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Senator Padilla Secures Funding in State Budget to Prevent Closure of Critical Hospitals in District

July 17, 2025

SACRAMENTO –Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) released the following statement today following the Legislature including two hospitals in his district in the extension of the Nondesignated Public Hospital Bridge Loan Program to prevent their closure — Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe and El Centro Regional Medical Center:

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Senator Dave Cortese’s Bill to Clean-Up Abandoned Shopping Cart Litter Clears the Assembly Local Government…

July 16, 2025

SACRAMENTO – State Senator Dave Cortese’s (D-Silicon Valley) SB 753 allowing retailers and local governments to work together to get abandoned shopping carts back where they belong and clean-up blight today was passed by the Assembly Local Government Committee.

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Senator Cortese’s Education Equalization Bill Giving CA School Districts Historic Equal State Funding…

July 16, 2025

SACRAMENTO – The State Assembly Education Committee today passed Senator Dave Cortese’s (D-Silicon Valley) SB 743 that would reverse the effects of an antiquated 1978 school district funding formula that has created winners and losers in the public education system for the last 47 years.
The bill moves forward to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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