Jerry Hill

Eighteen bills authored by State Senator Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, will take effect January 1.

State Senator Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties, will introduce measures to require fines for excessive water users, revise penalties for right-turn-on-red traffic violations, set stricter rules for inspecting tour buses, and more, on January 4 when the Legislature reconvenes.

Law enforcement, MADD, NHTSA, and Senator Jerry Hill promote sober driving during the holiday season and discuss the nationwide Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign. MADD releases report on California’s Ignition Interlock program, showing that IIDs have prevented over one million instances of drinking and driving since 2010.

Law enforcement, MADD, NHTSA, and Senator Jerry Hill promote sober driving during the holiday season and discuss the nationwide Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign. MADD releases report on California’s Ignition Interlock program, showing that IIDs have prevented over one million instances of drinking and driving since 2010.

The joint hearing of the California Senate Subcommittee on Gas, Electric and Transportation Safety, chaired by state Senator Jerry Hill, and the Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee, chaired by Assemblymember Rudy Salas, can be viewed here at http://senate.ca.gov and at http://senate.ca.gov.

The joint hearing of the California Senate Subcommittee on Gas, Electric and Transportation Safety, chaired by state Senator Jerry Hill, and the Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee, chaired by Assemblymember Rudy Salas, can be viewed here at http://senate.ca.gov and at http://senate.ca.gov.

The California Senate Subcommittee on Gas, Electric and Transportation Safety, chaired by state Senator Jerry Hill, and the Assembly Accountability and Administrative Review Committee, chaired by Assemblymember Rudy Salas, will hold a joint oversight hearing, “Dangerous Digs: Why Do Fatal Pipeline Accidents Persist?” The hearing follows the fatal “dig-in” accident November 13, when one person died and two suffered severe burns just south of Bakersfield after a PG&E natural gas pipeline was struck and ruptured during a project to put in a new orchard.

The California Senate Subcommittee on Gas, Electric and Transportation Safety, chaired by State Senator Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo/Santa Clara Counties, holds an oversight hearing on wildfires in California. The hearing comes in the aftermath of September’s Butte Fire, which burned 70,868 acres in Amador and Calaveras Counties, destroyed 818 structures, and caused two fatalities.

State Senator Jerry Hill and Assemblymembers David Chiu and Phil Ting (D-San Francisco) announced today that they will introduce legislation to improve California’s tour bus inspection program and provide more bus inspection funding for the California Highway Patrol. The legislation will also require coordination between the Department of Motor Vehicles and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to identify unregistered buses.

Have a terrific idea for a much-needed new state law? Or maybe there’s a real turkey that you think should be off the books? State Senator Jerry Hill is accepting entries for his eighth annual “Oughta Be A Law…Or Not” contest for bill ideas from constituents, and encourages Peninsula and Silicon Valley residents to participate.