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.
SACRAMENTO - In a win for working people wanting to change careers or better themselves by going to law school, Senator Dave Cortese’s SB 550 authorizing the integration of a law school at San Jose State University as the first public law school in the California State University system
today passed the Assembly Judiciary Committee.
SACRAMENTO – Senator Dave Cortese’s housing legislation that would change the structure of housing finance in California by using the state’s credit to increase the housing supply faster today passed the Assembly Judiciary Committee and now heads to Assembly Appropriations.
SACRAMENTO – State Senator Dave Cortese’s SB 429 that will help homeowners understand their property’s wildfire risk today was passed by the Assembly Emergency Management Committee. It creates the nation’s first-of-its-kind public wildfire catastrophe model to assess wildfire risk and help inform insurance rates.
The bill now moves forward to Assembly Appropriations.
SACRAMENTO – California Governor Gavin Newsom today signed into law Senator Dave Cortese’s Senate Bill 61 which will expedite cash payments to construction contractors and subcontractors for their work on privately financed projects.