18 million library expansion. He was named California’s Outstanding Library Trustee in 2002 for his work. He was also Monterey Park's "Volunteer of the Year" for his video that prepares viewers for the U.S. citizenship exam and which led to an Emmy award-winning production. As a longtime community leader, Assemblyman Eng serves on the Board of Directors of the West San Gabriel Valley Boys and Girls Club and provided free immigration legal advice to immigrant working families. In addition, he served on the Garfield Medical Center Board of Directors. Assemblyman Eng earned his law degree from the University of California-Los Angeles after completing Bachelors’ and Masters degrees at the University of Hawaii while working full time at a local emergency room. He is also a part-time community college instructor.

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