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Northern Los Angeles. Rains served as Chairman of the Senate Majority Caucus (the youngest in State history), as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Political Reform, and as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. At the time, Rains also was serving in numerous other legislative positions.
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until 2012. As of August, 2013, READ had built over 67 community library and resource centers (READ Centers) in rural Nepal, India, and Bhutan. His work in the village of Ullon, West Bengal, India, has personal significance, and in 2016 India erected a 15-foot-high statue of him in a Garden of
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He also authored legislation to purchase beach property for public use, authored
Container Deposit legislation (the "Bottle Bill"), secured passage of an historic measure to protect the California deserts by preventing the "piracy" of California's native plants, enacted legislation to prevent
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Colleges named the "Omer L. Rains Institute of Paramedical Sciences", as well as a College of Engineering and a Pharmaceutical College. Diplomas from the Paramedical College will be awarded in the
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National and State Forests, and was instrumental in establishing both Redwood National Park and Channel Islands National Park. The state thereafter named a famous bike trail after Rains for his work in connecting various state beach parks along the coast of California.
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Amendment." The President of the National Women's Political Caucus stated that "Senator Omer Rains has done more to advance the cause of women's rights and equality under the law than any legislator in California history."
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Inspirational Leaders in recognition of his humanitarian work in that country. He has also worked extensively on humanitarian causes in Latin America and Africa, as well as in other countries in Asia.
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treatment center, and a medical program for the aged and infirm. He also served as Chairman of the Ventura Planning Commission and as Chairman of the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Commission.
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