Fiona Ma
Her mother, Sophia (née Doo), was a high school art teacher for 20 years before moving the family to San Francisco to be closer to her parents.She was responsible for helping constituents with Medi-Cal, Workers' Compensation, Unemployment Insurance, Franchise and Employment Development Department taxes, and professional licensing.Ma's legislation was later incorporated into Senator Dianne Feinstein's[22] federal Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 enacted on August 15, 2008.[50] Ma also chairs the California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority (CAEATFA), which assists the state in meeting its greenhouse gas goals and works with the private market.CAEATFA operates the CA Hub for Energy Efficiency Financing Program, which has provided more than $825 million in sales tax exclusions for over 200 green projects that support solar manufacturing, geothermal, renewable fuels, and biogas production.[59] With the California School Finance Authority (CSFA),[60] Ma's office issued $87 million in bonds to build 352 beds for Santa Rosa Junior College.[61] In October 2020, the CTCAC chaired by Ma approved $91 million in tax credits for 2,846 units of low-income housing[62] in counties heavily damaged by the Camp, Tubbs, Thomas, and Mendocino Complex wildfires in 2017 and 2018.[70] In her first year as treasurer, Ma appointed Dr Beverly Scott, adjunct professor at the Mineta Transportation Institute of San Jose State University, and Frederick Jordan, president of Bay Area construction company F.E.[73] On April 25, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation[74] that Ma had pushed to require out-of-state and online retailers like eBay, Etsy, and Amazon (company) to collect sales taxes in line with the practices of local California businesses,[75] eliminating an unfair advantage that Amazon and other out-of-state and online businesses had claimed.[86] The state's standard purchasing processes were disrupted and Ma's office, which normally just carries out final stages of financial transactions, took on an oversight role."[104] This included efforts to get Amazon to collect sales tax on transactions from third-party sellers as a way of helping local brick-and-mortar retailers to compete[105] – estimated at between $431 million and $1.8 billion in new revenue for California every year.[112] Ma has also actively supported California's Earned Income Tax Credit to give cash back to low-income individuals,[113] and promoted expansion of the program to minimum wage earners[114] and independent contractors.[121] Ma laid out a list of reforms[122] which was incorporated into the "Taxpayer Transparency and Fairness Act of 2017",[123] the biggest restructuring of the Board of Equalization in its 138-year history.[124] The law was signed by Governor Jerry Brown in June 2017 and supported by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, Senate President Kevin de León, and former BOE member Controller Betty Yee.[127] Among her many other activities, Ma also celebrated Women's Equality Day at the Kelley House in Mendocino[128] and spoke to students at the Future Chinese Leaders of America in Los Angeles.[129] On February 23, 2007, Ma introduced a bill requiring commercial exhibitors of plastinated corpses to obtain a county permit, which would be dependent on proof of consent from the decedent or next of kin.As a Supervisor in San Francisco, she authored and passed an ordinance to "prohibit the manufacture, sale, or distribution in commerce of any toy or child-care article…if it contains bisphenol-A or other specified chemicals."