SACRAMENTO – The following statement was issued by State Senator Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley), Chair of the California Senate Transportation Committee, in response to the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s 2025 Supplemental Project Update Report. The Authority notes that long-term, stable state funding is essential to achieving commercial success and attracting private sector participation through potential public-private partnerships.
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SACRAMENTO – The following statement was issued by Senate Transportation Chair Senator Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley) on August 7, 2025, regarding the status of $4 billion in federal high-speed rail funding:
SACRAMENTO – The following statement was issued by Senate Transportation Chair Senator Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley) on August 7, 2025, regarding the status of $4 billion in federal high-speed rail funding:
SACRAMENTO – State Senator Dave Cortese’s (D-Silicon Valley) SB 753 allowing retailers and local governments to work together to get abandoned shopping carts back where they belong and clean-up blight today was passed by the Assembly Local Government Committee.
SACRAMENTO – The State Assembly Education Committee today passed Senator Dave Cortese’s (D-Silicon Valley) SB 743 that would reverse the effects of an antiquated 1978 school district funding formula that has created winners and losers in the public education system for the last 47 years.
The bill moves forward to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.