SACRAMENTO – Sens. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, and Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan joined advocates on Monday to call for more urgency to address homelessness and to take steps that would help cities build and operate interim housing to get unsheltered people off the streets.

SILICON VALLEY – At San Jose’s Mount Pleasant Elementary School, surrounded by education and community leaders, California State Senator Dave Cortese today unveiled Senate Bill 743 to reverse an antiquated 1978 funding formula that has created winners and losers in the public

For Immediate Release
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Contact: Elisa Rivera
Elisa.Rivera@sen.ca.gov (559) 264-3070
 
Senator Anna M. Caballero Introduces SB 419 – The Hydrogen Fuel Equity Act to End Double Taxation on Hydrogen Vehicles and Promote Clean Air

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Silicon Valley State Senator Dave Cortese Introduces Bill to

SACRAMENTO – Recently, two critical policy committees passed Senate Bills 10 and 594, authored by Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego). SB 10 would expressly authorize funds from the new toll road to be used for water treatment, environmental mitigation, and restoration of the Tijuana River Valley and SB 594 would give communities across the state with existing environmental pollution burdens the opportunity to voice their concerns in a publicly noticed hearing when a new landfill development is proposed as is the case in the River Valley.

SACRAMENTO – Legislation by Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, to require manufacturers of marine flares to establish and run a program to collect and dispose of expired flares on Wednesday passed the Senate Environmental Quality Committee.

For Immediate Release
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Contact: Elisa Rivera
Elisa.Rivera@sen.ca.gov (559) 264-3070
 
Senator Caballero Introduces Senate Bill 80 to Boost Fusion Energy in California

Senator Thomas J. Umberg (D-Santa Ana) announced that his Senate Bill 398 which criminalizes, among other things, the offer of a chance to win a lottery or similar prize-drawing contest to register to vote, was approved by the Senate Elections and Constructional Amendments Committee by a unanimous and bipartisan vote of 5-0.

SACRAMENTO – Yesterday, the Trump Administration announced an investigation into California for prohibiting school districts from requiring that teachers forcibly out LGBTQ kids who express their authentic identity at school. The investigation is the first step toward stripping California’s school funding from the federal Department of Education—which the Trump Administration has pledged to destroy—as punishment for protecting LGBTQ youth.

Para Difusión Inmediata
Martes, 25 de marzo, 2025
Contacto: Elisa Rivera
Elisa.Rivera@sen.ca.gov (559) 264-3070
 
California se Posiciona contra la Represión Transnacional con la SB 509, una Nueva Legislación que Fortalece la Protección de las Comunidades de la Diáspora que son Blanco de Gobiernos Extranjeros