Senator Sasha Renée Pérez issues statement on the deaths of three Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies in a training incident

Legislation to remove major hurdle identified by mobilized high school students across California heads to the Assembly Floor

Additional funding will help low- and moderate-income families purchase homes in Los Angeles, South Pasadena, and Pasadena

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:

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.

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.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass joins the coalition in support of Senator Pérez’s No Vigilantes Act (SB 805) and Senator Wiener’s No Secret Police Act (SB 627).

State Senator María Elena Durazo (D-Los Angeles) today released the following statement regarding the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority's 2025 Point in Time Count, which showed a 4% decrease in homelessness countywide and a 3.4% decrease in the City of Los Angeles:

SACRAMENTO – Senator Steve Padilla released the statement below following the California State Assembly’s decision to deny a hearing to Senate Bill 10, his legislation addressing the cross-border pollution crisis at the Tijuana River:

SACRAMENTO - In a win for working people wanting to change careers or better themselves by going to law school, Senator Dave Cortese’s SB 550 authorizing the integration of a law school at San Jose State University as the first public law school in the California State University system
today passed the Assembly Judiciary Committee.