Senator Dave Cortese (D-San Jose) honors local nonprofit, Empower & Excel, as the 2021 California Nonprofit of the Year for Senate District 15.
“I have selected Empower and Excel as the Senate District 15 Nonprofit of the Year for the great work they are doing in our local community driven by a worthy mission to empower youth to give back to their community through local volunteer initiatives,” said Senator Cortese.
This week, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors approved extending their first-of-its-kind pilot program that provides universal basic income to transition age foster youth.
This year, Santa Clara County is celebrating its first Juneteenth as a paid county holiday after becoming the first County in the state to pass a resolution for the holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. It will be celebrated every June 19th, which means most county offices will close and most county employees will have a paid day off. (As Juneteenth falls on a Saturday this year, County employees will have today off.)
AB 1171, a bill co-authored by Assemblymember Cristina Garcia (D-Bell Gardens) and Assemblymember Evan Low (D-Silicon Valley) and Senator Dave Cortese (D-Silicon Valley) to end California’s archaic spousal rape exception, has passed that State Assembly by 65-0 after clearing the Assembly Public Safety Committee and the Assembly Appropriations Committee. The bill is now headed to the California State Senate.
Senator Dave Cortese (D-San Jose) issued the following statement regarding today’s shooting in the area of North San Pedro and West Hedding streets, one block away from last week’s tragic shooting in San Jose. The San Jose Police Department announced that the incident involved one victim experiencing a critical injury. Further details have not yet been released: