Press Releases

SAN JOSE – Senate Bill 1’s reach will extend far beyond repairing California’s transportation infrastructure by triggering a wave of economic activity, creating new careers for thousands while also helping grow small businesses and disadvantaged business enterprises, panelists testified at a Senate Transportation and Housing Committee today.

SACRAMENTO – Governor Brown signed today Senator Jim Beall’s legislation enabling the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District to acquire nearly 6,500 acres owned by the San Jose Water Company in the Upper Guadalupe, Los Gatos Creek, and Saratoga watersheds.
 
Senate Bill 492’s ratification culminates a series of complex negotiations spanning 10 years with the water company and local stakeholders.

SACRAMENTO – An ambitious bond proposal that raises $15 billion in state and federal funding to kick start construction of thousands of affordable housing units and simultaneously create 137,000 jobs won a crucial two-thirds majority approval in the Assembly today.  The bill passed on a 55-20 vote.

SACRAMENTO – A second component of the Senate’s funding package to combat California’s shortage of affordable housing was approved on a two-thirds majority vote today and sent to the Assembly.

“The approval last month of my bill, SB 3, a $3 billion bond proposal to generate more affordable housing units, combined with the today’s passage of SB 2 (Atkins) now forms the most viable package in the Legislature to solve the affordable housing crisis,’’ said Beall, chairman of the Transportation and Housing Committee.