SACRAMENTO – In a move to safeguard food security by maintaining productive farmland, California State Senator Dave Cortese today introduced Senate Bill 462 requiring a yearly $20-million appropriation to the California Farmland Conservancy Program (CFCP) to permanently preserve California agricultural lands through conservation easements.
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SACRAMENTO – California State Senator Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley) joined state Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and several lawmakers to unveil a first-in-the nation public wildfire catastrophe model.
SACRAMENTO – California State Senator Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley), chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, is asking the state auditor to audit both the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and the Bay Area Toll Authority (BATA) because both agencies need to be held accountable for how they spend taxpayers’ money including toll money.
Recent toll hikes are the latest example of the public’s confusion about how MTC and BATA spends their money.
SACRAMENTO – California State Senator Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley), who serves as the chair of the Senate Transportation Committee, has introduced Senate Bill 30 prohibiting the resale, donation, or transfer of decommissioned diesel locomotives for continued use.
SACRAMENTO - California State Senator Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley) today joined CalFire firefighters, Senate President pro Tempore Mike McGuire and a bipartisan group of State Senators to support new legislation to make state firefighting stronger year round instead of seasonally with “The Fight for Firefighters Act.” This comes after the devastating Los Angeles fire and the acknowledgment that fire season is now year round not seasonal. Senator Cortese is a co-author of the bill.