SACRAMENTO – State Senator Dave Cortese’s SB 553 streamlining access to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) facilities including prisons and other detention facilities by granting short-term clearance to legislators, legal professionals, and more without requiring repeated applications today was passed by the Assembly Public Safety Committee.
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SACRAMENTO – Senator Dave Cortese’s (D-Silicon Valley) SB 551 is an effort to improve the prison stress level for correctional officers and the rehabilitative environment for inmates so they can return to their communities and not re-offend. Today it passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee.
SACRAMENTO - The California Senate and Assembly today passed the 2025 state budget balancing agreement reached by the leaders of both houses. The budget now goes to the Governor. Senator Dave Cortese is pleased the budget is moving forward.
Sacramento, CA - In response to escalating tensions and the deployment of federal and local law enforcement in California cities, Senator Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley) is urgently calling for organized, nonviolent resistance and the immediate deployment of trained facilitators and resources to prevent further violence in urban communities.
SACRAMENTO – In response to the Federal Railroad Administration’s announcement today regarding potential cancellation of $4 billion in federal grants for California’s high-speed rail project, State Senator Dave Cortese (D- Silicon Valley), Chair of the California Transportation Committee, issued the following statement: