Senator Sasha Renée Pérez joined affordable housing champions Wednesday in Altadena to announce $4 million in state budget investments to bring more Eaton Fire survivors home.

SANTA ROSA—With the urgent need for more firefighters across California, Senator Mike McGuire (D-North Coast) has secured the final $1 million needed to finish construction of a state-of-the-art firefighter training tower for Santa Rosa Junior College’s (SRJC) Fire Academy, one of the largest in the region.

SAN FRANCISCO – The Trump Administration released a draft rule to ban gender affirming care across the U.S. by withholding federal funding from hospitals that provide it.

SACRAMENTO – Last week, at a joint hearing of the California Seante Environmental Quality and Assembly Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committees, Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) announced that he will introduce language into Senate Bill 58 that will update California’s air quality standard for hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a gas that is found at high concentrations in the Tijuana River Valley and the Salton Sea region. California’s hydrogen sulfide standard has not been updated since 1969.

SACRAMENTO – Sen. Catherine S. Blakespear, D-Encinitas, issued the following statement Monday regarding the recently issued SB 125 Transit Transformation Task Force Final Report:

South Los Angeles has achieved an extraordinary milestone with the California Arts Council’s unanimous vote to officially designate the area as the state’s first ever Black Cultural District.

SACRAMENTO – State Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) released the following statement today in response to the recent gun violence at Brown University and in Sydney, Australia:

EUREKA, CA—Senator McGuire’s 10th annual 
made history yesterday by rallying the community for its biggest day of giving yet, delivering a monumental day of generosity for Food for People, Humboldt County’s food bank. The record-breaking event brought in 23.5 tons of food along with a WHOPPING $63,000 in financial donations, all headed directly to support hungry families across Humboldt County.

SAN JOSE, CA – California State Senator Dave Cortese, Chair of the CA Senate Transportation Committee, issued the following statement in response to U.S. District Judge Dale Drozd’s decision to reject the Federal Administration’s attempt to block California’s High-Speed Rail Grant Funding:  

El Sur de Los Ángeles ha logrado un hito extraordinario con la votación unánime del Consejo de las Artes de California para designar oficialmente la zona como el primer Distrito Cultural Afroamericano del estado. La decisión fue anunciada el viernes por la Senadora Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Ángeles), acompañada de líderes cívicos y comunitarios, durante una conferencia de prensa y una recepción comunitaria celebradas en el Museo Afroamericano de California.