SACRAMENTO – Last week, several critical committees voted to approve Senate Bills 330 and 638. Authored by Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego), the transformative measures reimagine how electrical transmission lines are financed and approved in California (SB 330) as well as create the California Middle Class Pipeline Project, tasked with eliminating traditional barriers to career technical education and workforce development programs (SB 638). The two bills are critical pieces of Senator Padilla’s efforts to address the affordability and underemployment crisis the state faces.
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SACRAMENTO – Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) released the following statement today following the Trump Department of Education announcing it plans to terminate grant funding for critical behavioral health services in La Mesa-Spring Valley School District:
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.
SACRAMENTO –Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) released the following statement today following the Federal Bureau of Investigation announcing the arrest of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan:
Last week, Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) joined by several Senate colleagues, issued a letter (attached) to California Attorney General Rob Bonta, requesting the California Department of Justice investigate alleged profiteering and price fixing by major egg distributors in the midst of a dangerous avian flu outbreak.
SACRAMENTO – Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee, with bipartisan support, approved Senate Bill 243, which is authored by Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego). The bill would require chatbot operators to implement critical safeguards to protect users from the addictive, isolating, and influential aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots.
SACRAMENTO – Recently, two critical policy committees passed Senate Bills 10 and 594, authored by Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego). SB 10 would expressly authorize funds from the new toll road to be used for water treatment, environmental mitigation, and restoration of the Tijuana River Valley and SB 594 would give communities across the state with existing environmental pollution burdens the opportunity to voice their concerns in a publicly noticed hearing when a new landfill development is proposed as is the case in the River Valley.
SACRAMENTO – Today, Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) amended Senate Bill 594, to give communities across the state with existing environmental pollution burdens the opportunity to voice their concerns in a publicly noticed hearing when a new landfill development is proposed.