Robert M. Hertzberg

Measure on assault weapons patterned after Texas abortion ban

SANTA MONICA – Sen. Bob Hertzberg of Van Nuys released the following after Gov. Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 1327, a plan to help end gun violence by allowing private citizens to sue those who provide dangerous firearms. 

SACRAMENTO – Sen. Bob Hertzberg of Van Nuys released the following statement after the assassination yesterday of former Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe.

SACRAMENTO – Sen. Bob Hertzberg of Van Nuys released the following after the state Senate late Wednesday sent Gov. Newsom  Senate Bill 1327, a plan to help end gun violence by allowing private citizens to sue gun manufacturers.  

“If we save one life – one life! – we’ve done the right thing,” Hertzberg said shortly before the 26-to-9 vote.

Gov. Newsom backs the first-in-the-nation law and is expected to sign the bill almost immediately.

SACRAMENTO – Sen. Bob Hertzberg of Van Nuys released the following after Senate Bill 1327, a plan to help end gun violence by allowing private citizens to sue gun manufacturers, passed its first Floor vote by the California Assembly.

The first-in-the-nation law, backed by Gov. Newsom, passed on a 50-19 vote in the 80-member Assembly. It next returns to the Senate for consideration later this week.

SACRAMENTO – Senate Majority Leader Emeritus Bob Hertzberg of Van Nuys released the following statement today after the US Supreme Court overturning Roe V Wade, eliminating the Constitutional right for women to obtain an abortion:

“The Supreme Court is criminalizing women,” Hertzberg, a father of two sons and a daughter, said flatly. “The majority’s theological bent wants to keep women barefoot and pregnant and is a throwback to when women were property and knew their place. That past is our future if Americans don’t wake up and vote.”

SACRAMENTO – Senate Majority Leader Emeritus Bob Hertzberg of Van Nuys released the following statement today after the U.S. Supreme Court revoked New York state’s 112-year-old gun-carry law:

SACRAMENTO – Senate Majority Leader Emeritus Bob Hertzberg of Van Nuys released the following statement today after two key Senate policy committees approved a proposed ballot measure that would ensure Californians have access to abortion and related safe reproductive health care.

SACRAMENTO – Senate Majority Leader Emeritus Bob Hertzberg of Van Nuys released the following statement today after Senate Bill 1327, a plan to help end gun violence by allowing private citizens to sue gun manufacturers, passed its initial policy hearing in the California Assembly. Approved by the Assembly Judiciary Committee, the first-in-the-nation proposed law backed by Gov. Newsom now goes to the Assembly Floor for consideration.

SACRAMENTO – Greater protections from gun violence, nourishing homeless pets and making homeownership more affordable are among the proposed laws Sen. Bob Hertzberg will be fighting for in upcoming Assembly reviews. Other key measures sent to the chamber he led almost six years include improving school funding, making it cheaper to transmit energy, and broadening the reach and care of local health clinics. For pets, he wants to help provide food, shelter and veterinary services for those whose owners are obtaining help at state homeless shelters.

SACRAMENTO - Sen. Bob Hertzberg of Van Nuys, Senate Majority Leader Emeritus, today released the following statement:

“Last Sunday, after testing positive for COVID and starting mandatory quarantine that prohibited me from working in Sacramento, I ensured policies important to the San Fernando Valley and California continued to move forward.

“Perhaps most timely among them was SB 1327, a Gov. Newsom-backed measure to help end gun violence that went to the Assembly the same day as yet-another tragic mass shooting at a grade school in Texas.