SACRAMENTO – Senator Henry Stern today joined a bipartisan group of legislators announcing a new Legislative Substance Abuse Treatment Working Group formed to address the challenges confronting California’s addiction treatment industry. Members include Senators Stern, Patricia Bates and Jerry Hill, Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, Chair of the Accountability & Adm
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SACRAMENTO – Yesterday, Senator Henry Stern’s bill to enhance conservatorships for Californians experiencing chronic homelessness and severe mental health and substance abuse issues (SB 40) passed the California State Senate.
CALIFORNIA – Federal, state and local elected leaders today issued the following statements in response to the Aliso Canyon root cause analysis:
“This long awaited root cause analysis is alarming. SoCalGas and the agencies tasked with overseeing them failed to anticipate foreseeable risks to the people of the San Fernando Valley and ratepayers throughout the southland, in the decades leading up to the Aliso Canyon blowout,” said Senator Henry Stern (SD-27). “We will be following up with a legislative oversight hearing to delve deeper into this report, but at present, it seems obvious that the CPUC should not force ratepayers to foot the bill for this avoidable disaster, and that the injuries to our community, its residents and our first responders can be attributed to the Gas Company’s careless maintenance of this massive fossil fuel facility in our backyards.”
CALABASAS– Senator Henry Stern, Chair of the Senate Natural Resources & Water Committee, today issued the following statement in response to Governor Newsom’s single tunnel announcement:
SACRAMENTO – Senator Henry Stern’s proposal to lower California’s pre-registration age to 15 and enfranchise tens of thousands more voters the day they turn 18 (SB 727) today passed through the Senate Elections & Constitutional Amendments Committee.
SACRAMENTO— On Monday, Senator Henry Stern named Lieutenant Jennifer Seetoo as Woman of the Year for the 27th Senate District. Just a few days on the job in early November 2018, Lieutenant Seetoo took the reins at the Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff’s Station, serving as the acting captain during the Woolsey Fire.
SACRAMENTO – Senator Henry Stern issued the following statement regarding a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California striking down the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census:
SACRAMENTO – When 100 students from across the state descend on the Capitol on Monday to call for aggressive climate action, a group of legislators will greet them with a proposal to ramp up pre-2030 efforts in a decade-long emergency climate mobilization of $100 billion, accelerating California’s timeline for achieving aggressive statewide goals, including 100% clean energy and carbon neutrality.