SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, Senator Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger) released the following statement after Senate Bill 108—The Human Right to Food Act – passed the Senate 35-1:
Hurtado Announces Deal Between Shafter and State Prisons to Give City Total Control of CDCR Facility
SACRAMENTO, CA –Senator Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger) today announced a deal between the California Department of Correction and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and the City of Shafter to return the unoccupied Shafter Modified Community Correctional Facility back the city’s control.
SACRAMENTO, CA – Senator Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger) released the following statement today, after Governor Newsom released the details of the 2021 May Budget Revise:
SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, Senator Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger) released the following statement after Governor Newsom announced partial funding of her SB 559 – the State Water Resiliency Act – and the extension of drought emergency status to Fresno, Kern, Tulare and Kings Counties:
SACRAMENTO, CA – Today, Senator Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger) submitted a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom requesting relief for the state’s vital fire protection, healthcare, utility, and other special districts that, unlike other areas of local government, have been uniquely excluded from access to COVID relief funding.
Hurtado– along with a bipartisan coalition of legislators –join the California Special Districts Association (CSDA) and more than 700 individuals and organizations urging relief for special districts and the communities they support. To view the letter, click here.
SACRAMENTO, CA – Today Senator Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger) announced her appointment as Co-Chair of the Economic and Workforce Health Subcommittee of the Council of State Governments (CSG) 2021-22 Healthy States National Task Force.
SACRAMENTO, CA – Senator Melissa Hurtado (D-Sanger) today questioned the Medical Board of California regarding their authority over licensed midwives and medical school accreditation process during this morning’s Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee Sunset Review.
State Senator Melissa Hurtado of Sanger has spent three years refining her arguments for financing critical repairs to water conveyance infrastructure in the San Joaquin Valley. During a committee hearing last week, Hurtado stood ready to refute the longstanding argument that the beneficiaries should cover the entire cost—a critique that played a part in the demise of her previous measure to fix the Friant-Kern Canal.