SAN FRANCISCO – Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) introduced SB 497, legislation to strengthen landmark legal protections for California’s transgender community. The Trump Administration has launched an all-out assault on transgender Americans, threatening to criminalize them, cut off their access to essential medical care, and banish them from public life. They are also threatening transgender people’s teachers, families, and health care providers. SB 497 reaffirms California’s commitment to treating all citizens with dignity and respect.

Senator Caroline Menjivar has introduced SB 526 to address a pressing health and safety concern in her district and in numerous communities across California, pollutants from aggregate facilities that are subject to outdated regulations.

La Senadora Caroline Menjivar presentó el proyecto de ley SB 526 para abordar un problema urgente de salud y seguridad en su distrito y en numerosas comunidades de California: los contaminantes de las instalaciones de agregados que están sujetas a regulaciones obsoletas.

SACRAMENTO - Senator Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) introduced SB 501, which will establish the nation’s second Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) program for household hazardous waste (HHW).
 

SAN FRANCISCO – Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco) issued the following statement in response to U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s announcement that the Trump Administration will conduct a compliance review of California’s High-Speed Rail project — a step towards withholding its federal funding and killing the project:

(Sacramento, CA) — State Senator Dr. Aisha Wahab (D-Silicon Valley) introduced the Keeping Californians Housed Act, Senate Bill (SB) 436, which will protect low-income renters from eviction for nonpayment of rent if they can pay the amount owed to the landlord after an eviction lawsuit has started.

In response to a rise in hate, California lawmakers are turning their attention to gaps in Holocaust and genocide education in the state’s schools. Today, Senator Henry Stern (SD27 – Los Angeles) introduced SB 472, a bill aimed at addressing these gaps. The bill will implement two key recommendations from a statewide study: providing direct funding to school districts to teach this critical material, and establishing a system to monitor and evaluate educational outcomes.

On Thursday, February 27th, join me and Assemblymember Hart in welcoming Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and other industry experts at a town hall to discuss the state of home insurance for our community and state.
The town hall will be covering market challenges and upcoming reforms that the Department of Insurance is pursuing. There will be a presentation followed by Q&A.

SACRAMENTO – In a move to safeguard food security by maintaining productive farmland, California State Senator Dave Cortese today introduced Senate Bill 462 requiring a yearly $20-million appropriation to the California Farmland Conservancy Program (CFCP) to permanently preserve California agricultural lands through conservation easements.

SACRAMENTO – Senator Sasha Renée Pérez (D-Pasadena) has introduced legislation to protect renters by prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to manipulate and unfairly increase rents.