Caucus News

Governor Jerry Brown today signed Senate Bill 1448, the Patient’s Right to Know Act, which makes California the first state to require doctors who are placed on probation for serious misconduct involving patient harm to notify their clients.

(SACRAMENTO) – Today, military personnel and veterans planning to go to college celebrated a major victory. Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senator Richard D. Roth’s Senate Bill 1071, which streamlines the education opportunities for military personnel and veterans at community colleges.

SACRAMENTO – Legislation authored by Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) to ensure that local communities are able to properly maintain public facilities that they build with public dollars was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown.

National City, CA – September 19, 2018 – Senator Ben Hueso (D-San Diego) invites media and the public to join community members and local officials in National City tomorrow (Thursday, September 20) for a press conference, ribbon-cutting ceremony and tour of the Paradise Creek Apartments Phase II.

SACRAMENTO, CA –Senate Bill 481, authored by Dr. Richard Pan and supported by a coalition of community partners allowing the City of Sacramento to unite and develop the parcels of land located on the site of the old San Juan Motel on Stockton Boulevard, was signed by the Governor.

SACRAMENTO, CA –Senate Bill 1303, authored by Dr. Richard Pan to require autopsies be conducted by medical experts to ensure they are accurate and unbiased was vetoed by Governor Brown on Tuesday.

Specifically, the bill would have required a county to establish a medical examiner’s office in lieu of a sheriff-coroner office or institute a policy to refer the manner and type of death investigation to another California county that implements a medical examiner model in cases where there is a conflict of interest for the sheriff-coroner.

Sacramento, CA – September 19, 2018 – Senator Ben Hueso’s (D-San Diego) bill to assist law enforcement officers in properly identifying instances of elder abuse crimes has been signed into law. The legislation received unanimous approval by both houses of the Legislature and was signed yesterday by Governor Jerry Brown.

Starting January 1, contractors who pay a million dollars or more to settle construction defect lawsuits involving apartment balconies and other load-bearing structural elements must report those deals to the Contractors State License Board, under legislation signed today by Governor  Brown. His approval of Senate Bill 1465 came just one day after he signed SB 721, which sets requirements for periodic inspections of balconies, decks, outdoor stairs, walkways and other load-bearing, elevated exterior elements at apartment buildings and complexes.

Sacramento, CA — Today, Governor Jerry Brown signed Senator Nancy Skinner’s (D-Berkeley) SB 1138, “Ensuring a Plant Based Meal Option,” requiring hospitals, healthcare facilities and prisons to offer plant-based meals to people in these institutions.

“Whether to protect animals, our climate or our health, those of us who choose to eat a vegan diet can celebrate today with Governor Brown’s signing of SB 1138,” said Senator Skinner. “SB 1138 ensures that people in hospitals, healthcare facilities or prison have access to plant-based meals.”

(SACRAMENTO, CA) – Today, Senator Bill Monning (D-Carmel) announced that Senate Bill (SB) 1192 has been signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown.  

SB 1192 requires a restaurant, which serves a meal primarily targeted and marketed to children, to make the default drink option served in bundled meals a healthful beverage - water, sparkling water, flavored water with no added sweeteners, or milk.