In the News

Today, the Senate passed AB 128, the Budget Act of 2021. Learn more at this link. 




California’s state Senate is considering legislation to provide universal basic income to former foster youth transitioning out of the system.




 State Senator Dave Cortese, D-San Jose, said he had a “rude awakening” regarding California’s gun laws, and called for heightened awareness of the state’s “red flag” laws in the wake of San Jose’s mass shooting.




If we really want to reduce mass shootings — all gun violence — we’ve got to become snitches on our co-workers, family members and maybe exes. Read the full article at this link. 




After California’s largest mass shooting this year, State Senator Dave Cortese (D-San Jose) called for increasing the effectiveness of California’s “Red Flag” laws to curb gun violence and mass shootings.




In the aftermath of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and other mass shootings around the country, California was the first state to enhance its Gun Violence Restraining Orders.




With speeches, prayers, the sounding of taps and a tossing of a wreath into San Franciso Bay, the women and men who died serving this nation were remembered on Memorial Day aboard the USS Hornet Sea, Air and Space Museum. Read the full article at this link.