Recent Streetsblog CALIFORNIA posts about Senate

Here’s the Committee That Could Fix CA’s Transportation Funding Crisis

By Melanie Curry | Sep 25, 2015 | 1 Comment

Senate and Assembly leaders appointed members to the joint committee that will now take up the issue of transportation funding as called for by Governor Jerry Brown last June. The Transportation Infrastructure Conference Committee will consider pending legislation that was leftover from the regular session, including bills that would increase funding for transit and for […]

2015 Legislative Wrap-up: California Bills That Won and Lost

By Melanie Curry | Sep 14, 2015 | 3 Comments

In its rush to Friday’s deadline, the California legislature managed to pull off a win with the passage of its leaders’ signature climate change bill, even if S.B. 350 had been scaled back in the days leading to the final vote. The other main climate change bill, S.B. 32, was held over until next year because […]

CA Legislative Leaders Pull Gas Reduction Goals, Vow to Fight On

By Melanie Curry | Sep 10, 2015 | 1 Comment

Governor Jerry Brown, Senate President Pro-Tem Kevin de Leon, and Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins met with reporters late yesterday to announce that they would amend their signature climate change bill to eliminate the goal of reducing petroleum use. With only two days remaining before the legislative session ends, they say they don’t have the votes […]

Climate Change Legislation Hits a Bump

By Melanie Curry | Sep 9, 2015 | 2 Comments

The push to legislate broad climate change goals in California hit a bump last night when S.B. 32, one of the most important of the current bills, lost in a vote on the Assembly floor. The vote came late in the day, with no debate. The final tally of “yes” votes climbed to 30 before […]

CalBike: Support Active Transportation Funding Now

By Damien Newton | Sep 8, 2015 | No Comments

Last Friday afternoon, Melanie Curry broke the news of the introduction of Assembly Bill X1-23, a bill that would double state funding for active transportation projects, better known as bicycling and pedestrian projects. Immediately upon the bill’s introduction, the California Bicycle Coalition (CalBike) began urging members and interested parties to contact their legislators to get the […]

Op-Ed: Transportation Funding Talks Must Include Transit, Climate Change

By Melanie Curry | Sep 2, 2015 | No Comments

An op-ed piece in the Sacramento Bee this morning points out the strange disconnects in current legislative discussions on funding transportation. Authors Jeanie Ward-Waller, policy director of the California Bicycle Coalition, and Chanell Fletcher, senior California policy manager for the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, point out that “two deeply intertwined debates are underway […]

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