Press Releases

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.




SACRAMENTO – Calling Bank of America’s practice of freezing debit cards containing unemployment benefits for more than 350,000 Californians “simply unacceptable,” Senator Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles) joined a bi-partisan group of 59 state lawmakers calling on the bank to start answering questions about its practices.




SACRAMENTO – This morning, more than two dozen wildfires continue to rage across California in a year when nearly four million acres of land have been charred, 29 people have been killed and over 7,200 structures have been destroyed.




SACRAMENTO – Medically vulnerable Californians will be eligible for discounted electricity rates and early notification of public safety power shutoff (PSPS) and rolling blackout events now that SB 596 by Senator Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles) has been signed into law.




SACRAMENTO – Senator Henry Stern (D-Los Angeles) thanked Governor Newsom during a virtual news conference today for signing AB 1788 (Bloom, Stern, Friedman), which severely tightens the use of second generation anticoagulant rodenticides (SGARs) until  the state’s Department  of Pesticide  Regulation (DPR) does a complete re-evaluation of the use of the deadly poisons here in California.