Senator Anna M. Caballero Introduces California Senate Resolution in Honor of the United Mexican States Election of Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum
 
Sacramento: Senator Anna M Caballero (D-Merced) introduced Senate Resolution 124. The resolution recognizes and congratulates the United Mexican States for the historic achievement in electing its first female President, Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum.

In the close to the 2024 Legislative session, Senator Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles) successfully advanced eight of his bills from the Senate floor to the Governor’s desk. This year has been marked by navigating complex amendments and shaping policies that promise to make a lasting impact on California’s communities.

Sacramento, CA – On Wednesday, August 28, on a bi-partisan 39-0 vote, the California Legislature approved a measure authored by Senator Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera) and championed by Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn to allow LA County to develop a mental health community on the Metropolitan State Hospital campus to treat and house people with mental illness.

SACRAMENTO, CA – Senator Melissa Hurtado (D-Bakersfield) today commended the U.S. Department of Justice, along with California and other states, for taking decisive action against RealPage Inc. The DOJ's civil antitrust lawsuit targets an unlawful scheme in which landlords utilized RealPage’s software to fix rental prices, leading to inflated costs and reduced market competition.

In another victory against a different kind of threat, Senator Stern's SB 1251 "Mosquito Utility Vaults," targets a pesky problem affecting communities statewide. This bill mandates investor-owned electric utilities to collaborate with mosquito abatement agencies or health departments to mitigate mosquito breeding in utility vaults.

Senate Bill 1350 will bring Cal/OSHA into compliance with Federal OSHA standards by ensuring Cal/OSHA coverage for agency based domestic workers.

Lawmakers, medical professionals, and family advocates came together to call for urgent reforms to prevent people with severe mental illness who are arrested for misdemeanors and felonies from being released from jail without mental health care. San Fernando Valley State Senators Henry Stern and Caroline Menjivar, along with leading experts, are championing Senate Bills 1400 and 1323 to deliver better care to this small but highly significant population.">

SACRAMENTO, CA – Several key pieces of legislation authored by Senator Melissa Hurtado (D-Bakersfield) which seek to address important issues affecting California’s Central Valley passed a significant legislative hurdle, and now head to the floor of the California State Assembly. Among the seven bills eligible for a floor vote and potential passage into law are:

Sacramento, California – El 19 de agosto de 2024, el Gobernador Newsom vetó el Proyecto de Ley del Senado (SB) 674, Ley de Transparencia y Reducción de la Contaminación en Refinerías, de la Líder de la Mayoría González (D – Long Beach). El Proyecto de Ley del Senado 674 tenía como objetivo fortalecer la protección de las comunidades cercadas que viven y trabajan cerca de refinerías, salvaguardando su salud de la contaminación del aire nociva, incluidos olores químicos tóxicos, explosiones y fugas.

“This is a devastating blow to the years of hard work and advocacy by communities affected by refinery air pollution,” said Majority Leader Gonzalez (D – Long Beach). “Fenceline communities urgently need improved air monitoring, and it shouldn’t be this difficult to establish a system that provides them with the most basic necessities—transparency and information about the toxic chemicals being released into their neighborhoods. I am deeply disappointed by this outcome, but we cannot walk away from this issue. Our communities demand and deserve stronger protections.”