Press Releases

Senate Overwhelmingly Approves Nation’s Strongest Neurorights Bill

SB 1223 protects an individual’s neural data from misuse by defining neural data as sensitive personal information and applies the same protections in law over its use as other sensitive personal information



Senate Approves Key Bill to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Expanding Green Hydrogen 

Sacramento, CA—Today the Senate approved and sent to the Assembly SB 1018, authored by Senator Josh Becker (D-Menlo Park), a bill that will foster a green hydrogen industry in California and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the industrial sector while avoiding further stresses to the electricity grid. 



Senate Approves Legislation to Remove Unfair Barriers for Consumers who Self-Generate and use their own Energy

SB 1374 allows schools, apartments, and farms to consume their self-generated solar energy and save on utility costs



Senate unanimously approves Becker’s bill to streamline interim housing projects to get people housed faster

Senator Josh Becker’s Interim Housing Act fast tracks the building of interim housing and scales up efforts to bring people indoors and save lives 

Sacramento, CA—Today, the California State Senate overwhelmingly voted in favor of the Interim Housing Act (SB 1395) authored by Senator Josh Becker (D-Menlo Park). This bill addresses California’s housing and homelessness needs by expanding access to interim housing on a statewide level. 



Bill to address insurance crisis in California advances in the Senate with the approval of key committee

Sacramento, CA—Today, the Senate Committee on Insurance passed a crucial bill to address the skyrocketing cost and dwindling availability of insurance in California.



Public Safety Committee Passes the FRESH Act to Fast Track Necessary Re-Entry Benefits for Incarcerated Individuals

SB 1254 (The FRESH Act) connects incarcerated individuals with vital services such as CalFresh and other resources prior to release in order to increase the success of re-entry.



Senate Committee approves legislation to remove unfair barriers for consumers who self-generate and use their own energy

Sacramento, CA—Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications passed SB 1374, authored by Senator Josh Becker (D-Menlo Park), which restores the ability for utility customers with on-site solar generation to be credited for self-consuming that electricity in the same way as single family homeowners, even when the solar generation and electricity consumption are split between separate meters on the same property. For example, a school may have solar generated over its parking lot that is separately metered from the electricity being



California moves closer to creating first-of-its-kind battery manufacturing hub with high paying

 

Sacramento, CA—Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications passed SB 1206, authored by Senator Josh Becker (D-Menlo Park). This bill would incentivize the creation of a first-of-its-kind battery manufacturing facility for next generation batteries to California, which will create dependable, high-paying manufacturing jobs and bring our state closer to its clean energy goals.