Caucus News

Bills promote water efficiency, role of farms & other open space in greenhouse gas reduction
(SACRAMENTO, CA)– The State Assembly voted yesterday to approve two natural resources measures by Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis), including Senate Bill 1386 to promote the protection and management of natural and working lands as part of California’s ongoing efforts to meet its climate change goals. 

Legislation allows involuntary transfer of students convicted of violent crimes 
SACRAMENTO–Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today signed into law legislation by State Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) to protect students by allowing the involuntary transfer of pupils convicted of violent crimes such as felony battery, rape, kidnapping and attempted murder.  

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SACRAMENTO – A bill authored by Dr. Richard Pan to require the Department of Public Health to expand the existing newborn screening program to include any condition that has been adopted by the federal Recommended Uniform Screening Panel (RUSP), passed the State Assembly. 

Senator Mark Leno’s (D- San Francisco) bill to limit the use of room confinement in juvenile facilities was approved by the State Assembly today and now heads to the Senate for concurrence before reaching the Governor’s desk. Senate Bill 1143 states that room confinement can only be used after less restrictive options have been tried and bans its use for the purposes of punishment, coercion, convenience or retaliation.

Senator Mark Leno’s (D-San Francisco) bill to establish a fair standard for proving one’s innocence in California has passed the State Assembly. SB 1134 brings California’s innocence standard in line with 43 other states.
“The wrongful incarceration of an innocent citizen is one of the greatest injustices society can perpetuate,” said Senator Leno. “SB 1134 will provide meaningful relief to innocent people who have new evidence showing their convictions should be reversed.”

(SACRAMENTO, CA)  - Senate Bill (SB) 253 by Senator Bill Monning (D-Carmel) passed off of the Assembly Floor today.  The bill will create a more rigorous process for the prescribing of potentially harmful psychotropic drugs to foster children.

San Diego, CA… Senator Ben Hueso (D-San Diego) today urged Governor Brown to sign Senate bill 1138, which would designate the first Friday in May of each year as Space Day in California.  

Reconociendo la urgente necesidad de actuar sobre el cambio climático y el aprovechamiento de los históricos programas medioambientales del California, el Senado Estatal ha presentado hoy una propuesta ambiciosa de gasto para aumentar el acceso a las energías limpias y construir comunidades más fuertes en todo el estado.  La propuesta (AB 1613) asigna $1.2 mil millones en los ingresos no gastados de las subastas de límites máximos y comercio del estado para los programas que da

SACRAMENTO (Aug. 18, 2016) -- Sen. Loni Hancock today led the Senate in adjourning in memory of Mary C. Warren of Alameda County. More at the link below.

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