Press Releases

SACRAMENTO – Senator Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles) applauded the signing of the American Recovery Plan (ARP), introducing Senate Bill 46 to ensure California’s administration of federal funding incentivizes high road employers to offer better jobs, and addresses economic, racial and climate injustice. 

“The ARP gives California the opportunity to recover fast, but this needs to be a just recovery that is sustainable over the long term,” said Stern. “I introduced SB 46 to ensure our recovery generates good jobs and helps address systemic racial, economic and climate injustices. We need to keep our eye on the long term, while we move money out the door.”

SACRAMENTO – Today Senator Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles) and his Senate colleagues voted overwhelmingly to send a $9.2 billion stimulus package designed to help working families and small businesses left behind by federal COVID-19 relief to the Governor’s desk.

SACRAMENTO –The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) today called Southern California Edison’s (SCE) handling of public safety power shutoff (PSPS) events “tactless” and “deficient in meeting the standard its customers deserve.”

SACRAMENTO – State Senators Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles) and Tom Umberg (D-Orange County) announced plans today to introduce legislation that would require both the Attorney General and the California Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) to create units focusing on domestic terrorism.

SACRAMENTO – Following the most expensive ballot proposition cycle in California history, Senator Henry Stern (D-Los Angles) has introduced SB 90 to help voters know who the main supporters and opponents of initiative measures are at the exact moment they’re filling out their ballot.

SACRAMENTO – Following the most expensive ballot proposition cycle in California history, Senator Henry Stern (D-Los Angles) has introduced SB 90 to help voters know who the main supporters and opponents of initiative measures are at the exact moment they’re filling out their ballot.

SACRAMENTO – Today, Senator Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles), was appointed by the Senate President pro Tempore to chair the Joint Legislative Emergency Management Committee and the Senate Natural Resources & Water Committee.  These powerful committees cover many live issue areas for the upcoming session, including public safety power shutoffs and wildfires, oil fracking and gas storage, and protections for species and open spaces that are under threat from unsustainable development and climate change.

SACRAMENTO – Senator Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles) took the oath of office for his second term in the California State Senate today in the parking lot of his Calabasas office, administered by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Huey P. Cotton.