SACRAMENTO – At a critical time as the state of California scrambles to build more privately financed affordable housing, and rebuild from the devastation caused by fires in Southern California, state Senator Dave Cortese’s Senate Bill 61 would fast track payment of money due to construction contractors and subcontractors for work performed by reducing the amount of retention payments withheld from 10 percent to 5 percent.
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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.
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.