Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles) today released the following statement on the State Senate's passage of SB 1203: Stand for Security Act — landmark legislation to modernize training standards for California's more than 330,000 licensed private security officers:

Sacramento, Calif. (May 29, 2026)—Ahead of the Legislature’s House of Origin deadline, Senator Melissa Hurtado (D-Bakersfield) announced that key components of her 2026 Valley Taxpayers Protection Plan successfully advanced through the California State Senate and now heads to the State Assembly for consideration.
The 2026 Valley Taxpayers Protection Plan focuses on lowering costs for working families, strengthening public safety, supporting economic growth in the Central Valley and improving government accountability and transparency.

La Senadora Smallwood-Cuevas Emite Un Comunicado Sobre La Aprobación En El Senado Del Proyecto De Ley SB 1203: Ley De Defensa De La Seguridad

SACRAMENTO—Yesterday, Senator McGuire’s critical fisheries legislation, SB 1393, passed out of the Senate with bipartisan support. 
 
California’s commercial fishing fleet and recreational fishermen support more than 100,000 jobs and drive hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity each year. The Dungeness crab fishery alone, centered on California’s North Coast, generates tens of millions of dollars annually and remains one of the most vital commercial fisheries on the West Coast.
 

Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles), Chair of the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee, today released the following statement in response to Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order to direct a broad review of California's labor policies in light of the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI):

The California State Senate passed SB 913 by Senator Josh Becker (D–Menlo Park) to create an improved pathway for customer-owned resources (e.g., home batteries, electric vehicles, thermostats), to compete fairly with other resources (e.g., peaker plants, diesel generators) to offer the least cost option for providing reliability to the electric grid.

SB 1301 (Allen) Advances to Assembly for Consideration to Mitigate Nonrenewals
SACRAMENTO – Senator Ben Allen (D-Pacific Palisades) advanced SB 1301 through the Senate before Friday’s deadline. The measure provides property owners with more time and opportunity to maintain their insurance coverage before being dropped by their provider.

In addition to significantly expanding California’s scientific research capacity, the bill includes first-in-the-nation requirements to lower health costs by requiring discounts on drugs discovered with public research funding, and allowing the state to recoup some funds from successful discoveries.

New law takes effect immediately and strengthens protections for voters, ballots and election infrastructure

SACRAMENTO, CA – On May 27, 2026, Senator Lena Gonzalez’s (D-Long Beach) bill to limit the use of flash-bang devices for crowd control and prohibit the use of flash-bangs and explosive breaching charges for immigration enforcement by local, state, and federal officers, passed the Senate on a vote of 29-9.