SACRAMENTO – State Senator Dave Cortese’s SB 429 that will help homeowners understand their property’s wildfire risk today was passed by the Assembly Emergency Management Committee. It creates the nation’s first-of-its-kind public wildfire catastrophe model to assess wildfire risk and help inform insurance rates.
The bill now moves forward to Assembly Appropriations.
SACRAMENTO – California Governor Gavin Newsom today signed into law Senator Dave Cortese’s Senate Bill 61 which will expedite cash payments to construction contractors and subcontractors for their work on privately financed projects.
SAN JOSE, CA – In a newly published op-ed in San José Spotlight, Senator Dave Cortese makes the case for creating Santa Clara County’s first-ever public law school:
“It’s hard to believe that here, in the heart of Silicon Valley, we still lack an affordable, accessible public law school for aspiring legal minds. For a region like ours, the economic engine of our state, that’s simply unacceptable.”
SACRAMENTO – California could soon close a critical loophole allowing dirty, decommissioned diesel locomotives to keep polluting in other communities and countries. The State Assembly Transportation Committee today passed state Senator Dave Cortese’s SB 30 that would prohibit public agencies from selling, donating, or transferring older high-polluting engines.
SACRAMENTO – State Senator Cortese’s bill creating the nation’s first-of-its-kind public wildfire catastrophe model to assess wildfire risk, inform insurance rates, and educate the public about wildfire risk passed the Assembly Insurance Committee.
Senate Bill 429 now moves forward to the Assembly Emergency Management Committee on July 14.