Caucus News

SAN FRANCISCO – Senator Mark Leno has named four local community leaders as his Women of the Year for Senate District 11. The women receiving the honor include Susan Brissenden-Smith, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, Manufou Liaga-Anoa’l, and Doniece Sandoval.

Senator Richard D. Roth (D-Riverside) will host a FREE Senior Scam Stopper SeminarSM in coordination with the California Contractors State License Board on June 12, 2015, in Moreno Valley.  A panel of experts will provide information to seniors and their families on how to avoid becoming victims of fraud.  Attendees will also have the opportunity to obtain assistance if they have been scammed.

The South East Los Angeles City is Doubling their Electorate

USDA Increases Support for Fight Against Invasive Aquatic Plants in Delta

A partnership of county, state, and federal agencies, as well as allied boating and water resource protection interests, to improve control of invasive aquatic plants in the Delta has led to $1 million in new funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Areawide Pest Management Program, county and state officials announced this week.

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TRAFFIC ADVISORY
CALTRANS TO BEGIN $9 MILLION DOLLAR PAVEMENT REHABILITATION
AND REPAIR PROJECT ON STATE ROUTE 12
IN SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY

San Joaquin County - The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will begin a $9 million dollar pavement rehabilitation and repair project on State Route 12 (SR-12). This project will improve the driving surface from the Potato Slough Bridge to Flag City. The project will replace rumble strips, re-construct guardrails and apply an asphalt concrete overlay to the roadway.

SACRAMENTO, CA — Despite fear that the Appropriations Committee, where proposals with price tags often die, might never let it see the light of day, Senator Holly J. Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) saw her bill, SB 316, to cut the caseloads of attorneys who represent California’s foster youths smiled upon by the panel and sent forward for a vote on the Senate floor.

SACRAMENTO, CA —A proposal by Senator Holly J. Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) for California’s middle and high school districts to put in place fair and transparent measures to ensure that students may take the highest level of mathematics courses for which they can qualify has won the right for a full debate and vote on the floor of the State Senate. Authored by Senator Holly J. Mitchell (D-Los Angeles), SB 359 was unanimously approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee, the final hurtle before being taken up by the entire Senate.

Bill Passes out of Senate Appropriations on a 5-2 vote
SACRAMENTO – Today SB 128: The End of Life Option Act, by Senators Wolk and Monning, passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee on a 5-2 vote. The bill had been placed on the suspense file for a routine fiscal impact assessment and was released today with a number of other bills. 

SACRAMENTO, CA —Senator Holly J. Mitchell’s bill to repeal the state’s prohibition on parents receiving CalWORKs assistance for a child born to the household while any member of the household is receiving aid, has been sent to the Senate floor for a vote.