SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Senate Public Safety Committee passed Senate Bill 19 (SB 19), the Safe Schools and Places of Worship Act (“The Act”), authored by Senator Susan Rubio (D-Baldwin Park) with a bipartisan 6-0 vote. The bill is a critical measure that will close loopholes in current California law that allow credible threats against schools or places of worship to go unpunished simply becaus

Senator Thomas J. Umberg (D-Santa Ana) announced that earlier today his measure to implement treatment courts as demanded by California’s Proposition 36 passed its first key hurdle. 

SACRAMENTO – Legislation by Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, to clamp down on gun trafficking was passed Tuesday by the Senate Public Safety Committee.

For Immediate Release
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Contact: Elisa Rivera
Elisa.Rivera@sen.ca.gov (559) 264-3070
 
 
California Takes a Stand against Transnational Repression with SB 509, New Legislation to Strengthen Protections for Diaspora Communities Targeted by Foreign Governments
 

State Senator Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, on Tuesday introduced SB 24, legislation to protect Californians against skyrocketing utility bills by safeguarding ratepayers from abuses by investor-owned electric and gas utilities.

Senator Sasha Renée Pérez (D-Pasadena) has introduced SB 782 and SB 658 to protect communities from predatory property land grabs and provide funding to rebuild neighborhoods affected by the Los Angeles County Wildfires.

SACRAMENTO – Senators Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) and Jesse Arreguín (D-Berkeley) announced Senate Bill 63, the Connect Bay Area Act. SB 63 strengthens and stabilizes public transportation in the Bay Area as funding shortfalls threaten devastating service cuts at BART, MUNI, Caltrain, AC Transit, and other systems. These cuts would turbocharge traffic congestion and seriously undermine the Bay Area’s economic recovery, climate goals, and quality of life for working people.

MENDOCINO — The County of Mendocino will be working with the Office of the State Auditor over the next several months to complete a comprehensive audit of all county operations and departments, along with examining the organization’s contracts and procurements processes. It will also include an audit of the 2024 elections in Mendocino County, when incorrect ballots were mailed to the county’s 52,800 registered voters. 
 

SACRAMENTO – Abandoned shopping carts lying in creek beds and blocking streets and sidewalks have become such a problem throughout California that State Senator Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley) has introduced SB 753

SACRAMENTO – Today, Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) amended Senate Bill 594, to give communities across the state with existing environmental pollution burdens the opportunity to voice their concerns in a publicly noticed hearing when a new landfill development is proposed.