SACRAMENTO – Today, with bipartisan support, the Senate Education Committee passed Senate Bill 638, authored by Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego). Last week, the California State Senate unveiled its Affordability Package, which includes Senator Padilla’s Senate Bill 638, which would create the California Middle Class Pipeline Project. Tasked with eliminating traditional barriers to career technical education and workforce development programs, the Pipeline Project would work with educational institutions and private industry to reimagine career technical education in the state, bringing it in line with the needs of the 21st century economy. The bill would also fund grants for workforce development programs in high-unemployment and low-income regions of the state.