Connie M. Leyva

SACRAMENTO – Earlier today, the Senate Environmental Quality Committee approved legislation that will provide technical assistance to small non-profits, disadvantaged communities and small businesses to access funding for energy efficiency upgrades or projects that reduce the negative health impacts of poor air quality.

SACRAMENTO – Important legislation authored by Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) that will ensure that all victims of crimes committed by minors are eligible to receive due compensation passed from the Senate Public Safety Committee earlier today.  

SACRAMENTO – Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) is pleased to announce that the Senate Governance and Finance Committee today passed a bill that will help keep California senior, blind and disabled residents in their homes if and when they encounter financial difficulties.
SB 477 would add mobile homes to a recently reestablished property tax postponement program, ensuring that low-income senior citizen, blind and disabled mobile home owners are eligible to apply for postponement of their property taxes.  

SACRAMENTO – The Healthy Relationships and Safe Schools Act, authored by Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino), today passed from the Senate Education Committee with bipartisan support.

SACRAMENTO – Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) today jointly authored the Career and Job Skills Education Act with Senator Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg).
SB 148 appropriates $600 million to a Career Technical Education (CTE) incentive grant program for local school districts.  Strong performance standards and oversight measures in the legislation will ensure direct investments in important CTE programs throughout California.  SB 148 builds upon the CTE incentive matching grant program proposed in Governor Jerry Brown’s 2015-16 budget.

SACRAMENTO – Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles) has selected and the Senate Rules Committee approved Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) to serve as Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Manufactured Home Communities.  Senator Leyva has also been selected as the Senate designee to the California Department of Housing and Community Development’s Mobilehome Park Inspection Program Task Force.

SACRAMENTO – In response to a recent court ruling that limits the ability of local jurisdictions in California from further statutorily protecting children from dangerous sex offenders, Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) today introduced a bill that will strengthen the ability of cities and counties to build upon existing protections from these offenders living in communities throughout the state.

SACRAMENTO – Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) recently introduced legislation that will require yearly testing of drinking water at schools in California to ensure water quality and safety.
Currently, the extent of ongoing water quality issues at school sites throughout the Inland Empire and California remains largely unknown and unaddressed.  SB 334 requires that, where schools find that their water is not clean, school districts must provide alternative sources of clean water.  

SACRAMENTO – In response to growing needs by local small communities and businesses to access greenhouse gas reduction funds, Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) today introduced a bill that will provide technical assistance to small communities and businesses to access funding for energy efficiency upgrades or projects that lessen the negative health impacts of poor air quality.  

SACRAMENTO – Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) today introduced important legislation that will dramatically increase payments for past due child support claims through an insurance payment intercept program.