Caucus News

SACRAMENTO – California Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), Chair of the Senate Rules Committee, has announced the following Rules Committee appointment:

Governor Brown’s newly signed state budget allocates $10 million to the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services to start the statewide build-out of the California Earthquake Early Warning System, Senator Jerry Hill and Cal OES Director Mark Ghilarducci announced today.

OAKLAND - Click on the link below to watch and listen to Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Oakland, address an anti-coal rally Saturday, June 25, at Oakland City Hall. Two days later, the Oakland City Council voted to reject the proposed coal terminal in Oakland.Pro Bono video courtesy of TheClimateMobilization.org. 

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Despite swell of support, drug reform bill stalls in committee

(SACRAMENTO, CA) – Senate Bill (SB) 1363, authored by Senator Bill Monning (D-Carmel), passed out of the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources late yesterday afternoon.  The bill requires the Ocean Protection Council (OPC), in coordination with the State Coastal Conservancy (SCC), to establish a program to restore eelgrass in order to mitigate the impacts of global warming on the ocean and on California’s coastal plant and animal species.

Bill supports role of farms, parks, other open spaces in state’s climate change goals
(SACRAMENTO, CA)– On a bipartisan, 7-1 vote late Monday, the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources approved a measure by Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) to promote the protection and management of natural and working lands as part of California’s ongoing efforts to meet its climate change goals.

Bill supports role of farms, parks, other open spaces in state’s climate change goals
(SACRAMENTO, CA)– On a bipartisan, 7-1 vote late Monday, the Assembly Committee on Natural Resources approved a measure by Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) to promote the protection and management of natural and working lands as part of California’s ongoing efforts to meet its climate change goals.

SACRAMENTO – Acting to provide the market certainty that will propel investment in California’s thriving clean-energy economy, an Assembly committee on Monday approved Senator Fran Pavley’s SB 32, a measure that would extend in law the state’s targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through 2030.

Staff report recommended city not approve dirty exports

SACRAMENTO – Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Oakland, issued the following statement after today’s vote by the Oakland City Council on a pending coal-export terminal in West Oakland:

 “Kudos to the Oakland City Council for having the courage to do what’s right to help protect the health and long-term environmental goals California has worked so hard to achieve.”

Hancock is author of a package of bills written to halt the coal terminal and others like it.

SB 1010 Now Heads to the Assembly Appropriations Committee

SACRAMENTO – Today, the Assembly Health Committee approved passage of Senate Bill 1010, which provides transparency in drug pricing.

Authored by Senator Ed Hernandez, O.D. (D-West Covina) and approved by a vote of 12-4, SB 1010 provides information on drug prices, a first step toward more affordable and accessible prescription drugs for Californians.