Caucus News

SACRAMENTO – Earlier today, the Senate Environmental Quality Committee approved legislation that will provide technical assistance to small non-profits, disadvantaged communities and small businesses to access funding for energy efficiency upgrades or projects that reduce the negative health impacts of poor air quality.

SACRAMENTO – On a 4-1 vote, the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee today passed a measure by Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León to strengthen California’s child care system and lift working women, who overwhelmingly provide the care, and their children out of poverty.

Sacramento –The Senate Human Services Committee today approved SB 792 authored by Senator Tony Mendoza (D-Artesia) on a unanimous bipartisan vote. The bill will protect California children in day care from contracting serious diseases by requiring family day care home and day care center workers to be vaccinated against measles, pertussis, and influenza among others. The bill now goes to the Senate Appropriations Committee for consideration.

“Today’s executive order from Governor Brown sets new carbon reduction goals that exemplify California’s global leadership on climate change. As with our state’s landmark cap-and-trade system, the Legislature will now create the framework to reach these goals. Senate Bills 32 and 350 will move forward the innovation and investment that will get us there.”

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SACRAMENTO– Senate Bill 277 authored by Dr. Richard Pan, a pediatrician and Senator representing Sacramento and Senator Ben Allen, the former Board President of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District to boost vaccine rates by closing California’s vaccine exemption loophole, was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a vote of 5 to 1. 

SB 588 Increases Labor Commissioner’s Enforcement Tools

SACRAMENTO – A plan by Sen. Bob Hertzberg to improve the ability of the working poor to reach their jobs today passed its first public review by the Senate Committee on Public Safety.
“We are criminalizing the poor and dramatically impacting their lives with punishments that far exceed their crimes by slamming them with excessive fines,” Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, said shortly before the unanimous, bipartisan vote in support of Senate Bill 405. “Then we take away their ability to get to work. We need to fix,”

SACRAMENTO – The California State Senate today passed important legislation by Senator Connie M. Leyva (D-Chino) that protects the financial security of seniors and their families and places safeguards on an insurance product that is intended to provide seniors with a stronger economic future.

SACRAMENTO – A plan by Sen. Bob Hertzberg to improve the ability of the working poor to reach their jobs faces its first public review tomorrow, Tuesday, April 28, by the Senate Committee on Public Safety.

State Senator Jerry Hill has named Jerry Hearn an environmental hero of the California’s 13th Senate District to recognize Hearn’s decades of volunteerism as an environmental steward and an environmental leader.