SACRAMENTO – The California Senate has voted to approve Senate Bill 638, authored by Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego). The transformative measure 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.
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SACRAMENTO – This week the California Senate 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 – Last night, Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) gave an address on the Senate Floor following the ICE raid in San Diego Friday night. Below are excerpts from his address.
SACRAMENTO – Yesterday, the California Senate approved Senate Bill 420, authored by Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego). SB 420 seeks to provide a framework and regulatory structure to ensure that AI systems respect human rights, promote fairness, transparency, accountability, and safeguard Californian’s well-being.
SACRAMENTO – The California State Senate, with bipartisan support, approved Senate Bill 243, 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 –Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) released the following statement today following the ICE raid in San Diego:
SACRAMENTO – Yesterday, the California State Senate passed Senate Bill 57, authored by Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego). SB 57, the Ratepayer and Technological Innovation Protection Act, would protect California ratepayers and the state’s aggressive climate goals from increased costs as more companies develop data centers to meet the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence (AI).
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.