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Healthcare

  • Ensure all Californians with hidden or invisible conditions have fair access and protection with an evolved Disabilities Protection Act

  • Strengthen community health centers and rural hospitals so every Californian, wherever they live, can count on care that’s close, consistent, and compassionate.

  • Expand and finalize California’s state pharmaceutical program, starting with insulin, so families don’t choose between meds and groceries

Cost of Living

  • Investigate corporate price-gouging in essential goods and utilities; create a state-level consumer protection task force.

  • Reform the California FAIR Plan to reduce burdens on homeowners in wildfire-prone regions.

  • Expand state energy assistance and grocery subsidy programs for working families facing inflation shocks.

Water

  • Continue to protect the San Joaquin River Delta and Central Valley water resources from the Delta Conveyance Project, defending our agriculture and communities from long-term water loss

  • Modernize rural roads and emergency routes to improve farm access and fire response

Energy

  • Launch a “Renew California” jobs program focused on solar, wind, and battery infrastructure

  • Require replacement infrastructure to be operational before decommissioning legacy plants, ensuring grid reliability.

  • Implement municipal grid rules so communities can generate and retain their own power revenue and reserves.

Housing

  • Modernize zoning to support mixed-income, multi-use developments that preserve community character.

  • Require infrastructure readiness assessments (water, energy, roads) before approving new large housing developments. 

  • Incentivize reuse of vacant buildings and underused lots for affordable housing.

Transportation

  • ​Implement a Cost-Control System for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, to increase transparency and avoid further reckless spending

  • Fund new or existing county bus programs to disparate towns along with creating multi-county services to interlink the region

Education

  • Strengthen public education through improved teacher pay and classroom resources, as well as providing mental health services for students.

  • Deliver funding for emergent technical programs to retain talent, as well as form private-public partnerships for STEM programs.

  • Expand medical and technical training programs to fill local workforce shortages.

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Paid for by Joshua Engel for Assembly 2026 | FPPC #1484189

PO Box #2328, Clovis, CA, 93613

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