Caucus News

SACRAMENTO – Acquiring the necessary two-thirds majority, Senate Bill 3 won Senate approval today on a 30-9 vote, sending Senator Jim Beall’s proposed $3 billion bond to generate more affordable housing to the Assembly for its consideration.

SACRAMENTO – Twenty-seven California State Senators sent a letter to Governor Brown following the Trump Administration’s announcement that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. 

SACRAMENTO – California Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León (D–Los Angeles) issued the following statement today in response to President Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the historic 2015 Paris Agreement:

Sacramento –  Today the Senate approved Senator Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 35 – which will create a streamlined approval process for housing in cities that are not meeting their housing goals required by the Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA). This streamlining will expedite the construction of critically needed housing. SB 35 was approved by a vote of 25-12, receiving support from both Democrats and Republicans, including from co-authors Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica), and Andy Vidak (R-Hanford.)

Sacramento, CA –Today, Senator Anthony J.

Today the California State Senate passed a package of bills aimed at alleviating the state’s housing crisis. Among these bills Senate Bill 166 and 167 authored by Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley).
“The Senate has shown great leadership passing a substantive housing package,” stated Senator Skinner. “A significant part of California’s housing crisis is lack of supply. SB 166 and SB 167 help minimize obstacles to building new housing.”

SACRAMENTO – Legislation authored by Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) and sponsored by California Secretary of State Alex Padilla that would make victims of human trafficking eligible for the state’s Safe at Home confidential address program passed from the California State Senate with unanimous support.

Sacramento, CA – Despite a last minute maneuver by California Senate Republicans to amend Senator Mike McGuire and Scott Wiener’s Presidential Tax Transparency Bill to include a requirement that Presidential candidates produce their birth certificate in order to be included on California’s ballot, the original bill was approved in the State Senate late Wednesday.

Sacramento – Corporations that break the law and are ordered by a jury to pay punitive damages for their outrageous misdeeds will no longer have the ability to write off such penalties on their state tax returns if a bill by State Senator Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont) becomes law.  Wieckowski’s SB 66 passed the Senate tonight and now heads to the Assembly.

Sacramento – The California Senate tonight approved a bill by Senator Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont) to enhance protection of political free speech rights for residents living in the state’s 52,000 common interest developments and 5,000 mobile home parks.  SB 407 targets abusive practices that curtail the residents’ abilities to assemble and communicate on political issues.  It was approved without opposition and now heads to the Assembly.